/users/convert lists the accounts a conversion can be started from. For
the promotion direction those are clients, and the query asked only for
the type:
User::query()->where('type', UserType::Client)
The write beside it does not. AccountConversion::guardToStaff() ends with
abort_unless($this->library->canAssignClient($actor, $target), 404);
and says why: a promotion is the most far-reaching thing that can be done
to a client, so reaching one outside the actor's roster "through this door
and no other is not a rule, it is a gap".
The gap was on the way in. A client-scoped staff member holding
manage_users and edit_users was refused the promotion with a 404 -- the
refusal that is careful not to distinguish a stranger from an account that
is not there -- and then shown that same person's name, email, role,
status and consequence counts in the list the refusal came from,
searchable by name or address and paginated to the end.
StaffLibraryScope::clients() is canAssignClient()'s listing half, written
for this: "so a screen narrows by the same rule its buttons are guarded
with rather than restating it -- which is how ClientsController came to
list every client on the installation, name and email, to a viewer who
could reach nothing of theirs." The picker twenty lines below already went
through the same boundary via assignableClientIds().
Only the client direction is narrowed. The staff direction is left exactly
as it was: whoever may demote a staff member may see the staff roster, and
what limits a demotion is guardTarget() on the write, not the listing.
Tests: the listing half added to AccountConversionScopeTest, which until
now covered only the refusals. Two of the five fail against the unfixed
controller -- the stranger's address in the list, and reaching it by exact
search. The other three pin what must not change: the actor still sees
their own client, unscoped staff still see everybody, and the demotion
list still lists staff.
It stopped being true in 623ad68, when users.manage opened on both
editions. The code moved and these did not, which is the worst kind of
comment: confidently wrong, and about the very rule a reader comes to
them to learn.
PlatformManaged claimed the tenant's own /users screens stay closed,
directly contradicting the UsersManage comment eleven lines above it.
routes/web.php said the same about the group it gates. The API
controller's docblock opened with "**Community only.**", and the
conversion screen's said a managed installation creates staff accounts
elsewhere.
Each now says what is actually true, and says the division the change
turned on: a platform sells the seats, the tenant decides who sits in
them. What limits a managed plan is the seat cap, not a shut door -- so
the API answers 422 at the limit rather than 403, which is a different
sentence to whoever is reading it.
StaffAccounts opens with the rule for roles: "Nobody hands out authority
they do not hold … that turns one permission into every permission and
makes the rest of the matrix decorative." mayGrant enforces it, and
guardTarget applies the same test to an existing account.
The client roster never got the same treatment. `assigned_clients` was
validated as `exists:users,id where type = client` and passed straight to
syncAssignedClients, with nothing anywhere asking whether the actor holds
the clients they are handing out. Assigning a client is not a label: it
is that client's whole library, given to whoever is on the other end.
The case that matters is the actor's own account. guardTarget returns
immediately when the target is the actor — editing your own name and
email is not a question of authority — so a client-scoped staff member
with edit_users could PATCH their own id with every client on the
installation and read the whole library from then on.
assignableClientIds() answers the roster question the way
assignableRoleIds() answers the role one, and the five places that accept
`assigned_clients` — users store and update on both surfaces, and the
account conversion — validate against it. It returns the full roster for
an unrestricted actor, so every caller validates against one list instead
of composing a conditional rule; that list is already client-typed, which
is why one rule replaces the exists() and the type filter together.
The two pickers that offer the roster are narrowed to the same list, so a
form no longer offers a client the request behind it will refuse.
syncAssignedClients is untouched: which ids stick to which role is its
decision and it was never the problem.
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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