Api\UsersController::update() compares the validated value strictly:
if ($user->is($actor) && ($validated['active'] ?? true) === false) {
The `boolean` rule accepts 0 and "0" as well as false, and it does not
cast. `0 === false` is false, so the refusal never fires -- and the
model's own `boolean` cast then stores as false exactly the value the
guard had just decided was not a deactivation.
Measured against main, with a second administrator present so that
guardLastAdministrator is not what answers:
{"active": false} -> 422, still active
{"active": 0} -> 200, active is now false
{"active": "0"} -> 200, active is now false
The method's own docblock says it is "Refused with a 422 if the change
would leave the installation with no active administrator, or if you
would be deactivating yourself", and the web screen does refuse. This is
the API half of that sentence.
RolesController::guardScopeRemoval documents the rule this breaks, in the
same words: callers resolve the flag with Request::boolean() and hand the
same value to the guard and to the write, deliberately, because reading
the validated array and comparing it strictly "would let a request
through here that the model's `boolean` cast then stores as false anyway
-- the guard and the write disagreeing about one value is exactly the
shape this guard exists to prevent".
So read it once, with Request::boolean(), and give that one value to both.
Not changed: the validation rule. It stays `boolean`, so the accepted
inputs are the same as before -- what changes is that one of them stops
meaning two different things on its way through. Nor anything about
deactivating somebody else: all three forms still work, and there are
tests saying so.
Six cases from two datasets. Two measured red against the unfixed
controller (2 failed / 4 passed): 0 and "0" on yourself. `false` was
already refused, and the three "somebody else" cases are green either way
-- they guard against the fix over-refusing, not against the bug.
Full suite passes (2054 passed / 2 skipped), PHPStan level 8 clean.
A managed installation's staff accounts were expected to arrive from
outside it, so users.manage was Community-only and /users, /roles and
their API twins answered 404 there. The platform side spent a long
document designing its way around that gate; opening it is cheaper than
routing around it, and more honest about where the knowledge sits.
The division that settles it is the one managed storage already uses. We
do not manage a tenant's files from outside — a bucket is provisioned, a
scoped credential handed over, and what goes in it is the tenant's
business. Seats are the same kind of thing. A platform knows how many
staff accounts it sold; it does not know whether Alice should be an
Account Manager, and it certainly does not know where her files go when
she leaves. Capacity is the platform's, occupancy is the tenant's, and
the cap belongs in an environment variable rather than in a closed
screen.
The capability stays in front of the routes rather than being deleted.
It is currently true in both editions, but it is the seam an edition
difference has to travel through, and removing it would mean inventing
one again later.
Seven test files asserted the old rule, which is the tests doing their
job. Most flip. Two needed a different example instead: EnsureCapability
and AbilityCapability were both using users.manage to stand for
"Community-only", so they now use storage.configure and manage_updates —
keys that still are.
Two rationales half-expired and say so rather than being quietly
rewritten. CommentAuthors gave two reasons for being a setting rather
than a permission; the first was that roles are uneditable on cloud,
which stopped being true here, and the second — that `Everyone` includes
anonymous visitors, who have no role to hold a key — was always the
stronger and is now the whole of it.
The seat cap this makes necessary is the next commit, not this one. On
its own this change lets a managed tenant create staff accounts without
limit, which is why the two belong in the same release.
Cloud instances are sold seats rather than administering them, so the
tenant's own /users screens stay closed — capability:users.manage is
already Community-only — and a control plane creates, deactivates and
password-resets staff from outside. This is the key that plane gates on.
Only the declaration lives here, the same division StorageManaged and
Branding already use. Everything behind it is a module in the private
cloud-modules package.
Declared before that module exists, deliberately. A capability added
after a release is invisible to every image built from one, and that is
not hypothetical: StorageManaged landed 36 commits after v2.1.0 and has
never shipped, so a fleet with buckets provisioned, credentials scoped
and eight environment variables in place still writes every upload to
local disk — because the gate is here and the gate never left. Declaring
this one now is refusing to make the same mistake twice.
