Fix/user login does not check active flags

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Database query against aaudContext.AaudUsers now checks that the user is a current or future user. Fixes issue where a loginid was used by a separated user, and has now been assigned to a new user. Previously the query could return the old user.

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UserHelper.GetByLoginId now returns cached users directly. Database results must match the login ID and have Current == 1 or Future == 1. The method caches found users for 10 minutes and does not cache misses.

Changes: AAUD user lookup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Filter AAUD lookup results web/Classes/UserHelper.cs, test/Classes/UserHelperGetByLoginIdTests.cs	The lookup filters database results by current or future status and caches found users for 10 minutes. Tests cover status filtering, cache hits, misses, expiration, and null login IDs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 68287

This change filters inactive users on database lookups and limits positive cache entries to ten minutes. The remaining cache-hit limitation predates this change, so no new merge-blocking risk is established.

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 68287

The change reduces incorrect identity selection by excluding inactive database records and expiring cached matches after 10 minutes. The inspected change does not introduce or materially worsen a security risk. Cached identities can still temporarily outlive reassignment or deactivation, but that behavior predates this change.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A stale identity can affect role claims and permission decisions for an authenticated holder of a reassigned login name. Effective access depends on the cached former identity's memberships and the protected actions consuming this helper; the inspected evidence does not establish tenant-wide or environment-wide compromise.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — Reassignment or deactivation after a successful lookup can leave the former identity usable until the cache entry expires. This residual path predates the PR: the base also returned positive cache hits before querying and supplied no explicit expiration. The PR limits that stale-cache window rather than introducing or worsening it.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — PermissionAttribute requires an authenticated identity and forbids access when the AAUD lookup returns null. Claims transformation adds lookup-derived roles only for a found user. These existing consumers do not turn the new inactive-user rejection into an authorization fallback.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Cache lookup, database read, and cache write are separate operations without a per-key transition guard. The base also used an unguarded cache factory and unordered FirstOrDefault selection. Deterministic concurrent identity replacement remains unproven, but no new relative concurrency exposure was established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If immediate deactivation or reassignment enforcement is required, consider explicit identity-cache invalidation or version revalidation, with tests covering replacement identities while an entry is populated. This would strengthen a pre-existing limitation, not remedy an introduced PR concern.

Pre-merge checks · 3 · 1

Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check		The title describes the active-flag fix, but it does not follow the required Conventional Commits format type(scope): subject.	Rename the title to a format such as fix(user): check active flags when resolving login ID. No JIRA prefix is required unless the branch names a JIRA ticket.

Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description clearly explains that the query now filters for current or future users and prevents a former user from being returned for a reused login ID.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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❌ Patch coverage is 88.88889% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 47.81%. Comparing base (f78449d) to head (68287bf).
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🟡 Changes recommended

Indefinitely cached users bypass active-status changes, undermining the login restriction.

2 open findings

• Revalidate AAUD eligibility before returning cached users · New
• Avoid tracking entities in read-only cached lookups · New

What changed in this PR

Filters AAUD login lookups to users marked current or future.

Changes:

• Adds active-status filtering to GetByLoginId.

File	Description
web/​Classes/​UserHelper.cs	Restricts AAUD user lookup by active flags.

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🟢 Approval recommended

The implementation addresses reassigned login IDs and includes focused regression coverage.

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2 resolved since last review

• Revalidate AAUD eligibility before returning cached users
• Avoid tracking entities in read-only cached lookups

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @test/Classes/UserHelperGetByLoginIdTests.cs:
- Around line 77-82: Update GetByLoginId_ReturnsNullForInactiveUser to create a
former inactive user and a distinct current user sharing LoginId, then assert
that GetByLoginId returns the current user’s AaudUserId or MothraId. Cover both
insertion orders and assert the identity field rather than only checking that a
result exists.

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