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impersonation_read_only (403)

A session opened by an administrator onto somebody else's account tried to change something.

Cause

Such a session may read the account and nothing else. An action taken through it would be recorded as the account holder's own, and nothing afterwards would show that somebody else pressed the button.

The message

You are viewing this account as an administrator, so it can only be read. Stop viewing as this account to make changes.

The fix

An API caller does not meet this code. It is raised only on an administrative surface, which is not part of the public API and is not reachable with an API key. A call of your own that returns it went to the wrong host or the wrong path.

event_id

event_id is always null on this code. It is a refusal the caller is meant to handle, so nothing is recorded as a failure to look at. The service answers and writes one log line.

The whole catalogue, grouped by what a caller does with it, is on errors.

The response

{
  "error": {
    "code": "impersonation_read_only",
    "message": "You are viewing this account as an administrator, so it can only be read. Stop viewing as this account to make changes.",
    "docs_url": "https://doc.cheap/docs/errors/impersonation_read_only",
    "request_id": "req_9e6b1f7c-2d4a-4b83-9c51-7f0ad3e8b642",
    "event_id": null
  }
}