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feat: sign in to the API from a terminal with a device code - #585
A terminal, or an agent running in one, has no browser to be sent back to, so it can't go through /mobile/authorize and never becomes a device. This adds the other standard sign-in, the device authorization grant (RFC 8628), next to the PKCE flow of #130: same kind of key, same approval, no token. Complements #563, which covers a CLI running next to a browser.
POST /api/v1/device-authorizations, signed by the key that isn't approved yet, starts a sign-in with a device_name. It answers with a device_code to poll with, a user_code such as WDJB-MJHT (eight consonants, RFC 8628 §6.1), verification_uri, verification_uri_complete, expires_in (15 minutes) and interval (5 seconds). Each key may start 5 a minute.
/activate asks the signed-in user for the code, however they type it, then shows the same card as the mobile page: device name, key fingerprint, account, and the code. Approve makes the key one of their devices right there, Deny refuses it. A guest goes through GitHub and comes back. Each user gets 20 lookups or decisions a minute, which is where a code could be guessed.
POST /api/v1/devices also takes {device_code} in place of {code, code_verifier}, as RFC 8628's token endpoint does: authorization_pending, slow_down when asked again sooner than the interval, access_denied, invalid_grant for a code that is unknown, expired, another key's, or whose device or user is gone, or the user as GET /api/v1/me answers it. Polls are paced per sign-in instead of counting against the key's 12 redemptions a minute, and terminals behind one address get 300 a minute.
Stored
Nothing but the devices row the user approves. Sign-ins live in the cache for 15 minutes under the hash of each code, bound to the key's fingerprint; the user code points at them only while nothing is decided.
Why approving creates the device
The key proved itself when it signed the start request, and the user approves that very fingerprint, so the poll only has to find the device. Someone who got another person to approve their key already holds that key, as with a redeemed code. A terminal that dies leaves a "never used" row to revoke.
Untouched
/mobile/authorize, redirect_uri_prefixes, the PKCE redemption and CreateDevice.
The README, KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md and PRODUCT.md describe the terminal path.
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New Features
Added terminal sign-in with a short code that can be approved or denied on the activation page.
Sign-in clients can poll for a decision and receive guidance when approval is pending or polling is too frequent. Codes expire after 15 minutes.
The activation page shows device and account details before a decision, and displays its result afterward.
Documentation
Updated API documentation with the sign-in flow, polling behavior, code expiration, and request limits.
Updated product documentation to list the Mac app as a standalone surface.
Running a terminal client against this today (a Herdr pane plugin, arhen/herdr-devnull-plugin), so #585 is the shape I would rather build on than the loopback in #563.
Today the pane registers a temporary devnull:// handler for the length of the approval — an AppleScript applet on macOS, a .desktop entry on Linux — catches devnull://device?code=…, redeems it and unregisters. It works on both, but it is a lot of machinery for a four-second hand-off, and on a machine where it cannot be installed the user is left with the dead tab from #563.
With a device code the pane prints verification_uri_complete and polls, so nothing touches the desktop's URL handling. Two things I would want right:
slow_down should say the cadence to use next, not just fail, so an agent driving the pane does not burn the limit guessing.
The success answer should carry what POST /api/v1/devices carries today: GET /api/v1/me plus unread_notifications_count, so a client can show the unread badge without listing the inbox and marking it read.
Happy to test against a real terminal when this is close.
Will try to work on that tomorrow. Fell free too PR on my fork to this branch if you want to contribute directly, i'll be happy to merge to send it upstream (here, in fact)
The mobile approval page draws itself as two commits on a lane: the logo, then the step the user is asked for. Signing in from a terminal needs the same page for another step, so the layout moves to a component of its own. A pure move: nothing changes for the mobile page, so there is nothing to test-drive.
A terminal or an agent that signs in to the API has no browser to be sent back to, so it can't go through /mobile/authorize. The device authorization grant of RFC 8628 gives it another way in: the sign-in lives in the cache under the hash of a long device code, with a short user code pointing at it, and the user types that code at /activate, sees which key and device name ask to sign in as them, and approves or denies it.
Approving makes the key a device right away, as redeeming a code does for the mobile app: the key proved itself when it started the sign-in, and the user approved that very fingerprint. The decision is kept until the sign-in would have expired, for the terminal to find, and the user code is taken back, so a code is decided once.
The user code is eight consonants from the alphabet RFC 8628 suggests, read however it is typed. Each user gets 20 lookups and decisions a minute, which is where a code could be guessed, and the sign-in expires after fifteen minutes. Nothing goes to the database but the device the user approved.
POST /api/v1/device-authorizations starts the sign-in of RFC 8628 for the key that signs it, which isn't approved yet, with the name the terminal gives itself. It answers with the device code the terminal polls with, the user code to type at /activate, that URL with and without the code filled in, how long the sign-in lasts, and how often to poll.
Each key may start five sign-ins a minute once its signature checks out, so no key fills the cache with codes; before that, the route shares the per-address ceiling of POST /api/v1/devices.
