feat: verify email addresses and recover forgotten passwords
Ekklesia could authenticate a person and, since Pass 1, send a transactional email — but it had no way to establish that an address belonged to whoever claimed it, and no way back in for someone who forgot their password. A verified address is now a precondition for holding a session. Better Auth enforces that after the password check and before any session exists, so an unverified sign-in returns 403 with no cookie. That is why no "unverified principal" was needed: a correct password on an unverified address carries exactly the authority of no password, and /api/v1/principal is unchanged. Better Auth keeps every token. Ekklesia adds no token table, no hashing, and no expiry clock. It supplies a recipient, a subject, and two bodies, and the mail provider supplies everything about SMTP. Verification and reset links are rebuilt from a validated Dashboard origin, taking only the token — never the URL Better Auth prebuilds from a caller-supplied callbackURL — so no request can steer where a recipient lands. Following a verification link mints no session, because mail infrastructure dereferences links. Reset revokes that person's other sessions and leaves managed devices alone. Recovery answers identically for an address with an account, without one, already verified, or undeliverable — including when SMTP is broken, which is why the delivery adapter never throws. The initial platform owner is the one exception: created already verified by an operator command with no mail prerequisite, so a fresh server can be signed in to before a relay exists. Migration 0007 extends that to owners of installations that already exist. Public signup stays disabled; verification is not a licence to self-register. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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@@ -81,3 +81,18 @@ S3_BUCKET=ekklesia-development
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# EKKLESIA_SMTP_PASSWORD=
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# [email protected]
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# EKKLESIA_SMTP_FROM_NAME=Ekklesia
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# Where an emailed verification or password-reset link sends a browser (ADR 0038).
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#
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# Absent means the Dashboard is served from EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_BASE_URL, which is the ordinary
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# same-origin production shape. Set it only when a deployment separates the two, for example an API
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# at https://api.example.org and the Dashboard at https://dash.example.org. It must also appear in
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# EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_TRUSTED_ORIGINS, or the identity system refuses the emailed link — Ekklesia
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# checks that at startup rather than letting every recipient discover it.
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#
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# This is the authenticated Dashboard host, never the public church website.
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# EKKLESIA_DASHBOARD_ORIGIN=https://dash.example.org
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#
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# Verification and password recovery need a working relay above. The initial platform-owner
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# bootstrap (pnpm identity:create-initial-owner) deliberately does not: it creates that one account
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# already verified, so a fresh server can be signed in to before any mail exists.
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