[cgiapp] delegation

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I'm a web programming neophyte, having only done some maintenance
using Struts & Java before.  Since I prefer Perl most of the time
cgiapp caught my attention as a good learning tool and simple enough
for my small casual project.  It's served me well so far.

I'm using MySQL for authentication -- not terribly concerned about
using anything stronger (like https).  One of my last puzzles is
how to have a "delegation" sort of mode where an admin (me) can easily
act as another user.  I have a management app for creating/deleting
users, setting their passwords, importing data, and so on.  This mgt
app is derived from the user app.  I have support for marking a user
as having admin privs or not (in the DB).

Does anyone have thoughts on this?  Am I making more of this than
I need to?  Should I use a fallback authentication method to cover this,
so the admin user can always do some "switch-user" w/o knowing their
password (but requiring some admin password)?  Or can I just explicitly
set some fields $self->authen->username (seems unlikely).

Thanks for any thoughts!


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