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api: allow password sessions for listed accounts in external console mode - #1465
With an external console authenticator installed, SPACE turns password login and password sessions off. A test deployment whose automation signs in with a password then has to choose between the external sign-in and its existing smoke tests.
This adds SPACE_EXTERNAL_CONSOLE_PASSWORD_SESSION_EMAILS: a comma-separated list of exact emails (at most 16), empty by default. With an authenticator installed, only the listed accounts keep password sign-in, and only on requests without the console request header:
POST /auth/v1/sessions issues a session for a listed account. Any other email gets the same 403 before the database is read, whether or not the account exists, so unlisted accounts get no bcrypt timing signal.
The list is checked on every request (AppState::session_user), on require_auth, require_native_auth and the admin gate. A session for an unlisted account is invalid, so removing an email and restarting ends that account's sessions.
DELETE /auth/v1/session revokes a listed account's own session.
Startup fails on a wildcard (*), a malformed entry, or more than 16 entries. Emails are compared exactly, the same way login and identity mapping compare them.
Console requests (X-Space-Console-Request: 1) are unchanged:
They authenticate with the assertion alone, and a missing or rejected assertion never falls back to a session.
Password login with the console header gets 403, even for a listed account.
A console logout revokes nothing, and the CSRF origin rule still applies.
Login verification (applies in both modes, including the default password mode):
Why it's in this PR: CodeRabbit flagged it as a major merge risk in its review of this PR. Before this change, every password login ran bcrypt (cost 12, a few hundred milliseconds of CPU) directly on an async request worker. A burst of login attempts, valid or not, could tie up those workers and stall unrelated API requests. Listing accounts makes password login reachable in external mode, so this PR fixes it in the login path both modes share.
bcrypt now runs on the blocking pool instead of the async request workers, and at most half the cores verify at once per process. A login waits for a slot before opening its transaction, so waiting holds no connection or row lock. The slot moves into the blocking task, so a cancelled login doesn't free it while bcrypt is still running. Floods of login attempts slow other logins, not other requests. The exception is a password change for the targeted account, which waits for that account's in-flight logins. This was already true of password mode; listed accounts make it reachable in external mode.
Observability:
The counter auth.external_console.password_session records login_accepted, login_refused, login_invalid, session_accepted and session_refused.
The gauge auth.external_console.password_session_accounts reports the size of the list every minute while an authenticator is installed, so it can be alerted on where the list must stay empty.
The API logs a startup warning that lists the accounts when the list is not empty.
Console UI:
In external mode, administrators can set or rotate any local user's password from the user page. The console stays signed in, because its own session comes from the provider.
The set-password dialog and the create form explain that the password only matters for accounts the deployment allows to sign in with a password.
docs/configuration.md documents the following:
Listed accounts bypass the proxy's admission policy, MFA and offboarding, so list only automation accounts and no people or shared administrators.
Listing an email again revives that account's unexpired sessions, so set its password when listing it.
Login is served on every API surface and has no per-account or per-client rate limit, so use strong random passwords and restrict network reach.
Removing an email suspends that account's sessions on each process once it restarts; it doesn't delete them. Setting the account's password deletes them, so do that before listing the email again.
Whether an email is listed can be inferred from login responses: a listed account with a wrong password gets 401, an unlisted one gets 403.
Validation
cargo test --locked -p pplx-space-api --all-features with SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 (Postgres via testcontainers): 2545 passed, 0 failed, 1 ignored, on 87582d7; the password verification tests pass 5 of 5 on 4300646.
auth/password_verification_tests.rs: blocking verification gives the same answers as the inline verifier. A costly verification no longer blocks a single-threaded runtime; making verification inline again fails this test. A cancelled login keeps its slot until verification finishes; releasing the slot outside the blocking task fails this test. The test pauses the blocking task at a fixed point instead of relying on a sleep, and the worker test takes its slot first, so neither depends on timing or on other tests. The slot count is between 1 and half the cores. Test passwords are generated per run, not hard-coded.
