Yes we should :) Also, another class/key that checks of the person is
impersonating or not. :D

@auth.is_impersonating() returns boolean

On Apr 23, 3:07 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you are using Auth you may want to be able to impersonate a
> different user without logout and without resetting all your session
> variables.
>
> This is how you can do it
>
> #optonal: @auth.requires_permission
> ('impersonate',auth.table_user,request.args[0] if request.args else 0)
> def impersonate():
>     """ usagehttp://..../impersonate/[id] """
>     auth.original_user = auth.user
>     auth.user = auth.table_user._filter_fields(auth.table_user
> [request.args[0]],True)
>     return dict()
>
> def un_impersonate():
>     if auth.original_user:
>         auth.user = auth.original_user
>         auth.original_user = None
>     return dict()
>
> You can already do this. Should we make it easier and make them
> methods of the Auth class?
>
> Massimo
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