Django app to allow superusers to impersonate other users.
Project description
django-impersonate
------------------
Simple application to allow superusers to "impersonate" other
non-superuser accounts.
Dependencies
------------
It was written for Python 2.4+ and Django 1.2.4 but it should
work just fine with Django 1.1+
It depends on your project using the django.contrib.session framework.
Install
-------
PIP:
pip install django-impersonate
Basic Manual Install:
$ python setup.py build
$ sudo python setup.py install
Alternative Install (Manually):
Place impersonate directory in your Python path. Either in your Python
installs site-packages directory or set your $PYTHONPATH environment
variable to include a directory where the webutils directory lives.
Use
---
1) Add 'impersonate' to your INSTALLED_APPS
2) Add 'impersonate.middleware.ImpersonateMiddleware' to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
3) Add 'impersonate.urls' somewhere in your url structure. Example:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^impersonate/', include('impersonate.urls')),
... (all your other urls here) ...
)
You can now impersonate another user by hitting the following path:
/impersonate/<user-id>/
Replace <user-id> with the user id of the user you want to impersonate.
While in impersonation "mode" the request.user object will have an
"_impersonate" attribute set to True. So if you wanted to check in your
templates or view, you just do something like...
{% if user._impersonate %} .... {% endif %}
You can reference this URL with reverse() or the {% url %} template tag
as 'impersonate-start'
To remove the impersonation, hit the following path:
/impersonate/stop/
You can reference this URL with reverse() or the {% url %} template tag
as 'impersonate-stop'
Copyright & Warranty
--------------------
All documentation, libraries, and sample code are
Copyright 2011 Peter Sanchez <petersanchez@gmail.com>. The library and
sample code are made available to you under the terms of the BSD license
which is contained in the included file, BSD-LICENSE.
------------------
Simple application to allow superusers to "impersonate" other
non-superuser accounts.
Dependencies
------------
It was written for Python 2.4+ and Django 1.2.4 but it should
work just fine with Django 1.1+
It depends on your project using the django.contrib.session framework.
Install
-------
PIP:
pip install django-impersonate
Basic Manual Install:
$ python setup.py build
$ sudo python setup.py install
Alternative Install (Manually):
Place impersonate directory in your Python path. Either in your Python
installs site-packages directory or set your $PYTHONPATH environment
variable to include a directory where the webutils directory lives.
Use
---
1) Add 'impersonate' to your INSTALLED_APPS
2) Add 'impersonate.middleware.ImpersonateMiddleware' to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
3) Add 'impersonate.urls' somewhere in your url structure. Example:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^impersonate/', include('impersonate.urls')),
... (all your other urls here) ...
)
You can now impersonate another user by hitting the following path:
/impersonate/<user-id>/
Replace <user-id> with the user id of the user you want to impersonate.
While in impersonation "mode" the request.user object will have an
"_impersonate" attribute set to True. So if you wanted to check in your
templates or view, you just do something like...
{% if user._impersonate %} .... {% endif %}
You can reference this URL with reverse() or the {% url %} template tag
as 'impersonate-start'
To remove the impersonation, hit the following path:
/impersonate/stop/
You can reference this URL with reverse() or the {% url %} template tag
as 'impersonate-stop'
Copyright & Warranty
--------------------
All documentation, libraries, and sample code are
Copyright 2011 Peter Sanchez <petersanchez@gmail.com>. The library and
sample code are made available to you under the terms of the BSD license
which is contained in the included file, BSD-LICENSE.
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