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
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commit 3bec08f998
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@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ type AdminCreateUserForm struct {
middleware.FormDefaultValidator
LoginType string `binding:"Required"`
LoginName string
UserName string `binding:"Required;Username;MaxSize(40)"`
Email string `binding:"Required;Email;MaxSize(254)"`
Password string `binding:"MaxSize(255)"`
UserName string `binding:"Required;Username;MaxSize(40)"`
UserType structs.UserTypeString `binding:"In(,User,Bot)"`
Email string `binding:"Required;Email;MaxSize(254)"`
Password string `binding:"MaxSize(255)"`
SendNotify bool
MustChangePassword bool
Visibility structs.VisibleType
@@ -39,8 +40,9 @@ type AdminEditBadgeForm struct {
// AdminEditUserForm form for admin to create user
type AdminEditUserForm struct {
middleware.FormDefaultValidator
LoginType string `binding:"Required"`
UserName string `binding:"Username;MaxSize(40)"`
LoginType string `binding:"Required"`
UserType structs.UserTypeString `binding:"In(,User,Bot)"`
UserName string `binding:"Username;MaxSize(40)"`
LoginName string
FullName string `binding:"MaxSize(100)"`
Email string `binding:"Required;Email;MaxSize(254)"`