Blog posts tagged with 'switch user':
Advanced user switching
Date: 24 Feb 2015Tags: [ PHP ] [ security ] [ switch user ] [ symfony2 ]
A really neat trick in the Symfony Security component is the fact that you can impersonate or “switch” users. This allows you to login as another user, without supplying their password. Suppose a client of your application has a problem at a certain page which you want to investigate. Sometimes this is not possible under your own account, as you don’t have the same data as the user, so the issue might not even occur in your account. Instead of asking the password from the user itself, which is cumbersome, and not a very safe thing to begin with, you can use the switch-user feature.