[Catalyst] superuser "switch-user" session function?
Sir Robert Burbridge
rburbrid at cisco.com
Fri Jul 9 16:02:54 GMT 2010
On 07/08/2010 01:27 PM, will at serensoft.com wrote:
> Hmm: Become-user?
>
> Is there a clean way to provide a means for sys-admins to "become
> user" to track down issues? It's much easier to diagnose when seeing
> what the user's seeing directly, when we look at it through our own
> eyes -- as opposed to relying on vague user-style descriptions
> ("unrecognized date format" vs "doesn't work").
>
> use Catalyst qw/
> ConfigLoader
> Static::Simple
> Session
> Session::Store::DBIC
> Session::State::Cookie
> Authentication
> Authentication::Credential::Password
> Authorization::Roles
> Authorization::ACL
> /;
>
I just have the user log in and then admins can go to a page and "steal"
the session cookie (storing it to browser) from any user from the db.
I'm in a controlled env. with no danger from it, though =)
-Sir
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