Login as Any Site user

Author:: madhav.bnk
Posted:: November 29, 2009
Language:: Python
Version:: 1.1
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If you are an admin of a django site and many times it feels to visualize or experience how a normal website user actually sees different pages of your website. So to get this done, we create a normal user (just for testing purposes) and check the same, which is good. But sometimes we need to actually login as the same person to resolve a issue or to trace a particular exception which only one user or a specific set of users are experiencing.

Usage:login_using_email(request, "[email protected]")

I have mentioned only the helper or core method which is responsible for the actual user "logging-in" simulation. Proper view permissions(remember I mentioned only admins should use this) can be wrapped around it. Any thoughts on improving it? Always invited....

Public Clone Url: git://gist.github.com/242439.git

def login_using_email(request, email):
    '''DONT EVER USE this method for normal purposes. This is only there, for debugging specific problems related to users'''
    from django.contrib.auth import get_backends
    backend = get_backends()[0]
    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
    user = User.objects.get(email=email)
    user.backend = "%s.%s" % (backend.__module__, backend.__class__.__name__)
    from django.contrib.auth import login as django_login
    django_login(request, user)
    #set_any_extra_session_variables(request)

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KomarovPetr26 (on December 2, 2011):

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