Google sign-in only worked for people who already had a linked google
row in auth_accounts. Anyone who first appeared another way -- a guest
ticket purchase, or an email/password signup made after the Better Auth
migration -- got a 401 "account not linked".
trustedProviders: ['google'] defeats only one of better-auth's two
linking gates. The second, requireLocalEmailVerified, defaults to true
and refuses the link whenever the LOCAL users.email_verified is false,
independently of whether the provider is trusted. That flag is false for
every guest-booking row and for every post-migration signup, since
requireEmailVerification is off and no verification mail is sent.
Turn that gate off: the Google id_token is signature-verified against
Google's JWKS with issuer/audience/max-age checks and carries its own
email_verified, so the local column proves nothing extra here.
Linking alone was not enough. getAuthUser() rejects any session whose
user is not 'active', so a ticket buyer would link Google, receive a
cookie, and still look logged out. A databaseHooks.account.create.after
hook now promotes unclaimed rows to claimed/active when a google account
is attached, scoped in the WHERE clause so a suspended account is never
reactivated this way.
Also normalize users.email. The unique index is case-sensitive while
better-auth lowercases every lookup, so someone who booked as
John@Gmail.com was invisible to sign-in and Google minted a SECOND user
row, stranding their tickets on the first. normalizeEmail() covers the
find-or-create sites in tickets.ts and door.ts plus the claim-eligibility
lookup, and an idempotent migration lowercases existing rows -- skipping
any that would collide and reporting those for manual merge, since
merging two people's tickets and payments is not a migration's call.
tickets.attendeeEmail still stores the address exactly as typed.
Tests drive the real signInSocial id-token path with Google stubbed by
signing tokens with a throwaway RS256 key and serving our own JWKS, so
the actual verification runs without network or credentials. That also
makes the deprecation risk loud: requireLocalEmailVerified is marked for
removal upstream, and an upgrade that drops it now fails CI instead of
silently locking ticket buyers out again.
Frontend carries error.code through so OAUTH_LINK_ERROR renders an
actionable message in both locales rather than a bare "account not
linked".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
