Login as user

Hi
this hack allows admins to login as any user they want. In the Adminpanel you´ll have a link in the "edit user"-screen which allows you to login as the user. Good for testing and finding errors that the user reports etc

Only 1 File to edit (admin/user.php)
Installationtime: < 5 minutes

[Smoothie]

Anyone post a text version of this, please?

[SWRoleplay.com]

Exactly where and how would you put that code?

After:

PHP Code:

require("./global.php"); 


[Boofo]

???

Originally posted by SWRoleplay.com


After:

PHP Code:

require("./global.php"); 


[Derek]

Use this if you want... in the first user.php edit, you can instead of using "Login as User" you can type in the following and it will show up as "Login as Johnny" or whatever the person's username is.

Login as $user[username]

[Derek]

Another thing... I can't get the work only for userid=1 thing to work... I admined my Test Account and two things happened...

1. After clicking on the Find for the user search and after I typed in the name or partial on either the front page or in the find page, I got a blank page.

2. Second, I copy and pasted the link that logs me in as the other user into my browser address bar while I was logged in the admin CP under Test Account and I was able to get access.

Please help.

[Boofo]

I'm not sure if you got this yet, but here it is.

Text version of this hack

Originally posted by Smoothie
Anyone post a text version of this, please?

[inetd]

good hack
work's fine!
click install

[dwh]

Excellent hack...here's an addition...so you have the link when searching for user:

replace

PHP Code:

makelinkcode("edit access masks","user.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=editaccess&userid=$user[userid]")." 


with

PHP Code:

makelinkcode("edit access masks","user.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=editaccess&userid=$user[userid]").
makelinkcode("login as user","user.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=loginas&userid=$user[userid]",1)." 


[BrAinZ]

Sounds like it could be useful, although I'm guessing that logging in as a user is going to reset all their New posts / New PMs etc ?

Would there be any way of keeping all the last visit info etc, sort of "stealthy" log in as user ??

[wolfman]

man I love this hack this is a great life saver on checking permisions