Update manifest.json for version 0.0.4.0

Dynamic group creation fix on top of 0.0.3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Directory.Build.props

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project>
     <PropertyGroup>
-        <Version>0.0.1.0</Version>
-        <AssemblyVersion>0.0.1.0</AssemblyVersion>
-        <FileVersion>0.0.1.0</FileVersion>
+        <Version>0.0.4.0</Version>
+        <AssemblyVersion>0.0.4.0</AssemblyVersion>
+        <FileVersion>0.0.4.0</FileVersion>
     </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Tests/AuthenticationTests.cs

@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ public class AuthenticationTests
 
         return new SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider(
             crypto,
-            groups.Object,
-            dynamic.Object,
+            new Lazy<IGroupService>(() => groups.Object),
+            new Lazy<IDynamicGroupService>(() => dynamic.Object),
             NullLogger<SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider>.Instance);
     }
 

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Tests/DynamicGroupTests.cs

@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ public class DynamicGroupTests
 
     private sealed record Harness(
         DynamicGroupService Service,
-        Mock<IProvisioningService> Provisioning);
+        Mock<IProvisioningService> Provisioning,
+        StubCryptoProvider Crypto);
 
     private static Harness MakeService(
         IReadOnlyList<User> knownUsers,
@@ -67,6 +68,13 @@ public class DynamicGroupTests
                 return null!;
             });
 
+        // Any known user must also resolve by id, so an existing group can be followed back to its
+        // shared account.
+        foreach (var u in knownUsers)
+        {
+            userManager.Setup(m => m.GetUserById(u.Id)).Returns(u);
+        }
+
         var provisioning = new Mock<IProvisioningService>();
         var createdShared = MakeUser("created-shared");
 
@@ -78,13 +86,15 @@ public class DynamicGroupTests
 
         userManager.Setup(m => m.GetUserById(createdShared.Id)).Returns(createdShared);
 
+        var crypto = new StubCryptoProvider(validPairs);
+
         var service = new DynamicGroupService(
             userManager.Object,
             provisioning.Object,
-            new StubCryptoProvider(validPairs),
+            crypto,
             NullLogger<DynamicGroupService>.Instance);
 
-        return new Harness(service, provisioning);
+        return new Harness(service, provisioning, crypto);
     }
 
     [Fact]
@@ -98,13 +108,108 @@ public class DynamicGroupTests
         var result = await h.Service.TryCreateFromLoginAsync("alice+bob", "alice-pw");
 
         Assert.NotNull(result);
+        // No name is passed: provisioning generates the canonical alphabetical one.
         h.Provisioning.Verify(
             p => p.CreateGroupAsync(
                 It.Is<IReadOnlyList<Guid>>(ids => ids.Count == 2),
-                "alice+bob"),
+                null),
             Times.Once);
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReversedNameOrder_ReusesTheExistingGroup()
+    {
+        // "john+jane" and "jane+john" are the same group. Jellyfin only calls this code when no
+        // account matches the typed name, so without an order-independent lookup the reversed
+        // spelling would quietly create a second account for the same two people.
+        using var ctx = PluginTestContext.Create();
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice", AliceHash);
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob", BobHash);
+        var shared = MakeUser("alice+bob");
+
+        ctx.Configuration.Groups.Add(new SharedGroup
+        {
+            SharedUserId = shared.Id,
+            MemberUserIds = [alice.Id, bob.Id]
+        });
+
+        var h = MakeService([alice, bob, shared], (BobHash, "bob-pw"));
+
+        var result = await h.Service.TryCreateFromLoginAsync("bob+alice", "bob-pw");
+
+        Assert.NotNull(result);
+        Assert.Equal("alice+bob", result!.SharedUsername);
+        h.Provisioning.VerifyNoOtherCalls();
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ANewGroup_IsNamedCanonically()
+    {
+        // Provisioning is asked for no particular name so it generates the canonical sorted one,
+        // rather than preserving whatever order happened to be typed.
+        using var ctx = PluginTestContext.Create();
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice", AliceHash);
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob", BobHash);
+        var h = MakeService([alice, bob], (BobHash, "bob-pw"));
+
+        await h.Service.TryCreateFromLoginAsync("bob+alice", "bob-pw");
+
+        h.Provisioning.Verify(
+            p => p.CreateGroupAsync(It.IsAny<IReadOnlyList<Guid>>(), null),
+            Times.Once);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReversedNameOrder_WhenTheGroupIsDisabled_IsRejected()
+    {
+        using var ctx = PluginTestContext.Create();
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice", AliceHash);
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob", BobHash);
+        var shared = MakeUser("alice+bob");
+
+        ctx.Configuration.Groups.Add(new SharedGroup
+        {
+            SharedUserId = shared.Id,
+            MemberUserIds = [alice.Id, bob.Id],
+            IsDisabled = true
+        });
+
+        var h = MakeService([alice, bob, shared], (BobHash, "bob-pw"));
+
+        Assert.Null(await h.Service.TryCreateFromLoginAsync("bob+alice", "bob-pw"));
+        h.Provisioning.VerifyNoOtherCalls();
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task TheFirstTypedMember_HasTheirPasswordCheckedFirst()
+    {
+        // Password verification is a deliberately slow hash comparison, so whoever puts their own
+        // name first should be checked first.
+        using var ctx = PluginTestContext.Create();
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice", AliceHash);
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob", BobHash);
+        var h = MakeService([alice, bob], (BobHash, "bob-pw"));
+
+        await h.Service.TryCreateFromLoginAsync("bob+alice", "bob-pw");
+
+        // Bob was typed first and his password matched, so alice's hash is never touched.
+        Assert.Equal(["B2B2B2B2"], h.Crypto.VerifiedSalts);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ALaterMembersPassword_StillWorks()
+    {
+        // The first-typed member is only a preference: the second member's password must still
+        // unlock the group once the first fails to match.
+        using var ctx = PluginTestContext.Create();
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice", AliceHash);
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob", BobHash);
+        var h = MakeService([alice, bob], (BobHash, "bob-pw"));
+
+        Assert.NotNull(await h.Service.TryCreateFromLoginAsync("alice+bob", "bob-pw"));
+        Assert.Equal(["A1A1A1A1", "B2B2B2B2"], h.Crypto.VerifiedSalts);
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public async Task AnyNamedMembersPassword_Works()
     {

