Account Switcher by Packstub

• Features
• Compatibility
• Installation
• Linked accounts
• Impersonation
• Developer logins
• Configuration
• Documentation
• Testing
• Changelog
• Security vulnerabilities
• Credits
• License

Switch between accounts in a Filament panel without signing out — safely, in production.

#Features

• Linked accounts: work from a low-privilege account and switch up to admin only when you need it.
• Impersonation: an action for your users table, a banner with Switch back, rules on your model.
• Developer logins: one-click sign-in buttons for your seeded accounts, only in the environments you allow.
• Audit trail: every switch logged with who, why and from where, plus events.
• Configurable per panel: turn each feature on or off, add your own rules, move the banner.
• Dark mode and translations: built from Filament components, every string in a language file.

Formerly xlite-dev/filament-impersonate — see the upgrade guide.

#Compatibility

#Installation

composer require packstub/filament-account-switcher
php artisan packstub-account-switcher:install

Add the trait to your user model and the plugin to your panel:

use Packstub\AccountSwitcher\Concerns\HasLinkedAccounts;

class User extends Authenticatable implements FilamentUser
{
    use HasLinkedAccounts;

    public function canImpersonate(User $target): bool
    {
        return $this->hasRole('super-admin');
    }
}

use Packstub\AccountSwitcher\AccountSwitcherPlugin;

$panel->plugin(
    AccountSwitcherPlugin::make()
        ->developerLogins(['admin@example.com', 'user@example.com']),
);

Full walkthrough: Installation.

#Linked accounts

Link the accounts one person owns. A Switch to menu next to the user menu lists them with their label and e-mail.

Switching down to a lower-privilege account is one click. Switching up asks for the target account's password, so a compromised daily session can never reach the admin account on its own.

The Linked accounts page (in the user menu) links an existing account, creates a sub-account, renames links and sets the per-link password rule.

// Or link programmatically — one click down, password up
$admin->linkAccount($daily, label: 'Daily', requiresPassword: false);

Read more: Linked accounts · Security model.

#Impersonation

Drop ImpersonateAction into your users table or a page header. It is hidden for records the current user may not impersonate, based on canImpersonate() / canBeImpersonated() on your model.

use Packstub\AccountSwitcher\Filament\Actions\ImpersonateAction;

->recordActions([
    ImpersonateAction::make(),
])

While impersonating, a banner stays visible on every page with a Switch back button.

Read more: Impersonation.

#Developer logins

One-click sign-in for the accounts you seed, shown under the login form. They only render in the environments listed in the config (local by default), whatever the panel says.

AccountSwitcherPlugin::make()
    ->developerLogins(['admin@example.com', 'user@example.com'])

Read more: Developer logins.

#Configuration

AccountSwitcherPlugin::make()
    ->impersonation()                                  // on by default
    ->linkedAccounts()                                 // on by default
    ->developerLogins(['admin@example.com'])           // off by default
    ->canImpersonateUsing(fn (User $by, User $target) => $by->can('impersonate', $target))
    ->canSwitchUsing(fn (User $from, User $to) => ! $to->is_locked)
    ->banner(position: 'top', style: 'light')
    ->redirectTo('/admin')

Read more: Configuration — the config file, events, the switch log and the AccountSwitcher facade.

#Documentation

• Installation
• Linked accounts
• Impersonation
• Developer logins
• Configuration
• Security

The same pages live in the docs/ directory of this repository.

#Testing

composer test

#Changelog

See the changelog.

#Security vulnerabilities

Please e-mail support@packstub.dev rather than opening a public issue.

#Credits

• Ion Caliman
• All contributors

#License

MIT. See the license file.