First-time setup: the first login made while no administrator exists becomes it
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Sign-up stays closed (invitations only), so a new server's first login could only be made over SSH with admin
create-root, and an invitation needs a group, which needs a login. While no administrator exists, GET
/clientapi/user/setup says so and POST takes a SetupForm (login, password, first persona): the login is made the
administrator with its persona, and setup closes for good (owner decision 2026-10-16: first come, first served, no setup
code).

ServerSetup is one document with a fixed id, so the first request to insert it wins and two setups at once make one
administrator. A setup that fails before its login is made gives the claim back; one that named an administrator never
does, whoever is demoted or deleted later, and the CLI stays the way back. admin promote and create-root --admin seal it
too, migration _018 seals a server that already had an administrator, and no backup holds it nor does a restore drop it,
since a restore tombstones an administrator made after the backup. Public sign-up, NodeInfo and the instance API are
unchanged. RootUser.SetAdmin is the one place an administrator is made (with isModerator, which IsAdminPolicy asks for),
and the invitation endpoints share InsertPersona with setup.

Tests: ServerSetupTests on the invitations-only host (setup, the race, failed setups, sign-up still closed, the CLI's
seal) and the migration; the whole suite passes (962). In the pasture, decePub's setup and invitation pages pass end to
end.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| What runs in production | **Everything that is built is on and checked by the deploy**, and nothing waits on a person running a command. |
| Geolocation | **The server fetches DB-IP Lite itself** (`GeoUpdater`): it checks daily, installs a new month's databases once they are published, refuses a file that does not open as the right kind of database, and keeps the old one when anything fails. No timer and no root step. The deploy fails if the databases are missing or more than 40 days old. |
| Crawler | **On in production**, seeded with a handful of large servers of different kinds (`appsettings.Production.json`); the deploy fails if `/stargazing` does not say it is on. |
| Sign-up | **Closed: invitations only.** A group invitation creates an account; open sign-up answers 403. NodeInfo, `/api/v1/instance` and `/api/v2/instance` read the same switch (`Registrations:Mode`), and the deploy fails if they disagree. The first login on a server is made with `PrivaPub admin create-root`. |
| Sign-up | **Closed: invitations only.** A group invitation creates an account; open sign-up answers 403. NodeInfo, `/api/v1/instance` and `/api/v2/instance` read the same switch (`Registrations:Mode`), and the deploy fails if they disagree. The first login on a server is made from the client's setup page while no administrator exists (2026-10-16: first come, first served, no setup code); it becomes the administrator with its first persona, and setup closes for good (`ServerSetup`, kept across restores). `PrivaPub admin create-root` remains the way in from the box. |
| Signed-in smoke check | **`@thepra`, undiscoverable, made and kept by the deploy**: `PrivaPub admin smoke thepra` creates or keeps the root `deploy-smoke` and the persona and gives the root a new password on every deploy; the deploy signs in through the real OAuth flow, checks the signed-in API and revokes its token. No secret is stored. |
| Signed fetches (SecureMode) | **On in production** once the pasture passes with it on (Phase 2 of the 2026-10-04 plan). |
| Circles on Mastodon and GoToSocial | **Each member's copy names that member** in `cc`; a member's refetch names the member, an instance actor's refetch the members on its server. Nothing new is revealed to anyone outside the circle. |