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Tests/ProvisioningTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Jellyfin.Database.Implementations.Entities;
+using Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Services;
+using MediaBrowser.Controller.Library;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
+using Moq;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Covers shared-account provisioning against a user manager that dispatches password changes the
+/// way Jellyfin's real one does.
+/// </summary>
+[Collection(nameof(PluginTestContext))]
+public class ProvisioningTests
+{
+    private static readonly string AuthProviderId =
+        typeof(Auth.SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider).FullName!;
+
+    private static User MakeUser(string name) => new(name, "Prov", "ResetProv");
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Builds a user manager that mimics the one behaviour that matters here: ChangePassword is
+    /// routed to the provider named by the user's AuthenticationProviderId, so an account already
+    /// claimed by us lands in our provider and is refused.
+    /// </summary>
+    private static Mock<IUserManager> MakeUserManager(List<User> users, List<string> callLog)
+    {
+        var userManager = new Mock<IUserManager>();
+
+        userManager.Setup(m => m.GetUserById(It.IsAny<Guid>()))
+            .Returns((Guid id) => users.Find(u => u.Id == id));
+
+        userManager.Setup(m => m.CreateUserAsync(It.IsAny<string>()))
+            .ReturnsAsync((string name) =>
+            {
+                var created = MakeUser(name);
+                users.Add(created);
+                callLog.Add("CreateUser");
+                return created;
+            });
+
+        userManager.Setup(m => m.ChangePassword(It.IsAny<User>(), It.IsAny<string>()))
+            .Returns((User user, string password) =>
+            {
+                callLog.Add($"ChangePassword(provider={user.AuthenticationProviderId})");
+
+                // This is the dispatch that made provisioning fail in 0.0.3: once the account is
+                // claimed, the call reaches our provider, which refuses it by design.
+                if (string.Equals(user.AuthenticationProviderId, AuthProviderId, StringComparison.Ordinal))
+                {
+                    return new Auth.SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider(
+                        Mock.Of<MediaBrowser.Model.Cryptography.ICryptoProvider>(),
+                        new Lazy<IGroupService>(() => Mock.Of<IGroupService>()),
+                        new Lazy<IDynamicGroupService>(() => Mock.Of<IDynamicGroupService>()),
+                        NullLogger<Auth.SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider>.Instance)
+                        .ChangePassword(user, password);
+                }
+
+                user.Password = password;
+                return Task.CompletedTask;
+            });
+
+        userManager.Setup(m => m.UpdateUserAsync(It.IsAny<User>()))
+            .Returns((User user) =>
+            {
+                callLog.Add($"UpdateUser(provider={user.AuthenticationProviderId})");
+                return Task.CompletedTask;
+            });
+
+        return userManager;
+    }
+
+    private static ProvisioningService MakeService(Mock<IUserManager> userManager)
+        => new(
+            userManager.Object,
+            Mock.Of<ILibraryAccessService>(),
+            NullLogger<ProvisioningService>.Instance);
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task CreateGroupAsync_SetsPasswordBeforeClaimingTheAccount()
+    {
+        using var context = PluginTestContext.Create();
+
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice");
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob");
+        var users = new List<User> { alice, bob };
+        var callLog = new List<string>();
+
+        var service = MakeService(MakeUserManager(users, callLog));
+
+        // Before the fix this threw NotSupportedException from our own ChangePassword.
+        var group = await service.CreateGroupAsync([alice.Id, bob.Id], null);
+
+        Assert.NotEqual(Guid.Empty, group.SharedUserId);
+
+        // The password must be set while the account is still on Jellyfin's default provider.
+        var changeIndex = callLog.FindIndex(c => c.StartsWith("ChangePassword", StringComparison.Ordinal));
+        var claimIndex = callLog.FindIndex(c => c.Contains(AuthProviderId, StringComparison.Ordinal));
+
+        Assert.True(changeIndex >= 0, "provisioning should set a password on the shared account");
+        Assert.True(claimIndex >= 0, "provisioning should claim the account for our provider");
+        Assert.True(
+            changeIndex < claimIndex,
+            $"password must be set before the account is claimed, but call order was: {string.Join(" -> ", callLog)}");
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task CreateGroupAsync_LeavesTheAccountClaimedByOurProvider()
+    {
+        using var context = PluginTestContext.Create();
+
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice");
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob");
+        var users = new List<User> { alice, bob };
+        var callLog = new List<string>();
+
+        var service = MakeService(MakeUserManager(users, callLog));
+
+        var group = await service.CreateGroupAsync([alice.Id, bob.Id], null);
+
+        // Claiming the account is what routes its logins to us; provisioning is useless without it.
+        var sharedUser = users.Find(u => u.Id == group.SharedUserId);
+        Assert.NotNull(sharedUser);
+        Assert.Equal(AuthProviderId, sharedUser!.AuthenticationProviderId);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task CreateGroupAsync_GivesTheSharedAccountANonEmptyPassword()
+    {
+        using var context = PluginTestContext.Create();
+
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice");
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob");
+        var users = new List<User> { alice, bob };
+        var callLog = new List<string>();
+
+        var service = MakeService(MakeUserManager(users, callLog));
+
+        var group = await service.CreateGroupAsync([alice.Id, bob.Id], null);
+
+        // A passwordless shared account would be directly loginable if the provider were ever
+        // unassigned, which is the reason provisioning sets one at all.
+        var sharedUser = users.Find(u => u.Id == group.SharedUserId);
+        Assert.NotNull(sharedUser);
+        Assert.False(string.IsNullOrEmpty(sharedUser!.Password));
+    }
+}

