<div>Thanks - both of these modules solve half of the problem (i.e., the switching part) - but neither seem to allow me to force the user to enter the root password in order to switch to the root account. Very useful, though; two new questions:</div>
<div><ol><li>If I were to build a module that was dependent on either masquerade or devel switch user to provide the functionality I'm talking about, which module would be the best foundation?</li><li>Is there a simple way I can mash-up this module with the regular user module to do this? I'm guessing there must be.</li>
</ol><div>Thanks again, guys; the best bit about Drupal (and the Drupal community) is not having to re-invent the wheel ;)</div></div><br clear="all">--Jim<br>--<br>My IM and Skype details are at <a href="http://state68.com/contact">http://state68.com/contact</a><br>
<br><div><div>Paolo Mainardi:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://drupal.org/project/masquerade">http://drupal.org/project/masquerade</a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 August 2010 17:40, Pedro Faria de Miranda Pinto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:predofaria@gmail.com">predofaria@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You can use devel module with switch user block<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, James Benstead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.benstead@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.benstead@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I'm very interested in UI design, and mapping the design of Drupal admin interfaces to pre-existing, long-standing frameworks. I'm currently looking for a module that allows a "site manager" to quickly switch to and from the root user of a D6 site - in my mind's eye this module displays a block with a password field and a submit button; entering the root password and hitting the button is broadly equivalent to "sudo su" in Unix. Once the user has root privileges, a click on the "step down" button in the same block returns them to their saved regular session.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My question: does a module exists that does this, or gets close to this? Or is it possible to cobble together this functionality by using existing functionality in already-existing D6 modules?</div><div>
<br></div><div>Thanks,</div><br clear="all">--Jim<br><font color="#888888">--<br>My IM and Skype details are at <a href="http://state68.com/contact" target="_blank">http://state68.com/contact</a><br>
</font></blockquote></div></div></div><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Pedro Faria de Miranda Pinto<br><a href="http://www.eusouopedro.com" target="_blank">http://www.eusouopedro.com</a><br><a href="http://www.phpavancado.net" target="_blank">http://www.phpavancado.net</a><br>
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