ユーザーアカウント間の切り替えを容易にする

[jshort]

Hi there,

For the past several years, I’ve run a roleplaying forum using a PHP-based forum software. We’re currently looking at switching to Discourse because we like a lot of its built in features, especially for moderation.

One key feature that we currently have is the ability for our users to easily link together different accounts and switch between them. Users who play multiple characters will have multiple user accounts (1 per character), and being able to link those accounts allows for 1.) Easy listing of all characters of a player and 2.) Easy switching of user session without having to log out/log back in.

I’d like to know if either something like this already exists as a Discourse plugin or any advice on how to go about implementing it. It should be straight forward enough to use the custom user fields to hold a list of account names/IDs that are connected, but I’m less certain about how to go about switching the logged in user session.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Note: This has nothing to do with the third party sign on services or trying to link accounts across different Discourse instances.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

This is going to require some special plugin, also there are huge security implications to allowing account switching so you need to be ultra careful with the implementation. Also it gets super tricky if you want notifications to flow back up to the central account.

Probably talking a week of work to get something simple working nicely and a month or even 2 for something fancy.

We are planning on possibly building something similar for a gaming company some time in the next few years, but nothing I can think of that you can use today.

[jshort]

Thanks for the response! I figured I would need to develop a plugin to handle something like this. I’m not too concerned about having notifications bubbling up to a central account. It would be nice to have, but certainly not a dealbreaker.

I’m feeling good about being able to set up the process that would allow users to link their accounts together, but I’m less sure about how to implement the actual switching. Our current forum implements this by first checking permissions, and then deleting the existing user’s cookie, creates a new one, and then creates a new session.

Could you maybe provide some guidance as to where I would start/hook into creating a new user session?

[Yuri]

ユーザーアカウントを切り替える簡単な方法は、それぞれ独立して動作する2つのブラウザウィンドウを開くことです。Chromeでは、これは「（他の）ユーザー」と呼ばれています。

[roke_julian_lockhart (Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB))]

@sam

これには特別なプラグインが必要になります。また、アカウントの切り替えを許可することは重大なセキュリティ上の影響を及ぼすため、実装には細心の注意が必要です。

そのようなものが存在するでしょうね：

Fast User Switcher for Developers

As pointed out below, you don’t actually need a plugin to easily switch users in development: That said, this plugin might still be useful if you want easy links to switch accounts quickly. When developing Discourse, I often find it’s useful to switch between user accounts. My general workflow currently looks something like this: Open incognito window Login using the admin account credentials that I remember (most of the time) Hamburger Admin Users Pick a user Impersonate If I want to cha…

しかし、これはここでは適用できません。このスレッドを #contribute:feature カテゴリの投稿に変更してもらえますか？ぜひコア機能として実装してほしいです。

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@Yuri

Chromeではこれは「（その他）のユーザー」と呼ばれています。

ChromiumはFirefoxと同様に^[1]（Firefoxほどアクセスしにくいものでは^[2]）プロファイルシステムを提供していますが、Firefoxは分離されたタブ^[3]を通じて、はるかに便利なシステムを提供しています。

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1. t/69362/4 ↩︎

2. Mozilla.MozillaFirefoxNightly_146.2510.1421.0_x64__jag0gd4e3s9p2 はそれとは異なることを示しています。参照：

   
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3. t/69362/6 ↩︎