indrajithbandara / django-hijack

django-hijack allows superusers to hijack (=login as) and work on behalf of another user.

Django Hijack ============

django-hijack allows superusers to hijack (=login as) and work on behalf of another user.

Installation

To get the latest stable release from PyPi

pip install django-hijack

To get the latest commit from GitHub

pip install -e git+git://github.com/arteria/django-hijack.git#egg=hijack

In your settings.py add hijack to your INSTALLED_APPS and define LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...,
    'hijack',
)

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = "/hello/"

Add the hijack URLs to your urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    url(r'^hijack/', include('hijack.urls')),
)

Usage

Go to Users in the admin interface and push the ‘Hijack’ button to hijack an user.

Or from the address bar type:

• myapp.com/hijack/2
• myapp.com/hijack/email/[email protected]
• myapp.com/hijack/username/alex

Signal

You can catch a signal when a superuser logs in, because you might want to flag him and show a warning message in the interface.

Add to your Account model:

superuser_login = False

Catch the signal:

@receiver(post_superuser_login)
def set_superuser(sender, **kwargs):
    account = Account.objects.get(user_ptr_id = kwargs['user_id'])
    account.superuser_login = True

Contribute

If you want to contribute to this project, please perform the following steps

# Fork this repository
# Clone your fork
mkvirtualenv -p python2.7 django-hijack
make develop

git co -b feature_branch master
# Implement your feature and tests
git add . && git commit
git push -u origin feature_branch
# Send us a pull request for your feature branch