Why won't my SharePoint site give me the option to sign in as another user when I go to the site?

Question

SharePoint Server 2019 On Premise

Even when I sign out as the system account, the site will not give me the option to sign in as another user. This creates an issue as the admin who often needs to log in with test user accounts.

Answer 1

Hi @Tevon2.0 ,

Due to security/caching problems, SharePoint 2019 does not have an option to set Sign-in as Different User. But as a workaround, you can use the browser's private mode to open the site URL, which will ask you to re-enter the login account. This solves the problem of you needing to log into the test account frequently.

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Answer 2

Hi @Tevon2.0 ,

I couldn't reproduce what you said, if you don't want to use private mode to re-login to another account, you might try Sign In As Different User, With Redirect.

http://yourservername/_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true**&source=<url>**

For example, my site url is http://sp19/sites/xyza19 , and my redirected login page url is:

http://sp19/sites/xyza19**/_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true&source=**http://sp19/sites/xyza19/SitePages/Home.aspx

You can load this redirect url into your browser favorites and click it when you need to switch accounts.

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