ASP.NET Core Identity impersonate specific user

Question

Let\'s say I have the following roles:

1. Admin

2. User

I want Admin role to impersonate specific user account with User role,

Answer 1

There is a blog post about impersonation in Asp.Net Core HERE. I am just searching for such a solution, so I have not tried implementing it yet. However it seems you are on the right track. There are only slight differences between your code and Max's.

Basically you need to replace the cookie at the browser side. So, for the next request the server "thinks" its someone else logged in. At least that's what I understood so far. This is why you better save the original identity in the cookie as well, thus you could switch back to the original user when needed.

I get back when I have a working solutions anyway.