feat: manage bot accounts from the admin UI, API and CLI (#38966)

Adds first-class bot accounts (`UserTypeBot`): local, password-less
users for automation that authenticate only with access tokens.

1. Admin UI: create bots, filter users by type, manage a bot's access
tokens, convert between user and bot
2. API: `POST /admin/users/{username}/convert-type`, and user objects
gain a GitHub-compatible `type` (`User`, `Organization`, `Bot`)
3. CLI: `gitea admin user change-type`, `--user-type` accepts `User` or
`Bot` case-insensitively
4. Converting keeps the password, 2FA, OAuth2 grants and access tokens,
and since sign-in rejects bots, converting back restores the account.
Only local, non-admin accounts can be converted, and conversions are
audited
5. Session, reverse proxy, SSPI, external source and password reset
sign-in reject non-individual users, so a bot never gets an interactive
session
6. Bots receive no notifications or emails

Co-authored-by: Nicolas <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: joestump <joe@joestump.net>
Co-authored-by: Joe Stump <joe@stu.mp>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
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Joe (Agent) Stump
2026-09-18 12:43:36 +00:00
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co-authored by Nicolas joestump Joe Stump silverwind Lunny Xiao
parent db7dbd5a6b
commit 3bec08f998
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@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ func registerWebRoutes(m *web.Router, webAuth *AuthMiddleware) {
// access token applications
m.Combo("").Get(user_setting.Applications).
Post(web.Bind[*forms.NewAccessTokenForm](), user_setting.ApplicationsPost)
Post(user_setting.ApplicationsPost)
m.Post("/delete", user_setting.DeleteApplication)
m.Post("/regenerate", user_setting.RegenerateAccessToken)
})
@@ -824,6 +824,8 @@ func registerWebRoutes(m *web.Router, webAuth *AuthMiddleware) {
m.Post("/{userid}/delete", admin.DeleteUser)
m.Post("/{userid}/avatar", web.Bind[*forms.AvatarForm](), admin.AvatarPost)
m.Post("/{userid}/avatar/delete", admin.DeleteAvatar)
m.Post("/{userid}/access_tokens", admin.NewBotTokenPost)
m.Post("/{userid}/access_tokens/delete", admin.DeleteBotToken)
m.Post("/{userid}/orgs/{org_id}/remove", admin.RemoveUserFromOrg)
m.Post("/{userid}/orgs/remove-all", admin.RemoveUserFromAllOrgs)
})