Feature Request: User Masquerading

[alpine]

To help troubleshoot at the administrative task It would be very useful to let the root admin to masquerade as a user.

[.KX]

What do you mean? As in, it would show an administrator as if they were a member? Why...?

[Chris.Papaioannou]

Maybe they mean in terms of the admin account being able to 'preview' the forum using the exact same permissions of the selected user group?

[Dlf]

Had a similar idea a while ago. Admin option to 'log' in as user (via ACP) but they can NOT change a thing . . . .

[alpine]

Maybe they mean in terms of the admin account being able to 'preview' the forum using the exact same permissions of the selected user group?

Yes that's it.

[Michael]

Typically people make test accounts for things like this.

[RawkBob]

It would be a nice feature though, but as mentioned it's easy to just create a test user for this...

You can log into the ACP as a separate user and it doesn't affect the currently logged in 'normal' user account you're testing with.

[lstresrt]

Typically people make test accounts for things like this.

Yepers, that be the way to do it ;)

[alpine]

Yepers, that be the way to do it ;)

Test accounts would be easy if the permission masks that user had was something simplistic . When you are putting them in multiple groups, with multiple level of permissions Masquerading is the quick and easy process especially when there is a time critical resolution required.

[Michael]

How is masquerading any easier than putting that test account into those multiple groups?

[Justin]

How is masquerading any easier than putting that test account into those multiple groups?

That would depend entirely on how complex the permissions setup is for that user... Multiple groups, masks, etc... It would just mean the difference of a few clicks, probably...

This is something best left to a mod, I'd wager... (or test accounts if you rarely have to do something like this)