1071380 - "Fake login" option

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1073348

(Webtools :: Pulse, defect, P3)

Description

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

Persona is great but annoying to deal with locally.  We should have a command-line and/or config.py option that automatically logs the user in with a fake account.  Call it --fake-login=<email> or fake_login = <email>.  This would cause anyone loading the page to be automatically logged in as the given email address.  There should be a large warning in the header that fake-login mode is engaged.

Comment 1

[Edmund Wong (:ewong)]

Attachment: wip patch(v1)

Comment 2

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

Comment on attachment 8495678 [details] [review]
wip patch(v1)

As discussed, good start, but I want to be able to specify an email address on the command line, e.g. --fake-account [e-mail].  Shouldn't take much more work to get there; just a global variable and some sort of preprocessing function (something that executes very early) that sets session['email'] to the value of that global if it's anything other than None.

Comment 3

[Ricardo Castro]

This seems to be a duplicate of Bug 1073348. If that's the case maybe we can close this one.

Comment 4

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

Huh yeah, not sure how that happened.  Must have forgotten that I filed it, or thought the transaction didn't go through, or something... Anyway thanks!