POST /api/v1/devices now also takes the device code a terminal was handed, in place of the code and verifier the mobile app sends, so the one endpoint turns either grant into a signed-in device, as the token endpoint of RFC 8628 does. Until the user decides on the web the terminal is told authorization_pending, or slow_down when it asks again sooner than the interval; a denial is access_denied; and once approved it gets the user, as the mobile app does, for as long as the sign-in lasts. A sign-in that is unknown, expired, started by another key, or whose device or user is gone since gets invalid_grant, like any bad code.
Polls are paced by their sign-in rather than counted against the key's twelve tries a minute at redeeming a code, which a five-second interval would exhaust, and terminals behind one address get a ceiling of their own.
The knowledge base gets the terminal's side of the signed API: what the
user does at /activate, how the terminal waits for the decision, and how
long a code lasts, next to the mobile app's sign-in, so the two read as
one feature with two doors and no token. The product guide counts
terminals among the surfaces of the signed API.
A terminal polling for its sign-in sooner than the interval only got
slow_down, and had to work out on its own how long to wait from then
on: an agent driving it could burn the rate limit guessing.
The answer now carries the interval to use, the first one plus the five
seconds RFC 8628 adds after a slow_down, and its message says it.
This pull request adds short-code authorization for terminal sign-in. The API issues device and user codes, signed-in users approve or deny requests at /activate, and terminal clients poll for the result. It also updates authorization-page components and documentation.
Changes: Terminal device sign-in
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Summary
Authorization codes and API issuance app/Dto/*, app/Services/*, app/Actions/CreateDeviceAuthorization.php, app/Http/Requests/CreateApiDeviceAuthorizationRequest.php, app/Http/Controllers/Api/DeviceAuthorizationController.php, routes/api.php, tests/Unit/*, tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/DeviceAuthorizationControllerTest.php
The API validates signed requests, generates and caches device and user codes, and returns verification and polling details.
Web activation and user decisions app/Http/Requests/*DeviceActivationRequest.php, app/Actions/CreateDeviceActivation.php, app/Http/Controllers/DeviceActivationController.php, routes/web.php, resources/js/pages/device-activation/*, resources/js/components/authorization-page.tsx, tests/Feature/Controllers/DeviceActivationControllerTest.php, tests/Unit/Actions/CreateDeviceActivationTest.php
The activation flow validates codes, displays device details, records approval or denial, and creates or updates a device after approval.
Device-code polling and related surfaces app/Enums/ApiErrorCode.php, app/Exceptions/ApiException.php, app/Http/Requests/CreateApiDeviceRequest.php, app/Http/Controllers/Api/DeviceController.php, app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php, resources/js/pages/mobile-authorization/show.tsx, KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md, PRODUCT.md, tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/DeviceControllerTest.php, tests/Unit/Providers/AppServiceProviderTest.php
Polling returns status-specific API responses and approved-device data. Rate limiters separate authorization creation, polling, and activation. Documentation and shared authorization-page usage are updated.
The authorization test can intermittently fail near a second boundary; freeze time before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to c6950
The flow preserves signing-key identity and requires account-owner approval. However, an interrupted approval can leave a device authorized while sign-in still appears pending or fails. This creates a security-state and recovery gap, not a demonstrated approval bypass.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Approval persists account authority before recording its terminal outcome. If execution stops or the subsequent cache write fails, the device can remain usable while polling reports pending or cannot recover the result. The retained decision claim can also block another decision until expiry. Account-owner approval is still required, but the new lifecycle does not reconcile this partial commit; explicit device revocation is a separate recovery path.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — A successfully approved terminal key inherits the approving user's existing signed-API identity rather than a terminal-specific restricted scope. The independently exposed account is the approving user's account, and the key holder must still produce valid signatures. The inspected flow does not establish cross-account access without approval.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — After a legitimate approval, interruption between device persistence and cached decision persistence can leave a usable signing key while polling still sees pending. Retrying approval or submitting denial cannot clear the retained claim through this action. This is a partial-commit security-state concern, not a verified attacker-driven enrollment bypass; deleting the device remains an available recovery mechanism.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — An unapproved key may initiate authorization, but the request uses the existing signature, freshness, and nonce verification boundary. Activation is inside authenticated web routes and shows the account, fingerprint, and code for explicit confirmation. Issuance has separate per-IP and per-key limits; activation has a per-user limit. Account API routes remain behind approved-device authentication.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The decision action uses a cache claim to exclude repeated decisions and releases that claim when the device write throws. Tests cover conflicting repeated decisions and database-error retry, but use an array cache and do not establish deployed-cache atomicity or recovery after device persistence succeeds and result recording fails.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Make device ownership and the authoritative decision commit together, or introduce a recoverable decision workflow that reconciles interruption after persistence. Repeated requests should recover the committed outcome rather than leave a pending result behind a non-recoverable claim. Validate the chosen approach against the deployed cache's concurrency and failure semantics.
