Presuming the session is cookie based, why not impersonate in incognito
mode or in another browser?
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Imagine you have -10 years of computer knowledge, and that you’re on the
phone with a customer and have to check data on your platform by
impersonating him.
Most likely, you’re gonna forget that you have to use a separate session
and see an error message when trying to reach your
Assuming you don't really need admin permissions and impersonated user
permissions in the same request, a better approach might be to build the
functionality you need into the application (perhaps via a plugin). Before
starting impersonation, set a flag in the admin session (e.g.,
I agree that impersonate is just right the way it is.
-Jim
On Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 6:00:52 PM UTC-5, Limedrop wrote:
Well the easy answer is to simply open the impersonated user in a
different browser (eg, have Support Team login in chrome and impersonated
user login in firefox).
For
Well maybe I’m just biased then.
I think of web2py as THE framework for startups, and in that regard an
easy-to-use user management system seems to me like a priority.
With all due respect to Support Team members across the globe, using two
browsers isn’t something you should expect from them.
On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 11:16:51 AM UTC-4, Louis Amon wrote:
Well maybe I’m just biased then.
I think of web2py as THE framework for startups, and in that regard an
easy-to-use user management system seems to me like a priority.
With all due respect to Support Team members across the
Chrome allows not just incognito mode, but that little person icon in the
upper right by the minimize is 'switch account' and you can use a guest
account that's not incognito, which is just perfect for testing out stuff
like that.
On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 9:02:21 AM UTC-7, Anthony wrote:
With all due respect to Support Team members across the globe, using two
browsers isn’t something you should expect from them.
How hard is it to open a private browsing window of the same browser
(ctrl+shift+n)? Not to mention the problems that keeping the permissions of
the original user
Usually I would agree with you guys : browsers can manage separate sessions
perfectly well… but we are all devs here so we have a bias.
Imagine you have -10 years of computer knowledge, and that you’re on the phone
with a customer and have to check data on your platform by impersonating him.
Well the easy answer is to simply open the impersonated user in a different
browser (eg, have Support Team login in chrome and impersonated user login
in firefox).
For us it is important that impersonate is restricted to the user's
permissions...we have several classes of user and it is
Now I think 3 should be the solution but it should be an option and not
default behavior. Nowhere we say that impersonate should behave has linux
sudo permissions. The way it is intended to work is that when you
impersonate another user you become that other use and you see what the
other user
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