ConfirmablePasswordController checked the local hash and nothing else:
Auth::guard('web')->validate(['email' => ..., 'password' => ...])
An account provisioned from a directory has no local password. It holds a
Str::password(64) generated at provisioning time that nobody has ever
seen, and the application knows this -- LdapAuthenticator::isDirectoryAccount()
is the question, and the sign-in form asks it before deciding what to
check. This screen did not, so it refused those accounts the only password
they have.
That is not a cosmetic refusal. `password.confirm` stands in front of
enrolling in two-factor, so a directory-provisioned client could not enrol
at all. Set TwoFactorEnforcement to `clients` or `all` and EnforceTwoFactor
redirects every request they make to two-factor.show -- a screen whose
"enable" button leads to a door they cannot open. PR #1708 fixed the
routing half of that ("Let an enforced user reach the far side of the
confirm-password screen"); this is the credential half.
The rule now lives in one place. PasswordVerification is the sibling of
SignIn on the other side of the line SignIn draws -- SignIn is everything
after a credential checks out, this is the one question asked before it --
and it exists for the reason SignIn gives for existing: "the way they get
broken is by being written twice". LoginRequest keeps its ordering, its
provisioning and its rate limiting, and delegates the check itself.
Behaviour preserved exactly on the sign-in path: local hash first so an
account that answers locally generates no directory traffic, directory
only for accounts whose credentials live there, the stale-hash re-hash on
the local branch only, and the ldap_dn stamp on the directory branch. All
23 existing LDAP sign-in tests pass unchanged.
One thing this closes on the way past. Because the old check went straight
to the local hash, a directory account's placeholder *would* have confirmed
if anybody ever learned it -- a door the sign-in form does not have, since
it skips the local branch for those accounts. It now behaves the same on
both screens; there is a test.
**What this does not fix, and should be read as a limitation.** Accounts
provisioned by a social provider are in the same position -- a random local
password nobody holds -- and they are not directory accounts, so this
changes nothing for them. Their route to a local password is the password
reset, which #1748 made work end to end by moving auth_source to Local when
the reset completes. A social account that has never done that still cannot
confirm a password, and so still cannot enrol in two-factor.
Tests: three fail against the unfixed pair, including the placeholder case
above. Two more pin what must not change -- a wrong directory password is
still refused, and a local account with LDAP switched on still confirms
against its own hash.
ProjectSend
Share files with your clients, from your own server.
ProjectSend is a self-hosted application for getting files to the people you work with. You upload what you want to send, choose exactly who can see it, and each client signs in to their own private page to download it.
No public link passed around by email, no third-party service holding your clients' documents, no per-seat pricing. It runs on your server, and the files stay there.
What it does
For the people you send to
- A private area per client, showing only what has been shared with them
- Sign in with an email address, with optional two-factor authentication
- Search, filter and sort their files; download one, several as a zip, or a whole folder
- Optional comments on a file, so questions live next to the thing they are about
- Email notifications when something new arrives, in their own language
For you
- Resumable uploads that survive a dropped connection, so large files actually arrive
- Organise with folders, categories and client groups
- Share with one client, a whole group, or publicly — and set an expiry date or a download limit
- Thumbnails and previews for images and documents
- Storage quotas per client, and custom fields for the details you need to keep on them
- A full activity log and download history: who got what, and when
For the installation
- Roles and permissions for your own team, so an uploader is not an administrator
- Sign-in the way you already work: LDAP, social sign-in, or plain email and password
- Themes for the client-facing pages and for outgoing email
- 16 languages
- A REST API with scoped tokens and generated OpenAPI docs
- Privacy controls, including GDPR-grade account erasure with a grace period
- Local disk, S3-compatible storage, or Google Cloud Storage
Screenshots
The dashboard — what is in the installation, and what has been happening in it.
Your library — folders, categories, and who each file is shared with.
What your client sees — only their files, nothing else.
Getting started
With Docker — the quickest path, and the one we recommend. Nothing to build: the published image ships with its dependencies and its frontend already compiled.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectsend/projectsend/main/docker/production/compose.example.yaml
# edit the passwords and APP_URL in it, then:
docker compose -f compose.example.yaml up -d
Open APP_URL and the first thing you see is a setup screen that creates your administrator
account — or uncomment ADMIN_EMAIL and ADMIN_PASSWORD in the file first, with a password of
your own, and it is created for you.
Before you put real files in it, read DOCKER.md — where your database and uploads actually live, how to move them onto paths you chose, and how to back them up so an upgrade can't take them with it.
Without Docker — for servers where it isn't an option, install from a release zip.
INSTALL.md covers requirements, .env, nginx, the background worker and cron,
updating and troubleshooting. You do not need Composer or npm on the server; the zip ships ready to
run.
Already running it? UPDATE.md is how you move to a new version — one command on Docker, one script on your own server, and what to check afterwards either way.
Want to work on ProjectSend itself? Cloning the repository gets you a development copy, not an installation: the dependencies and the compiled frontend are deliberately not in git, so a clone needs Composer and npm before it runs. CONTRIBUTING.md has the sequence, and it is short.
Coming from ProjectSend Legacy?
The previous generation of ProjectSend lives on at projectsend/legacy. This is a rebuild rather than an upgrade, so moving across is an import rather than an update — install fresh, then bring your old site into it with the migration tool: accounts, clients, groups, categories, folders, files and history.
It never writes to your old install, and any run can be undone with a single command. MIGRATING-FROM-V1.md explains what comes across, the two routes (same machine, or a portable export from a server you can't reach), and the one change your clients will notice: they sign in with their email address now, using the same password.
Contributing
Bug reports, translations and pull requests are all welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md for how to set up a development copy, what the checks are, and the contributor agreement.
Found a security issue? Please report it privately through GitHub's security advisories rather than opening a public issue.
License
Free software under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at your option) any later version — see LICENSE. Use it, study it, change it, share it.
Commercial licenses are available for organizations that cannot work under copyleft terms; LICENSING.md explains both options. Contributions require signing a CLA, for reasons set out in CONTRIBUTING.md.


