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title: "Roles: Admins pretending to be users!"
kind: article
slug: roles-admins-pretending-to-be-users
created_at: 2008-01-19
tags:
  - Blog
---

Most applications have some sort of role system. You have administrators, who can do basically everything, semi-administrators and "regular Joe" users.

Now, sometimes you want, as an administrator, be able to login as a user to solve some problem, or manage settings for a user, or whatever.

Harm did a very nice write-up on how we did this in a Rails project of ours. <a href="http://blog.kabisa.nl/2008/01/19/login_as-how-to-login-as-a-different-user/">You can read the article here</a>.