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Tests/ServiceRegistrationTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether;
+using MediaBrowser.Controller.Authentication;
+using MediaBrowser.Controller.Library;
+using MediaBrowser.Model.Cryptography;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
+using Moq;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Guards the plugin's service graph against container-level cycles.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// Jellyfin's real <c>UserManager</c> constructor-injects <c>IEnumerable&lt;IAuthenticationProvider&gt;</c>.
+/// That means any plugin service reachable eagerly from our authentication provider must not itself
+/// require <see cref="IUserManager"/>, or the host dies at startup with "a circular dependency was
+/// detected". A cycle like that is invisible to unit tests that construct services by hand, so these
+/// tests build the graph the way the host does.
+/// </remarks>
+public class ServiceRegistrationTests
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Stands in for Jellyfin's UserManager, whose constructor takes every registered authentication
+    /// provider. Only the constructor shape matters here - it is what closes the cycle.
+    /// </summary>
+    private sealed class UserManagerWithAuthProviders
+    {
+        public UserManagerWithAuthProviders(IEnumerable<IAuthenticationProvider> authenticationProviders)
+        {
+            AuthenticationProviders = authenticationProviders;
+        }
+
+        public IEnumerable<IAuthenticationProvider> AuthenticationProviders { get; }
+    }
+
+    private static ServiceProvider BuildHostLikeProvider()
+    {
+        var services = new ServiceCollection();
+
+        services.AddLogging(builder => builder.AddProvider(NullLoggerProvider.Instance));
+
+        // Host services the plugin consumes, other than IUserManager.
+        services.AddSingleton(Mock.Of<ILibraryManager>());
+        services.AddSingleton(Mock.Of<IUserDataManager>());
+        services.AddSingleton(Mock.Of<ICryptoProvider>());
+
+        // IUserManager resolves through the fake UserManager so that building it forces every
+        // IAuthenticationProvider to be built first, exactly as the real host does.
+        services.AddSingleton<UserManagerWithAuthProviders>();
+        services.AddSingleton(provider =>
+        {
+            provider.GetRequiredService<UserManagerWithAuthProviders>();
+            return Mock.Of<IUserManager>();
+        });
+
+        new ServiceRegistrator().RegisterServices(services, Mock.Of<MediaBrowser.Controller.IServerApplicationHost>());
+
+        return services.BuildServiceProvider(new ServiceProviderOptions
+        {
+            ValidateOnBuild = true,
+            ValidateScopes = true
+        });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void PluginServices_ResolveWithoutCircularDependency()
+    {
+        using var provider = BuildHostLikeProvider();
+
+        // Resolving IUserManager is what the host does during startup, and is the exact path that
+        // previously threw InvalidOperationException for a circular dependency.
+        var userManager = provider.GetRequiredService<IUserManager>();
+
+        Assert.NotNull(userManager);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void AuthenticationProvider_IsConstructedWithoutResolvingUserManager()
+    {
+        using var provider = BuildHostLikeProvider();
+
+        var authProviders = provider.GetRequiredService<IEnumerable<IAuthenticationProvider>>();
+
+        Assert.Contains(authProviders, p => p is Auth.SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void GroupServices_AreStillResolvableOnceTheHostIsUp()
+    {
+        using var provider = BuildHostLikeProvider();
+
+        // The Lazy<T> indirection must not change what the services resolve to at authentication
+        // time, and must hand back the same singletons the rest of the plugin uses.
+        var lazyGroupService = provider.GetRequiredService<Lazy<Services.IGroupService>>();
+        var lazyDynamicGroupService = provider.GetRequiredService<Lazy<Services.IDynamicGroupService>>();
+
+        Assert.Same(provider.GetRequiredService<Services.IGroupService>(), lazyGroupService.Value);
+        Assert.Same(provider.GetRequiredService<Services.IDynamicGroupService>(), lazyDynamicGroupService.Value);
+    }
+}

