create some sort of admin access

[nicoalee]

In order to improve our support for ongoing issues, we should have some sort of admin access to allow developers to view/fix state for users that are experiencing issues.

At the most basic, this would be some kind of flag in the database attached to the users table that would determine IS_ADMIN or !IS_ADMIN. Code would then be modified to check if (1) the user is entitled to do the action OR (2) the user is an admin.

[adelavega]

#945 Dupe?

[nicoalee]

It's not a dupe, but it's very related. The key desired feature would be a way to load a user's state into my browser and interact with their project as them. If their was BE support for this, it would be easier to create a maintainable FE admin panel part of the platform as opposed to something that only works in dev.

[jdkent]

there is some overlap, but I was feeling this one was more about backend admin panels. I think this may be better off as a discussion as we outline exactly is needed.