diff --git a/app/Http/Responses/ConsoleAwareLoginResponse.php b/app/Http/Responses/ConsoleAwareLoginResponse.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee15680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/Http/Responses/ConsoleAwareLoginResponse.php
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Http\Responses;
+
+use Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse;
+use Laravel\Fortify\Contracts\LoginResponse;
+use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
+
+/**
+ * Where an ordinary sign-in lands. See LandsWhereSignedIn for the decision;
+ * TwoFactorLoginResponse below makes the same one after a challenge.
+ */
+class ConsoleAwareLoginResponse implements LoginResponse
+{
+    use LandsWhereSignedIn;
+
+    public function toResponse($request): Response
+    {
+        return $this->landing($request, new JsonResponse(['two_factor' => false], 200));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/Http/Responses/ConsoleAwareTwoFactorLoginResponse.php b/app/Http/Responses/ConsoleAwareTwoFactorLoginResponse.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a857dba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/Http/Responses/ConsoleAwareTwoFactorLoginResponse.php
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Http\Responses;
+
+use Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse;
+use Laravel\Fortify\Contracts\TwoFactorLoginResponse;
+use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
+
+/**
+ * Where a sign-in completed by two-factor challenge lands.
+ *
+ * Fortify never reaches LoginResponse on this path, so binding only that one
+ * left every account with two-factor enabled — which is the ones most likely to
+ * be operators — landing in the customer portal.
+ */
+class ConsoleAwareTwoFactorLoginResponse implements TwoFactorLoginResponse
+{
+    use LandsWhereSignedIn;
+
+    public function toResponse($request): Response
+    {
+        // Fortify answers an empty 204 here, not a body. Kept.
+        return $this->landing($request, new JsonResponse('', 204));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/Http/Responses/LandsWhereSignedIn.php b/app/Http/Responses/LandsWhereSignedIn.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d10e73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/Http/Responses/LandsWhereSignedIn.php
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Http\Responses;
+
+use App\Support\AdminArea;
+use Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse;
+use Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
+use Laravel\Fortify\Fortify;
+use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
+
+/**
+ * Where a completed sign-in lands, shared by both ways of completing one.
+ *
+ * Fortify has two exits: LoginResponse for an ordinary sign-in, and
+ * TwoFactorLoginResponse after a challenge. Binding only the first left every
+ * account with two-factor enabled on the old behaviour — landing in the
+ * customer portal, and on a console-only host landing on a 404. Whichever exit
+ * is taken, the decision has to be the same one.
+ */
+trait LandsWhereSignedIn
+{
+    protected function landing($request, JsonResponse $success): Response
+    {
+        // Where they were heading counts as much as where they posted from: in
+        // shared mode everyone signs in at /login, so the request itself never
+        // looks like the console even when /admin is the destination.
+        $onConsole = AdminArea::isConsole($request)
+            || AdminArea::pointsAtConsole($request->session()?->get('url.intended'));
+
+        // Authorization first, before any branch. Answering JSON early let a
+        // non-operator keep the session on the console host that a browser
+        // request would have had taken away.
+        if ($onConsole && ! $request->user()?->can('console.view')) {
+            // Taken away at the moment it was created: the session exists as
+            // soon as Fortify authenticates, and a guard that merely refuses
+            // each page afterwards leaves it sitting in the browser.
+            Auth::guard('web')->logout();
+            $request->session()->invalidate();
+            $request->session()->regenerateToken();
+
+            if ($request->wantsJson()) {
+                return new JsonResponse(['message' => __('auth.not_an_operator')], 403);
+            }
+
+            return redirect()->to(AdminArea::home())->withErrors([
+                Fortify::username() => __('auth.not_an_operator'),
+            ]);
+        }
+
+        // Fortify answers JSON to a JSON client. Replacing that with a redirect
+        // would break every caller that is not a browser.
+        if ($request->wantsJson()) {
+            // The caller supplies it: Fortify answers {"two_factor":false} to an
+            // ordinary sign-in and an empty 204 after a challenge, and a client
+            // keying off the status code breaks if the two are merged.