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Tests/SharedAccountEndToEndTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Jellyfin.Database.Implementations.Entities;
+using Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Auth;
+using Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Services;
+using MediaBrowser.Controller.Authentication;
+using MediaBrowser.Controller.Library;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
+using Moq;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Exercises the whole path a real login takes: a group created on demand by typing "alice+bob",
+/// then logged into again afterwards by each member in turn.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// The other suites mock <see cref="IProvisioningService"/>, which is why an ordering bug inside the
+/// real provisioning code reached a release. These tests wire the real services together and only
+/// stub the host's user manager and crypto.
+/// </remarks>
+[Collection(nameof(PluginTestContext))]
+public class SharedAccountEndToEndTests
+{
+    private const string AliceHash = "$PBKDF2-SHA512$iterations=210000$A1A1A1A1$AAAAAAAABBBBBBBB";
+    private const string BobHash = "$PBKDF2-SHA512$iterations=210000$B2B2B2B2$CCCCCCCCDDDDDDDD";
+
+    private static readonly string AuthProviderId =
+        typeof(SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider).FullName!;
+
+    private sealed record Harness(
+        SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider Provider,
+        List<User> Users);
+
+    private static User MakeUser(string name, string? password = null)
+        => new(name, "Prov", "ResetProv") { Password = password! };
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Wires the real provisioning, group, dynamic-group and authentication services over a user
+    /// manager that behaves like Jellyfin's: password changes dispatch to the user's assigned
+    /// provider, and users resolve by both name and id.
+    /// </summary>
+    private static Harness MakeHarness(List<User> users, params (string Hash, string Password)[] validPairs)
+    {
+        var crypto = new StubCryptoProvider(validPairs);
+        var userManager = new Mock<IUserManager>();
+
+        userManager.Setup(m => m.GetUserById(It.IsAny<Guid>()))
+            .Returns((Guid id) => users.Find(u => u.Id == id)!);
+
+        userManager.Setup(m => m.GetUserByName(It.IsAny<string>()))
+            .Returns((string n) => users.Find(
+                u => string.Equals(u.Username, n, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))!);
+
+        userManager.Setup(m => m.CreateUserAsync(It.IsAny<string>()))
+            .ReturnsAsync((string name) =>
+            {
+                var created = MakeUser(name);
+                users.Add(created);
+                return created;
+            });
+
+        userManager.Setup(m => m.UpdateUserAsync(It.IsAny<User>())).Returns(Task.CompletedTask);
+
+        userManager.Setup(m => m.ChangePassword(It.IsAny<User>(), It.IsAny<string>()))
+            .Returns((User user, string password) =>
+            {
+                // Jellyfin routes this to the user's assigned provider; ours refuses by design.
+                if (string.Equals(user.AuthenticationProviderId, AuthProviderId, StringComparison.Ordinal))
+                {
+                    throw new NotSupportedException(
+                        "A Watched Together shared account has no password of its own.");
+                }
+
+                user.Password = password;
+                return Task.CompletedTask;
+            });
+
+        var groupService = new GroupService(
+            userManager.Object,
+            NullLogger<GroupService>.Instance);
+
+        var provisioning = new ProvisioningService(
+            userManager.Object,
+            Mock.Of<ILibraryAccessService>(),
+            NullLogger<ProvisioningService>.Instance);
+
+        var dynamicGroups = new DynamicGroupService(
+            userManager.Object,
+            provisioning,
+            crypto,
+            NullLogger<DynamicGroupService>.Instance);
+
+        var provider = new SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider(
+            crypto,
+            new Lazy<IGroupService>(() => groupService),
+            new Lazy<IDynamicGroupService>(() => dynamicGroups),
+            NullLogger<SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider>.Instance);
+
+        return new Harness(provider, users);
+    }
+
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData("alice-pw")]
+    [InlineData("bob-pw")]
+    public async Task GroupCreatedOnDemand_ThenUnlockedByEitherMemberPassword(string creatingPassword)
+    {
+        using var ctx = PluginTestContext.Create();
+
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice", AliceHash);
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob", BobHash);
+        var users = new List<User> { alice, bob };
+
+        var h = MakeHarness(users, (AliceHash, "alice-pw"), (BobHash, "bob-pw"));
+
+        // Creating the group by typing both names. Whichever member types their own password, the
+        // resulting account must behave identically.
+        var created = await h.Provider.Authenticate("alice+bob", creatingPassword, null);
+        Assert.Equal("alice+bob", created.Username);
+
+        var shared = h.Users.Find(u => u.Username == "alice+bob");
+        Assert.NotNull(shared);
+
+        // The account exists now, so Jellyfin resolves it and hands it to us as resolvedUser. Both
+        // members must be able to unlock it, regardless of who created it.
+        var asAlice = await h.Provider.Authenticate("alice+bob", "alice-pw", shared);
+        Assert.Equal("alice+bob", asAlice.Username);
+
+        var asBob = await h.Provider.Authenticate("alice+bob", "bob-pw", shared);
+        Assert.Equal("alice+bob", asBob.Username);
+
+        // And an outsider's password still must not.
+        await Assert.ThrowsAsync<AuthenticationException>(
+            () => h.Provider.Authenticate("alice+bob", "not-a-member-pw", shared!));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task GroupCreatedOnDemand_ClaimsTheAccountAndKeepsAPassword()
+    {
+        using var ctx = PluginTestContext.Create();
+
+        var alice = MakeUser("alice", AliceHash);
+        var bob = MakeUser("bob", BobHash);
+        var users = new List<User> { alice, bob };
+
+        var h = MakeHarness(users, (AliceHash, "alice-pw"), (BobHash, "bob-pw"));
+
+        await h.Provider.Authenticate("alice+bob", "alice-pw", null);
+
+        var shared = h.Users.Find(u => u.Username == "alice+bob");
+        Assert.NotNull(shared);
+
+        // Claimed by us, so future logins route here, and holding a password of its own so it is
+        // not directly loginable if the provider is ever unassigned.
+        Assert.Equal(AuthProviderId, shared!.AuthenticationProviderId);
+        Assert.False(string.IsNullOrEmpty(shared.Password));
+    }
+}

