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fix(auth): make social sign-in safe to switch on (verified emails only, errors back to the login page) - #260
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The login page rendered the social buttons as links to
/api/auth/sign-in/social?provider=...&callbackURL=/auth/complete. A link
click is a GET, but better-auth 1.4.18 registers /sign-in/social as
POST-only, so every click ended on a 404 and the buttons could never start
a sign-in on an instance with GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID/SECRET or
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID/SECRET set.
Render them as <button type="button" data-social-provider="google|github">
and add one click handler to the existing page script: it POSTs
{ provider, callbackURL: '/auth/complete' } to authBasePath +
'/sign-in/social' (same origin, so already inside connect-src 'self') and
follows the provider URL better-auth returns. On any failure it shows the
page's standard error flash and re-enables the button. The button stays
disabled while the POST is in flight, because a second POST would replace
the first one's OAuth state cookie, and is re-enabled when the page comes
back from the back/forward cache.
No new endpoint, configuration or dependency; /auth/complete is unchanged.
Tests: new login-page-social-buttons.test.ts runs the page's real inline
script in a node:vm context against a stand-in DOM and clicks the buttons
(all 10 cases fail against main). The documentation-style assertions in
social-providers.test.ts that still described a GET link now describe the
POST.
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A provider's button now renders only when the operator configured it and the OAuth client lists it in epds_social_providers, the same way epds_handle_login_url gates the ATProto/Bluesky button. Configuring Google on a shared PDS therefore leaves the login page of every other client unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The login page script assigned window.location to whatever URL /sign-in/social returned. Follow it only when it is an https URL whose origin is that provider's authorization server (accounts.google.com for Google, github.com for GitHub); any other response shows the standard "Could not start sign-in" error and re-enables the button. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tative better-auth 1.4.18's Google provider copies the ID token's email_verified claim into user.emailVerified unchanged, and handleOAuthUserInfo tests it for truthiness when it decides whether to create a verified user or to link the Google identity to an existing user with the same email. Two problems follow: - the string "false" is truthy, so a token carrying email_verified: "false" is treated as verified (and "true" is stored as a string); - Google only vouches for addresses it hosts. For any other address the claim means "verified once, when the Google account was created", and Google's guidance is to treat it as unverified (https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/verify-google-id-token). Today such a sign-in links to, and so signs into, an existing user with that email. Add lib/google-email-verified.ts and pass its mapper as the Google provider's mapProfileToUser, which better-auth spreads over its own user info. A Google sign-in now counts as email-verified only when the claim is boolean true or the exact string "true" AND the address is Gmail (@gmail.com / @googlemail.com) or the token carries an hd (Workspace) claim. Everything else reaches better-auth as emailVerified: false, so it is not linked to an existing user ("account not linked"). buildSocialProviders() is exported (as docs/design/testing-gaps.md suggested) and social-providers.test.ts now tests it instead of a copy. New better-auth-social-sign-in.test.ts drives a real better-auth instance on in-memory SQLite through the ID-token sign-in path; 4 of its 8 cases fail without the mapper. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…in page The social buttons passed only callbackURL to better-auth, so any error in the OAuth callback - the user pressing Cancel on Google's consent screen (error=access_denied), better-auth refusing to link the identity to an existing user (account_not_linked), the provider returning no email - ended on better-auth's bare /api/auth/error page, outside the login flow, with no way back to the client app. - The page script now also sends errorCallbackURL: '/auth/complete'. - /auth/complete checks ?error= right after loading the flow, before it reads any session (so a session an earlier sign-in left in the browser is never resumed by a cancelled one), reduces the code to one of cancelled / email_unverified / no_email / failed, and 303s to /oauth/authorize?request_uri=...&client_id=...