feat: give display devices their own paired identity
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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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ekklesia
2026-08-23 23:41:03 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 3ce4fe03fe
commit 80189c8ae2
52 changed files with 5065 additions and 113 deletions
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@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@ import {
HostProtocolError,
} from "../host-protocol.js";
import { DisplayUiFrame } from "./DisplayUiFrame.js";
import { PairingScreen } from "./PairingScreen.js";
type DisplayState =
| { readonly status: "loading"; readonly generation: number }
| { readonly status: "ready"; readonly bootstrap: DisplayHostBootstrap & { status: "ready" } }
| { readonly status: "signed-out" }
/** No identity this display can use yet: show a pairing code rather than a human login form. */
| { readonly status: "pairing" }
| { readonly status: "unavailable" }
| { readonly status: "failed" };
@@ -93,24 +95,26 @@ export function DisplayApp(props: DisplayAppProps): ReactElement {
if (abort.signal.aborted) {
return;
}
setState(
bootstrap.status === "signed-out"
? { status: "signed-out" }
: { bootstrap, status: "ready" },
);
setState({ bootstrap, status: "ready" });
})
.catch((error: unknown) => {
if (abort.signal.aborted) {
return;
}
// A denied or unauthenticated descriptor is the ordinary state of a screen nobody has
// paired yet, not an error worth logging on every wall in the building.
if (
error instanceof HostProtocolError &&
(error.code === "DISPLAY_ACCESS_DENIED" || error.code === "HOST_UNAUTHENTICATED")
) {
setState({ status: "pairing" });
return;
}
console.error("[ekklesia] display host bootstrap failed", error);
setState(
error instanceof HostProtocolError &&
(error.code === "DISPLAY_ACCESS_DENIED" || error.code === "DISPLAY_NOT_AVAILABLE")
error instanceof HostProtocolError && error.code === "DISPLAY_NOT_AVAILABLE"
? { status: "unavailable" }
: error instanceof HostProtocolError && error.code === "HOST_UNAUTHENTICATED"
? { status: "signed-out" }
: { status: "failed" },
: { status: "failed" },
);
});
return () => abort.abort();
@@ -123,10 +127,8 @@ export function DisplayApp(props: DisplayAppProps): ReactElement {
{state.status === "loading" ? (
<DisplayMessage testId="display-host-loading">Loading display…</DisplayMessage>
) : undefined}
{state.status === "signed-out" ? (
<DisplayMessage onRetry={retry} testId="display-host-signed-out">
Sign in to use this display.
</DisplayMessage>
{state.status === "pairing" ? (
<PairingScreen config={config} moduleId={moduleId} onRetry={retry} />
) : undefined}
{state.status === "unavailable" ? (
<DisplayMessage onRetry={retry} testId="display-host-unavailable">