* Return specific error on failure to parse Date header
* Add error message when preferredUsername is not set
* Change error report to be JSON and include more details
* Change error report to differentiate unknown account and failed refresh
* Add tests
* Fix /api/v1/admin/trends/tags using wrong serializer
Fix regression from #18641
* Only use `REST::Admin::TagSerializer` when the user can `manage_taxonomies`
* Fix admin trending hashtag component to not link if `id` is unknown
* Allow changing hide_collections setting with the api
This is currently only possible with app/controllers/settings/profiles_controller.rb
and is the only difference in the allowed parameter between the two controllers
* Fix the lint issue
* Use normal indent
* Clear sessions on password change
* Rename User::clear_sessions to revoke_access for a clearer meaning
* Add reset paassword controller test
* Use User.find instead of User.find_for_authentication for reset password test
* Use redirect and render for better test meaning in reset password
Co-authored-by: Effy Elden <effy@effy.space>
Several controlers set quite intricate Cache-Control headers in order to
hopefully not be cached by any intermediate proxies or local caches. Unfortunately,
these headers are processed by ActionDispatch::HTTP::Cache in a way that squashes
and discards any values set alongside no-store other than private:
8015c2c2cf/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/cache.rb (L207-L209)
We want to preserve no-store on these responses, but we might as well remove
parts that are going to be dropped anyway. As many of the endpoints in these
controllers are private to a particular user, we should also add "private",
which will be preserved alongside no-store.
- Only exact search matches for queries with < 5 characters
- Do not support queries with `offset` (pagination)
- Return HTTP 401 on truthy `resolve` instead of overriding to false
* Change featured tag updates to add/remove activity
* Fix to check for the existence of feature tag
* Rename service and worker
* Merge AddHashtagSerializer with AddSerializer
* Undo removal of sidekiq_options
* Change public accounts pages to mount the web UI
* Fix handling of remote usernames in routes
- When logged in, serve web app
- When logged out, redirect to permalink
- Fix `app-body` class not being set sometimes due to name conflict
* Fix missing `multiColumn` prop
* Fix failing test
* Use `discoverable` attribute to control indexing directives
* Fix `<ColumnLoading />` not using `multiColumn`
* Add `noindex` to accounts in REST API
* Change noindex directive to not be rendered by default before a route is mounted
* Add loading indicator for detailed status in web UI
* Fix missing indicator appearing while account is loading in web UI
* Add LIMIT of featured tag to instance API response
* Add featured_tags_collection_url to Account
* Add synchronization of remote featured tags
* Deliver update activity when updating featured tag
* Remove featured_tags_collection_url
* Revert "Add featured_tags_collection_url to Account"
This reverts commit cff349fc27b104ded2df6bb5665132dc24dab09c.
* Add hashtag sync from featured collections
* Fix tag name normalize
* Add target option to fetch featured collection
* Refactor fetch_featured_tags_collection_service
* Add LIMIT of featured tag to v1/instance API response
Previously all controllers would use the single "No accounts changed as
none were selected" message. This commit changes them to read "tags",
"posts", "emojis", etc. where necessary.
In the absence of an opt-in to multiple specific languages in the
preferences, it makes more sense to filter by the user's presumed
language only (interface language or `lang` override)
* Move ActivityPub::FetchRemoteAccountService to ActivityPub::FetchRemoteActorService
ActivityPub::FetchRemoteAccountService is kept as a wrapper for when the actor is
specifically required to be an Account
* Refactor SignatureVerification to allow non-Account actors
* fixup! Move ActivityPub::FetchRemoteAccountService to ActivityPub::FetchRemoteActorService
* Refactor ActivityPub::FetchRemoteKeyService to potentially return non-Account actors
* Refactor inbound ActivityPub payload processing to accept non-Account actors
* Refactor inbound ActivityPub processing to accept activities relayed through non-Account
* Refactor how Account key URIs are built
* Refactor Request and drop unused key_id_format parameter
* Rename ActivityPub::Dereferencer `signature_account` to `signature_actor`
* Add a more descriptive PrivateNetworkAddressError exception class
* Remove unnecessary exception class to rescue clause
* Remove unnecessary include to JsonLdHelper
* Give more neutral error message when too many webfinger redirects
* Remove unnecessary guard condition
* Rework how “ActivityPub::FetchRemoteAccountService” handles errors
Add “suppress_errors” keyword argument to avoid raising errors in
ActivityPub::FetchRemoteAccountService#call (default/previous behavior).