&epds_social_error=<code>, the same login-page URL it already uses when it finds no session. - GET /oauth/authorize maps epds_social_error to a fixed message and the page shows it in the standard flash region on load. Unknown values show nothing; request text is never reflected. - With epds_social_error present, GET /oauth/authorize renders the login page even when the browser holds a device session. Handing the flow to pds-core's account chooser (session reuse) would drop the message, and could auto-select the RP's hinted account for someone who had just chosen "Another account" (whose prompt=login and epds_skip_par_hint the redirect cannot carry back). For the same reason the PAR login_hint is ignored on that return, so the email step renders, which is what the message asks for. The mapping lives in lib/social-sign-in-error.ts. Tests: unit tests for the mapping, route tests for /auth/complete?error= (all 5 fail without the route change) and for the login page with epds_social_error, and the page-script tests now pin errorCallbackURL and the on-load message. The login page route test runs the script of the page it was served, so it shows that each code's message reaches the flash region; for that the node:vm page-script harness moves from login-page-social-buttons.test.ts to __tests__/__helpers__/login-page-script.ts (with an explicit return type, so tsc --build can emit it). With dev-id/ses-id cookies the route test also shows the page instead of a 302 to pds-core, and the email step when the PAR hint matches an account bound to the device; 2 of those 3 cases fail without the change (the third is the control without the error). State errors that better-auth raises before it can read the stored errorCallbackURL (an expired or mismatched state cookie) still go to its default error page; that would need onAPIError.errorURL, left out here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n account ePDS keys a sign-in to a PDS account by email alone (/auth/complete calls getDidByEmail on the session's address), and better-auth creates a user for a social sign-in whatever its emailVerified says. With Google's claim now strict, that leaves three ways an address nobody proved could still act as its owner: 1. /auth/complete signed it into the existing PDS account for that address (it only withheld email_verified on the callback), or created a new account with email_verified=0. /auth/choose-handle could be POSTed directly to do the latter. 2. The unverified user row better-auth created stays linked to the social identity. When the address's real owner later signs in with an email code, better-auth's email-otp marks that existing user verified, and from then on the social identity signs straight in as them (pre-account-takeover). 3. Account settings accepted any better-auth session, so the same unverified session could manage the PDS account that owns the address. Fixes: - better-auth databaseHooks.user.create.before (refuseUnverifiedUser) refuses to create a user whose emailVerified is not true. Email OTP always creates verified users, so this only stops social sign-ins the provider did not vouch for; the redirect flow then ends on /auth/complete?error=email_not_verified (mapped to the email_unverified message) and the ID-token flow gets a 401. - /auth/complete refuses a session whose email is not verified, for new and existing accounts alike, and returns to the login page with epds_social_error=email_unverified. /auth/choose-handle bounces such a session to /auth/complete. - requireBetterAuth (account settings) and GET /account/login treat a session as signed out unless its email is verified. - All of them, and the hook, use one check, hasVerifiedEmail() in lib/verified-email.ts: only a boolean true counts. An earlier release could store Google's claim as the text 'true' or 'false', which better-auth's SQLite adapter reads back as a string, and the text 'false' is truthy; with a looser check in one route and a strict one in another, /account and /account/login would redirect to each other forever for such a row. The /auth/complete, choose-handle and account guards are defence in depth for user rows created before the hook existed. Two kinds of row an earlier release left are beyond them: an unverified user with a linked social identity, which comes back to life once its owner proves the address (the next commit removes such links at that moment), and a social identity an earlier release linked to a user who is verified, which better-auth signs straight in without looking at the email again. The docs commit therefore tells operators who had GOOGLE_* or GITHUB_* set to delete the social links and unverified users an earlier release left. Tests: better-auth-social-sign-in.test.ts now runs with ePDS's databaseHooks and also drives the real redirect flow (POST /sign-in/social, GET /callback/google with Google's token endpoint stubbed): a cancel lands on /auth/complete?error=access_denied, an unverified address on ?error=email_not_verified with no user created, a verified Gmail address on /auth/complete with a session. New route tests cover /auth/complete, choose-handle and account settings with unverified sessions, including emailVerified stored as the text 'true' or 'false' (they fail without the route changes), and verified-email.test.ts pins the check itself. callback-handle-mode's session fixture now carries emailVerified: true, as an email-OTP session does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rified The user-creation guard stops new unverified users, but an instance that had Google or GitHub configured before it can hold unverified users an earlier release created, each with a social identity linked. They cannot sign in now. better-auth, however, marks such a user verified as soon as the address's owner proves the address: email-otp's sign-in (and its verify-email) does it for an email code, and handleOAuthUserInfo does it when a social sign-in the provider vouches for (the owner's own Gmail identity, say) links to the user. From then on better-auth signs the linked identity straight in without looking at the email again, so it signs in as the owner, and an old session of it starts counting as signed in too. Add databaseHooks.user.update before/after hooks: when an update marks a user's email verified (in better-auth 1.4.18 only