New or updated tests in external_console/tests.rs:
an_empty_list_allows_no_password_session: the variable unset, empty or separators only, and the builder given nothing, all mean no account. For every seeded account and an unknown email, login gets 403 on all three routers, existing sessions get 401 on me, cluster, native and admin routes, and logout revokes nothing. Making an empty list mean "allow all" (in the settings, the login check, or every gate) fails this test.
unlisted_accounts_get_no_password_sessions: covers an unlisted admin with the correct password, a wrong password and an unknown email. All three get an identical 403 on all three routers, with or without a forbidden assertion attached, and no session is created. The admin's existing session gets 401 on me, cluster, native, admin and shared-host admin. Logout with it revokes nothing.
the_list_is_checked_on_every_request: removing the account from the list ends both its new and its older sessions. Another listed account is unaffected, and listing the account again revives its sessions, as documented.
listed_password_sessions_work_beside_external_sign_in: a listed member can log in and use me, cluster, native and shared host, and its role is still enforced. A listed admin reaches the admin API. The authenticator is not consulted for these requests, even when a forbidden assertion is attached. Machine credentials are unaffected.
Settings tests cover parsing, trimming, dedup, exact matching, the wildcard and malformed-entry refusals, and the 16-entry cap.
Mutation check: 10 hand-made mutants on the new checks, 9 killed. The survivor makes the "any account listed" pre-check always true; that check is redundant with the per-request list check.
cargo clippy --locked -p pplx-space-api -p pplx-space-metrics --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo fmt --check are clean.
UI: npm test (305 passed, including the new user-password.test.mjs), tsc --noEmit and next build are clean.
Not validated: a deployed environment.
Severity and risk
Severity: does not apply (opt-in feature).
Risk: a listed account can sign in with only its password, without the external provider's policy. The default list is empty. With it empty, or with no authenticator installed, API responses are unchanged: the external-mode and password-mode tests on main pass with only the new settings argument added. There are two default changes. In the console, external mode now shows "Set password". In the API, password login in both modes verifies passwords off the request workers and waits for a slot when more than half the cores are already verifying. Roll back by removing the email (or the whole variable) and restarting. That account's sessions stop authenticating, but they are not deleted.
This changes authentication behavior, so it needs mentor and security review before merge and before any deployment enables it.
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Walkthrough
External-console configuration now supports a validated email allowlist for password login and sessions on requests without the console header. Authentication checks the list for login and session access. Console requests continue to require assertions. The change also adds bounded password verification, metrics, startup reporting, configuration documentation, and tests. The user interface derives password-change notices and session behavior from the authentication mode, and can show a password hint when creating users.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1541: Moves control-plane metric families, including API authentication metrics, into owner crates. This change adds external-console password-session metrics that may need to move with that refactor.
Merge Risk: High · up to 43006
Listed accounts can now use local passwords and sessions outside the console assertion flow. This changes the deployment’s access boundary and warrants security approval before merge.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 43006
The exception is disabled by default and preserves existing authorization checks. When enabled, however, listed accounts gain a password-login path outside external sign-in protections without account or client attempt throttling. Its practical risk depends on credential strength, account privileges and network exposure. Removing access also requires updating every serving process.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Enabling the allowlist newly exposes listed accounts to password guessing outside the external provider's admission, MFA, device and offboarding controls, without per-account or client attempt throttling. A client able to reach the login endpoint can repeatedly target these accounts; a successful guess receives their existing permissions, including admin access if the listed identity already qualifies. The verifier semaphore limits concurrent work, not attempt frequency. This is conditional exposure, not a demonstrated compromise: the empty default, exact 16-account cap, existing authorization and documented strong-password/trusted-network guidance reduce its scope.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The exception is bounded by configured identities, not by smoke-test operations. Their sessions can reach console-gated and native routes under existing account and organization authority. A listed managing-organization administrator can also pass the unchanged admin authorization gate; the exception does not itself grant that role.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — If an untrusted client can reach password login while the exception is enabled, it can identify candidate listed emails through the documented response distinction and repeatedly submit password guesses without per-account or client throttling. Successful authentication no longer depends on external-provider admission for those identities. Production reachability and exploitable credential weakness were not established.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Console requests still require an admitted assertion and trusted origin for state-changing methods; missing or rejected assertions terminate authentication. Listed bearer sessions retain the existing user/organization context, cannot assert a native owner, and must independently satisfy managing-organization-admin authorization for admin access.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Startup warns when password-session accounts are configured and periodically reports their count, providing visibility into unintended enablement. Password-session decision counters distinguish accepted, refused and invalid outcomes. These are detection signals, not enforcement of production disablement or login-attempt limits.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — For deployments enabling the exception, enforce account/client attempt throttling consistently across exposed login surfaces and validate the documented trusted-network restriction. Preserve least-privileged automation identities with high-entropy passwords, and verify every serving process has applied removal before declaring access ended.
