Ref T11098. This primarily fixes Conduit calls to *.edit methods failing when trying to access user preferences.
(The actual access is a little weird, since it seems like we're building some UI stuff inside a policy query, but that's an issue for another time.)
To fix this, consolidate the "we're about to run some kind of request with this user" code and run it consistently for web, conduit, and SSH sessions.
Additionally, make sure we swap things to the user's translation.