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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@@ -351,6 +351,30 @@ password arriving on standard input and never in `argv`, `--password` refused, a
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`DATABASE_URL`, and an unmigrated database refused rather than silently migrated — with assertions
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that neither stdout nor stderr contains the password or the connection string.
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A further suite (`apps/api/tests/device-pairing.integration.ts`, same harness) proves display device
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pairing end to end against real PostgreSQL and the real HTTP transport
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([ADR 0036](../architecture/decisions/0036-managed-device-identity-and-pairing.md)). None of it is
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mocked: a screen with no identity is refused the descriptor but served the page it needs, asks to be
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paired, and receives a code; a real platform owner — created by the Pass 1B bootstrap and signed in
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through the real login transport — looks the code up and approves it by name; the screen collects its
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credential from a real `Set-Cookie` and then opens the real display descriptor and a real realtime
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stream; and the owner revokes it, after which both fail while the device still holds its cookie.
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The suite also pins the properties that make the design safe rather than merely working: that the
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raw credential appears nowhere in the database or in any response body, that the permission is taken
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from the display declaration and not from a request that tried to name `core.devices.manage`, that
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someone who knows only the code (an onlooker reading a television) is issued nothing, that anonymous
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callers, a paired device, and a cross-origin administrator are all refused approval, that one code
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cannot be approved twice or claimed into two credentials under a race, that re-pairing produces a
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fresh identity while the old credential stays dead, and that a browser holding both a human session
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and a device cookie remains a person.
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Device authority itself is proven without a database in `core/tests/authorization-device.test.ts`,
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which is mostly a list of things a device must *not* acquire: authority from being a principal, from
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an `authenticated` baseline, from platform ownership, or from a user grant. Its ports are wired to
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answer "yes" to every human question, so any accidental fall-through into a human path would flip
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those assertions.
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### Which kind of timing proof lives where
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Pass 4 introduced several deadlines, and their tests deliberately differ in kind:
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