* Rework how “ActivityPub::FetchRemoteKeyService” handles errors
Add “suppress_errors” keyword argument to avoid raising errors in
ActivityPub::FetchRemoteKeyService#call (default/previous behavior).
* Fix Webfinger::RedirectError not being a subclass of Webfinger::Error
* Add suppress_errors option to ResolveAccountService
Defaults to true (to preserve previous behavior). If set to false,
errors will be raised instead of caught, allowing the caller to be
informed of what went wrong.
* Return more precise error when failing to fetch account signing AP payloads
* Add tests
* Fixes
* Refactor error handling a bit
* Fix various issues
* Add specific error when provided Digest is not 256 bits of base64-encoded data
* Please CodeClimate
* Improve webfinger error reporting
* Add database table for status-specific filters
* Add REST endpoints, entities and attributes
* Show status filters in /filters interface
* Perform server-side filtering for individual posts filters
* Fix filtering on context mismatch
* Refactor `toServerSideType` by moving it to its own module
* Move loupe and delete icons to their own module
* Add ability to filter individual posts from WebUI
* Replace keyword list by warnings (expired, context mismatch)
* Refactor server-side filtering code
* Add tests
The constraint was applied prior to decoding, and rejected anything containing
the '%' character, which would be used for anything with non-ASCII unicode
characters.
* Add model for custom filter keywords
* Use CustomFilterKeyword internally
Does not change the API
* Fix /filters/edit and /filters/new
* Add migration tests
* Remove whole_word column from custom_filters (covered by custom_filter_keywords)
* Redesign /filters
Instead of a list, present a card that displays more information and handles
multiple keywords per filter.
* Redesign /filters/new and /filters/edit to add and remove keywords
This adds a new gem dependency: cocoon, as well as a npm dependency:
cocoon-js-vanilla. Those are used to easily populate and remove form fields
from the user interface when manipulating multiple keyword filters at once.
* Add /api/v2/filters to edit filter with multiple keywords
Entities:
- `Filter`: `id`, `title`, `filter_action` (either `hide` or `warn`), `context`
`keywords`
- `FilterKeyword`: `id`, `keyword`, `whole_word`
API endpoits:
- `GET /api/v2/filters` to list filters (including keywords)
- `POST /api/v2/filters` to create a new filter
`keywords_attributes` can also be passed to create keywords in one request
- `GET /api/v2/filters/:id` to read a particular filter
- `PUT /api/v2/filters/:id` to update a new filter
`keywords_attributes` can also be passed to edit, delete or add keywords in
one request
- `DELETE /api/v2/filters/:id` to delete a particular filter
- `GET /api/v2/filters/:id/keywords` to list keywords for a filter
- `POST /api/v2/filters/:filter_id/keywords/:id` to add a new keyword to a
filter
- `GET /api/v2/filter_keywords/:id` to read a particular keyword
- `PUT /api/v2/filter_keywords/:id` to edit a particular keyword
- `DELETE /api/v2/filter_keywords/:id` to delete a particular keyword
* Change from `irreversible` boolean to `action` enum
* Remove irrelevent `irreversible_must_be_within_context` check
* Fix /filters/new and /filters/edit with update for filter_action
* Fix Rubocop/Codeclimate complaining about task names
* Refactor FeedManager#phrase_filtered?
This moves regexp building and filter caching to the `CustomFilter` class.
This does not change the functional behavior yet, but this changes how the
cache is built, doing per-custom_filter regexps so that filters can be matched
independently, while still offering caching.
* Perform server-side filtering and output result in REST API
* Fix numerous filters_changed events being sent when editing multiple keywords at once
* Add some tests
* Use the new API in the WebUI
- use client-side logic for filters we have fetched rules for.
This is so that filter changes can be retroactively applied without
reloading the UI.
