When trying to edit the page while impersonating as admin throws "Not an owner of the lock" exception.

[Jangra98]

Hi Everyone,

I'm working on AEM 6.5 and faced below issue, and thanks for the help in advance.

So here is the situation:

Let's assume there is an author A who has authored a page and locked it. I am an author B who is impersonated as admin. Now I'm trying to edit a particular component on that page. That component is associated with a servlet which changes node name based on the input in the component. In that servlet, there is a logic which unlocks that page path, modifies the node name and then locks it again. 

In normal situation it is working fine as expected but as soon as I impersonate as admin and try to make some changes it throws the exception 

javax.jcr.lock.LockException: Not an owner of the lock

So, what can be the reason and solution for this problem?
 

[Imran__Khan]

Please follow below link to unlock page
https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/unlocking-a-page-with-syst...

Lock and unlock page API will help here

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/lock-unlock-using-page-api...

[arunpatidar · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jangra98 
Unfortunately only lock owner or admin unlock the page (remove the lock).

Latest update we received from Adobe on this through day care - 

 We have confirmed from the engg team and same has been written in the docs And an evaluation for improvement on this     feature is been checked on this JIRA (CQ-4236738).

Locking a page can be performed when impersonating a user. However a page locked in this way can only then be unlocked as the user who was impersonated or a user with administrator privileges.

Pages cannot be unlocked by impersonating the user who locked the page.

Also same has been written under[1].

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/6-3/sites/authoring/using/editing-content.html

[Jörg_Hoh]

Remark to AEM CS: members of the "administrators" group can do it there.