IE Webdriver do not support run as other user

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 6894

While I want to use IE Webdriver to open the IE browser for a different user on my PC(the
user is different from my PC user), I find it is not supported.

Is IE Webdriver provide any possibility on doing this? Because we run into a lot of
test require different user access path validation.

Thanks!

Reported by LexJHuang on 2014-01-24 03:28:24

[lukeis]

Please send questions to the selenium user group [1]

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/selenium-users

Reported by barancev on 2014-01-24 11:25:04

• Status changed: Invalid

[lukeis]

Does anyone know how I could get selenium to run an IE session utilising the "Run as
different user" function using JAVA? I have no idea how I'd even go about setting this
and google isn't bringing up anything so maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing somewhere?

To expand a bit on why I need to do this, the website I'm testing is an internal platform
and uses a users login credentials/windows account details to determine their role,
what links they have, data they can view etc.

Currently the only way I can run a test as a specific user (manager, data administrator
etc) is to log into the machine as that user before running the test. This isn't really
possible when I have multiple user accounts to test and am running Webdriver with GRID2
(so I have a bank of machines picking up tests from a queue as they come up).

When running tests manually I can simply right click and select the "run as different
user" option on the ie shortcut, so figured if I could find a way to replicating this
when running it via webdriver this would solve my problem.

Reported by pankaj.sukale on 2014-07-17 08:55:53

[lukeis]

1. In IE got to internet option settings.
2. Go to Security settings.
3. Click custom levels.
4.Inside settings window go to the last setting "User Authentication".
5. Select prompt for user name and password radio button.
6.Click Ok.
7.Click Apply.
Now IE will always ask for user name and password(Same as run as different user).

In selenium you can handle this login pop-up using Auto IT.

Regards,
Pankaj Sukale.

Reported by pankaj.sukale on 2014-09-22 07:29:44

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 18:22:01

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