Remote access used to collapse every portal session onto the account that
performed the enrolment. That was the only thing it could do while nothing
here knew who was at the other end, and it is why letting a second person
in meant handing them the first one's account.
`user.portal_sub` is where a portal identity meets a local one: set for the
enrolling superuser at enrolment, and for each person a superuser admits
afterwards through Settings -> Remote access -> Add remote user. The code
they type comes from the newcomer's own portal account, and it is redeemed
against the hub with this installation's tunnel credential rather than with
a portal session, so being let in is not itself the power to let others in.
The account created is never a superuser, which closes the same door from
this side.
A proxy token now resolves through that mapping and nowhere else. An
identity nobody mapped resolves to no user rather than falling back on the
enroller, so deleting the local row under Admin -> Users is the whole of
the revocation: it bites on a credential already in flight, and it does not
wait on the portal being reachable to be told. Telling the portal is best
effort for exactly that reason.
The cost is stated where it lands, in DEPLOY.md: an installation enrolled
before this has no mapping, so its owner reconnects once with a fresh code.
Panels and the health summary still act as the enrolling account - neither
of them is a person, and neither gained a way to name one.
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A screen somewhere this installation is not reachable from asks the portal for
a code instead, and the portal mints its credential — because a token signed
here is one such a device could never present.
Where it was minted changes nothing about what it may do. The panel gate moved
off the branch that decodes a local panel token and onto whatever claims name
a panel, so the portal's and this installation's are bounded by the same check
against the same panel's dashboards. A token of that scope naming no panel is
refused rather than left holding the account it borrows.
The connector marks what arrives on its socket, since that is the only thing
that makes it true, and the approval screen now names what is holding a code —
approving adopts whatever answers, so it is worth a look first.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017F9RnYCJgASuBTcAjxmnsp
An installation can be enrolled with a portal by redeeming a claim code, after
which it holds one authenticated websocket open and answers proxied API calls
over it. Requests are dispatched into this process's own ASGI app, so the HTTP
trigger routes flows install at runtime are visible to it, and the live flow
stream is bridged straight off the event bus.
decode_token grows the third branch its docstring anticipated: tokens signed by
the enrolled portal resolve to the local account that performed the enrolment,
verified against a JWKS pinned at that moment. With no enrolment the branch
raises immediately, so an offline installation is unchanged and untouched.
Disconnecting deletes one file, which is the entire local revocation.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XtBzdDyLsmDaF1W7DLYtYM
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