Installation

Install collective.impersonate by adding it to your buildout:

[buildout]

...

eggs =
    collective.impersonate

and then running bin/buildout

Usage

See the docs folder for instructions on how to use this add-on.

Wishlist

• autocomplete with search select2 widget for choosing the user to impersonate

License

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.

Based on the old niteoweb.loginas package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/niteoweb.loginas

3.0.0 (2026-08-25)

• Remove contributors file. Check git history for contributors. [thet]

• Cleanup and remove unused code. [thet]

• Run plone-codemod to modernize for Plone 6.2. [thet]

• Replace pkg_resources namespace with PEP 420 native namespace. Support only Plone 6.2 and Python 3.10+. [gforcada]

2.0 (2024-10-21)

• New action icons (Plone 6 only). [petschki]

• Fix action icon setup. Set logout action to Plone 6 default. [petschki]

1.4.1 (2024-10-21)

• Fix form action URL to support sites published under a subpath [ale-rt]

• Fix redirect to INavigationRoot after impersonate [petschki]

1.4 (2021-12-11)

• Plone 6 compatibility -> remove <includeDependencies /> [petschki]

1.3 (2020-10-07)

• Add support for Plone 5.2 and Python 3 [cillianderoiste]

• Use explicit dependency on Products.GenericSetup >= 1.8.2 [laulaz]

• Fix issue with Lineage subsites, where the many_users property couldn’t be resolved due to a wrong adapter context. [thet]

• Added French translation [laulaz]

• minor markup cleanup [ajung]

• Plone 4.3 compatibility [petschki]

• Minor code cleanup: black, isort, travis fixes. [thet]

1.2 (2019-06-18)

• lists available users only if the “Many users?” box in Users and Groups control panel is not checked [tkimnguyen]

1.1.1 (2019-06-16)

• upgrade to Plone 5.1.5, add ‘Framework :: Plone :: Addon’ pypi classifier, tweak docs [tkimnguyen]

1.1 (2019-06-15)

• update docs to show Impersonate portal action [tkimnguyen]

• add user documentation [tkimnguyen]

• add Impersonate personal menu item for Manager role [tkimnguyen]

• fix buildout, isort fixes, flake8 fixes, Travis fixes [tkimnguyen]

• upgrade to Plone 5.0.10 [tkimnguyen]

• tweak Travis xvfb start [tkimnguyen]

• fix test buildout [tkimnguyen]

1.0.1 (2017-03-07)

• Brownbag release. [zupo]

1.0 (2017-03-07)

• Initial release. [zupo]