Re: Setting the current user id in 2.2

This worked ok for me,

but ( from memory)

only after I had started tomcat once to perform all necessary 
population. etc.

Do you get a NPE at session.setUserId("admin") ?

Ian

Josh Holtzman wrote:
> I'm trying to update the test-harness in 2.2, and I'm having difficulty 
> "logging in" to sakai.
>
> Here's what used to work for me:
>
> Session session = SessionManager.getCurrentSession();
> session.setUserId("admin");
> session.setUserEid("admin");
>
> But now calling UserDirectoryService.getCurrentUser().getId() returns an 
> empty string.  And when I try to take actions such as adding users, 
> adding sites, etc, I get a PermissionException, since user is null.
>
> I've even tried AuthzGroupService.refreshUser("admin"), but that doesn't 
> fix this either.  Does anyone have any ideas what I need to do to set 
> the current userID in 2.2?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh

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