+            return $success;
+        }
+
+        return redirect()->intended($onConsole ? AdminArea::home() : Fortify::redirects('login'));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/Providers/FortifyServiceProvider.php b/app/Providers/FortifyServiceProvider.php
index 182bcdf..720117c 100644
--- a/app/Providers/FortifyServiceProvider.php
+++ b/app/Providers/FortifyServiceProvider.php
@@ -29,6 +29,21 @@ class FortifyServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
      */
     public function boot(): void
     {
+        // Sign-in lands where it was performed: the console on the console's
+        // hostname, the portal everywhere else. Fortify's own response sends
+        // everyone to the portal, which on a console-only host is a 404.
+        // BOTH exits: Fortify never reaches LoginResponse when a two-factor
+        // challenge was involved, and binding only that one leaves exactly the
+        // accounts most likely to be operators on the old behaviour.
+        $this->app->singleton(
+            \Laravel\Fortify\Contracts\LoginResponse::class,
+            \App\Http\Responses\ConsoleAwareLoginResponse::class,
+        );
+        $this->app->singleton(
+            \Laravel\Fortify\Contracts\TwoFactorLoginResponse::class,
+            \App\Http\Responses\ConsoleAwareTwoFactorLoginResponse::class,
+        );
+
         Fortify::createUsersUsing(CreateNewUser::class);
         Fortify::updateUserProfileInformationUsing(UpdateUserProfileInformation::class);
         Fortify::updateUserPasswordsUsing(UpdateUserPassword::class);
diff --git a/app/Support/AdminArea.php b/app/Support/AdminArea.php
index 92bc94d..3f75784 100644
--- a/app/Support/AdminArea.php
+++ b/app/Support/AdminArea.php
@@ -101,6 +101,32 @@ final class AdminArea
             : $request->is(self::FALLBACK_PREFIX, self::FALLBACK_PREFIX.'/*');
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Does this URL lead into the console?
+     *
+     * Needed because the sign-in POST does not go to a console address in
+     * shared mode — everyone posts to /login — so the request alone cannot say
+     * whether the console is where this person was heading. The intended URL
+     * can, and without it a non-operator turned back at /admin keeps the
+     * session that was just created for them.
+     */
+    public static function pointsAtConsole(?string $url): bool
+    {
+        if ($url === null || $url === '') {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (self::isExclusive()) {
+            $host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
+
+            return is_string($host) && self::covers($host);
+        }
+
+        $path = trim((string) parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH), '/');
+
+        return $path === self::FALLBACK_PREFIX || str_starts_with($path, self::FALLBACK_PREFIX.'/');
+    }
+
     /** Is this hostname one the console answers on? */
     public static function covers(string $host): bool
     {
diff --git a/lang/de/auth.php b/lang/de/auth.php
index 3e0e853..1885447 100644
--- a/lang/de/auth.php
+++ b/lang/de/auth.php
@@ -55,4 +55,5 @@ return [
     'use_otp' => 'Authenticator-Code verwenden',
     'account_suspended' => 'Ihr Konto ist gesperrt. Bitte kontaktieren Sie den Support.',
     'account_closed' => 'Dieses Konto wurde geschlossen.',
+    'not_an_operator' => 'Dieses Konto hat keinen Zugang zur Konsole.',
 ];
diff --git a/lang/en/auth.php b/lang/en/auth.php
index 44a6839..418e151 100644
--- a/lang/en/auth.php
+++ b/lang/en/auth.php
@@ -55,4 +55,5 @@ return [
     'use_otp' => 'Use authenticator code',
     'account_suspended' => 'Your account is suspended. Please contact support.',
     'account_closed' => 'This account has been closed.',
+    'not_an_operator' => 'This account has no access to the console.',
 ];
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Auth/ConsoleLoginLandsInTheConsoleTest.php b/tests/Feature/Auth/ConsoleLoginLandsInTheConsoleTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a48186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Feature/Auth/ConsoleLoginLandsInTheConsoleTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+<?php
+
+use App\Models\Customer;
+use App\Models\User;
+
+/**
+ * Signing in lands where it was performed.
