alan2207/epic-stack-with-user-impersonation

Epic Stack with User Impersonation

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.

Demo:

How it works

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 to sessionId, which will restore the original admin session.
• Clear impersonatorSessionId from the cookie