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Tests/StubCryptoProvider.cs

@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ public sealed class StubCryptoProvider : ICryptoProvider
         _validPairs = validPairs;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Gets the salt of each credential this provider was asked to verify, in call order. Lets a
+    /// test assert which member's password was checked first.
+    /// </summary>
+    public List<string> VerifiedSalts { get; } = new();
+
     public string DefaultHashMethod => "PBKDF2-SHA512";
 
     public bool Verify(PasswordHash hash, ReadOnlySpan<char> password)
@@ -30,6 +36,7 @@ public sealed class StubCryptoProvider : ICryptoProvider
         // Identify the stored credential by its salt rather than by re-formatting the whole hash,
         // which need not round-trip through Parse/ToString byte for byte.
         var salt = Convert.ToHexString(hash.Salt);
+        VerifiedSalts.Add(salt);
 
         foreach (var (validHash, validPassword) in _validPairs)
         {

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether/Auth/SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider.cs

@@ -28,21 +28,28 @@ namespace Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Auth;
 public class SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider : IAuthenticationProvider, IRequiresResolvedUser
 {
     private readonly ICryptoProvider _cryptoProvider;
-    private readonly Services.IGroupService _groupService;
-    private readonly Services.IDynamicGroupService _dynamicGroupService;
+    private readonly Lazy<Services.IGroupService> _groupService;
+    private readonly Lazy<Services.IDynamicGroupService> _dynamicGroupService;
     private readonly ILogger<SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider> _logger;
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider"/> class.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="cryptoProvider">The crypto provider used to verify stored password hashes.</param>
-    /// <param name="groupService">The group service.</param>
-    /// <param name="dynamicGroupService">The on-demand group creation service.</param>
+    /// <param name="groupService">A deferred handle to the group service.</param>
+    /// <param name="dynamicGroupService">A deferred handle to the on-demand group creation service.</param>
     /// <param name="logger">The logger.</param>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The group services are taken as <see cref="Lazy{T}"/> to break a container-level cycle.
+    /// Jellyfin's <c>UserManager</c> constructor-injects every <see cref="IAuthenticationProvider"/>,
+    /// so resolving those services eagerly here would require <c>IUserManager</c> while it is still
+    /// being built and the host would refuse to start. Deferring the lookup to the first
+    /// authentication is safe: nobody can log in until the host is fully up.
+    /// </remarks>
     public SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider(
         ICryptoProvider cryptoProvider,
-        Services.IGroupService groupService,
-        Services.IDynamicGroupService dynamicGroupService,
+        Lazy<Services.IGroupService> groupService,
+        Lazy<Services.IDynamicGroupService> dynamicGroupService,
         ILogger<SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider> logger)
     {
         _cryptoProvider = cryptoProvider;
@@ -73,7 +80,7 @@ public class SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider : IAuthenticationProvider, IReq
         // a real user with that exact name always resolves first and never reaches this branch.
         if (resolvedUser is null)
         {
-            var created = await _dynamicGroupService
+            var created = await _dynamicGroupService.Value
                 .TryCreateFromLoginAsync(username, password)
                 .ConfigureAwait(false);
 