a user who was not verified gets one; overrideUserInfoOnSignIn, which ePDS does not set, would also write it for verified users), remove every social identity linked to the user and sign out its sessions. This runs before the sign-in that verified the address creates its own session, so that sign-in completes as normal. A Gmail or Workspace identity links again by itself on its next sign-in; the one a social sign-in has just linked is dropped as well, which costs one extra link. Still left to the operator cleanup in the docs: a social identity an earlier release linked to a user who was already verified (this release cannot tell it from a good link), and a user whose emailVerified an earlier release stored as the text 'true' or 'false' (email-otp only updates a falsy value, so that user's owner stays locked out until the row is removed). Tests: create-better-auth.test.ts runs createBetterAuth() itself, as index.ts does (in-memory SQLite, Google's token endpoint stubbed, email codes captured from a stub EmailSender, PDS lookups mocked), so it also covers production wiring that no test reached before. It checks that the hooks and the Google claim mapper are the ones passed to better-auth and that a non-authoritative Google address is refused with no user, and it drives both revival paths with rows seeded as an earlier release left them: an unverified user with a Google link loses the link and its old session when the owner signs in by email code, after which the Google identity gets account_not_linked; an authoritative Google sign-in drops a GitHub link from such a user and links itself again next time. A verified user's links and sessions survive an email-code sign-in. Removing databaseHooks from createBetterAuth fails 4 of its 6 tests, removing the update hooks 3, removing the mapper 3. The Google redirect-flow helpers move from better-auth-social-sign-in.test.ts to __tests__/__helpers__/google-sign-in.ts so both files use them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…sted docs/configuration.md's social providers section only listed the four env vars. Add: - that the buttons are instance-wide (every OAuth client of the ePDS); - the redirect URIs to register, https://<AUTH_HOSTNAME>/api/auth/callback/google and .../callback/github, one per auth hostname; - Google setup: a Web application OAuth client, a consent screen with only openid/email/profile, publishing status In production (Testing limits sign-in to at most 100 listed test users); - which social sign-ins are trusted (Google: strict email_verified plus Gmail/Workspace; GitHub: the /user/emails verified flag, with the caveat that GitHub does not host addresses, so the flag can be stale) and what happens to the rest; - for instances that had Google or GitHub configured before: which rows an earlier release left this release handles by itself (an unverified user's links and sessions go once its owner proves the address) and which still have to be removed by hand (a social identity linked to a verified user, which still signs in without the email being checked again; a user whose emailVerified was stored as text, which locks its owner out), a read-only query to look first, and the DELETEs. They use emailVerified IS NOT 1, which also catches the text 'true'/'false' an earlier release could store. Checked against the schema better-auth 1.4.18 creates. Both .env.example files now name the redirect URIs next to the variables. features/social-login.feature (@pending) now matches: the "same email" scenario uses a Gmail address, and new scenarios cover a Google address Google does not host (back to the login page, asked for an email code), a Workspace address (trusted), and Cancel at Google. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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pnpm test:coverage on this branch: statements 64.62, branches 63.59, functions 77.22, lines 63.51 (main: 61.68 / 60.64 / 74.39 / 60.49). Raise the floors to 64 / 63 / 77 / 63 per the ratcheting policy, and record in testing-gaps.md that better-auth.ts is now at ~76%, with create-better-auth.test.ts running the production instance. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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isGoogleAuthoritativeFor treated any non-empty hd as proof that Google hosts the address, so person@example.com with hd "*" or "attacker.example" counted as verified. hd names a hosted domain: Google is now authoritative only for @gmail.com / @googlemail.com, or when hd equals the address's domain (both lower-cased). Workspace secondary domains no longer count. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
hasVerifiedEmail accepted only a boolean true, so users an earlier release stored with Google's claim as the text 'true' failed /auth/complete, /auth/choose-handle and /account until an operator ran the manual SQL cleanup. Accept the exact text 'true' as well; 'false' and every other value still count as unverified, and the hook that drops links made before verification is unchanged. The cleanup in docs/configuration.md no longer removes 'true' users (NOT IN (1, 'true') instead of IS NOT 1); it is still needed for social links on verified users and for users stored as the text 'false', which an email code cannot mark verified. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/email-otp/verify-email applies for already verified users and this assumed emailVerified: true applies to only the first verification. This creates a risk of a google login and active session resulting in no session after re-verification.