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LGTM. Default stays strict (all gates switch on password_sessions_enabled(), which is true only in password mode or with the explicit opt-in), console-header requests keep assertion-only semantics in require_auth/admin/native, logout only revokes for non-console requests, and strict env parsing fails startup on typos. Tests cover both the mixed path and console-path isolation.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/routes/session_auth.rs:
- Around line 151-157: Update create_session to inspect the request headers and
reject console-marked password logins when an external console is configured,
before issuing a bearer session. Preserve password login for non-console
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crates/l40_api/api/src/routes/admin/mod.rs
crates/l40_api/api/src/routes/mod.rs
crates/l40_api/api/src/routes/session_auth.rs
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Major · Move password verification off the async runtime. · session_auth.rs:221
crates/l40_api/api/src/routes/session_auth.rs:221 Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Move password verification off the async runtime.
When password sessions are enabled, concurrent login attempts for an existing user run bcrypt on Tokio workers. The repository reports cost-12 hashes taking 0.3–0.5 seconds on a loaded CI runner. Enough concurrent attempts can stall other API requests. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Run verification in a bounded blocking worker while retaining the transaction lock through session insertion.
As per coding guidelines, “Heavy CPU > ~100 µs” belongs in spawn_blocking.
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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/api/src/routes/session_auth.rs at line 221:
Move verify_password in the password-session login flow off Tokio workers to a
bounded blocking worker, preserving its error handling. Keep the transaction
lock held until session insertion completes, and ensure verification and
insertion remain within that locked flow.
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- Line 221: Move verify_password in the password-session login flow off Tokio
workers to a bounded blocking worker, preserving its error handling. Keep the
transaction lock held until session insertion completes, and ensure verification
and insertion remain within that locked flow.
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SPACE_EXTERNAL_CONSOLE_ALLOW_PASSWORD_SESSIONS=true keeps password login,
password sessions and session logout working for requests that do not carry
the console request header while an external console authenticator is
installed. Console requests still authenticate with the assertion alone: a
missing or rejected assertion never falls back to a session, the admin gate
ignores bearer tokens on them, and the native gate still refuses an assertion
combined with another credential.
The setting defaults to false, fails startup on any value other than true,
false or empty, has no effect without an authenticator, and logs a warning
when enabled. It is meant for test deployments whose automation signs in with
a password beside the external sign-in.
With password sessions allowed, POST /auth/v1/sessions carrying the console request header still issued a session without an assertion. A console request now never obtains a password session, matching the contract that console requests authenticate with the assertion alone.
Replace the process-wide password-session switch with
SPACE_EXTERNAL_CONSOLE_PASSWORD_SESSION_EMAILS, an exact-email
allowlist checked at login and on every session request, so only
listed automation accounts sign in with a password beside an external
console authenticator and removing an email ends its sessions.
Unlisted logins are refused before any database read, which also
removes the bcrypt timing difference for them. Wildcards and malformed
entries fail startup. Password logins and sessions are counted, and
the number of listed accounts is reported as a startup gauge.
The console now lets administrators set or rotate any local user's
password in external mode without signing the console out, and
explains that the password applies only to listed accounts.
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api: let external console mode keep password sessions for test deployments
api: allow password sessions for listed accounts in external console mode
Nov 5, 2026
A gauge written once at startup is exported in a single window and then
absent, so a monitor could not alert on it. Report the count every
minute while an external console authenticator is installed, and fix
two configuration-doc statements that contradicted the listed-account
exception. Document that list membership is observable from login
responses.
Cover every way a deployment ends up with no listed account (variable
unset, empty, separators only, builder given nothing) and assert login
is refused and existing sessions are invalid for every account on all
three routers, so an empty list can never mean every account.
The password-session login tests iterate email and password pairs and
printed the email in assertion messages, which code scanning reports as
cleartext logging of credentials. Name each case by a label instead.
Password login ran bcrypt on the async request workers, so a flood of
attempts for a password-capable account could stall unrelated requests
on the same process. Listed accounts make that reachable in external
console mode, and it already applied in password mode.
