Does impersonation in ATF respect or ignore ACL's that do not allow impersonation?

[Colin Wilson]

My assumption is yes, but, would like concrete clarification. 

I create a user, and assign it roles to a table in which the ACL's do not allow impersonation sessions to CRUD those records. 

I impersonate that user, and try to create a record. 
Test fails -> Can't find field values on that table. 

In this case - outside of editing the ACL, is there a work around?

Thanks,

Colin

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@Colin Wilson 

Yes — ATF impersonation does not bypass ACLs. The impersonated session is still subject to the target user’s access rules, and if that user cannot read/create the record or fields, your test will fail for the same reason a real user would fail

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