Added ability to allow admin to 'su' to other accounts #1812
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Hey @glennzw!
Thanks for sending this in. I could see this being useful, and this approach seems fine. Perhaps in the future, we could offer a way to get back out of the impersonation without having to logout/login. But that's a future problem to solve 😄
I made a few notes in the PR. If you could take a look, I'd appreciate it! Thanks again for taking the time to knock this out!
Yeah I started off on a more complex idea of generating one-time login links that are stored in the DB and when clicked log in as the predetermined user and then expire - but it started getting complicated so I went with this easier solution for now 😄 |
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LGTM- thanks @glennzw! |
Scenario:
As an admin you can create user accounts, but if those users change their passwords you're unable to authenticate to their accounts (e.g. for debugging / other assistance). The only current solution would be for the user to share their password, or for you as the admin to change their password.
Solution:
This pull request adds a new button in the User Management section that allows admin users to immediately 'su' to that user account.