Run verification on the blocking pool and cap concurrent verifications
at half the cores. A login waits for a slot before opening its
transaction, so waiting holds no connection or row lock. Document the
bound, and that removing a listed email suspends rather than deletes
its sessions until every API process has restarted.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/auth.rs:
- Around line 75-77: Update verify_password_blocking to take ownership of the
verification permit and move it into the spawn_blocking closure, keeping it
alive until verify_password finishes. Update the caller to pass slot and remove
its later drop(slot), so cancellation of the awaiting login future does not
release the permit while bcrypt is still running.
Review comments at @docs/configuration.md:
- Line 558: Update the login-requests wording in the documentation to limit the
“other requests” guarantee to requests for other accounts. State that a password
write for an account under login load waits for that account’s in-flight logins
to finish, and preserve the surrounding guidance.
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Code scanning still traced the case labels to the tuples that held the
passwords. Keep each case to a label and an email, and look the
password up by label, so no assertion message is built from a value
that holds one.
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Minor · Make the join polling order deterministic. · password_verification_tests.rs:41-71
crates/l40_api/api/src/auth/password_verification_tests.rs:41-71 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Make the join polling order deterministic.
A post-sleep done check alone does not catch inline bcrypt inside tokio::spawn. tokio::join! rotates polling order, so the ticker can wake first, count a tick while done is still false, and then allow verify to set done in the same join poll. Use biased polling so verify sets done before the ticker checks it.
Suggested fix
while !done.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(1)).await;
+ if done.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {+ break;+ }
ticks += 1;
}
- };- let (verified, ticks) = tokio::join!(verify, ticker);+ };+ let (verified, ticks) = tokio::join!(+ biased;+ verify,+ ticker+ );
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Update `verification_does_not_block_the_async_worker` to use biased polling in
`tokio::join!`, polling `verify` before `ticker`. This ensures the ticker
observes `done` after inline verification completes, while still detecting
whether asynchronous work can progress during offloaded verification.
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- Around line 41-71: Update `verification_does_not_block_the_async_worker` to
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The slot was released by the login future, so cancelling a login while
its verification ran on the blocking pool freed the slot early and let
more verifications run than the bound allows. Move the slot into the
blocking task, and test that a cancelled login keeps it until the
verification ends.
Also document that setting a password for an account under a login
flood waits for that account's in-flight logins, which hold a shared
lock on its user row while they verify.
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Minor · Count progress only while verification is running. · password_verification_tests.rs:89
crates/l40_api/api/src/auth/password_verification_tests.rs:89 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Count progress only while verification is running.
If another test holds the global verification slot, the ticker can increment while this test waits for that slot. The test can then pass even if bcrypt runs synchronously on the async worker. Start the progress check after slot acquisition, and require a tick before verification completes. As per path instructions, flag “tests that cannot fail or no longer cover the changed behavior.”
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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/api/src/auth/password_verification_tests.rs at
line 89:
Update the password verification test’s progress check around the `ticks`
counter so it starts only after the global verification slot is acquired and
requires a tick before verification completes. Ensure waiting for the slot
cannot satisfy the progress assertion, so the test still detects synchronous
bcrypt execution.
The 5 ms sleep does not establish the required interleaving. The test can abort before verify_password_blocking submits the blocking task, or after bcrypt has released the permit. In both cases, try_acquire can succeed for a timing reason instead of testing cancellation during verification.
Replace the sleep with explicit synchronization tied to the blocking closure. Pause the closure at a test-controlled point after it starts, abort the login while the closure owns the permit, assert that the permit is unavailable, then release the closure and allow verification to finish.
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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/api/src/auth/password_verification_tests.rs at
line 55:
Replace the 5 ms sleep in the password verification test with test-controlled
synchronization in the blocking closure used by verify_password_blocking: wait
until the closure has started and owns the permit, abort the login, assert
try_acquire cannot obtain the permit, then release the closure and let
verification finish. Preserve the test’s existing setup and cleanup.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/auth/password_verification_tests.rs:
- Line 89: Update the password verification test’s progress check around the
`ticks` counter so it starts only after the global verification slot is acquired
and requires a tick before verification completes. Ensure waiting for the slot
cannot satisfy the progress assertion, so the test still detects synchronous
bcrypt execution.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/api/src/auth/password_verification_tests.rs:
- Line 55: Replace the 5 ms sleep in the password verification test with
test-controlled synchronization in the blocking closure used by
verify_password_blocking: wait until the closure has started and owns the
permit, abort the login, assert try_acquire cannot obtain the permit, then
release the closure and let verification finish. Preserve the test’s existing
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tokio::join! rotates which future it polls first, so an inline
verification could still let the ticker count one tick and pass. Poll
the verification first and re-check completion after each sleep.
