Set the authenticated user and create a session

Hi,

In our environment there are two possibilities to login (web and mgr):
- use the local username/password managed by modx
- use the single-sign-on tool

The single-sign-on tool can be configured to protect certain urls. When these URLs are requested the tool fetches the request before the HTTP-Server gets it, authenticates the user, sets the user’s informationen to the http header and returns the request to the http-server.
I’d like to retrieve these information in a snippet for setting up a valid session for the user. Retrieving the information is easy but is there something like a modx->setAuthenticatedUser(modUser) method available?

I found



I think this does exactly what I was looking for, does it?