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title: Impersonating a different user
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/user-management.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Users with the Administrator privilege level can "impersonate" other users. Impersonation means signing-in to the system as a different user. This is useful, for example, when you are setting up the environment for different users and want to test the interface or actions as the other users.

> **Info:** **Notes and limitations**
>
> - Impersonating other users with the _Administrator_ privilege level is not possible.
> - You cannot directly impersonate a different user while impersonating another user (you first need to cancel the impersonation).
> - Impersonation is only available for the administration interface (you cannot impersonate users on the live site).
> - The system logs actions carried out while impersonating a user in the **Event log** under a composite user name in format _ ()_, where the original user is the administrator using the impersonate function.

To impersonate a user:

1. Open the **User menu** in the top-right corner of the interface.
2. Click **Impersonate**. A **Select user** dialog opens.
3. Click on the user that you want to impersonate.
   - If impersonating an **editor** (a user with the **Editor** privilege level), you are redirected to the application dashboard in the administration interface.
   - Impersonating users without access to the administration interface redirects you to an access denied page.

You can now perform actions as the user that you impersonated.

## Cancelling impersonation

To cancel user impersonation:

1. Open the **User menu** in the top-right corner of the interface.
2. Click **Cancel impersonation**.

The system signs you in under the original administrator account.