Preventing Sitecore from applying security
Sometimes, content authors need to perform some necessary operations for which they do not have access rights. Giving additional rights to them is not a permanent solution as requirements can vary from user to user or case to case. Sitecore gives freedom to developers by providing a security context switching feature so that users can perform some secured item or field-level changes in the security context of other users.
Let's consider a case where some super content author needs a facility to unlock pages locked by other content authors. So, instead of giving them rights to unlock the pages, we can do this impersonating the user and disabling security.
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