@@ -85,7 +92,7 @@ public class SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider : IAuthenticationProvider, IReq
             return new ProviderAuthenticationResult { Username = created.SharedUsername };
         }
 
-        var group = _groupService.GetGroupForSharedUser(resolvedUser.Id);
+        var group = _groupService.Value.GetGroupForSharedUser(resolvedUser.Id);
         if (group is null)
         {
             // Either not one of ours, or the group is disabled. Either way this account has no
@@ -96,7 +103,7 @@ public class SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider : IAuthenticationProvider, IReq
             throw new AuthenticationException("Invalid username or password.");
         }
 
-        var members = _groupService.GetEligibleMembers(group);
+        var members = _groupService.Value.GetEligibleMembers(group);
         if (members.Count == 0)
         {
             _logger.LogWarning(

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether/ServiceRegistrator.cs

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+using System;
 using Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Auth;
 using Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.Services;
 using MediaBrowser.Controller;
@@ -20,6 +21,14 @@ public class ServiceRegistrator : IPluginServiceRegistrator
         serviceCollection.AddSingleton<IProvisioningService, ProvisioningService>();
         serviceCollection.AddSingleton<IDynamicGroupService, DynamicGroupService>();
 
+        // The auth provider takes these lazily so the container can build it while IUserManager is
+        // still under construction; see SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider's constructor remarks.
+        // Microsoft's container has no built-in Lazy<T> support, so the factories are explicit.
+        serviceCollection.AddSingleton(
+            provider => new Lazy<IGroupService>(provider.GetRequiredService<IGroupService>));
+        serviceCollection.AddSingleton(
+            provider => new Lazy<IDynamicGroupService>(provider.GetRequiredService<IDynamicGroupService>));
+
         // Discovered by Jellyfin and matched to shared accounts via User.AuthenticationProviderId.
         serviceCollection.AddSingleton<IAuthenticationProvider, SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider>();
 

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether/Services/DynamicGroupService.cs

@@ -116,7 +116,12 @@ public class DynamicGroupService : IDynamicGroupService
 
         // The password must belong to one of the named members. Without this any visitor could
         // conjure a shared account out of two usernames they happened to know.
-        if (!members.Any(m => VerifyPassword(m, password)))
+        //
+        // Members are tried in the order they were typed and the loop stops at the first match, so
+        // whoever types their own name first has their password checked first. Verification is a
+        // deliberately slow hash comparison, so the ordering is worth having.
+        var matched = members.FirstOrDefault(m => VerifyPassword(m, password));
+        if (matched is null)
         {
             _logger.LogWarning(
                 "Dynamic group login for {Username} rejected: no named member's password matched",
@@ -124,11 +129,45 @@ public class DynamicGroupService : IDynamicGroupService
             return null;
         }
 
+        var memberIds = members.Select(m => m.Id).ToList();
+
+        // The same people in a different order are the same group: someone typing "john+jane" must
+        // land on the existing "jane+john" account rather than creating a second one. Jellyfin only
+        // reaches this code when no account matches the typed name, so without this check every
+        // ordering would spawn its own account.
+        var existing = FindGroupWithSameMembers(config, memberIds);
+        if (existing is not null)
+        {
+            if (existing.IsDisabled)
+            {
+                _logger.LogWarning(
+                    "Login for {Username} rejected: the matching group is disabled",
+                    enteredUsername);
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            var existingUser = _userManager.GetUserById(existing.SharedUserId);
+            if (existingUser is null)
+            {
+                _logger.LogWarning(
+                    "Group for {Username} references a shared account that no longer exists",
+                    enteredUsername);
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            _logger.LogInformation(
+                "Login as {Entered} resolved to the existing shared account {Username}",
+                enteredUsername,
+                existingUser.Username);
+
+            return new DynamicGroupResult(existing, existingUser.Username);
+        }
+
+        // Passing no name lets provisioning generate the canonical alphabetically-sorted one, so
+        // the account is named the same whichever order the members were typed in.
         // The account is limited to the libraries all named members share, so creating one at the
         // login screen cannot grant anybody access they did not already have.
-        var group = await _provisioningService.CreateGroupAsync(
-            members.Select(m => m.Id).ToList(),
-            enteredUsername).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        var group = await _provisioningService.CreateGroupAsync(memberIds, null).ConfigureAwait(false);
 
