There was this:

http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/thread-13844.html - and Tims reply sounds like there’s some code to help this functionality:

“So, with this change, aliasing is just a case of writing a custom

check_user_password that returns the alias instead of the normal

username.”

I’ve never implemented this – so my knowledge runs out about here…

Cheers,

John

Hi Dave,

This has never been possible as far as I know. Some components sometime allow to do "stuff on behalf of" other users, such as with the REF plug-in.

Such a feature would require low-level patching of EPrints::Repository->current_user (shouldn't be too hard to achieve though eg store a on_behalf_of cookie, have a validate method and a pin on the template to un-masquerade). This would be a sweet feature!

Seb.

On 11.09.2014 16:08, David Kane wrote:

Hello All,

 

I was wondering whether the latest version of eprints allows administrators to masquerade as regular users.  I know this was possible a few years ago, but what is the practice now?  What works on the more recent versions of EPrints?

 

Thanks and best wishes,

 

David.

 

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