- use server-side logic for filters we haven't fetched rules for yet
(e.g. network error, or initial timeline loading)
* Minor optimizations and refactoring
* Perform server-side filtering on the streaming server
* Change the wording of filter action labels
* Fix issues pointed out by linter
* Change design of “Show anyway” link in accordence to review comments
* Drop “irreversible” filtering behavior
* Move /api/v2/filter_keywords to /api/v1/filters/keywords
* Rename `filter_results` attribute to `filtered`
* Rename REST::LegacyFilterSerializer to REST::V1::FilterSerializer
* Fix systemChannelId value in streaming server
* Simplify code by removing client-side filtering code
The simplifcation comes at a cost though: filters aren't retroactively
applied anymore.
- `GET /api/v1/admin/domain_allows` lists allowed domains
- `GET /api/v1/admin/domain_allows/:id` shows one by ID
- `DELETE /api/v1/admin/domain_allows/:id` deletes a given domain from the list
of allowed domains
- `POST /api/v1/admin/domain_allows` to allow a new domain:
if that domain is already allowed, the existing DomainAllow will be returned
* Add /api/v1/admin/domain_blocks
Fixes#18140
- `GET /api/v1/admin/domain_blocks` lists domain blocks
- `GET /api/v1/admin/domain_blocks/:id` shows one by ID
- `DELETE /api/v1/admin/domain_blocks/:id` deletes a given domain block
- `POST /api/v1/admin/domain_blocks` to create a new domain block:
if it conflicts with an existing one, returns an error with
an attribute `existing_domain_block` with the rendered domain block
* Simplify conflict handling as suggested in review
* Change unapproved and unconfirmed account to not be accessible in the REST API
* Change Account#searchable? to reject unconfirmed and unapproved users
* Disable search for unapproved and unconfirmed users in Account.search_for
* Disable search for unapproved and unconfirmed users in Account.advanced_search_for
* Remove unconfirmed and unapproved accounts from Account.searchable scope
* Prevent mentions to unapproved/unconfirmed accounts
* Fix some old tests for Account.advanced_search_for
* Add some Account.advanced_search_for tests for existing behaviors
* Add some tests for Account.search_for
* Add Account.advanced_search_for tests unconfirmed and unapproved accounts
* Add Account.searchable tests
* Fix Account.without_unapproved scope potentially messing with previously-applied scopes
* Allow lookup of unconfirmed/unapproved accounts through /api/v1/accounts/lookup
This is so that the API can still be used to check whether an username is free
to use.
* Change RSS feeds
- Use date and time for titles instead of ellipsized text
- Use full content in body, even when there is a content warning
- Use media extensions
* Change feed icons and add width and height attributes to custom emojis
* Fix custom emoji animate on hover breaking
* Fix tests
* Fix error responses in `from` search prefix (addresses mastodon/mastodon#17941)
Using unsupported prefixes now reports a 422; searching for posts from an
account the instance is not aware of reports a 404. TODO: The UI for this
on the front end is abysmal.
Searching `from:username@domain` now succeeds when `domain` is the local
domain; searching `from:@username(@domain)?` now works as expected.
* Remove unused methods on new Error classes as they are not being used
Currently when `raise`d there are error messages being supplied, but
this is not actually being used. The associated `raise`s have been
edited accordingly.
* Remove needless comments
* Satisfy rubocop
* Try fixing tests being unable to find AccountFindingConcern methods
* Satisfy rubocop
* Simplify `from` prefix logic
This incorporates @ClearlyClaire's suggestion (see
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/17963#pullrequestreview-933986737).
Accepctable account strings in `from:` clauses are more lenient than
before this commit; for example, `from:@user@example.org@asnteo +cat`
will not error, and return posts by @user@example.org containing the
word "cat". This is more consistent with how Mastodon matches mentions
in statuses. In addition, `from` clauses will not be checked for
syntatically invalid usernames or domain names, simply 404ing when
`Account.find_remote!` raises ActiveRecord::NotFound.
New code for this PR that is no longer used has been removed.
* Change e-mail notifications to only be sent when recipient is offline
Change the default for follow and mention notifications back on
* Add preference to always send e-mail notifications
* Change wording
Fixes#17898
Since #17204, the admin API has only been available through the web
application because of the unconditional requirement to provide a valid CSRF
token.
This commit changes it back to `null_session`, which should make it work
both with session-based authentication (provided a CSRF token) and with a
bearer token.
* Fix /api/v1/admin/accounts
Compatibility was broken since #17009 which changed the underlying filter class
without changing the controller.
