A tab names the account it was claimed for on every request, beacon and upload
(X-Siftlode-Expect-Account); current_user and /auth/logout refuse a mismatch with
401 account_changed and keep the session, so a tab left showing the account
signed in before reloads instead of writing to the new one.
/auth/login clears a connect marker left by an abandoned connect, and a link
completes only on a session that still holds. The prefs merge reads the row
under a lock. A tab's sessionStorage records its own owner. A page the account
loses is given up, address bar and remembered page included. The panel layouts
are preferences; the storage contract also refuses a key handed to the Storage
API or to usePref outside its kind. A refused sign-in as someone else and a
failed sign-out say so. The chromium-only e2e specs are in the gate register,
the member walk waits for its requests, and devices.spec checks the save itself.
/auth/link and /auth/upgrade become /auth/google/connect?access=identity|read|write: one handler, one
table of what each access asks Google for, the same callback markers. An unknown access is refused
(422) instead of quietly meaning read, and an instance without Google answers ?link=error for a
grant too, not a silent return to the app. The frontend builds the URL in lib/googleConnect, and a
contract test holds it to the backend route and its access values.
The promotion revoke guessed from today's SMTP state whether the password was trustworthy, and ran
only when the account was adopted. Both guesses failed: a row verified while SMTP was off stays
"verified" after SMTP is configured, and a later sign-in matched by Google identity promoted the
account with no revoke at all. Either way a stranger's password and session could become admin.
Now one rule, where the promotion happens: when ADMIN_EMAILS turns a non-admin account into an
admin and it holds a password, the password goes and every session ends; the owner, signed in
through Google at that moment, sets a new one in Settings. An account that already is admin keeps
its password. Tests: the activated squat, the SMTP case, the later sign-in (all three red without
the rule) and an admin's own sign-in.
The never-activated rule left one order of events open: on an instance without SMTP, a stranger
who registered an ADMIN_EMAILS address (or a sibling spelling) and was then activated by another
admin kept their password and live session, and the owner's first Google sign-in raised that row
to admin, the stranger's cookie with it. Activation vouches for access, not for who chose the
password, and without SMTP nothing else ever proved the mailbox.
When ADMIN_EMAILS promotes an adopted account that holds a password on an instance without SMTP,
the password goes and the session epoch is bumped. With SMTP the verified flag is a proven mailbox,
and an account the sign-in does not promote keeps its password, so the "your password was cleared"
detour stays off the default path. Tests: the activated squat (red without the rule; the squatter's
session is signed out) and the SMTP case that keeps the password.
Without SMTP, registration marks the address verified with no proof, and an ADMIN_EMAILS /
ALLOWED_EMAILS address gets no invite row to gate it. So a stranger who registered such an address
(or a sibling spelling) before its owner kept their own password when the owner's first Google
sign-in adopted the row, activated it and made it admin, and could then sign in with it.
The adoption now treats a never-activated row like an unverified one: the password goes,
password_revoked_at is stamped and the session epoch bumped. An account already let in keeps its
password. The helper is renamed to say what it now judges (revoke_untrusted_preset_password).
test_google_callback.py drives the callback's account-matching branches through the real route,
none of which a test ran before: the squat (red on the old rule), adoption by mailbox, the
sub-collision and unverified-address refusals, the refused sign-in recorded in Google's locale, and
the link flow's conflict, mismatch and attach answers.
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