+ *
+ * Fortify sends everyone to /dashboard. That is why an operator who signed in
+ * ended up in the customer portal — and once the console has a hostname to
+ * itself, /dashboard does not exist there at all, so it would have been a 404.
+ */
+
+beforeEach(function () {
+    config()->set('admin_access.hosts', ['admin.example.test']);
+    config()->set('admin_access.exclusive', true);
+});
+
+it('sends an operator signing in on the console host to the console', function () {
+    $operator = operator('Owner');
+
+    $this->post('http://admin.example.test/login', [
+        'email' => $operator->email,
+        'password' => 'password',
+    ])->assertRedirect('/');
+
+    expect(auth()->check())->toBeTrue();
+});
+
+it('sends a customer signing in on the portal host to the portal', function () {
+    $user = User::factory()->create();
+
+    $this->post('http://app.example.test/login', [
+        'email' => $user->email,
+        'password' => 'password',
+    ])->assertRedirect('/dashboard');
+});
+
+it('refuses to leave a customer holding a session on the console host', function () {
+    // Fortify authenticates before anything downstream can object, so the
+    // session already exists. Refusing each page afterwards would leave it in
+    // the browser; it is taken away at the moment it was created.
+    $customer = Customer::factory()->create();
+    $user = $customer->ensureUser();
+    $user->forceFill(['password' => bcrypt('password')])->save();
+
+    $this->post('http://admin.example.test/login', [
+        'email' => $user->email,
+        'password' => 'password',
+    ])->assertSessionHasErrors('email');
+
+    expect(auth()->check())->toBeFalse();
+});
+
+it('makes the same decision after a two-factor challenge', function () {
+    // Fortify never reaches LoginResponse on this path. Binding only that one
+    // left the accounts most likely to be operators landing in the portal.
+    $operator = operator('Owner');
+
+    $response = app(Laravel\Fortify\Contracts\TwoFactorLoginResponse::class)
+        ->toResponse(tap(request(), function ($request) use ($operator) {
+            $request->headers->set('HOST', 'admin.example.test');
+            $request->setUserResolver(fn () => $operator);
+        }));
+
+    // The console root on the console host — emphatically not the portal.
+    expect($response->getTargetUrl())->toContain('admin.example.test')
+        ->and($response->getTargetUrl())->not->toContain('/dashboard');
+});
+
+it('still answers JSON to a JSON client', function () {
+    // Replacing Fortify's JSON reply with a redirect breaks every caller that
+    // is not a browser.
+    $operator = operator('Owner');
+
+    $this->postJson('http://admin.example.test/login', [
+        'email' => $operator->email,
+        'password' => 'password',
+    ])->assertOk()->assertJson(['two_factor' => false]);
+});
+
+it('does not let a JSON client keep a session a browser would lose', function () {
+    // Answering JSON early skipped the permission check entirely.
+    $customer = Customer::factory()->create();
+    $user = $customer->ensureUser();
+    $user->forceFill(['password' => bcrypt('password')])->save();
+
+    $this->postJson('http://admin.example.test/login', [
+        'email' => $user->email,
+        'password' => 'password',
+    ])->assertForbidden();
+
+    expect(auth()->check())->toBeFalse();
+});
+
+it('removes the session of a non-operator who was heading for /admin on a shared host', function () {
+    // In shared mode everyone posts to /login, so the request never looks like
+    // the console. Without reading the intended destination, a non-operator was
+    // authenticated, shown a 403 — and left holding the session.
+    config()->set('admin_access.exclusive', false);
+    config()->set('admin_access.hosts', []);
+
+    $customer = Customer::factory()->create();
+    $user = $customer->ensureUser();
+    $user->forceFill(['password' => bcrypt('password')])->save();
+
+    $this->get('/admin')->assertRedirect('/login');
+
+    $this->post('/login', ['email' => $user->email, 'password' => 'password'])
+        ->assertSessionHasErrors('email');
+
+    expect(auth()->check())->toBeFalse();
+});