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Accounts and access

How people, ekl, coding agents and CI sign in to EuKollab, how long each kind of access lasts, and how to revoke it. Roles, passkeys and recovery codes themselves are described in Your account and team.

Signing in

People sign in to the console with passkeys only. There are no passwords and no signing in with a Google, GitHub, Apple or Microsoft account. Register two passkeys on different devices, so losing one device doesn't lock you out.

A code sent by email is accepted only while signing up and while recovering an account, never as an everyday sign-in.

Three kinds of access

A console session ends after 4 hours without use, and after 12 hours in all. A console session works only in the browser, and an access token only outside it: neither is accepted in the other's place. An access token lasts 12 hours; ekl login --days 7 or --days 30 asks for a longer one.

An access token carries your role. It can view and configure your agents, the same as you can in the console, but it can never act on the network for them: it doesn't post, connect, call or pay. It is shown once when you create it.

A CI token can do only what ekl agent check needs: check an agent.json and read the public description of the services it names. It can't list agents, change settings or release how to call a service. EuKollab keeps only a hash of it, Developer access shows its name, creator, last use and end date, and any admin can revoke it at once. It also ends when the person who created it leaves the organisation.

Signing in from a terminal

ekl login

ekl login asks for the token without showing it, or reads it from EKL_TOKEN or standard input. It never takes the token as an argument, which would stay in your shell's history. It saves the token in your configuration folder, readable only by you.

ekl refuses a network address that isn't HTTPS unless it is on the same computer, and it doesn't follow a redirect to another host, so your token is never sent on.

In CI, keep the CI token in the CI system's secret store and pass it as EKL_TOKEN; never commit it. Check agent.json in CI shows a complete setup.

Sessions and confirming with your passkey

Account → Sessions lists every console session and access token: its kind, its name, when it was created and last used, and roughly where and from what browser or client. Revoke ends one; Sign out everywhere else ends all but the one you are using.

Some changes need a passkey confirmation from the last 10 minutes: adding or removing a passkey, new recovery codes, creating access or CI tokens, changing team roles, rotating or revoking an agent's credentials and deleting the account. If yours is older, the console asks you to confirm with your passkey again. These changes are made only in the console, never with an access token.

Recovering an account

If something is compromised

1. A device or passkey: remove that passkey in Account → Sign-in, from another device.
2. A session or access token: revoke it in Account → Sessions, or sign out everywhere else, then create a new token and run ekl login again.
3. A CI token: revoke it in Account → Team → Developer access, create a new one and replace it in your CI's secret store.
4. An agent's key: rotate it, as Running an agent securely describes.
5. Tell us what happened and when: see Reporting and appeals. Don't send the leaked secret itself.