django-hijack/django-hijack

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Django Hijack is a Django app that lets admins log in and work on behalf of other users without knowing their credentials. It provides secure impersonation with Django admin integration and a notification banner while hijacking.

Use cases

• impersonate a user to reproduce a bug they reported
• let support staff log in as a customer without their password
• debug user-specific issues from the user's perspective
• add a 'login as user' button to the Django admin
• troubleshoot account settings on behalf of end users

When to choose

• you run a Django site and need admin or support impersonation
• you want a security-first, actively maintained impersonation library
• you need out-of-the-box Django admin integration

When to avoid

• your project is not built on Django
• you need impersonation with audit logging across many frameworks
• you only need read-only views of user data rather than full login-as sessions

Facets

library · maturity stable

auth middleware web-development security developer-tools python django impersonation user-spoofing admin-tools support-debugging web-server

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