Question

I have a system, that has 2 roles (admins and users). Authentication made using Security Symfony2 component. Admin doesn’t know user password. But he should be able to login into the system as user. I have a grid with all users and want to add buttons like “Login as this user”. How can I make it?

I have tried, but no prfit:

$userRepo = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('FrameFoxBackEndBundle:User');
$this->get('security.context')->getToken()->setUser($userRepo->find(1));

Answer 1

I use this code :

// use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\UsernamePasswordToken
$entity = $userRepo->find(1);

// Authentication
// create the authentication token
$token = new UsernamePasswordToken(
    $entity,
    null,
    'user_db',
    $entity->getRoles());
// give it to the security context
$this->container->get('security.context')->setToken($token);