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Summary
With an external console authenticator installed, SPACE turns password login and password sessions off. A test deployment whose automation signs in with a password then has to choose between the external sign-in and its existing smoke tests.
This adds
SPACE_EXTERNAL_CONSOLE_PASSWORD_SESSION_EMAILS: a comma-separated list of exact emails (at most 16), empty by default. With an authenticator installed, only the listed accounts keep password sign-in, and only on requests without the console request header:POST /auth/v1/sessionsissues a session for a listed account. Any other email gets the same 403 before the database is read, whether or not the account exists, so unlisted accounts get no bcrypt timing signal.AppState::session_user), onrequire_auth,require_native_authand the admin gate. A session for an unlisted account is invalid, so removing an email and restarting ends that account's sessions.DELETE /auth/v1/sessionrevokes a listed account's own session.*), a malformed entry, or more than 16 entries. Emails are compared exactly, the same way login and identity mapping compare them.Console requests (
X-Space-Console-Request: 1) are unchanged:Login verification (applies in both modes, including the default password mode):
Observability:
auth.external_console.password_sessionrecordslogin_accepted,login_refused,login_invalid,session_acceptedandsession_refused.auth.external_console.password_session_accountsreports the size of the list every minute while an authenticator is installed, so it can be alerted on where the list must stay empty.Console UI:
docs/configuration.mddocuments the following:Validation
cargo test --locked -p pplx-space-api --all-featureswithSPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1(Postgres via testcontainers): 2545 passed, 0 failed, 1 ignored, on 87582d7; the password verification tests pass 5 of 5 on 4300646.auth/password_verification_tests.rs: blocking verification gives the same answers as the inline verifier. A costly verification no longer blocks a single-threaded runtime; making verification inline again fails this test. A cancelled login keeps its slot until verification finishes; releasing the slot outside the blocking task fails this test. The test pauses the blocking task at a fixed point instead of relying on a sleep, and the worker test takes its slot first, so neither depends on timing or on other tests. The slot count is between 1 and half the cores. Test passwords are generated per run, not hard-coded.external_console/tests.rs:an_empty_list_allows_no_password_session: the variable unset, empty or separators only, and the builder given nothing, all mean no account. For every seeded account and an unknown email, login gets 403 on all three routers, existing sessions get 401 onme,cluster, native and admin routes, and logout revokes nothing. Making an empty list mean "allow all" (in the settings, the login check, or every gate) fails this test.unlisted_accounts_get_no_password_sessions: covers an unlisted admin with the correct password, a wrong password and an unknown email. All three get an identical 403 on all three routers, with or without aforbiddenassertion attached, and no session is created. The admin's existing session gets 401 onme,cluster, native, admin and shared-host admin. Logout with it revokes nothing.the_list_is_checked_on_every_request: removing the account from the list ends both its new and its older sessions. Another listed account is unaffected, and listing the account again revives its sessions, as documented.listed_password_sessions_work_beside_external_sign_in: a listed member can log in and useme,cluster, native and shared host, and its role is still enforced. A listed admin reaches the admin API. The authenticator is not consulted for these requests, even when aforbiddenassertion is attached. Machine credentials are unaffected.listed_password_sessions_leave_console_requests_assertion_only: console requests stay assertion-only.cargo clippy --locked -p pplx-space-api -p pplx-space-metrics --all-features --all-targets -- -D warningsandcargo fmt --checkare clean.npm test(305 passed, including the newuser-password.test.mjs),tsc --noEmitandnext buildare clean.Severity and risk
Severity: does not apply (opt-in feature).
Risk: a listed account can sign in with only its password, without the external provider's policy. The default list is empty. With it empty, or with no authenticator installed, API responses are unchanged: the external-mode and password-mode tests on main pass with only the new settings argument added. There are two default changes. In the console, external mode now shows "Set password". In the API, password login in both modes verifies passwords off the request workers and waits for a slot when more than half the cores are already verifying. Roll back by removing the email (or the whole variable) and restarting. That account's sessions stop authenticating, but they are not deleted.
This changes authentication behavior, so it needs mentor and security review before merge and before any deployment enables it.
AI assistance: Perplexity Computer drafted the code, tests and this description; reviewed by the author.