Makes AUTH_MODE=team usable end to end. - resolveTeamContext (middleware/ensure-user/team.ts): a session resolves to a membership in the single shared workspace. No per-user fallback org — a signed-in user with no membership is treated as signed out, so the owner can actually remove people. - teamProvisioning.ts: one path that writes user + credential account + member together (hashPassword from better-auth/crypto). Shared by both entry points. - /api/team-setup (raw route, outside auth middleware): GET reports whether an owner is needed; POST creates the first owner + the shared org, then self-disables once any user exists. - /setup route + sign-in redirect: first run sends you to create the owner. - teamUsers server functions (owner/admin-gated): list / create (with temp password) / reset password / remove. Removal drops membership + sessions, keeps the user row for historical attribution. - Settings gains a "Users" tab in team mode (TeamUsers.tsx). - docs/SELF_HOSTING_TEAM_MODE.md: activation runbook (.env, build, first owner). No DB migration — all rows are existing better-auth tables. tsc / oxlint / knip clean. New teamProvisioning.test.ts (4 cases) passes; suite otherwise unchanged (pre-existing samSkills.test.ts CRLF failure only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Self-hosting with team logins (AUTH_MODE=team)
team mode turns the app into a single shared workspace with individual
email/password logins. There is no billing, no Google login, no email
verification, and no self-serve signup — the owner provisions every account.
Use it when you want your team on one internal instance and need to see who did
what. For a public multi-tenant product, use hosted instead.
What you get
- Email/password sign-in for each teammate.
- One shared workspace (organization). Everyone works in the same projects.
- Roles: owner (you), admin (full access except billing/owner actions), member (research + view).
- Two ways to add people:
- Settings → Users — create an account with a temporary password directly.
- Settings → Organization — send an email invite link (needs no email provider config to create the invite; the link is shown in the UI).
1. Set environment variables
Edit .env in the deployment directory (for the pm2 setup that is
/home/dev/DOCKER/OPEN-SEO/open-seo/.env):
AUTH_MODE=team
BETTER_AUTH_URL=https://seo.thedomainnest.com # the exact public origin, https
BETTER_AUTH_SECRET=<64 hex chars> # openssl rand -hex 32
AUTH_MODE is compiled into the browser bundle, so it must be present when
vite build runs — not only at runtime. Vite reads this same .env at build
time, so one edit covers both as long as the build runs in this directory.
Keep the existing DATABASE_URL, DATAFORSEO_API_KEY, etc.
2. Rebuild and restart
If your pipeline builds on push, commit/push and let it run. To do it by hand:
cd /home/dev/DOCKER/OPEN-SEO/open-seo
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm build
pm2 restart OPEN-SEO --update-env
Confirm config: curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3001/api/health | jq .checks.auth
should report team.
3. Create the owner account
Open the site. With team mode on and no users yet, /sign-in redirects to
/setup. Fill in name, email, password → Create workspace. You are signed
in as the owner.
/setup disables itself the moment the owner exists. If you ever need to reset,
delete all rows from user (and member, account, session) in Postgres and
reload.
4. Add your team
Settings → Users → Add user. Enter their email, name, a temporary password, and a role. Share the password out-of-band; they change it after signing in (Settings → Personal, once that lands) or you reset it from the same screen.
Removing a user drops their membership and signs them out everywhere. Their
user row is kept so past activity still attributes correctly; re-adding them
issues a fresh password.
Notes
- Password reset by email is not available in
teammode. The owner/admins reset passwords from Settings → Users. - The MCP server and its OAuth flow are hosted-only for now;
teamdeployments serve the app UI only. - Rolling back: set
AUTH_MODE=local_noauth, rebuild, restart. Existing users and data stay in the database, just unused.