The flow this product is sold on is three tiers: the platform admin
registers a merchant, the merchant registers their sales staff, the
staff sign in on a phone. Tier 1 handed the new owner a password. Tier 2
could not - a manager could only mint an invitation code, which the
salesperson had to redeem themselves, on their own phone, choosing their
own password. Good practice, and no use to a manager setting somebody up
before their first shift with a card and a pen.
POST /api/team/members mirrors POST /api/admin/clients: generated
password unless one is given, returned exactly once, bcrypt-hashed on
the way in and not recoverable after. Same permission shape as an
invitation - manager and above, only an owner mints an owner, admin
refused - so a manager cannot do through one door what they are refused
at the other. The invitation path stays; it is the better one whenever
the salesperson has their phone.
POST /api/team/{id}/password is the everyday case on a shop floor:
they forgot it. It sets a new one AND revokes every session they hold,
in one transaction, because the other reason a manager resets a
password is a lost phone, and a reset that left that phone signed in
would look complete while fixing nothing. Tenant-scoped in the UPDATE
itself; another company's user id is 404, never 403. No self-service
and no reset-by-email, deliberately: a floor account often has no
mailbox anyone checks, and the person who can vouch for the salesperson
standing in front of them is their manager.
RandomPassword moves from a private helper in the store to auth, so the
admin path, the merchant path and the reset all mint the same 80-bit
credential - rather than someone later writing a shorter one for the
"less important" account.
Verified: eight handler tests, and two against a real Postgres for the
things a fake cannot see - the RETURNING list scans on a row with no
last_login_at, the tenant scope holds, and the sessions row is actually
revoked. The tenant cleanup from yesterday held throughout.
API.md now documents the chain with both paths, and the note saying a
merchant could not create a login directly is gone because it is no
longer true.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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