lombiq / orchard-login-as-anybody

Orchard module for site owners to be able to log in as any user.

Lombiq Login as Anybody for Orchard Core

About

Orchard Core module for administrators to be able to log in as any user. The Orchard 1 version of the module is available on the branch dev-orchard-1.

Documentation

After enabling the module you'll see a new button on the Security → Users page. You can log in as any registered user there. This is useful if you want to see how your Orchard Core app behaves for certain users.

This feature is only available to site owners, thus it's not way to get around security.

Contributing and support

Bug reports, feature requests, comments, questions, code contributions and love letters are warmly welcome. You can send them to us via GitHub issues and pull requests. Please adhere to our open-source guidelines while doing so.

This project is developed by Lombiq Technologies. Commercial-grade support is available through Lombiq.

orchard-login-as-anybody's Issues

Unable to use this if a user has changed their password

The scenario.
An new orchard user is created and various other set up done.

As part of a peer review, a user with admin rights will go into the orchard dashboard, go to users, and log in as them to check that things look right before the new orchard user is allowed to use the system.

The new orchard user either forgets their password/decides to change it, they carry on using the site as normal.

However, the user with admin rights goes in at somepoint to check on things, and wants to log in as our new user and can't because their password has been changed.

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I've stepped through the code - in this scenario, it looks like the user is found in the Admin controller, but appears to not authenticate properly - I'm not sure why this is, but they get redirected to the accessdenied method of the users controller, and that fails to authenticate the user and redirect them to the home page.

Help! This is an issue for us

Ability to switch between user accounts quickly

@Piedone created on Nov 4, 2014:
https://orchardloginasanybody.codeplex.com/workitem/1

So if you log in as somebody you could quickly switch back. Maybe a drop-down hovering at the top where you can select certain users.