Authorization for the admin panel and the admin API has lived entirely in one auth_request regex in an Nginx Proxy Manager config outside this repository. That control is real and it works — nothing is publicly exposed today — but it is invisible from the code, untested here, and not reviewed when this code changes. Three things follow from that, and the first is the one worth the change.
An admin route added at a path the regex does not match is unprotected the moment it is written, and nothing in Express indicates that. Anything reaching the published container port directly bypasses authentik entirely. And locally there is no gate at all, so no developer ever sees the boundary being enforced.
requireAdminGate is attached to each admin router rather than to a path prefix, which is what makes it useful rather than merely redundant with the proxy. An admin router added later at some other path inherits the gate; because the proxy only injects the header on paths its regex matches, that router refuses on its first request instead of being quietly public. A 403 in that situation is the boundary reporting that it has drifted.
The gate is optional, and unset means exactly today's behaviour. That keeps local development and all 113 existing admin test call sites working untouched, and means shipping the image before configuring the proxy cannot take the admin panel down. What it does not do is stay silent about it: the server warns at boot when the gate is inactive, naming what is unprotected. This project has been bitten repeatedly by controls that report success while doing nothing, and an unconfigured gate should be a visible choice rather than an invisible one.
An empty value is treated as unset rather than as a secret, because enforcing an empty secret would admit any caller sending an empty header. Comparison is timing-safe over SHA-256 digests of both sides: timingSafeEqual throws on buffers of unequal length, so comparing raw values would turn a short header into a 500 rather than a 403, and a length check first would leak the secret's length.
Turning it on requires the secret in two places at once — the stack environment and a proxy_set_header line on the gated location in NPM. Setting only one gives 403s until the other catches up. That coupling, and the three consequences above, are now written into the README beside the deployment section, since none of it is visible from the code.
Verified over real HTTP as well as in tests. Booting without the secret logs the warning and serves admin normally; booting with it returns 403 for a missing header, 403 for a wrong one, 200 for the right one, and leaves the public storefront at 200 throughout, with each refusal logged distinguishably and without echoing the value it was sent. 8 new unit tests, 9 new integration tests covering every admin router separately — a correct middleware nobody mounted would pass the unit tests and protect nothing. 106 unit and 153 integration passing, lint 0 errors and 8 warnings unchanged.
Refs #63
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds customers.disabled_at, admin disable/enable endpoints, a Status
column and toggle on the Customers tab, and enforcement across every
path that authenticates.
Enforcement lives in attachCustomer, which previously validated only the
session token and its expiry and never read the customer row. Register,
login and password reset all mint sessions, so a single check in the
middleware covers every path rather than three separate ones — and it
means an existing rd_session cookie stops working at once instead of at
its 30-day expiry. Disabling also deletes the sessions outright, so
eviction does not wait for the next request.
Disabling releases the items the customer was holding, in the same
transaction. A disabled account cannot check out, so leaving its
reservations would keep one-of-a-kind stock off the storefront for up to
the cart expiry window for no purpose. Guarded on 'reserved' so a sold
item is never resurrected. Re-enabling restores sign-in but does not give
the items back — they may since have sold.
Sign-in returns an explicit 403 rather than a generic credential failure.
That does confirm the address has an account, which sits awkwardly beside
the deliberately non-enumerating reset in #32; the trade was made the
other way because a disabled customer told "invalid email or password"
resets their password, succeeds, is still locked out, and concludes the
site is broken. The check runs only after the password verifies, so it is
not a bulk membership oracle, and /register already reveals existence.
A reset token issued before the disable no longer mints a session, and no
new tokens are issued for a disabled account — while still answering 200,
so that endpoint stays non-enumerating.
Self-service GDPR export and deletion are blocked along with everything
else, so those requests now need servicing by hand. Worth checking the
privacy policy does not promise unconditional self-service.
Also fixes an unrelated bug the e2e run surfaced: the admin inventory
fired a request per keystroke in the price fields with no sequencing, so
an older response could land after a newer one and repaint stale rows.
Only the most recently issued request may now set state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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