The seat *number* deliberately does not live here. There are no billing
or plan tiers in this application to key off, which is the reason
config/api.php gives for not inventing an installation-level rate limit,
and it holds for the same reason: the number lives where the plans do.
This capability says only who is in charge.
ModuleBoundaryTest grows the other half of its own rule. It filtered on
`api/v1/`, so a package claiming a route anywhere else passed — not
because that was sanctioned, but because nothing was looking, and
/platform/v1 is about to be somewhere else. What it polices now is
machine surfaces, the roots something other than a browser authenticates
to, with api/v1/modules and platform/v1 as the two sanctioned prefixes.
Written twice, because the first version was wrong in a useful way: it
policed every route and immediately caught community-modules' Custom
Assets screens. Those are a module doing exactly what a module is for,
through the host's session and capability middleware in plain sight, and
listing them would be the hardcoded URI list the test above it explains
it is avoiding. Web screens are not the boundary; trusted perimeters are.
Verified by making it fail: a package controller on platform/v2 is caught
and named.
Delete an account and dispose of its content in one transaction
Resolved the conflict with #1678 the way that PR's merge note predicted:
the erasure stamp goes inside the new transaction, so a deletion that
rolls back cannot leave a live account carrying a date on which it would
be erased.
I said they could not, in the guide, the Zapier page and the changelog.
That was carried over from the limitation of polling a list, where a
deleted row stops being returned and nothing marks the moment it went. It
was never true of the activity endpoint: file.deleted is recorded like
any other action, so ?action[]=file.deleted works today.
Checked with a test rather than the enum, which turned up the shape a
caller needs: a deletion entry has no subject, because the row is gone by
the time the entry is written, so the name is snapshotted into
context.name instead. Reading subject.name there gets you null.
Every list in /api/v1 answers "what is there now". Nothing answered
"what happened", and for the two events people most want to act on there
was nowhere to look at all.
Sharing a file writes an assignment row and never touches the file, so no
amount of polling /files?updated_since= will ever show a share. A
download is recorded only in the activity log. So the most requested
automations for a file-sharing product — tell me when a client gets a
file, tell me when they open it — were not possible to build.
GET /api/v1/activity is one feed rather than one endpoint per event,
because the log already records every one of them and a caller filtering
by action gets whatever the application grows later without waiting for
us to expose it.
It reuses what already exists: view_actions_log is the permission the
activity screen uses, and ActivityLogScope narrows the rows the same way,
so a staff member limited to their assigned clients cannot read the whole
installation's log through a token when the screen would not show it.
Two deliberate limits. Class names never reach the wire — subject.type is
a stable public string, or moving a model between namespaces would be a
breaking change to a frozen contract. And no ip_address, though the
column exists and the screen shows it: a person looking at a log has
decided to look, where an integration streams every row to somebody
else's servers by default.
PollingQuery grew an optional column so it can walk a table that is
appended to rather than edited. The parameter stays updated_since
everywhere, because on an append-only log the two timestamps are the same
thing and one shape learned once is worth more than a second name.
Deleting a staff or client account is two writes: soft-delete the account,
then cascade or reassign the files and folders it owns. All four destroy()
paths (Users + Clients, web + API) ran them one after the other with nothing
tying them together.
If the second write throws, the account is already gone but its content is
not handled. The concrete way in is the reassign branch: validate() checks
reassign_to_id with exists(active), but apply() re-resolves it with
findOrFail() a moment later (AccountContentDeletion:108), so a target
deactivated or deleted in between throws — leaving a soft-deleted account
whose files still point at it, and a UserDeleted log for a deletion that did
not finish.
Wrap the delete()+apply() pair in a single DB::transaction() in each of the
four destroy() methods. validate() and the authorization guards stay outside
it: they are read-only and must be able to reject before anything is written.
cascadeDelete()/reassignTo() already open their own transaction, which nests
as a savepoint under this one, so the account soft-delete, its activity log,
and the content work now commit or roll back together.
Tests: a DeletedAccountContent double that reports content to handle and then
throws while handling it (tests/Helpers.php) drives one test per destroy()
endpoint asserting the account survives the failure and no UserDeleted entry
is written; each goes red against the un-wrapped controller.
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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