Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: auth::create_user authority_id issue with scheduled proc

Andrew,

Do you know if there is a work around? I must use a sched proc to run this nightly import.

Thanks,
Chip

The question is why does auth::create_user need a conn in the first place? Quite possibly it doesn't really need one at all, the code is just (incorrectly) structured such that it assumes one. In which case your workaround could be to simply schedule a job outside AOLserver which hits a page to run that auth::create_user stuff. Then you will be running it in a conn thread and all will be well.

A better solution though, is to figure out what the problem really is. Note that plenty of other OpenACS users do create users non-interactively via various methods, and whatever they do apparently works. So maybe using auth::create_user isn't really the right thing at all. Or if it is the right thing, maybe it has a conn-dependency bug that it shouldn't have.