:question: How to Log In Programmatically as Any User (Super Admin Impersonation Use Case)
Hi Better Auth team đź‘‹
I'm trying to build a super admin panel where I can manage multiple organizations and their users. I already fetch the list of users and want to support a "Login As" feature — where I click a button and get logged in as that user (without needing their password).
What I'm Doing:
* I can fetch the user's info from the org
* I generate a session manually in the DB (using the same structure as Better Auth’s session table)
* I open a link like
/impersonate?token=... in the CMS app
* On the server, I check the token and insert a session into the session table
* I set the cookie better-auth.session_token manually
The Problem:
Even after inserting the session and setting the cookie, Better Auth doesn’t recognize the session — it returns null in the auth middleware.
Question:
👉 What’s the correct or recommended way to programmatically log in as a user (impersonation use case)?
How can I create a valid session Better Auth will accept?
Thanks in advance 🙏1 Reply
just update. using magic link plugin i solved!