Hi Hans, This feature was a quick hack, and you're quite right that it does not work with external authentication. This may be a bit tricky to fix, so I've created a bug report for it here: https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/issue/705/ --nate On Jan 23, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Hans-Rudolf Hotz wrote:
Hi
The recently added new function allowing administrators to impersonate other users is a really useful tool - thank you very much.
It works great on our development server. Unfortunately, it does not work on our production server which relies on external authentication via Apache. Is this a common problem? See below for the output in the logs, when I tried to switch from 'hansrudolf.hotz@fmi.ch' to 'Tim.Roloff@fmi.ch'.
Has anybody else activated this functionality (with or without success)?
Regards, Hans
172.27.28.201 - - [23/Jan/2012:13:25:11 +0200] "POST /admin/impersonate HTTP/1.1" 200 - "http://galaxy.fmi.ch/admin/impersonate?webapp=galaxy" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.86 Safari/533.4"
galaxy.web.framework WARNING 2012-01-23 13:25:23,526 User logged in as 'hansrudolf.hotz@fmi.ch' externally, but has a cookie as 'Tim.Roloff@fmi.ch' invalidating session
172.27.28.201 - - [23/Jan/2012:13:25:23 +0200] "GET /root HTTP/1.1" 200 - "http://galaxy.fmi.ch/admin/impersonate" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.86 Safari/533.4" ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: