Thank you, I just noticed the 'appfire' below. you learn something every day 

7b3443259151 Whatever it is, it was added by an add-on. Which should be listed under <your-Jira-base-URL>/plugins/servlet/upm

7b3443259151 There's no such native functionality in Jira, you must be using an add-on. Cf. JRASERVER-2134

We use this with Jira constantly, why is this valuable admin feature not available in Confluence? administrative parity 

We have developer User Switcher for Confluence app for those who still need this feature on their daily basis.

Any feedback about the application usage is welcome.

Kindly check.

+1. We need this feature to effectively support our customers!

It looks like the Switcher app is no longer available for download, in accordance with the sunsetting of support for Jira Server on February 15th, 2024, and it's only a matter of time before all of the other workaround apps suffer the same fate, so it's crucial now more than ever to have this feature enabled for Confluence server. Its value for troubleshooting purposes can't be overstated.

Log In As User has been an admin feature in Cloud for ages.  It's great that people have written plugins (some free, some not), but we would really like Atlassian to just build this in. 

If a user is on leave or on furlough, they will still receive notifications from Calendars. It would be nice to unsubscribe them if they are away from their accounts.

Hi Joe,

An existing User Switcher for Jira was previously created by TNG Technology Consulting GmbH vendor for FREE so I encourage people to use that app on Jira instead of developing my own version.

Seems crazy that this is a feature on the Cloud version and not the Server version. 

Jack, do you have a User Switcher for Jira as well?

In fact, is not possible to switch to or impersonate another user on Jira Server, you must go for a third-party apps as well. That's the reason I developed the User Switcher for Confluence for FREE because It's a must-have to provide better support to end users.

Wow this idea is almost 15 years old now! Such a weird thing that JIRA has already had it for years and Confluence still doesn't.

Especially when users are working remotely and report that something does not work for them, would be nice to be able to "try" it as their user.

Many thanks, Juergen Lanner
I'm quite happy to see that you find User Switcher for Confluence cool.

Please consider to write a review, if you think I really deserve it

Kind Regards,
Jack Nolddor.

Wow! Cool, Thanks Jack! It works like a charm!

Hi community,
After a while I've just managed to develop a FREE app called User Switcher for Confluence that mimics the already third-party application existing on Atlassian Marketplace for Jira.
You can DOWNLOAD it using the following link.

Upvoted. 

Hey Markus,

i use https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219918/fast-user-switcher-fus-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview

it is very fast and easy to use, just type"su" and its working. Try it  

Cheers

Anton

This is an essential feature for administrators, and it should be natively available without the need to resort to third party solutions.

Atlassian team, please add this to Confluence (and Jira for that matter). It should work the same way it does in Cloud.

I have a different use-case for impersonating in Confluence.  I'd like it added to the search API.

We have areas of Confluence segregated for various teams. It is our main information repository and some info is considered sensitive so a user must be authenticated to access only data relevant to them.

In an application we run a search on behalf of a user using the /rest/searchv3/1.0/search API and we authenticate using admin credentials. Our issue with using the current API in this way is it will return search results the user should not have access to.

The ideal solution is for our search to authenticate to Confluence using an admin account, and take a query parameter similar to run-search-as-user=bobx so only appropriate results are returned to the user.

Thanks for your interest in this issue.

This request is considered a potential addition to our longer-term roadmap.

We'll typically review this request at least once a year, at which point we’ll consider whether we need to alter its status. 

Best,

Confluence Product Management

Another reason to impersonate a user is to be able to change page level restrictions that are currently not allowed by space admins or confluence admins.  Even though the space/confluence admin can see the page restrictions for a space, the space admin is unable to modify page level restrictions to add or remove.

Suggest that Atlassian close this request with "Won't Fix" (similar to JRA-2134 ) as this can be achieved with plugins:

• SU for Confluence as noted by Hendrik (Server only)
• ScriptRunner for Confluence (Server only, Cloud probably coming soon as ScriptRunner for JIRA is Cloud compatible)

Zeke, your use case for uploading profile pictures is captured in CONF-14368

What your customers really need is an easy way for a Confluence administrator to upload profile pictures.  We do not want to impersonate or log on as the user.  We need to upload any user's profile picture while logged on as ourselves.

You may try this plugin: SU for Confluence
We have recently bought it and it works like charm.

Agree, this is much needed feature. I have to manually update the database to achieve the result.

+1, this would simplify user management greatly for us.

The Sudo plugin doesn't work with Confluence 4 or 5.

I'll note that the Sudo plugin doesnt work with SSO

We're also using OnDemand and have a demand (no pun intended) for this, so +1.

+1, 3rd party plugin's are not an option for OnDemand users and OnDemand Admins also require this feature

Adaptivist has created the Sudo plugin to allow for this. Check the Atlassian Plugin Exchange for Confluence version compatibility.

updated summary

Charles and Markus, there exists an SU plugin for both Jira and Confluence
see http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Confluence+SU for example

Many enterprise applicatoins have this sort of functionality available for Administrators. It allows troubleshooting and setup correction for "less tech savvy" users in an expedient manner...