auth.impersonate not working?!

[António Ramos]

hello i have a controller function that is called as a get/post request

this functions then needs to log as a specific user before manipulating data from tables.

4 is my user id   

def checkLoad():

    user=auth.impersonate(4)

    return "ok"

When i call it with postman or something to test my endpoint i get

Not Authorized

Any ideas why ?

Regards

António

[António Ramos]

found it

Had to create a group called "impersonate"

then added my user to that membership

then

in my function 

    user=auth.login_bare("teslaoneday","youwish...")

    

    user=auth.impersonate(25)

Not it works as expected...

Regards

[António Ramos]

Back again to impersonate issue. I have the sysadmin user member of impersonate like the attached pic.

My code to impersonate user 25 as follows "Forbidden" 

def execdal():

    

    user=auth.login_bare("sysadmin","mypwd")   

    auth.impersonate(25)

    return dict(a=user)

[António Ramos]

bad english in previous email. Sorry about that.

the user sysadmin belongs to group "impersonate" ike attached pic in previous email.

My code to impersonate user sysadmin as user 25 returns "Forbidden"

any help ?

Regards

António

[António Ramos]

apparently have to add_permission like 

    user = auth.login_bare("user", "pwd")

    auth.add_permission(impersonateGroupID, "impersonate", db.auth_user,0)

    auth.impersonate(46)

    return auth.user_id