User impersonation is a feature that allows admin users to log in as any other user without knowing their password. This is useful for troubleshooting issues that a user may be experiencing.
This example demonstrates how to implement this feature in an Epic Stack application.
When an admin user wants to impersonate another user, we need to:
- Get the current session ID from the cookie and store it in the session as
impersonatorSessionId
- Create a new session for the user we want to impersonate and store it in the
cookie as
sessionId
When the user stops impersonating, we need to:
- Take the session ID stored in
impersonatorSessionId
and assign it tosessionId
, which will restore the original admin session. - Clear
impersonatorSessionId
from the cookie