This commits restore support for the old parameters.
* Add /api/v2/admin/accounts with the new parameters
* Add tests
* Add missing filter for `silenced` status
Co-authored-by: Eugen Rochko <eugen@zeonfederated.com>
Co-authored-by: Eugen Rochko <eugen@zeonfederated.com>
* added OpenID Connect as an SSO option
* minor fixes
* added comments, removed an option that shouldn't be set
* fixed Gemfile.lock
* added newline to end of Gemfile.lock
* removed tab from Gemfile.lock
* remove chomp
* codeclimate changes and small name change to make function's purpose clearer
* codeclimate fix
* added SSO buttons to /about page
* minor refactor
* minor style change
* removed spurious change
* removed unecessary conditional from ensure_valid_username and added support for auth.info.name in user_params_from_auth
* minor changes
* Change design of federation pages in admin UI
* Fix query performance in instance media attachments measure
* Fix reblogs being included in instance languages dimension
* Fix performance of account timelines
* Various fixes and improvements
* Fix duplicate results being returned
Co-authored-by: Claire <claire.github-309c@sitedethib.com>
* Fix grouping for pinned statuses scope
Co-authored-by: Claire <claire.github-309c@sitedethib.com>
* Add `/api/v1/accounts/familiar_followers` to REST API
* Change hide network preference to be stored consistently for local and remote accounts
* Add dummy classes to migration
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Claire <claire.github-309c@sitedethib.com>
Co-authored-by: Claire <claire.github-309c@sitedethib.com>
* Change old moderation strikes to be displayed in a separate page
Fixes#17552
This changes the moderation strikes displayed on `/auth/edit` to be those from
the past 3 months, and make all moderation strikes targeting the current user
available in `/disputes`.
* Add short description of what the strikes page is for
* Move link to list of strikes to “Account status” instead of navigation item
* Normalize i18n file
* Fix layout and styling of strikes link
* Revert highlights_on regexp
* Reintroduce account status summary
- this way, “Account status” is never empty
- account status is not necessarily bound to strikes, or recent strikes
* Add trending statuses
* Fix dangling items with stale scores in localized sets
* Various fixes and improvements
- Change approve_all/reject_all to approve_accounts/reject_accounts
- Change Trends::Query methods to not mutate the original query
- Change Trends::Query#skip to offset
- Change follow recommendations to be refreshed in a transaction
* Add tests for trending statuses filtering behaviour
* Fix not applying filtering scope in controller
* Display an error when an appeal could not be submitted
* Do not offer users to appeal old strikes
* Fix 500 error when trying to appeal a strike that is too old
* Avoid using an extra translatable string
* Add appeals
* Add ability to reject appeals and ability to browse pending appeals in admin UI
* Add strikes to account page in settings
* Various fixes and improvements
- Add separate notification setting for appeals, separate from reports
- Fix style of links in report/strike header
- Change approving an appeal to not restore statuses (due to federation complexities)
- Change style of successfully appealed strikes on account settings page
- Change account settings page to only show unappealed or recently appealed strikes
* Change appealed_at to overruled_at
* Fix missing method error
* Add notifications when a reblogged status has been updated
* Change wording to say "edit" instead of "update" and add missing controls
* Replace previous update notifications with the most up-to-date one
* Add editing for published statuses
* Fix change of multiple-choice boolean in poll not resetting votes
* Remove the ability to update existing media attachments for now
* Fix Sidekiq warnings about JSON serialization
This occurs on every symbol argument we pass, and every symbol key in hashes,
because Sidekiq expects strings instead.
See https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/pull/5071
We do not need to change how workers parse their arguments because this has
not changed and we were already converting to symbols adequately or using
`with_indifferent_access`.
* Set Sidekiq to raise on unsafe arguments in test mode
In order to more easily catch issues that would produce warnings in production
code.
* Remove support for OAUTH_REDIRECT_AT_SIGN_IN
Fixes#15959
Introduced in #6540, OAUTH_REDIRECT_AT_SIGN_IN allowed skipping the log-in form
to instead redirect to the external OmniAuth login provider.
However, it did not prevent the log-in form on /about introduced by #10232 from
appearing, and completely broke with the introduction of #15228.
