Hi Guillaume,

> How can users who have password-protected accounts be
impersonated,
> using p4perl 2007.3 ?
>
> I get a "password invalid" error when
running
> $p4->RunLogin($user_to_impersonate) even if a
superuser has been
> specified with SetUser, so no ticket gets generated.

Have you got a valid ticket for the super-user? You have to
prove you are the 
super-user before you can run 'p4 login <otheruser>'.
Can you run other 
commands as that super-user?

> Another related question: the only method I found to
impersonate users
> (without password protection), is a bit convoluted: for
each user, I
> have to use P4::SetUser($user_to_impersonate), which
means have to
> P4::Connect() and therefore P4:isconnec
t(). The latter seems to act
> as a destructor, so I end up having to re-instance a P4
object inside
> a foreach loop, i.e.:
>
> use P4;
> our $p4 = new P4;
>
> $p4->Connect();
> my $usersref = $p4->RunUsers();
> $p4->Disconnect();
>
> foreach my $userref ($usersref) {
>     my $user = $userref->{'User'};
>     $p4 = new P4;
>     $p4->SetUser($user);
>     $p4->Connect();
>     my info = $p4->RunInfo();
>     # Do something with info
>     $p4->Disconnect();
> }
>
> Surely there must be a better way ! Any ideas ?

No, that's the right way to do it - authentication is done
once per session, 
not once per command (otherwise that would be slow), so you
need a new 
session for each user you want to impersonate.

Regards,

Tony
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