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[id="impersonating-system-admin"]
= Impersonating the system:admin user
include::_attributes/common-attributes.adoc[]
:context: impersonating-system-admin

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[role="_abstract"]
You can configure API requests to impersonate users or groups to test permissions and troubleshoot access issues in {product-title}.

include::modules/authentication-api-impersonation.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/impersonation-system-admin-user.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/impersonation-system-admin-group.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/impersonation-multiple-groups-web-console.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/starting-impersonation-users-groups-pages.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/stopping-impersonation.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/unauthenticated-users-cluster-role-binding.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

[role="_additional-resources"]
== Additional resources

* link:https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authentication/#user-impersonation[User impersonation (Kubernetes documentation)]
