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django-switchuser

django-switchuser makes it easy for an administrator to switch to temporarily switch to another account by visiting /su.

Assumptions

Because django-switchuser was a quick project, it does make a couple of assumptions:

  • Your site uses a base.html template with a {% block content %} block. If this assumption does not hold: you will need to define your own su/login.html template, something like this:

    {% extends "yourbase.html" %}
    {% block yourcontent %}
        {% include "su/login_form.html" %}
    {% endblock %}
  • Any superuser is allowed to switch to any other user. If this assumption does not hold: you’ll need to submit a pull request… Sorry :(

Installation

  1. pip install django-switchuser

  2. Add a few things to settings.py (note: the SuStateMiddleware must appear after the AuthenticationMiddleware):

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        ...
        "django_switchuser",
        ...
    )
    
    MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
        ...
        "django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware",
        "django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware",
        "django_switchuser.middleware.SuStateMiddleware",
        ...
    )
    
    TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
        ...
        "django_switchuser.context_processors.su_state",
        ...
    )
  3. Add an entry to urls.py (note: you can use whatever URL you’d like; su/ is simply convenient):

    urlpatterns += patterns("",
        ...
        url(r"^su/", include("django_switchuser.urls")),
        ...
    )
  4. (Optional) Add an entry to your base.html template (don’t use a base.html? See Assumptions!) which will show a convenient logout button:

    <body>
        ...
        {% include "su/statusbar.html" %}
    </body>

Doing Your Own Thing

Doing your own thing is easy. The SuStateMiddleware and su_state context processors add a su_state attribute to the request and a su_state variable to the template rendering context. su_state is an instance of django_switchuser.state.SuState, and has the following attributes:

SuState.is_active():

Returns True if the current user has been switched.

SuState.auth_user:

The original user associated with the request. For example, if the user admin has switched to jane, then su_state.auth_user will be admin.

SuState.active_user:

The user which has been switched to, or None if no user has been switched. For example, if the user admin has switched to jane, then su_state.active_user will be admin.

SuState.can_su():

Returns True if the current user is allowed to switch.

SuState.available_users():

Returns a QuerySet of User of the users which the current user is allowed to switch to.

SuState.set_su_user_id(su_user_id):

Switches to the user with id su_user_id.

SuState.clear_su():

Reverts back to the original user.

For example, if you don’t like the default switch user bar, you could add your own to your base.html:

{% if su_state.is_active %}
    <a href="{% url su-logout %}">deactive {{ su.active_user.username }}</a>
{% elif su_state.can_su %}
    <a href="{% url su-login %}">switch user</a>
{% endif %}

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