Pass user context

Hi,

I have the following scenario:

We have multiple custom and COTS applications with multiple LL instances. The various applications search LL. To accomplish this the applications have their own interface which calls a central web service. This service then performs some tasks and makes the appropriate call to the correct instance of LL using the enterprise services via WCF.

Everything works fine with search et al, but I do not see the ability to pass in the context of the user who is making the search from the orginiating application. How can I pass this information so that the search will run in the context of that user?

Nate

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Nathaniel_Law

To clarify this, i under the concept of passing the authentication object to search, but to get the token you need to know the user name & password. We do not have the ability to get the password of the user, just the username. If there anyway to handle this?

Jason_Smith

You can use the Authentication Service's impersonateUser(String username) call to get back a login token for a specified user (if you have sufficient permissions).