[support] Drupal sudo

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Paul Kim <pkim at reachlocal.com>:

> But sometimes you want to log into that user, without having to know the
> password.
>
> This works especially well when you have a dev->qa->prod workflow
> environment and you don't want dev accounts on prod.
>
> George Rodgers-Clark wrote:
>> I do this, too. Works with any two browsers (I often use IE to see that
>> user experience).
>> :-) George
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
>> Behalf Of Craig Forbes
>> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:50 PM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: Re: [support] Drupal sudo
>>
>> My decidedly low-tech and non-dupal way of handling this is to use 2
>> browsers -- Firefox for my admin and Opera or Chrome for my test user.
>>
>> I find this much easier.  It also means my admin login doesn't have to
>> leave the admin page to test the results.
>>
>> As an added bonus it works with any web app/framework.
>>
>>  -Craig
>>

You can use the same browser as long as you have two paths to the same 
Drupal instance with different cookies.  I often do that in development 
just to have an anonymous, an authenticated and an admin open at once.

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