This condition is only checking the new value, it looks like this change is focused on sign-in and misses the verification endpoints that gets caught up in this. Re-verification shouldn't create a replacement session.
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@DjimoSerodio since there was a provision for google and github signin the agent might have assumed it needed fixing. However we never really enabled google and github signin/oauth on dev or on production there isnt a need to fix previous social sign ins which this pr assumes. Some notes on my agents when i asked what could be removed given this context
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@DjimoSerodio all the tests under features/social-login.feature.ts are still marked as pending so they are never run by the e2e suite. Would be great if you could remove pending and setup e2e and check if it works. I think we could keep the e2e to just google as well. |
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would be greate here to add another scenario when it fails to check if the flow is recoverable via email otp login.
something like:
Scenario: User can sign in with an email code after Google sign-in is rejected
Given "alice@example.com" has a PDS account created via email OTP
And Google reports a verified email of "alice@example.com"
But Google's ID token has the "hd" claim "other.example"
When the user signs in with Google
Then the browser returns to the login page
And the login page asks the user to sign in with an email code instead
And no authenticated session is created
When the user signs in with a code sent to "alice@example.com"
Then the browser is redirected back to the demo client
And the demo client is signed in to the existing PDS account
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| Given "alice@example.com" has a PDS account (created via email OTP) | ||
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| Given "alice@gmail.com" has a PDS account (created via email OTP) |
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and another scenario for when someone created their account through social login and then logs in through email otp that they use the existing PDS account
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as mentioned in the comment since google/github sign in was never configured for certified.one or any of the tests and staging pds. we could just keep this check to user?.emailVerified === true
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@DjimoSerodio also i think we could leave out the github sign in integration or remove it completely. i dont know if the agent maybe made some code changes to accommodate for github but since its only google that we need right now we could restrict to that. The github sign in was a remnant from the initial development of the ePDS. if you can confirm with your agent that there werent any changes in this pr specifically to accommodate for github sign in then i can just stack a pr on your branch to remove it as well. which ever works for you |
The social buttons only disabled the button that was clicked, so a click on the other provider, an email code send, a verify or a handle hand-off could start while the first sign-in was still in flight; a second /sign-in/social replaces the first one's OAuth state. One page-wide guard now covers the social buttons, sending and resending an email code, verifying it, and the ATProto/Bluesky handle hand-off. Each handler claims it before starting a request, releases it when the attempt fails, and keeps it while the page navigates away. Sending a code releases it once the code is sent, so the verify that follows can run. The verify form's own double-submit latch is folded into it. A page restored from the back/forward cache releases it. The login page script harness moves to __tests__/__helpers__ so the new guard tests and the social button tests share it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Also tell end users that only one sign-in runs at a time. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts: # packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/__helpers__/login-page-script.ts # packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/login-page-social-buttons.test.ts