         var sharedUser = _userManager.GetUserById(group.SharedUserId);
         if (sharedUser is null)
@@ -144,6 +183,22 @@ public class DynamicGroupService : IDynamicGroupService
         return new DynamicGroupResult(group, sharedUser.Username);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Finds a configured group whose members are exactly the given set, ignoring order.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="config">The plugin configuration to search.</param>
+    /// <param name="memberIds">The member identifiers to match.</param>
+    /// <returns>The matching group, or <c>null</c> if no group has that membership.</returns>
+    private static SharedGroup? FindGroupWithSameMembers(
+        PluginConfiguration config,
+        IReadOnlyList<Guid> memberIds)
+    {
+        var wanted = memberIds.ToHashSet();
+
+        return config.Groups.FirstOrDefault(g =>
+            g.MemberUserIds.Count == wanted.Count && wanted.SetEquals(g.MemberUserIds));
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Verifies a submitted password against a member's live stored hash.
     /// </summary>

Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether/Services/ProvisioningService.cs

@@ -88,21 +88,32 @@ public class ProvisioningService : IProvisioningService
             members.Add(member);
         }
 
+        // Store members in the same alphabetical order the generated name uses, so that the stored
+        // order is canonical however the members were supplied. Password checks then always run in
+        // a predictable order too.
+        members = members.OrderBy(m => m.Username, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase).ToList();
+        distinctIds = members.Select(m => m.Id).ToList();
+
         var accountName = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name)
             ? BuildDefaultName(members.Select(m => m.Username), config.NameSeparator)
             : name.Trim();
 
         var sharedUser = await _userManager.CreateUserAsync(accountName).ConfigureAwait(false);
 
+        // The shared account never authenticates against its own password - our provider checks
+        // member hashes instead. Setting a random one avoids leaving a passwordless account behind
+        // if the provider is ever unassigned.
+        //
+        // This must happen before the account is claimed below. IUserManager.ChangePassword
+        // dispatches to the provider the user is currently assigned to, and ours refuses the call
+        // by design, so claiming first would make provisioning throw NotSupportedException. A
+        // freshly created user is still on Jellyfin's default provider, which stores the hash.
+        await _userManager.ChangePassword(sharedUser, GenerateUnusedPassword()).ConfigureAwait(false);
+
         // Route this account's logins through our provider. Jellyfin matches providers by
         // GetType().FullName, the same key the SSO plugin uses, and the assignment only sticks
         // once the user is updated.
         sharedUser.AuthenticationProviderId = AuthProviderId;
-
-        // The shared account never authenticates against its own password - our provider checks
-        // member hashes instead. Setting a random one avoids leaving a passwordless account behind
-        // if the provider is ever unassigned.
-        await _userManager.ChangePassword(sharedUser, GenerateUnusedPassword()).ConfigureAwait(false);
         await _userManager.UpdateUserAsync(sharedUser).ConfigureAwait(false);
 
         await ApplyLibraryAccessAsync(sharedUser.Id, distinctIds).ConfigureAwait(false);
@@ -165,6 +176,11 @@ public class ProvisioningService : IProvisioningService
             }
         }
 
+        // Keep the stored order canonical, matching how groups are created.
+        distinctIds = distinctIds
+            .OrderBy(id => _userManager.GetUserById(id)?.Username, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+            .ToList();
+
         group.MemberUserIds = distinctIds;
         group.SyncUnwatched = syncUnwatched;
         group.SyncPlayCount = syncPlayCount;
@@ -211,15 +227,20 @@ public class ProvisioningService : IProvisioningService
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Joins member names into a display name, falling back to a generic name if the result would
-    /// exceed the username column limit. Membership is tracked by GUID, so the name is cosmetic.
+    /// exceed the username column limit.
     /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Names are sorted alphabetically so that a given set of members always produces the same
+    /// account name. Without this, "jane+john" and "john+jane" would be two different names for the
+    /// same group and would end up as two separate accounts.
+    /// </remarks>
     /// <param name="usernames">The member usernames.</param>
     /// <param name="separator">The configured separator.</param>
     /// <returns>A name that fits within the username length limit.</returns>
     private static string BuildDefaultName(IEnumerable<string> usernames, string separator)
     {
         var sep = string.IsNullOrEmpty(separator) ? "+" : separator;
-        var joined = string.Join(sep, usernames);
+        var joined = string.Join(sep, usernames.OrderBy(n => n, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
 
         if (joined.Length <= MaxUsernameLength)
         {

README.md

@@ -81,13 +81,23 @@ On an unrecognised name, it:
 
 1. Splits the name on the separator (`+` by default) — `alice+bob+carol` → three parts.
 2. Requires **every part** to be an existing, enabled user that is not itself a shared account.
-3. Requires the submitted password to match **one of those members'** stored hashes.
-4. Only then creates the shared account, and returns its name so Jellyfin completes the login.
+3. Requires the submitted password to match **one of those members'** stored hashes. Members are
+   checked in the order you typed them and the check stops at the first match, so putting your own
+   name first is marginally quicker.
+4. Looks for an existing group with exactly those members. If one exists, you are logged into it.
+5. Otherwise creates the shared account, and returns its name so Jellyfin completes the login.
 
