[TYPO3-dev] Logging in BE users from FE

[J. Lingott]

  Hello list,

what's the best way to get a backend user logged in from frontend, is 
there any built-in stuff that could be used?

Currently am using my own implementation of method setSessionCookie, 
which is a protected method of the auth classes (plus insertion of a 
backend session). But unfortunately the value is getting set wrong. 
Deleting cookies helps, but there must be a way without... Is it just my 
routine that fails or does this issue happen always when trying to set a 
cookie for backend? I know some extensions use that, for instance 
feeditadvanced and simulatebe (by which the routine is inspired, just 
had to change it a bit as my setup is different: I am authenticating 
against a foreign table, with two types of users, some have dual 
relation (i.e. a backend and frontend user is related to one foreign 
user), some are just frontend users, if they got a special usergroup 
they have to be logged in to backend.

Regards


J. Lingott