ProfileController::destroy() validates current_password and soft-deletes.
It never asks StaffAccounts::guardLastAdministrator(), and every other
door does: Staff update(), guardDeletable(), and both directions of the
role conversion. This is the one door where the account being removed is
certainly signed in.
An installation with a single administrator therefore had a button that
emptied it. Measured on main:
DELETE /settings/profile 302, the account is gone
live staff rows 0 (the row is trashed, not removed)
anonymous GET / 302 -> /setup
anonymous POST /setup a new active System Administrator
EnsureSetupIsComplete asks ->exists(), which excludes trashed rows, and
routes/web.php registers GET and POST setup with no auth and no guest
middleware -- correctly, since a fresh installation has nobody to
authenticate. SetupController::store() re-checks the same condition, so
both halves agreed with each other and both were wrong once the last
staff row was trashed.
Two locks, because one of them is asked at five doors and the other at
one.
First: destroy() now asks guardLastAdministrator(), the same call with
the same message as everywhere else. An administrator with a colleague
still goes, a non-administrator staff member still goes, and a client
still closes their own account.
Second: "has this installation been set up" is not the same question as
"does it have a working administrator right now", and only the first one
belongs in EnsureSetupIsComplete. A trashed staff row is still evidence
that setup happened, so it now counts -- in the middleware and in
SetupController::setupIsComplete(), which have to agree or the result is
either a redirect loop or an open form.
That second lock holds even if a future door forgets the first one.
Measured with the guard bypassed entirely and the row trashed directly:
GET / answers with the login screen and POST /setup creates nothing.
Worth stating plainly: an installation that has already lost its last
administrator will now find setup shut rather than open. That is the
point -- the recovery path for it is `php artisan projectsend:admin`,
which is also how every unattended container installs itself, not a form
that anybody on the internet can reach.
Six tests, two measured red against the unfixed code (2 failed / 4
passed) -- one per lock. The other four are the boundaries: a colleague
present, a staff member who is not an administrator, a client, and a
genuinely fresh installation that must still reach setup.
Two existing tests needed saying more clearly rather than changing:
ProfileUpdateTest's deletion cases now create a second administrator, so
that what they assert is self-deletion and not this new refusal; and
GettingStartedTest's "fresh installation" cases forceDelete rather than
delete, because a soft-deleted staff row is no longer a fresh
installation -- which is the whole of the second lock.
Full suite passes (2054 passed / 2 skipped), PHPStan level 8 clean.
An account deleted by an administrator was soft-deleted with erase_after
null, so projectsend:purge-erasures — which filters on
whereNotNull('erase_after') — never reached it, and the unique index on
users.email kept the address reserved forever. Anyone re-creating the
account got "The email has already been taken", naming a conflict nothing
on any screen could show or clear (#1648).
Both halves of the issue's option 3:
Every deletion path now schedules the erasure. The stamp lives in
ErasureSchedule — self-deletion switched to it, and StaffAccounts::delete
(shared by the web screen and the API) and both client controllers call
it right before delete(). Same grace period, same purge, whoever deleted
the account. Deliberately no backfill for rows deleted before this
change: stamping them during an update would start a countdown to data
erasure that nobody chose at deletion time; the message below covers
them instead.
The staff creation paths swap unique:users,email for AvailableEmailRule,
which refuses exactly the same things but can explain the one refusal
the stock message can't: an address held by a deleted account now names
the date it becomes available, and one deleted before scheduling existed
points at projectsend:erase-account. A living account keeps the stock
message, and public registration keeps the stock rule — telling an
anonymous visitor the address belongs to a deleted account would confirm
it had an account here.
Client file sharing, rebuilt from the ground up: a private area per
client, resumable uploads, folders, groups and categories, sharing with
expiry dates and download limits, comments, file versions, an activity
log, a REST API, and sixteen languages.
This repository begins here. ProjectSend 2 was developed privately, and
that development history is not published — the previous generation
remains available, with its own history, at projectsend/legacy.
Free software under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at your
option) any later version.
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