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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There was this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/thread-13844.html">http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/thread-13844.html</a> - and Tims reply sounds like there’s some code to help this functionality:<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“</span>So, with this change, aliasing is just a case of writing a custom<o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>check_user_password that returns the alias instead of the normal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>username.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve never implemented this – so my knowledge runs out about here…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>John<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>sf2<br><b>Sent:</b> 12 September 2014 10:18<br><b>To:</b> eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> [EP-tech] Re: User Masquerade<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hi Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>This has never been possible as far as I know. Some components sometime allow to do "stuff on behalf of" other users, such as with the REF plug-in.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Such a feature would require low-level patching of EPrints::Repository->current_user (shouldn't be too hard to achieve though eg store a on_behalf_of cookie, have a validate method and a pin on the template to un-masquerade). This would be a sweet feature!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Seb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>On 11.09.2014 16:08, David Kane wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hello All, <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I was wondering whether the latest version of eprints allows administrators to masquerade as regular users. I know this was possible a few years ago, but what is the practice now? What works on the more recent versions of EPrints?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Thanks and best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>David.<br clear=all><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>David Kane, MSc (Econ). ILS.<br>Systems Librarian<br>Waterford Institute of Technology<br>Ireland<br><a href="http://library.wit.ie/">http://library.wit.ie/</a><br>T: ++353.51302838<br>M: ++353.876693212<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><pre>*** Options: <a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/eprints-tech">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/eprints-tech</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>*** Archive: <a href="http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/">http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>*** EPrints community wiki: <a href="http://wiki.eprints.org/">http://wiki.eprints.org/</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>*** EPrints developers Forum: <a href="http://forum.eprints.org/">http://forum.eprints.org/</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>