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- Around line 23-33: Make the approval or denial decision in
CreateDeviceActivation::handle atomic: acquire a lock for the authorization,
recheck that its user-code entry is still present, and keep the lock through
device creation, decision caching, and removal of that entry. Set the lock lease
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The page checked that the code was still waiting before the decision was written, with nothing in between, so an approval and a denial sent together could both pass: the key could end up a device while the terminal was told access_denied. The first decision now claims the sign-in, as redeeming a mobile code already does, and the other request gets the answer an unknown code gets.
The limit on sign-ins per key was checked, then counted in a second step, so requests from one key sent at once could all pass before any was counted, and start more than 5 sign-ins a minute. The count the rate limiter returns when it records the attempt is now what gets checked.
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Deciding a sign-in claims it first, so two requests can't both decide it. If saving the approved device then failed, the claim stayed until the sign-in expired: the user got an error and could not approve it again, and the terminal could never finish signing in. The claim is now released when the device isn't saved, so the user can try again.
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Minor · Use a separate limiter for device-authorizations. · api.php:148-153
routes/api.php:148-153 Minor · Security & Privacy · Quick win
Use a separate limiter for device-authorizations.
CreateApiDeviceAuthorizationRequest accepts the extra device_code field. The route limiter checks that field before request authorization, so a caller can sign a creation request with a nonempty device_code and select the 300-per-minute polling bucket. Rotating signing keys bypasses the five-per-key counter and lets one address exceed the 60-per-minute creation limit.
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Update the device-authorization route to use a dedicated limiter instead of the
shared devices limiter, and define that limiter to allow 60 requests per minute
keyed by client IP, regardless of request fields. Keep the existing devices
limiter for polling so a supplied device_code cannot move creation requests into
the polling bucket.
Cover a nonzero unread count in the approved polling test.
Create an unread notification for $this->user before polling and assert 1. The current test does not detect a polling response that always returns zero.
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use App\Models\Device;
+use App\Models\Notification;
use App\Models\SshKey;
use App\Models\User;
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resolve(CreateDeviceActivation::class)->handle($this->user, $this->authorization, DeviceAuthorizationStatus::Approved);
+ Notification::factory()->for($this->user, 'recipient')->create();
$response = signedApiRequest($this->keyPair, 'POST', route('api-device.store'), ['device_code' => $this->deviceCode]);
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- ->assertJsonPath('unread_notifications_count', 0);+ ->assertJsonPath('unread_notifications_count', 1);
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Update the approved polling test to create an unread notification for
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Starting a sign-in shared the devices limiter, which picks polling's 300 a minute per address whenever the body has a device code, before the request is checked. The sign-in request doesn't reject that extra field, so adding one moved it to the larger bucket, and rotating keys got around the 5 per key: one address could start up to 300 sign-ins a minute instead of 60. It now has its own limiter, with the same 60 a minute per address whatever the body says.
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Minor · Freeze time for exact timing assertions. · DeviceAuthorizationControllerTest.php:47
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Freeze time for exact timing assertions.
The authorization expiry is truncated with startOfSecond(), but this test calculates the expected value with a new now() after the request. The Retry-After assertion has the same problem because Laravel calculates the remaining time from the stored timer and the current time. If execution crosses a second boundary, the test can expect 900 or 60 while the application returns one second less. Freeze the application clock around these requests. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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@coderabbitai Fixed the outside-diff device-authorizations limiter finding in c6950f1: starting a sign-in now has its own 60/min-per-address limiter, so a device_code in the body no longer selects the polling bucket.
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A terminal, or an agent running in one, has no browser to be sent back to, so it can't go through
/mobile/authorizeand never becomes a device. This adds the other standard sign-in, the device authorization grant (RFC 8628), next to the PKCE flow of #130: same kind of key, same approval, no token. Complements #563, which covers a CLI running next to a browser.POST /api/v1/device-authorizations, signed by the key that isn't approved yet, starts a sign-in with adevice_name. It answers with adevice_codeto poll with, auser_codesuch asWDJB-MJHT(eight consonants, RFC 8628 §6.1),verification_uri,verification_uri_complete,expires_in(15 minutes) andinterval(5 seconds). Each key may start 5 a minute./activateasks the signed-in user for the code, however they type it, then shows the same card as the mobile page: device name, key fingerprint, account, and the code. Approve makes the key one of their devices right there, Deny refuses it. A guest goes through GitHub and comes back. Each user gets 20 lookups or decisions a minute, which is where a code could be guessed.POST /api/v1/devicesalso takes{device_code}in place of{code, code_verifier}, as RFC 8628's token endpoint does:authorization_pending,slow_downwhen asked again sooner than the interval,access_denied,invalid_grantfor a code that is unknown, expired, another key's, or whose device or user is gone, or the user asGET /api/v1/meanswers it. Polls are paced per sign-in instead of counting against the key's 12 redemptions a minute, and terminals behind one address get 300 a minute.devicesrow the user approves. Sign-ins live in the cache for 15 minutes under the hash of each code, bound to the key's fingerprint; the user code points at them only while nothing is decided./mobile/authorize,redirect_uri_prefixes, the PKCE redemption andCreateDevice.The README,
KNOWLEDGE_BASE.mdandPRODUCT.mddescribe the terminal path.Summary by CodeRabbit