How can I access session object in CKAN extension?

Question

I am writing an CKAN extension, where I am implementing CKAN interface IAuthenticator and I need to save some additional information about logged-in user in session. I have found out that CKAN uses beaker session. How can I access it? In the documentation of CKAN is just one sentence: The Session object is available through the toolkit.

Can you help me please?

Answer 1

The session is available as a variable to templates, but it doesn't contain much information - just some info about the User's session cookie. The cookie itself just contains an auth token.

http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/theming/variables-and-functions.html#session

What are you trying to do - what info about the user do you need and where are you trying to access it?