Google and GitHub sign-in were never enabled on any deployment, so there are no social links or sessions from an earlier release to repair. Remove noteEmailVerification, dropLinksMadeBeforeVerification, their context tracking and the user.update hooks, along with the earlier-release fixtures and tests, the SQL clean-up section in docs/configuration.md and the release-note text about it. The user-creation guard stays. The update hook also fired on /email-otp/verify-email for a user who was already verified, which signed out that user's existing (for example Google) session. With it gone, a new test pins that re-verifying an address keeps the session and the Google link, and that an email-code sign-in after a Google sign-up lands on the same user. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No release stored emailVerified as text, so hasVerifiedEmail is now user?.emailVerified === true and the string-valued cases go from its tests and the account route tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The redirect URI table, the trust notes and the .env.example comments added for this change now cover Google only. The GitHub provider itself and its existing variables are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sonar flagged 3.3% duplication on new code: complete-social-sign-in copied the mocks and app setup of callback-handle-mode, and login-page-social-error copied the config and server setup of login-page-prompt-login. The /auth/complete social cases move into callback-handle-mode, whose stand-in session now takes a user, and both login page route tests start their app from __helpers__/login-page-app. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sign-in guard and social button tests rendered the page with the same option block; it now lives next to the script harness. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts: # packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/login-page-social-buttons.test.ts
features/social-login.feature was @pending and never ran. It is now Google-only, tagged @fake-google, and runs in the private Atmosphere stack: - The browser's trip to accounts.google.com is intercepted with page.route and redirected straight back to /api/auth/callback/google, with the scenario's ID token claims as the authorization code (or error=access_denied for a cancel). - With EPDS_TEST_HOOKS=1 and EPDS_TEST_FAKE_GOOGLE=1, auth-service answers better-auth's token request with an ID token for those claims (lib/test-google-token.ts). It refuses to install when NODE_ENV=production. Everything after it, including the Google claim check, runs as in production. - The demo client lists google in epds_social_providers; the stack sets placeholder Google credentials and E2E_FAKE_GOOGLE=1 on the runner, and e2e/cucumber.mjs excludes @fake-google where that flag is unset. Scenarios: an account created with Google is the same PDS account for a later email-code sign-in; a Google sign-in refused for hd other.example recovers with an email code to the existing account; a cancel at Google returns to the login page. No session is created by the refused or cancelled sign-ins. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This branch had ratcheted the thresholds to 65/64/77/64 with the earlier-release repair code and its tests included. Removing that code leaves 64.76/63.75/77.31/63.61, so the floors become 64/63/77/63, still above main's 61/60/74/60. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Builds on #259. Until that merges, this PR's diff also shows #259's two commits; the new work starts at
5488b3b.With #259 the Google and GitHub buttons start working. Before an instance turns them on, there are four
problems in how a social sign-in becomes a PDS account. ePDS links a sign-in to an account by email alone
(
/auth/completecallsgetDidByEmailon the better-auth session's address), so each of them is anaccount-takeover path rather than a cosmetic issue.
Problems
email_verifiedis read for truthiness. better-auth 1.4.18's Google provider copies the ID token'semail_verifiedintouser.emailVerifiedunchanged, andhandleOAuthUserInfotests it with!. Thestring
"false"is truthy, so it counts as verified (and"true"is stored as a string).Google Workspace organisation,
email_verified: trueonly means Google checked it once, when theGoogle account was created; the address may have changed hands since. Google's guidance is to treat
that as unverified
(verify the Google ID token:
Google is authoritative for
@gmail.com, and for any address whenemail_verifiedis true andhdisset). Today such a sign-in is linked to, and signs into, an existing user with that address.
emailVerifiedsays./auth/completethen signs that session into the existing PDS account for the address (it only sendsemail_verified=0on the callback), or creates a new account withemail_verified=0./auth/choose-handlecan also be POSTed directly to create one.the address (an email code, or a social sign-in the provider vouches for), better-auth marks that
existing user verified, and from then on the social identity signs straight in as them, and an old
session of it counts as signed in (a pre-account-takeover).
