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nexxo 2609393e3a Recognise the devices an account signs in from, and warn about a new one
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Sessions lived in Redis, where they cannot be enumerated — one key per session,
no index by user — so "where am I signed in" and "end that one" were not
answerable at all. The database driver keeps a row per session and makes ending
one a delete. It costs every currently signed-in person one forced sign-in,
once, which is why it is happening now rather than later.

The warning is only worth anything if it is rare, so the two obvious signals
are deliberately not used. Not the IP: it changes on every train, every café,
every mobile handover, and behind a VPN it is not theirs to begin with. Not the
user-agent: Chrome ships every four weeks and the string changes each time,
which would be twelve warnings a year per customer, describing nothing. A
device is a long-lived signed cookie holding a random token, and nothing else
is consulted. The honest cost — cleared cookies, a private window, a second
browser — is written into the mail itself, because a reader who thinks the
warning is wrong stops reading the next one.

Three things the tests found or hold:

The first device on an account is new and must not warn. Replying to somebody
creating an account by telling them they signed in from a new device is noise
on the one message that has to stay worth reading.

token_hash was globally unique, and the shared-browser test failed on it. Two
people on one machine share one cookie and must each own a device row against
it; the obvious repair — issue a fresh token for the second — would orphan the
first person's row and warn them about their own desk. Unique is now per
identity.

Recording a device may never block a sign-in. A safeguard that locks the owner
out when it breaks has stopped being one, so the listener logs and swallows,
and a test drops the tables to prove it.

Sessions are linked by a uuid carried inside the session payload rather than by
the session id, which Laravel rotates on every sign-in and every regenerate().
Laravel's own sessions.user_id cannot carry the link either: it is filled from
the default guard, while operators and customers are two guards and two tables
(R21) — operator 1 and customer 1 would each be offered the other's sessions.

Also lands the shared mail layout the rest of the templates will use: tables
and inline styles for Outlook, no image and no web font because half of all
clients block remote content, and the button in --accent-active rather than the
brand orange, which is 2.9:1 against white.

Not tagged: the session list is not built yet, and without a tag no server can
install this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 23:28:34 +02:00