Two problems showed up while trying to log into the long-lived dev
environment with the dev-fixed code `123456`:
1. `ConfirmEmailCode` checked the per-challenge attempts ceiling
*before* the dev-fixed-code override. A developer who burned past
`ChallengeMaxAttempts` on an existing un-consumed challenge (easy
to trigger when the throttle reuses one challenge_id) hit
`ErrTooManyAttempts` and the UI rendered "code expired or already
used" even though the fixed code was correct. Reorder so the
dev-fixed-code branch runs first and bypasses both the bcrypt
verify and the attempts gate. Production stays unaffected
because production loaders refuse to set `DevFixedCode`.
2. `dev-deploy.yaml` only fires on push to `development`, so the
matching docker-compose default change for
`BACKEND_AUTH_DEV_FIXED_CODE` could not reach the running stack
before this PR merged. Add `workflow_dispatch: {}` so a developer
can deploy any branch — typically a feature branch under review —
from the Gitea Actions UI without waiting for the merge.
Covered by a new `TestConfirmEmailCodeDevFixedCodeBypassesAttemptsCeiling`
integration test that burns through the ceiling with wrong codes
then proves the dev-fixed code still produces a session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ilia Denisov
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