Every account created after the first must confirm a 24-hour link
(Lib\Mailer::sendMail(), log-file or MailJet) before AdminAuth::attempt()
allows login, folded into the same generic pass/fail as a disabled account
or wrong password. First user and pre-migration rows are grandfathered;
create-admin-user.php also auto-verifies for lockout recovery.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>