As I restoring that previous log-in flow without introducing a security
vulnerability may require extensive care and knowledge of how OmniAuth works,
this commit removes support for OAUTH_REDIRECT_AT_SIGN_IN instead for the time
being.
* Add OMNIAUTH_ONLY environment variable to enforce external log-in only
* Disable user registration when OMNIAUTH_ONLY is set to true
* Replace log-in links When OMNIAUTH_ONLY is set with exactly one OmniAuth provider
Fixes#15959
Introduced in #6540, OAUTH_REDIRECT_AT_SIGN_IN allowed skipping the log-in form
to instead redirect to the external OmniAuth login provider.
However, it did not prevent the log-in form on /about introduced by #10232 from
appearing, and completely broke with the introduction of #15228.
As I restoring that previous log-in flow without introducing a security
vulnerability may require extensive care and knowledge of how OmniAuth works,
this commit removes support for OAUTH_REDIRECT_AT_SIGN_IN instead for the time
being.
* Add support for editing for published statuses
* Fix references to stripped-out code
* Various fixes and improvements
* Further fixes and improvements
* Fix updates being potentially sent to unauthorized recipients
* Various fixes and improvements
* Fix wrong words in test
* Fix notifying accounts that were tagged but were not in the audience
* Fix mistake
* Add admin option to remove canonical email blocks from a deleted account
* Add tootctl canonical_email_blocks to inspect and remove canonical email blocks
* Add trending links
* Add overriding specific links trendability
* Add link type to preview cards and only trend articles
Change trends review notifications from being sent every 5 minutes to being sent every 2 hours
Change threshold from 5 unique accounts to 15 unique accounts
* Fix tests
Up until now, we have used Devise's Rememberable mechanism to re-log users
after the end of their browser sessions. This mechanism relies on a signed
cookie containing a token. That token was stored on the user's record,
meaning it was shared across all logged in browsers, meaning truly revoking
a browser's ability to auto-log-in involves revoking the token itself, and
revoking access from *all* logged-in browsers.
We had a session mechanism that dynamically checks whether a user's session
has been disabled, and would log out the user if so. However, this would only
clear a session being actively used, and a new one could be respawned with
the `remember_user_token` cookie.
In practice, this caused two issues:
- sessions could be revived after being closed from /auth/edit (security issue)
- auto-log-in would be disabled for *all* browsers after logging out from one
of them
This PR removes the `remember_token` mechanism and treats the `_session_id`
cookie/token as a browser-specific `remember_token`, fixing both issues.
* Add followed_by? to account_interactions
* Add RemoveFromFollowersService
* Fix AccountBatch to use RemoveFromFollowersService
* Add remove from followers API
* Add tests
* Add security-related tests
My first (unpublished) attempt at fixing the issues introduced (extremely
hard-to-exploit) security vulnerabilities, addressing them in a test.
* Fix authentication failures after going halfway through a sign-in attempt
* Refactor `authenticate_with_sign_in_token` and `authenticate_with_two_factor` to make the two authentication steps more obvious
The addition of authentication history broke the omniauth login with
the following error:
method=GET path=/auth/auth/cas/callback format=html
controller=Auth::OmniauthCallbacksController action=cas status=500
error='NameError: undefined local variable or method `user' for
#<Auth::OmniauthCallbacksController:0x00000000036290>
Did you mean? @user' duration=435.93 view=0.00 db=36.19
* app/controllers/auth/omniauth_callbacks_controller.rb: fix variable
name to `@user`
* Add account statuses cleanup policy model
* Record last inspected toot to delete to speed up successive calls to statuses_to_delete
* Add service to cleanup a given account's statuses within a budget
* Add worker to go through account policies and delete old toots
* Fix last inspected status id logic
All existing statuses older or equal to last inspected status id must be
kept by the current policy. This is an invariant that must be kept so that
resuming deletion from the last inspected status remains sound.
* Add tests
* Refactor scheduler and add tests
* Add user interface
* Add support for discriminating based on boosts/favs
* Add UI support for min_reblogs and min_favs, rework UI
* Address first round of review comments
* Replace Snowflake#id_at_start with with_random parameter
* Add tests
* Add tests for StatusesCleanupController
* Rework settings page
* Adjust load-avoiding mechanisms
* Please CodeClimate
* Fix anonymous access to outbox not being cached by the reverse proxy
Up until now, anonymous access to outbox was marked as public, but with a
0 duration for caching, which means remote proxies would only serve from cache
when the server was completely overwhelmed.
