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Let a player protect and remove their own account without the manager

  • Status: accepted
  • Date: 2026-11-12

Context

Decision 0008 locks a club or pub display with a manager PIN, which guards every change under Manage accounts, and a PIN for each player who wants one, which the manager sets on the options page. Add account stays open to everybody, so that a member or a guest can play under their own account while the manager is not there.

Everything that protects or removes the account that was just added needed the manager, though. A player who added their account and left kept a working session on a public display, without a PIN, for anyone to play under. The return after a break parks that session on purpose, so a tap brings it back. Their only ways out were to find the manager or to change their password at Autodarts. Decision 0008 said nothing about who sets a player PIN or who removes an account.

Options

  1. Leave it to the manager. Simple, and the manager keeps every change, but it keeps the gap that this record is about: a public display holds a session that its owner can't protect or end.
  2. Open "Manage accounts" to everybody for their own account. The person would pick their account in the list, and the worker would check its PIN. The list holds every account, though, and an account without a PIN has nothing to check: anyone could remove the account of a regular who left it unprotected.
  3. Two exceptions in the service worker, tied to what proves the account. A first PIN goes, without the manager PIN, only to a guest's account, one that was saved at the display while the manager PIN was set, while it plays on the page, so its player is the one at the display, and only while it has none, so nobody replaces the PIN of another. A removal goes without the manager PIN only with the PIN of the account, which the worker checks as at a switch and counts towards the wrong PINs. The popup and the switcher offer each one below the tile of the player who plays.

Decision

Option 3, while a manager PIN is set; without one, every account may change anyway.

  • The worker notes each account that is saved while a manager PIN is set as a guest's (guests of the venue settings). The manager takes such an account on by setting or clearing its PIN under PINs of the players, and clearing the manager PIN ends every guest's account as such. An account saved before the manager PIN is the manager's from the start.
  • The new request protect gives an account a PIN. The worker allows it without the manager PIN only for a guest's account that plays (activeId), while it has no PIN and is not the house account, which belongs to the manager; any other protect needs the manager PIN, as a change of "Manage accounts" does. protectsItself in src/venue.ts holds the rule, and the view of the popup names the one account that it allows.
  • removeAccount without a manager PIN checks the PIN of the account instead, when it has one and isn't the house account (ownRemovalPin): the worker answers pin: "player", the popup asks for that PIN and sends the request again. A request that carries the manager PIN is the manager's and is checked against the manager PIN alone. The removal signs the account out at Autodarts as before.
  • Below the tile of the player who plays, the popup and the switcher show Protect with a PIN, which asks for the new PIN twice, or, once the account has a PIN, Remove my account, which asks for a yes and that PIN. They show nothing else outside Manage accounts, so the tiles of the other players stay as they are.

Consequences

  • A guest who adds their account can protect it and remove it before they leave, without the manager.
  • Whoever plays under a guest's account without a PIN can give it one, and with that PIN remove it and sign it out at Autodarts. The guest who added it is the one meant to; anyone else had to find the account unprotected, which already let them play under it. The account of a regular, saved before the manager PIN or taken on by the manager, never gets a PIN this way, since with one, whoever plays under it at the moment could remove it. The house account is spared both ways, since the display returns to it after every break.
  • A regular whose PIN the manager set removes their own account with that PIN, too.
  • An account that the manager adds while the manager PIN is set counts as a guest's until the manager sets or clears its PIN under PINs of the players.
  • A player whose account is parked switches to it first, with their PIN, to remove it. An option that removes accounts that didn't play for some days, beside the return after a break, would end forgotten sessions without anyone at the display; it is left for later.