How to impersonate a user

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  • November 3, 2020 at 4:12 am #322569
    amishbhavsar_136
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    As an admin of my website, sometimes, I have to go in as my user and I have used user switching plugin for this purpose. (https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/) With the 4.X update of WPLMS, I am unable to switch to another user. Even after the switch, WPLMS still displays my name as I am logged in. Please suggest what is the way to impersonate / switch user.
    November 3, 2020 at 6:57 pm #322764
    Diana
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    User switching is purely based on wordpress but in v4 we entered in the new technology based on React JS so it might be possible that this plugin will no longer work Here we are using JWT login system which is a token based authentication. The only way is to check by logging in for now
    February 6, 2021 at 11:22 pm #338562
    amishbhavsar_136
    Participant
    Is there a way for me to disable JWT Login and use the traditional Wordpress login using some settings in VibeBP? User switching is really critical for customer support. Without this, it is impossible for us to support our customers.
    February 8, 2021 at 1:52 pm #338770
    Diana
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    Which Plugin you are using for user switching. I will try on my setup first to check if we can do something or not
    February 8, 2021 at 7:09 pm #338831
    amishbhavsar_136
    Participant
    Hi Diana, I am using User Switching plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/ This plugin is active on my website. To help you avoid the trouble of installing the plugin on your instance, let me share my website credentials in the priivate reply.
    February 8, 2021 at 7:10 pm #338832
    amishbhavsar_136
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    February 10, 2021 at 11:49 am #339242
    Diana
    Participant
    checking on your site Updated reply Your site is a multisite setup and plugin was not there So I decided to check at my end, and here it is : http://prntscr.com/yypxsk You can check other backend stuff by switching the user, but this will not work in case you want to check PWA section
    February 10, 2021 at 6:41 pm #339369
    amishbhavsar_136
    Participant
    Hi Diana, You screenshot shows that you were able to switch the user on Wordpress to "frenzy", but on WPLMS it is still showing as "admin". So the VibeBP did not change the user, but Wordpress was able to switch. Don't you have a setting under VibeBP to Synchronise VibeBP with WP Login? Can that work?
    February 11, 2021 at 8:58 am #339491
    Veronica
    Moderator
    hi no that will not work please check the reply here https://wplms.io/support/forums/topic/sign-in-to-wplms/#post-339489
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