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ipodderx-rs/docs/users.md
rays 5e95557cbb User admin in the web UI, admin-only log, unread-first OPML feeds
- Settings > Manage users: add an account (password, or none for proxy
  sign-in), toggle admin, remove. Backed by GET/POST /api/users and
  PATCH/DELETE /api/users/{id}, 403 for non-admins. The only admin
  cannot be demoted or removed.
- GET /api/logs is admin-only and the Log button is hidden for others;
  the log names every account, feed and failed sign-in.
- Feeds inside an OPML list those with unread items first, in the
  sidebar folder and on the subscription's page.
- Deploying is now buildx --push to 192.168.1.130:5000 and recreating
  the ipodderx service of the Arcane project content; CLAUDE.md and the
  README's Docker section say so.
- Tests: Playwright for user admin, the last-admin guard, 403s for a
  non-admin and the unread ordering (new Aardvark Radio fixture); a unit
  test for last_admin; the smoke test drives usersModal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0173mGu6rK18Ne7UGTwAaVJV
2026-09-11 12:43:28 +00:00

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Accounts, and what several people share

ipx serves any number of people from one copy of the data. The rule that decides everything else: there is one file on disk per enclosure URL. Two people subscribed to the same show cost one fetch, one parse and one file.

What is yours, what is everyone's

Yours alone The same for everyone
Read, starred, playback position The feed's URL
Which feeds you see at all Its download folder
Keywords, auto-download, explicit, per-scan cap When it is scanned
The file on disk

The right-hand column describes the feed and the file rather than a preference — two people wanting different folders would mean two copies. Those three are admin-only, and the API returns 403 for anyone else rather than merely hiding the controls.

How the scanner merges everyone's wants

One fetch serves every subscriber, so the policy is a union:

  • an item is downloaded if anyone wants it — one person's keyword set matching is enough, and one person with no keywords removes the filter for that feed entirely
  • auto-download is on if anyone has it on
  • the per-scan cap is the largest anyone asked for

So "auto-download off" means I don't cause downloads, not I never see them. If someone else's subscription pulls an item, you see it listed as downloaded and can play it, because the enclosure is shared.

Deleting

Deleting a file deletes everyone's copy. A feed with other subscribers labels the button Delete for everyone and names them in the confirmation, and the server has the last word: if anyone else has starred the item or not played it yet, DELETE /api/enclosures/{id} answers 409 with the reason, and only ?force=true goes through.

Retention follows the same rule: starred by anyone keeps a file, and it counts as read only once every subscriber has read it.

Signing in

Three ways, tried in order of how specific the claim is:

  1. A proxy header naming the user — Cloudflare Zero Trust or Authentik. Honoured only from an address in trusted_proxies. See sso.md.
  2. A session cookie from signing in at /login. Argon2id hashes, sessions in the database, idle timeout session_days.
  3. The shared [web] token, which signs in as the admin — this is what the Docker healthcheck and any scripts use.

A database with no accounts creates admin / ipodderx on the next daemon start and says so in the log. Change it:

echo -n 'a good password' | ipx user passwd admin

Adding someone

echo -n 'their password' | ipx user add sam

They sign in at /login and start with no feeds: subscriptions are per person. Adding a feed someone else already has costs nothing — no second fetch, no second copy — it just appears on their list with their own read state. Unsubscribing removes it from their list alone; only when the last subscriber leaves does the feed stop being scanned, and even then its files and history stay, so re-subscribing does not pull the back catalogue again.

An admin can do the same from Settings → Manage users…: add someone (with a password, or none for someone the proxy signs in), tick or untick Admin, or remove an account. Removing one takes its subscriptions and read state with it; downloaded files stay. The only admin cannot be demoted or removed there, so there is always someone who can manage the rest.

Admin

The first account is an admin. An admin can change global settings (scanning interval, quota, retention, media types, download folder), a feed's URL, folder and schedule, and who has an account and who else is an admin, and read the log, which names everyone's feeds and sign-ins. Everyone else gets the Settings and Log buttons hidden and a 403 if they ask anyway.

ipx user list      # the admin column says who