Surface user impersonation in SDKs

[bdotsamir]

Hello!

It's already very useful be able to impersonate various users in the dashboard, but it would be even more amazing if Supabase could expose the impersonation capability in the SDKs offered (in @supabase/supabase-js, it would have to be under the supabase.auth.admin namespace definitely).

My use case for this: I use a custom auth hook which modifies the JWT. My RLS policies then rely on this modified JWT to have a certain property, and allow/deny access accordingly. As you might be able to imagine, simply impersonating a user via the Supabase dashboard in most cases is not enough to thoroughly test my policies, as the user impersonation does not "log in" as that user, and thus does not run the auth hook.

It would be incredible if the SDKs could expose user impersonation to us users so that we can then implement our own versions of impersonation. Maybe something like const { user, error } = await supabase.auth.admin.impersonate(userID)

[GaryAustin1]

You can do this currently with https://supabase.com/docs/reference/javascript/auth-admin-generatelink .
That call gives back the tokens to use verifyOtp https://supabase.com/docs/reference/javascript/auth-verifyotp .
Not as easy as you ask for, but other users have gone this route for testing or debugging as a user.