diff --git a/backend/alembic/versions/0085_users_last_login_at.py b/backend/alembic/versions/0085_users_last_login_at.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fb050e91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/alembic/versions/0085_users_last_login_at.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+"""add users.last_login_at — when the account last signed in (E22 S1)
+
+Revision ID: 0085_users_last_login_at
+Revises: 0084_dl_job_error_detail
+Create Date: 2026-09-16
+
+Stamped by the one sign-in path (`routes/auth._establish_session`), which the Google callback and
+password login share. No backfill is possible: the signal exists only at sign-in, so existing rows
+read NULL until each account signs in again, and the admin UI says so rather than inventing a date.
+"""
+
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from alembic import op
+
+revision: str = "0085_users_last_login_at"
+down_revision: str | None = "0084_dl_job_error_detail"
+branch_labels: str | None = None
+depends_on: str | None = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    op.add_column("users", sa.Column("last_login_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True))
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_column("users", "last_login_at")
diff --git a/backend/app/models.py b/backend/app/models.py
index f29695d9..94203c9b 100644
--- a/backend/app/models.py
+++ b/backend/app/models.py
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ class User(Base, TimestampMixin, CanonicalEmailMixin):
     # current_user rejects any cookie whose epoch is stale, so a stolen/copied cookie dies on those
     # events (client-side signed cookies otherwise stay valid until they expire).
     session_epoch: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0, server_default="0")
+    # When this account last signed in (Google or password), stamped by the one sign-in path,
+    # routes/auth._establish_session. NULL = not since the column existed (0085; no backfill is
+    # possible). The shared demo account is never stamped — its "last login" would mean nobody.
+    last_login_at: Mapped[datetime | None] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True))
     display_name: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String(255))
     avatar_url: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String(1024))
     role: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(16), default="user", server_default="user")
diff --git a/backend/app/routes/admin.py b/backend/app/routes/admin.py
index 86ad5ade..63e070da 100644
--- a/backend/app/routes/admin.py
+++ b/backend/app/routes/admin.py
@@ -408,6 +408,8 @@ def _serialize_user(u: User) -> dict:
         # confusing sign-in.
         "google_email": u.google_email if u.google_email != u.email else None,
         "created_at": iso(u.created_at),
+        # NULL = no sign-in since the column existed (0085), or the shared demo account.
+        "last_login_at": iso(u.last_login_at),
     }
 
 
diff --git a/backend/app/routes/auth.py b/backend/app/routes/auth.py
index 18c25e67..97bae871 100644
--- a/backend/app/routes/auth.py
+++ b/backend/app/routes/auth.py
@@ -479,16 +479,8 @@ async def callback(
     db.flush()
 
     _store_token(db, user, token)
+    _establish_session(request, user)
     db.commit()
-
-    # Multi-session: remember every account that has authenticated in this browser so the
-    # user can switch between them without going through Google again. Only accounts that
-    # actually completed OAuth here land in this list (it's the proof they may be switched to).
-    accounts = [a for a in (request.session.get("account_ids") or []) if a != user.id]
-    accounts.append(user.id)
-    request.session["account_ids"] = accounts[-MAX_SESSION_ACCOUNTS:]
-    request.session["user_id"] = user.id
-    _remember_epoch(request, user)
     log.info("Login: %s (id=%s, role=%s)", email, user.id, user.role)
     return RedirectResponse(url="/")
 
@@ -675,13 +667,18 @@ def demo_login(body: EmailIn, request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)) -
 
 
 def _establish_session(request: Request, user: User) -> None:
-    """Sign `user` in for this browser session, mirroring the Google callback's multi-account
-    handling so password sign-in joins the same account switcher."""
+    """Sign `user` in for this browser session — the ONE sign-in path, shared by the Google callback
+    and password login, so both join the same account switcher and both stamp `last_login_at` (the
+    caller commits). Multi-session: every account that authenticated in this browser is remembered so
+    the user can switch between them; only accounts that actually proved themselves HERE land in that
+    wallet (it is the proof they may be switched to). The demo entry deliberately does not come
+    through here: it clears the wallet instead, and its shared account has no meaningful last login."""
     accounts = [a for a in (request.session.get("account_ids") or []) if a != user.id]
     accounts.append(user.id)
     request.session["account_ids"] = accounts[-MAX_SESSION_ACCOUNTS:]
     request.session["user_id"] = user.id
     _remember_epoch(request, user)
+    user.last_login_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
 
 
 def _app_base() -> str:
@@ -1051,6 +1048,7 @@ def password_login(
     if not user.is_active:
         raise _login_refused(403, "pending_approval", user)
     _establish_session(request, user)
+    db.commit()
     log.info("Password login: %s (id=%s, role=%s)", email, user.id, user.role)
     return {"ok": True}
 