requireBetterAuth) accept any better-auth session, so the same unverified sessioncan manage the PDS account that owns the address.
callbackURL, so Cancel on Google's consentscreen (
error=access_denied),account_not_linked, or a provider without an email ends on better-auth'sbare
/api/auth/errorpage, with no way back to the client app.Fix
lib/google-email-verified.ts, passed as the Google provider'smapProfileToUser, which better-auth spreads over its own user info). A Google sign-in is email-verifiedonly when
email_verifiedis booleantrueor the exact string"true"and the address is@gmail.com/@googlemail.comor the token carries anhdclaim. Everything else reaches better-authas
emailVerified: false, so it is never linked to an existing user.databaseHooks.user.create.before(refuseUnverifiedUser) refusesto create a user whose
emailVerifiedis nottrue. Email OTP always creates verified users, so thisonly stops social sign-ins the provider did not vouch for. The redirect flow then ends on
/auth/complete?error=email_not_verified; the ID-token flow gets a 401./auth/completerefuses a session whose email is notverified, for new and existing accounts alike.
/auth/choose-handlebounces such a session to/auth/complete. Account settings andGET /account/logintreat it as signed out. These guards aredefence in depth for user rows created before the hook existed. All of them use one check,
hasVerifiedEmail()(lib/verified-email.ts): only a booleantruecounts, because an earlier releasecould store Google's claim as the text
'true'/'false'(better-auth's SQLite adapter reads it back asa string), and a looser check in one route than another made
/accountand/account/loginredirect toeach other forever for such a row.
databaseHooks.user.updatebefore/after hooks:when an update marks a user's email verified (an email-code sign-in, or a social sign-in the provider
vouches for linking to the user), every social identity linked to that user is removed and its sessions
are signed out, before the verifying sign-in creates its own session. Only a user row an earlier release
left can be unverified, so these links came from sign-ins whose provider did not vouch for the address.
A Gmail or Workspace identity links again by itself on its next sign-in.
errorCallbackURL: '/auth/complete'./auth/completechecks?error=before it reads any session (so a session an earlier sign-in left in thebrowser is never resumed by a cancelled one), reduces it to
cancelled/email_unverified/no_email/failed, and 303s to/oauth/authorize?request_uri=…&client_id=…&epds_social_error=<code>, the URL italready uses when it finds no session. The login page maps the code to a fixed message in the standard
flash region; unknown values show nothing and request text is never reflected. On that return the login
page renders itself even when the browser holds a device session: handing it to pds-core's account
chooser would drop the message, and could auto-select the RP's hinted account for someone who had just
chosen "Another account" (the redirect cannot carry
prompt=loginorepds_skip_par_hintback). The PARlogin_hintis ignored on that return for the same reason, so the email step renders.docs/configuration.mdgains the redirect URIs to register(
https://<AUTH_HOSTNAME>/api/auth/callback/google,…/callback/github), Google setup (Web applicationclient; consent screen with only
openid,email,profile; publishing status In production, sinceTesting limits sign-in to at most 100 listed test users), which sign-ins are trusted, and, for instances
that had a provider configured before, a one-off cleanup (back up, preview, delete) of the rows an earlier
release left that this release cannot handle by itself. Both
.env.examplefiles name the redirect URIs,and the
@pendingscenarios infeatures/social-login.featurenow match the new behaviour.pds-core is unchanged.
Tests
better-auth-social-sign-in.test.tsdrives a real better-auth instance on in-memory SQLite withePDS's provider config and
databaseHooks:"false",falseand a non-Gmail address withouthdcreate no user, that a non-authoritative identity is notlinked to an existing user, and that a verified Gmail identity is.