 Step 3 is what stops this being an open door: knowing two usernames is not enough to bring an
 account into being. If any check fails, the plugin declines and the login fails exactly as an
 ordinary typo would.
 
+#### Order does not matter
+
+`john+jane` and `jane+john` are the same group. Member names are sorted alphabetically to build the
+account name, and the lookup in step 4 compares members as a set, so both spellings resolve to one
+account rather than creating a second one for the same two people. The account itself is named with
+the sorted spelling — `jane+john` — whichever order you happened to type.
+
 #### The name collision, and why it is harmless
 
 `+` is a legal Jellyfin username character:
@@ -165,7 +175,7 @@ Download the release `.zip`, extract it into a `WatchedTogether` folder inside y
 
 On the shared device, at the Jellyfin login screen:
 
-- **Username:** `alice+bob` (the members' usernames, joined with `+`)
+- **Username:** `alice+bob` (the members' usernames, joined with `+`, in any order)
 - **Password:** your own
 
 That is the whole setup. The account is created on first use and reused from then on. Add a third
@@ -177,7 +187,8 @@ If you would rather provision groups explicitly — or you have turned auto-crea
 
 1. Go to **Dashboard → Plugins → Watched Together**.
 2. Under **Create a group**, select **two or more** members.
-3. Optionally give the account a name. Left blank, the member names are joined with `+`.
+3. Optionally give the account a name. Left blank, the member names are sorted alphabetically and
+   joined with `+`.
 4. Click **Create group**.
 
 Either way, a new user appears in your user list and can be renamed like any other.

build.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 name: "Watched Together"
 guid: "aa3288a0-e8c1-43e2-8045-8c3411142a5b"
-version: "0.0.1.0"
+version: "0.0.4.0"
 targetAbi: "10.11.0.0"
 framework: "net9.0"
 overview: "One shared login for several people; watched state flows back to each member's own account"
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ dotnet_framework: "net9.0"
 # Point at the plugin project rather than the solution so the test project is not packaged.
 project: "Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether/Jellyfin.Plugin.WatchedTogether.csproj"
 changelog: >
-  Initial release: shared accounts created on demand at login, multi-password
-  authentication, one-way played-state sync to members, and library access
-  computed as the intersection of the members'.
+  Fixes creating a group by typing "alice+bob" at the login screen, which failed
+  with "a Watched Together shared account has no password of its own".
+  Provisioning set the new account's placeholder password after routing it
+  through this plugin's authentication provider, which refuses password changes
+  by design; the password is now set while the account is still on Jellyfin's
+  default provider.

manifest.json

@@ -6,6 +6,39 @@
     "overview": "One shared login for several people; watched state flows back to each member's own account",
     "owner": "dtourolle",
     "category": "General",
-    "versions": []
+    "versions": [
+      {
+        "version": "0.0.4.0",
+        "changelog": "Release 0.0.4.0",
+        "targetAbi": "10.11.0.0",
+        "sourceUrl": "https://gitea.tourolle.paris/dtourolle/WatchedTogether/releases/download/v0.0.4.0/watched-together_0.0.4.0.zip",
+        "checksum": "f537c5305ac6fcb19024471968759bb5",
+        "timestamp": "2026-08-09T08:59:11Z"
+      },
+      {
+        "version": "0.0.3.0",
+        "changelog": "Release 0.0.3.0",
+        "targetAbi": "10.11.0.0",
+        "sourceUrl": "https://gitea.tourolle.paris/dtourolle/WatchedTogether/releases/download/v0.0.3.0/watched-together_0.0.3.0.zip",
+        "checksum": "56aa6c2e8f12d7404889de8bc253eae3",
+        "timestamp": "2026-08-09T08:49:27Z"
+      },
+      {
+        "version": "0.0.2",
+        "changelog": "Release 0.0.2",
+        "targetAbi": "10.11.0.0",
+        "sourceUrl": "https://gitea.tourolle.paris/dtourolle/WatchedTogether/releases/download/v0.0.2/watched-together_0.0.2.0.zip",
+        "checksum": "0fedb68a0910414518d7dc45f05fd78f",
+        "timestamp": "2026-07-31T07:45:08Z"
+      },
+      {
+        "version": "0.0.1",
+        "changelog": "Release 0.0.1",
+        "targetAbi": "10.11.0.0",
+        "sourceUrl": "https://gitea.tourolle.paris/dtourolle/WatchedTogether/releases/download/v0.0.1/watched-together_0.0.1.0.zip",
+        "checksum": "f703f027db22c0bc348b1cb0cee6bb08",
+        "timestamp": "2026-07-29T22:17:28Z"
+      }
+    ]
   }
 ]