Yeah, might be. You could create a similar account in review board that has the right permissions to post as other users, and then have that one permanently logged in via the cookie.
-David On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:11 PM Steve <seide.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have a shared perforce account for doing merges called merge_master. > Here's a typical workflow: > > $ ssh sallan@mergehost > $ sudo su - merge_master > $ run_merge .... > > Once conflicts are resolved, we sometimes post for a review, but we want > to do that as ourselves, not as merge_master > > We've been doing that with --username > > $ rbt post --username sallan CL > > But that leaves a cookie behind in my name, so if the next person comes > along and runs rbt without --username, they end up creating a review in my > name, which is awkward. Maybe using --submit-as would be better? > > > --steve > > > On Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 11:35:32 AM UTC-7, David Trowbridge wrote: > >> Can you clarify your use case? These two things shouldn't be easy to >> misuse. >> >> -David >> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:31 AM Steve <seide...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks David. I think I've been using --username when I should be using >>> --submit-as. How does RB authenticate the --submit-as user? >>> >>> --Steve >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 5:02:49 PM UTC-7, David Trowbridge wrote: >>> >>>> --username is for authenticating to the review board server. >>>> --submit-as is for impersonating another user (assuming the authenticated >>>> user has the right permissions) after authentication. >>>> >>>> The aforementioned scenario (having a post-commit hook or CI task) to >>>> post review requests on behalf of others is the use case for --submit-as. >>>> >>>> -David >>>> >>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:42 PM Steve <seide...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>> Which makes me wonder - what is the difference between the --username >>>>> and --submit-as options? >>>>> >>>>> --Steve >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 11:11:13 PM UTC-7, MoonWalker wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Found it :-). Seems like --submit-as <username> will do the trick >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 3:19:39 PM UTC+10, MoonWalker wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We are using Jenkins in our CI, and we have a job that takes care of >>>>>>> doing some testing and if everything goes well a review will be posted >>>>>>> in >>>>>>> Reviewboard (2.0.15). Everything seems okay, the issue that I am facing >>>>>>> is >>>>>>> that I had to create a new user in RB called jenkins and the user that >>>>>>> trigger the job is not able to modify the review because he was not the >>>>>>> direct submitter. Is there any way to make a group capable to modify by >>>>>>> default any review that targets the group?. >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: >>>>> https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ >>>>> Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: >>>>> https://rbcommons.com/ >>>>> Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "reviewboard" group. >>>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to reviewboard...@googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> -- >>> Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: >>> https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ >>> Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: >>> https://rbcommons.com/ >>> Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "reviewboard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to reviewboard...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: > https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ > Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: > https://rbcommons.com/ > Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "reviewboard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
