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feat(admin): move a customer's account to an address they can reach (#337)
The third step of the only recovery route a customer who has lost their mailbox has. The first two are contacting the shop and being verified against order history. The third had no implementation, so the answer was a hand-written database edit that left no record of who did it or why.

The thing to say plainly, because everything here follows from it: this operation and an account takeover are the same operation. They differ only in whether the verification was sound, and nothing in the software can check that. What the software can do is make the change recorded, announced, and complete in its effects.

Recorded. The endpoint refuses without a written reason, and the reason is stored against the account. That row is the only thing that tells a genuine recovery from a takeover afterwards, which is why a hand edit was never acceptable and why the field is required by the server rather than merely collected by the form. It is never shown to the customer: it is a note about how somebody was verified and can name things the customer should not be handed back.

There is no column for who did it. Admin access is one shared gate secret in front of a single operator, so such a column could only ever hold a constant, and a constant dressed up as an identity is worse than an honest absence.

Announced, to the address being replaced. If the recovery was sound that reaches nobody and costs nothing. If it was not, it reaches the real owner, who is the only person in the world who can say so, and that is the only reason this endpoint is safe to have at all. Its own template rather than the self-service one, because that copy says to contact us if you did not make this change, and here somebody already did — the sentence would be addressed to the customer who just did the thing it asks for, while the person who needs to act on it did nothing.

The new address is marked unverified and sent a confirmation link. Somebody reading an address out over the phone has not demonstrated they can receive mail at it, and that is the commonest way this goes wrong harmlessly.

Complete in its effects. The move signs the customer out everywhere, removes every passkey, and cancels reset links already sent. That is the conclusion #42 reached for password reset, and it applies here with more force: somebody the system cannot identify asked for this change, so a session or a credential surviving it is one the new owner cannot see and cannot revoke, and a reset link sitting in the mailbox being taken away would let whoever still reads it take the account straight back.

The password is left alone. What the customer lost was the mailbox, so demanding a new one adds a step for no gain.

The verification-email helper moved out of the customers route into its own module, for the reason session creation moved out for passkeys: two implementations that agree today are two that can be changed one at a time, and the one that gets forgotten is whichever the manual testing does not exercise. This path runs perhaps once a year, so it is exactly the one that would rot.

The admin drawer gains the action next to the address rather than among the account controls, because it is a thing done to that field by someone already looking at it. It leads with the warning instead of burying it. The history of moves sits on the same drawer and renders nothing at all for the overwhelming majority of customers, who have never been moved.

Verified: backend tsc clean for src and tests, 526 unit tests pass, lint clean apart from warnings that predate this branch; frontend tsc, lint and build clean. The integration suite needs a database this machine has no Docker for. It also cannot be proven by CI right now — run 917 has been hung since it started and 24 runs are queued behind it, which is the same hang #154 identifies as the source of the leftover Postgres containers.

Closes #337

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-09 16:36:34 -05:00

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import { pool } from '../../src/db';
import { assertSchemaPresent, migrate, resetDb, testPool, closeDb } from './setup/testDb';
/**
* The diagnostic for #154, exercised against a database that has actually lost
* its schema.
*
* The failure this guards is not hypothetical and not cheap: the integration run
* lost its schema partway through, and it presented as 36 assertion errors about
* categories, price filters and favourite notifications. The real message —
* `relation "items" does not exist` — was further down the same log.
*
* This suite destroys and rebuilds the schema, so it restores in afterAll and
* `migrate()` is what puts it back: dropping the schema takes `pgmigrations`
* with it, so node-pg-migrate re-runs everything rather than believing it has
* already done so.
*/
async function dropEverything(): Promise<void> {
await testPool.query('DROP SCHEMA public CASCADE; CREATE SCHEMA public;');
}
afterAll(async () => {
// Put it back before anything else in the run touches it. Ordering matters:
// jest runs these in band, so a suite after this one would otherwise find
// nothing at all.
await migrate();
await pool.end();
await closeDb();
});
describe('when the database loses its schema', () => {
it('assertSchemaPresent says so, rather than letting the suite guess', async () => {
await dropEverything();
await expect(assertSchemaPresent('in a test')).rejects.toThrow(/has no schema \(in a test\)/);
await migrate();
});
it('names the tables that are missing', async () => {
await dropEverything();
// The count and a few names, not the whole list: the point is that a reader
// can tell at a glance this is a missing schema rather than a logic bug.
await expect(assertSchemaPresent('in a test')).rejects.toThrow(/Missing 21 of 21 tables/);
await expect(assertSchemaPresent('in a test')).rejects.toThrow(/items/);
await migrate();
});
it('points at the cause rather than leaving it to be rediscovered', async () => {
await dropEverything();
await expect(assertSchemaPresent('in a test')).rejects.toThrow(/TRUNCATE does not/);
await expect(assertSchemaPresent('in a test')).rejects.toThrow(/#154/);
await migrate();
});
// The path a real run takes: resetDb's TRUNCATE is what fails first, and it
// has to turn that into the schema message rather than passing on a bare
// "relation does not exist".
it('resetDb turns a failed truncate into the schema message', async () => {
await dropEverything();
await expect(resetDb()).rejects.toThrow(/has no schema \(while resetting between tests\)/);
await migrate();
});
// And it must not swallow unrelated failures behind a schema message.
it('says nothing about the schema when the schema is fine', async () => {
await expect(assertSchemaPresent('in a test')).resolves.toBeUndefined();
await expect(resetDb()).resolves.toBeUndefined();
});
});