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_last_login.py b/backend/tests/test_last_login.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b2a48d6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/tests/test_last_login.py
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+"""`users.last_login_at` (E22 S1), DB-lane.
+
+The roadmap assumed stamping it in `_establish_session` would cover Google and password alike. It
+would not have: only password login called it, and the Google callback carried its own copy of the
+same four lines. So these pin BOTH doors through the real routes — plus the two that must not stamp
+(a refused password, the shared demo account) and the admin list that shows it.
+"""
+
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.models import DemoWhitelist
+from app.routes import auth as auth_routes
+
+_PW = "correct horse battery"
+
+
+def _recent(ts: datetime | None) -> bool:
+    return ts is not None and datetime.now(timezone.utc) - ts < timedelta(minutes=1)
+
+
+def test_a_password_sign_in_stamps_last_login(client, db, make_user):
+    user = make_user(email="pw@example.com", password=_PW)
+    assert user.last_login_at is None
+
+    r = client.post("/auth/password-login", json={"email": "pw@example.com", "password": _PW})
+
+    assert r.status_code == 200
+    db.refresh(user)
+    assert _recent(user.last_login_at)
+
+
+def test_a_refused_password_does_not_stamp(client, db, make_user):
+    user = make_user(email="wrong@example.com", password=_PW)
+
+    r = client.post(
+        "/auth/password-login", json={"email": "wrong@example.com", "password": "not it"}
+    )
+
+    assert r.status_code == 401
+    db.refresh(user)
+    assert user.last_login_at is None
+
+
+class _FakeGoogle:
+    """authlib's client, reduced to the one call the callback makes after Google redirects back."""
+
+    def __init__(self, userinfo: dict):
+        self._userinfo = userinfo
+
+    async def authorize_access_token(self, _request):
+        return {"userinfo": self._userinfo, "access_token": "at", "scope": "openid email profile"}
+
+
+def test_a_google_sign_in_stamps_last_login(client, db, make_user, monkeypatch):
+    from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
+
+    from app import security
+
+    # The callback stores the OAuth grant encrypted; a throwaway key stands in for TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY.
+    monkeypatch.setattr(security, "_fernet", Fernet(Fernet.generate_key()))
+    user = make_user(email="g@example.com", password=None, google_sub="sub-g")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(settings, "admin_emails", "g@example.com")  # the bootstrap allow-list
+    fake = _FakeGoogle({"sub": "sub-g", "email": "g@example.com", "email_verified": True})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(auth_routes, "google_oauth", lambda _db: fake)
+
+    r = client.get("/auth/callback", follow_redirects=False)
+
+    assert r.status_code in (302, 307) and r.headers["location"] == "/"
+    db.refresh(user)
+    assert _recent(user.last_login_at)
+    # …and it is a real sign-in, not only a stamp: the session now answers as this account.
+    assert client.get("/api/me").json()["id"] == user.id
+
+
+def test_the_demo_entry_does_not_stamp_the_shared_account(client, db):
+    db.add(DemoWhitelist(email="visitor@example.com"))
+    db.commit()
+
+    r = client.post("/auth/demo", json={"email": "visitor@example.com"})
+
+    assert r.json() == {"authenticated": True}
+    demo = auth_routes.get_or_create_demo_user(db)
+    db.refresh(demo)
+    assert demo.last_login_at is None
+
+
+def test_the_admin_user_list_carries_last_login(as_user, db, make_user):
+    admin = make_user(email="boss@example.com", role="admin")
+    never = make_user(email="never@example.com")
+    admin.last_login_at = datetime(2026, 9, 16, 8, 30, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+    db.commit()
+
+    rows = {u["email"]: u for u in as_user(admin).get("/api/admin/users").json()}
+
+    assert rows["boss@example.com"]["last_login_at"].startswith("2026-09-16T08:30")
+    assert rows[never.email]["last_login_at"] is None
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/api/admin.ts b/frontend/src/lib/api/admin.ts
index a9ae05e7..8b9b82b9 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/api/admin.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/api/admin.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ export interface AdminUserRow {
   /** The Google account's address, ONLY when it differs from the account address (E9.5 S3). */
   google_email: string | null;
   created_at: string | null;
+  /** Last sign-in (Google or password). Null = not since 0.88 (no backfill), or the demo account. */
+  last_login_at: string | null;
 }
 
 /** The account panel's view of why someone can or cannot get in (E12 S5). */