django-runas

Impersonate a user using the Django admin.

Installation and configuration

1. $ pip install django-runas

2. Add runas to the bottom of your INSTALLED_APPS

3. Add runas.middleware.RunAsMiddleware to the bottom of MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES or MIDDLEWARE

4. Add the following to your urlpatterns, underneath where you have included the admin site (this is important):

   url("^admin/", include(admin.site.urls)),
   url("^admin/runas/", include('runas.urls')),

5. (Optional) If you would like a banner to display on each page of the site when you are impersonating a user, add the following to your base template:

   {% load runas_tags %}
   {% runas_banner %}

6. Log in to the admin and navigate to the change page of a user, and you will see in the top right a new button called Impersonate <user>