feat: give display devices their own paired identity
ADR 0033 gave Ekklesia a display host and ADR 0034 gave it a login page. Together, the only way to light a television in a foyer was to sign a human being into it and leave that session running on a screen anyone can walk up to: a person's credentials on a wall, a person's session as the thing signage depends on, and the display going dark when they are revoked or their session simply expires. A screen is not a person. Ekklesia now recognizes three principal classes — anonymous, authenticated human, and managed device — and a device is a first-class principal with its own credential and its own explicit permissions. It has no email, no password, and no row in the identity tables, and it satisfies the `authenticated` baseline never, so every route that settles for "somebody is signed in" stays closed to it. Device permissions live in their own table because ekklesia_core_grant.user_id is a non-null foreign key into the user table and making it polymorphic would rewrite the platform's central authorization record to serve one narrow case. That is a schema decision, not a second decision point: the evaluator gained one branch, so a device is allowed or denied by the same function, with the same deny-by-default, as anyone else — with no owner path it could reach and no baseline that stands in for a grant. The six-digit code is not the credential. It is printed across a screen in a public hallway, so it is treated as public: it identifies a request to an administrator and is worth nothing alone. Collecting the credential also requires a 256-bit claim secret held only in the requesting browser's HttpOnly cookie, and approving requires the restricted core.devices.manage permission. Without that split, reading a code off a wall would hand over the screen's identity. The permission a pairing asks for is read from the module's validated display declaration, never from the request, so a browser cannot ask to be granted core.devices.manage or another module's permission. Approval grants exactly that one permission. Credentials are stored only as SHA-256; the raw value exists in the Set-Cookie that issues it and the device's own cookie jar, and is never logged, returned in JSON, or placed in a URL. The cookie is HttpOnly, so the module display code running in that same page cannot read it. Revocation is a server-side column checked on every principal resolution, and re-pairing mints a new identity so an old credential can never come back. State transitions are conditional updates, so one code cannot be approved twice or claimed into two credentials under a race. /api/v1/principal still reports a device as anonymous: it is what the Dashboard uses to decide whether a person is signed in. Displays read their viewer from the descriptor instead, which already performed the authorization — so displays are descriptor-first while the Dashboard stays principal-first, and neither infers an identity by elimination. Proven end to end against real PostgreSQL and real HTTP: an unpaired screen shows a code, an owner approves it, the device opens the display descriptor and a realtime stream, and revocation closes both while the device still holds its cookie. An already-open SSE stream is bounded by realtime's existing five-minute reconnect rather than closed instantly, and that bound is documented rather than called immediate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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`403 {"code":"AUTHORIZATION_DENIED"}` a genuinely denied caller would, so that response never
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reveals whether the caller was denied or the permission was simply never registered.
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## Device permissions
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A paired display device holds explicit permissions of its own, in `ekklesia_core_device_permission`
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rather than in `ekklesia_core_grant`
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([ADR 0036](../architecture/decisions/0036-managed-device-identity-and-pairing.md)). That table's
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`user_id` is a non-null foreign key into the user table, and making it polymorphic would rewrite the
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platform's central authorization record to serve one narrow case.
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**It is a separate table, not a separate decision.** `createAuthorizationEvaluator` consults exactly
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one authority per call, chosen by principal kind, and a device reaches `allowed` only by holding the
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exact permission being checked:
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- `public` — allowed, as for any principal.
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- `authenticated` — **denied**, always. A device is not a person.
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- `restricted` — allowed only with an active, unrevoked permission for that exact device.
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A device is never a platform owner, and the owner and user-grant ports are not consulted for one at
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all. A deployment that composed no device support denies every device. Revoking a device revokes its
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permissions with it, and the permission lookup joins the device row so a revoked device has no
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permissions even if a row were left behind.
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Approving a pairing grants exactly the one display permission the host derived from the module's
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validated display declaration — never a bundle, never a permission the browser named.
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## Platform-owner bootstrap
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There is no "first user becomes owner" inference anywhere in this repository, and no HTTP
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