Add self-service sign-up and invite links
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First half of #7. Until now the only way to get an account was for
somebody who already had one to create it, and the login page told people
to "ask an admin" -- workable for one operator, impossible for a team.

Two modes, chosen by an administrator in the settings table: invite_only,
which is the default, and open. A third domain-restricted mode was
considered and dropped, because with no email in this server there is
nothing to verify an address against and it would only check the domain
of a string somebody typed.

The default is the closed door. An install that gets a public hostname
before anybody has thought about sign-up should not be collecting
accounts from the internet, and the failure mode of a typo in the setting
is invite_only rather than open.

An invite is a link, not an email. Adding SMTP to send one message would
be a subsystem to run, secure and monitor; the person inviting sends the
link however they already talk to the person they are inviting. A link
carries the team and the role, because an account in no team sees an
empty queue and can be paged by nobody -- that is not a state to invite
somebody into. Links are single-use by default, expire after seven days,
and can be revoked before that: a link that works forever is a credential
nobody remembers issuing, sitting in a chat log.

The uses counter is incremented inside the sign-up transaction and
guarded by `uses < max_uses`, so two people redeeming the last use at
once cannot both get in.

GET /api/signup reports the mode and whether a link is usable, so the
form can say "this link has expired" before somebody picks a password
rather than after. It gives one answer for expired, revoked, used up and
never existed: telling a stranger which it was tells them something about
links they do not hold.

Sign-up signs you in. The alternative is a form that says "now go and log
in", which is the same credential typed twice. login and signup now share
startSession rather than each minting a cookie.

Rate-limited per address on its own limiter, not login's: a burst of
sign-ups must not lock somebody out of logging in.

The settings table grew a second shape for this. It held only durations;
signup_mode is a word from a fixed list, so the admin endpoint now
validates everything before writing anything -- a request that sets two
settings and gets one wrong changes neither.

Still to come in #7: the sign-up and invite-redemption pages, the
first-run checklist, and the in-app integration instructions. The schema
carries onboarding_dismissed_at for the checklist already.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RHPj4ggeFdEjKKfm4SHbD7
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Niklas Ye
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@@ -550,6 +550,25 @@ granting the flag itself. Everybody else works incidents — acknowledging,
assigning, snoozing, resolving, noting — and manages their own account and
nobody else's. An API key carries exactly the rights of the user it belongs to.
**Getting an account.** The first one comes from `/api/bootstrap`. After that
it depends on `signup_mode`, an administrator setting:
- `invite_only` (the default) — a team owner mints a link with
`POST /api/teams/{teamID}/invites`, and the person who opens it picks a
username and password and lands in that team with the role the link carries.
Links are single-use unless told otherwise, expire after seven days, and can
be revoked before that.
- `open` — anybody who can reach the server can create an account, and must
name a team, which they then own.
Invites are **links, not email**: this server has no SMTP, and adding it to send
one message would be a subsystem to run, secure and monitor. Send the link
however you already talk to the person.
A domain-restricted third mode was considered and dropped: with no email there
is nothing to verify an address against, so it would only check the domain of a
string somebody typed.
The first user, from `/api/bootstrap`, is an administrator. Users created
afterwards are not, until an administrator says so. An install always keeps at
least one: the last administrator can be neither deleted nor demoted, and
@@ -584,6 +603,8 @@ on anybody's.
| Method | Path | Who | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `GET` | `/api/signup` | — | Whether sign-up is open, and whether `?invite=` is usable. No session needed: the caller has no account yet |
| `POST` | `/api/signup` | — | Create an account `{"username","email","password","invite"?,"team_name"?}` and sign in. `403` without a usable invite when the mode is invite-only |
| `POST` | `/api/bootstrap` | — | Create first user + API key `{"username","email","password"?}` (only works on empty DB). The user is an administrator |
| `GET` | `/api/users` | any | List users. Open to everybody: the queue's assignment control and the schedule both have to name people |
| `POST` | `/api/users` | **admin** | Create user `{"username","email"}`. Not an administrator |
@@ -601,7 +622,7 @@ on anybody's.
|---|---|---|---|
| `GET` | `/api/admin/teams` | **admin** | Every team on the server, with its member and open-incident counts. `/api/teams` answers "what am I in"; this answers "what is there" |
| `GET` | `/api/admin/settings` | **admin** | The editable settings with their bounds, plus the environment-configured ones, read-only. Never credentials |
| `PUT` | `/api/admin/settings` | **admin** | Change one or more `{"key": seconds}`. `400` for an unknown key or a value outside its bounds |
| `PUT` | `/api/admin/settings` | **admin** | Change one or more `{"key": seconds}`, or `{"signup_mode": "open"\|"invite_only"}`. `400` for an unknown key or a value outside its bounds |
### Alert ingestion
@@ -632,6 +653,9 @@ and was removed in v0.13.0 once senders had moved onto keys.
| `GET` | `/api/teams/{teamID}/integrations` | member | List integrations. Never returns keys |
| `POST` | `/api/teams/{teamID}/integrations` | **owner** | Mint an integration `{"name","kind"}` — key and URL shown once |
| `DELETE` | `/api/teams/{teamID}/integrations/{integrationID}` | **owner** | Revoke an integration |
| `GET` | `/api/teams/{teamID}/invites` | **owner** | The team's invite links, with their uses and expiry. Never the tokens |
| `POST` | `/api/teams/{teamID}/invites` | **owner** | Mint one `{"role","max_uses"}` — the full URL is returned once |
| `DELETE` | `/api/teams/{teamID}/invites/{inviteID}` | **owner** | Revoke a link before it expires |
| `GET` | `/api/teams/{teamID}/escalation` | member | The team's [escalation ladder](#escalation) `{repeat_count, fallback_topic, levels[]}`. Empty levels means the team has none |
| `PUT` | `/api/teams/{teamID}/escalation` | **owner** | Replace it wholesale. `400` for a level with no targets or no timeout — a rung that pages nobody is a silence with a number on it |
| `GET` | `/api/teams/{teamID}/deadman` | member | The team's [dead man's switch](#dead-mans-switch) configuration `{matchers, timeout_seconds, severity}` |