Changed that cache duration to one minute, so that repeated anonymous access
to one account's outbox can be appropriately cached.
Also added `Signature` to the `Vary` header in case a page is requested, so
that authenticated fetches are never served from cache (which only contains
public toots).
* Remove Vary: Accept header from webfinger controller
Indeed, we have stopped returning xrd, and only ever return jrd, so the
Accept request header does not matter anymore.
* Cache negative webfinger hits for 3 minutes
* Add tests
* Fix serialization of followers/following counts when user hides their network
Fixes#16382
Signed-off-by: Claire <claire.github-309c@sitedethib.com>
If a status with a hashtag becomes very popular, it stands to
reason that the hashtag should have a chance at trending
Fix no stats being recorded for hashtags that are not allowed
to trend, and stop ignoring bots
Remove references to hashtags in profile directory from the code
and the admin UI
* Fix issues with POSIX::Spawn, Terrapin and Ruby 3.0
Also improve the Terrapin monkey-patch for the stderr/stdout issue.
* Fix keyword argument handling throughout the codebase
* Monkey-patch Paperclip to fix keyword arguments handling in validators
* Change validation_extensions to please CodeClimate
* Bump microformats from 4.2.1 to 4.3.1
* Allow Ruby 3.0
* Add Ruby 3.0 test target to CircleCI
* Add test for admin dashboard warnings
* Fix admin dashboard warnings on Ruby 3.0
Database serialization failure occurs when a read-replica is used
and a query takes long enough that rows on the primary database
become unavailable. It should return HTTP 503 as it is temporary.
Re-order rescue definitions according to their status codes
Clicking the confirmation link multiple times currently leads to entering
account settings, which can be confusing. This commit changes that so that
it redirects to the root path, so it behaves the same way as clicking only
once in most cases.
* Update devise-two-factor to unreleased fork for Rails 6 support
Update tests to match new `rotp` version.
* Update nsa gem to unreleased fork for Rails 6 support
* Update rails to 6.1.3 and rails-i18n to 6.0
* Update to unreleased fork of pluck_each for Ruby 6 support
* Run "rails app:update"
* Add missing ActiveStorage config file
* Use config.ssl_options instead of removed ApplicationController#force_ssl
Disabled force_ssl-related tests as they do not seem to be easily testable
anymore.
* Fix nonce directives by removing Rails 5 specific monkey-patching
* Fix fixture_file_upload deprecation warning
* Fix yield-based test failing with Rails 6
* Use Rails 6's index_with when possible
* Use ActiveRecord::Cache::Store#delete_multi from Rails 6
This will yield better performances when deleting an account
* Disable Rails 6.1's automatic preload link headers
Since Rails 6.1, ActionView adds preload links for javascript files
in the Links header per default.
In our case, that will bloat headers too much and potentially cause
issues with reverse proxies. Furhermore, we don't need those links,
as we already output them as HTML link tags.
* Switch to Rails 6.0 default config
* Switch to Rails 6.1 default config
* Do not include autoload paths in the load path
* Use ActiveRecord::Result#to_ary instead of deprecated to_hash
They do the same thing, and to_hash has been removed from Rails 6.1
* Explicitly name polymorphic indexes to workaround a bug in Rails 6.1
cf. https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/41693
* Fix incorrect usage of “foreign_key” in migration script
* Use `ActiveModel::Errors#delete` instead of deprecated clear method
* Fix link headers tests on Rails 6.1
Rails 6.1 adds values to the Link header by default, thus it is not a
LinkHeader object anymore. Fix the test to parse the Link header instead
of assuming it is a LinkHeader.
* Fix crash on receiving requests with missing Digest header
Return an error pointing out that Digest is missing, instead of crashing.
Fixes#15743
* Fix from review feedback
An uncommon but somewhat difficult to digagnose issue is dealing with
improperly-seeded databases. In such cases, instance-signed fetches will
fail with a ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound error, usually caught and handled
as generic 404, leading people to think the remote resource itself has not
been found, while it's the local instance actor that does not exist.
This commit changes the code so that failure to find the instance actor
automatically creates a new one, so that improperly-seeded databases do
not cause any issue.
