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Work better with masquerade

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Created on 6 February 2025, 17 days ago

Problem/Motivation

When the masquerade → module is in use, permitted users can masquerade themselves as other users without knowing their password. When the re-authenticate dialog pops up, the current user has no chance to recover from that situation and needs to log out. This is inconvenient and should be improved.

Proposed resolution

I'm not sure, which approach would be best. For now, collecting ideas on what could be done.

Idea 1: if the timeout is reached and the current session is a masquerade, automatically unmasquerade the current user and show them the re-auth dialog for their own account.

Idea 2: in a masquerade session, let the original user unlock the browser session with their own password.

Idea 3: let's see what else we can come up with ...

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Version

1.0

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Code

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🇩🇪Germany jurgenhaas Gottmadingen

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