wagtail-impersonate 0.1.0

Wagtail integration for django-impersonate

wagtail-impersonate

Wagtail extension to allow superusers to "impersonate" other accounts.

Version: 0.1.0

Author: Stepan Pliaskin (https://plyask.in/)

Dependencies

• Wagtail 6.1 and newer.
• django-impersonate 1.9.4 and newer.

Installation

PIP:

pip install wagtail-impersonate

Use

1. Add impersonate and wagtail-impersonate to your INSTALLED_APPS

2. Add impersonate.middleware.ImpersonateMiddleware to your MIDDLEWARE setting.

3. Add impersonate.urls somewhere in your url structure. Example:

   urlpatterns = patterns('',
       url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
       url(r'^impersonate/', include('impersonate.urls')),
       ... (all your other urls here) ...
   )
   

Note: The ImpersonationMiddleware class should be placed AFTER the django.contrib.auth.* middleware classes

Functionality

To to Settings -> Users. Find user to impersonate. Press dots (More options for user). Press Impersonate button.

To finish impersonation press Stop impersonation on admin sidebar.

Settings

Since this module is kind of wrap for django-impersonate you need to update settings.py according to README.md of django-impersonate

There are three lines that require attention.

IMPERSONATE = {
    "URI_EXCLUSIONS": [],
    "REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME": "next",
    "REDIRECT_URL": "/",
}