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laurent kubaski
laurent kubaski

Reputation: 304

Salesforce: impersonation using the API

I'm a Salesforce system administrator and I would like to use the Web Services API on behalf of (ie: impersonate) a Salesforce user that is part of my company.

More precisely, I'm looking for a feature similar to what Google Docs already provides: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/#using_google_apps_administrative_access_to_impersonate_other_domain_users

Can this be done ?

Thanks !

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2028

Answers (2)

Kevin O'Hara
Kevin O'Hara

Reputation: 337

The only way to do this is to authenticate with the API using the other user's credentials. This is a security feature that cannot be avoided.

Upvotes: 2

Ralph Callaway
Ralph Callaway

Reputation: 1848

This is should be possible if you have login access for that user and a tool to inspect a browser cookies.

When you're logged in as the test user open a cookie browser and grab the value in the "sid" cookie. This is a session id for that user and can be set in the headers of an api request instead of doing a login call.

I've haven't tried this. It's possible that this session id may only be valid for the browser and not the API. In that case you should probably just create a test user with the same profile and your email. If all else fails just ask the user to temporarily change their password and share it with you.

Upvotes: 0

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