/sign-in/social, GET/callback/google, Google's tokenendpoint stubbed): Cancel lands on
/auth/complete?error=access_denied; an unverified address on/auth/complete?error=email_not_verifiedwith no user created; a verified Gmail address on/auth/completewith a session.create-better-auth.test.tsrunscreateBetterAuth()itself, asindex.tsdoes (in-memory SQLite,Google's token endpoint stubbed, email codes captured from a stub
EmailSender, PDS lookups mocked), sothe production wiring is covered, not just the exported pieces. It checks that the hooks and the Google
claim mapper are the ones passed to better-auth, that a non-authoritative Google address is refused with
no user, and, with rows seeded as an earlier release left them, that an unverified user's Google link and
old session go when the owner signs in by email code (the Google identity then gets
account_not_linked), that an authoritative Google sign-in drops another provider's link and linksitself again next time, and that a verified user's links and sessions survive an email-code sign-in.
Removing
databaseHooksfromcreateBetterAuthfails 4 of its 6 tests, removing the update hooks 3,removing the mapper 3.
/auth/complete?error=for each code, and that it does not read the session(
complete-social-sign-in.test.ts; all 5 fail without the route change);/auth/completeand/auth/choose-handlewith an unverified session (5 fail without the guards); account settings with anunverified session (
account-session-verified.test.ts; 2 fail without), includingemailVerifiedstored as the text
'true'or'false', where both routes must agree; the login page withepds_social_error(login-page-social-error.test.ts), including a browser with a device session and aPAR hint bound to it (2 of those 3 cases fail without the change; the third is the control).
google-email-verified.test.ts), the shared check(
verified-email.test.ts) and the error mapping (social-sign-in-error.test.ts).social-providers.test.tsnow tests the exportedbuildSocialProviders()instead of a copy of it (asdocs/design/testing-gaps.mdsuggested).callback-handle-mode.test.ts's session fixture now carriesemailVerified: true, as an email-OTP sessiondoes.
pnpm format:check,pnpm lint,pnpm typecheckclean.vitest run packages/auth-service: 49 files /632 tests.
pnpm test:coverage: 89 files / 1322 tests, coverage 64.63 / 63.74 / 77.22 / 63.52; floorsratcheted from 61 / 60 / 74 / 60 to 64 / 63 / 77 / 63.
better-auth.tsgoes from 0% onmainto ~76%.Points for review
email_verified=1.Signing an unproven address into the account that owns it is the takeover; withholding the flag would not
stop it. If you would rather let existing accounts in without confirming the email, it is the
if (!sessionEmailVerified)block incomplete.ts, but we would advise against it.without
hdcannot use Google; the page asks them to use an email code. That is Google's own guidance,but it is a product call for each instance.
verifiedflag from/user/emailsfor the address used. GitHubis not authoritative for any domain either; tightening it (or not offering it) is left for a separate
discussion.
errorCallbackURL, so they still go to its default error page. SettingonAPIError.errorURLwould coverthem; left out to keep this PR to the social flow.
directly) need a one-off cleanup after upgrading, described in
docs/configuration.md: back up thedatabase, preview with
emailVerified IS NOT 1, then delete the sessions, allgoogle/githubaccountrows, and the users whose
emailVerified IS NOT 1. The code handles an unverified user's links once itsowner proves the address, but two kinds of row are beyond it: a social identity an earlier release linked
to a user who is verified (for example a Google identity on a non-Gmail address), which still signs in
as that user, and a user whose
emailVerifiedis the text'true'/'false', which email-otp neverrepairs, so its owner is locked out until the row goes.
= 0misses those text rows.(better-auth links before it updates the user); that sign-in still completes and the identity links again
next time. With
overrideUserInfoOnSignIn(not set by ePDS) better-auth would writeemailVerified: truefor already-verified users too, and the hook would then sign their other sessions out on every social
sign-in.
login_hint, so a user who started on the code step for ahinted address lands on the email step after a cancelled Google sign-in. The alternative is to persist
promptandepds_skip_par_hinton theauth_flowrow (a migration) and replay them.lib/social-sign-in-error.ts) is a first draft.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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