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=== Impersonation
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It is often useful for an admin to impersonate a user. For example, a user may be experiencing a bug in one of your applications and
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an admin may want to impersonate the user to see if they can duplicate the problem. Admins with the appropriate permission
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can impersonate a user. There are two locations an admin can initiate impersonation. The first is on the `Users` list tab.
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.Users
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image:{project_images}/user-search.png[]
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You can see here that the admin has searched for `john`. Next to John's account you can see an impersonate button. Click that
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to impersonate the user.
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Also, you can impersonate the user from the user `Details` tab.
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.User Details
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image:{project_images}/user-details.png[]
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Near the bottom of the page you can see the `Impersonate` button. Click that to impersonate the user.
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When impersonating, if the admin and the user are in the same realm, then the admin will be logged out and automatically logged
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in as the user being impersonated. If the admin and user are not in the same realm, the admin will remain logged in, but additionally
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be logged in as the user in that user's realm. In both cases, the browser will be redirected to the impersonated user's User Account Management
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page.
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Any user with the realm's `impersonation` role can impersonate a user. Please see the <<_admin_permissions,Admin Console Access Control>> chapter
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for more details on assigning administration permissions.
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