[keycloak-user] Impersonate User

Bill Burke bburke at redhat.com
Wed Apr 8 08:50:06 EDT 2015


I'm not sure yet.  It would have to be a service that accepts a token, 
verifies a role (as you suggest), ditches the current user's session 
cookie and sets up themselves as the impersonated user.

On 4/7/2015 7:13 PM, Scott Rossillo wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Out of curiosity, how do you see this being implemented? Would a user
> who can impersonate another have a specific role to allow this?
>
> I’m thinking a bit about how I may be able to support it before it
> becomes a feature, or if it’s something we would be able to contribute.
>
> ~ Scott
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com
> <mailto:bburke at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     We don't have this feature but it is something that some key customers
>     want.  I would say we would get to it sometime this summer.
>
>     On 4/7/2015 6:03 PM, Scott Rossillo wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > We’re looking for the best way to support having one user, such as an
>      > admin, have the ability to impersonate another user. I don’t see a
>      > simple way to do this with Keycloak at the moment.
>      >
>      > Would you mind letting me know if this is on the roadmap - I
>     didn’t see
>      > a JIRA - or if you have any recommendations on implementing such
>     behavior.
>      >
>      > Thanks,
>      > Scott
>      >
>      >
>      >
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