diff --git a/plugins/endpoints/api/agentauth.py b/plugins/endpoints/api/agentauth.py
index 6f23b118..52dcdf23 100644
--- a/plugins/endpoints/api/agentauth.py
+++ b/plugins/endpoints/api/agentauth.py
@@ -9,9 +9,15 @@ and, when the route names a PC, binds the caller through bind_hostname().
   X-API-Key              The shared fleet key (or a collector-scoped managed
                          token). Accepted only while
                          plugin.endpoints.sharedkeyallowed is on, and never for a
-                         PC that holds an active credential. A PC blocked
-                         from re-enrolling has no active credential, so an
-                         older agent on it keeps working on the shared key.
+                         PC that holds an active credential. A PC whose
+                         credential was REVOKED falls back to the shared key,
+                         which is how a rollback to an older agent works and how
+                         the un-migrated fleet keeps reporting; a site that has
+                         finished migrating turns
+                         plugin.endpoints.revokeddeniessharedkey on and a revoked
+                         PC is then refused until it enrolls again. A PC that
+                         never enrolled has no credential row at all and is
+                         never touched by either rule.
 
 Only the sha256 of a credential is stored. The full secret exists once, in the
 enroll response.
@@ -37,6 +43,12 @@ DISPLAY_PREFIX_LENGTH = 12
 
 SHARED_KEY_SETTING = 'plugin.endpoints.sharedkeyallowed'
 AUTO_ENROLL_SETTING = 'plugin.endpoints.autoenroll'
+# Off by default, which is what this site does today: revoking a credential
+# drops the PC back to the shared key. Turning it on makes a revoke a real
+# eviction - the PC reports nothing until it enrolls again - so it is only safe
+# once the fleet is off the shared key, and it also closes the rollback path
+# that revoke + blockreenroll exists for.
+REVOKED_DENIES_SHARED_KEY_SETTING = 'plugin.endpoints.revokeddeniessharedkey'
 
 CODE_CREDENTIAL_INVALID = 'CREDENTIAL_INVALID'
 CODE_SHARED_KEY_REFUSED = 'SHARED_KEY_REFUSED'
@@ -70,6 +82,12 @@ def auto_enroll_enabled():
     return Setting.get(AUTO_ENROLL_SETTING, default=True) is not False
 
 
+def revoked_denies_shared_key():
+    """True when a revoked credential also bars the PC from the shared key."""
+    return Setting.get(REVOKED_DENIES_SHARED_KEY_SETTING,
+                       default=False) is True
+
+
 def active_credential_for(assetid):
     from ..models import EndpointCredential
 
@@ -81,6 +99,33 @@ def active_credential_for(assetid):
             .first())
 
 
+def shared_key_denied_for(assetid):
+    """True when this asset may not report on the shared key.
+
+    An active credential always denies it: the PC has its own secret and a
+    shared-key call for it is either an older agent or somebody else.
+
+    A revoked credential denies it only while revokeddeniessharedkey is on.
+    Today it does not, on purpose: revoke is also how an admin rotates a
+    credential or rolls a PC back to an agent that only knows the shared key
+    (revoke + blockreenroll), and denying by default would silence that PC
+    instead. A PC that never enrolled has no credential row and is never denied,
+    which is what keeps the un-migrated fleet reporting.
+    """
+    from ..models import EndpointCredential
+
+    if assetid is None:
+        return False
+    row = (EndpointCredential.query
+           .filter(EndpointCredential.assetid == assetid)
+           .first())
+    if row is None:
+        return False
+    if row.revokedat is None:
+        return True
+    return revoked_denies_shared_key()
+
+
 def reenroll_blocked(assetid):
     """True when an admin blocked this asset from enrolling again."""
     from ..models import EndpointCredential
@@ -130,8 +175,7 @@ def shared_key_refused_for(hostname):
     """True when the shared key may not report for this hostname."""
     if not shared_key_allowed():
         return True
-    assetid = resolve_hostname(hostname)
-    return assetid is not None and active_credential_for(assetid) is not None
+    return shared_key_denied_for(resolve_hostname(hostname))
 
 
 def credential_invalid_response():
@@ -148,6 +192,20 @@ def shared_key_refused_response():
         http_code=401)
 
 
+def shared_key_revoked_response():
+    """Same code and status; the operator needs to know which refusal it is.
+
+    The PC holds no credential and cannot use the shared key either, so an
+    admin has to let it enroll again. Nothing changes for the agent, which
+    keeps retrying either way.
+    """
+    return error_response(
+        CODE_SHARED_KEY_REFUSED,
+        'This endpoint had its credential revoked, so the shared key is not '
+        'accepted for it; let it enroll again',
+        http_code=401)
+
+
 def asset_mismatch_response():
     return error_response(
         CODE_ASSET_MISMATCH,
@@ -210,7 +268,8 @@ def bind_hostname(hostname):
     ASSET_MISMATCH, a hostname on no computer record at all is refused with the
     same code but its own message, and a missing hostname is fine.
     Shared key: the hostname's asset (None when absent or unknown, for the
-    route to answer); an enrolled PC is refused.
+    route to answer); an enrolled PC is refused, and so is one whose credential
+    was revoked while revokeddeniessharedkey is on.
     """
     hostname = (hostname or '').strip()
     if is_credential_caller():
@@ -225,7 +284,9 @@ def bind_hostname(hostname):
     if not hostname:
         return None, None
     assetid = resolve_hostname(hostname)
-    if assetid is not None and active_credential_for(assetid) is not None:
+    if shared_key_denied_for(assetid):
+        if active_credential_for(assetid) is None:
+            return None, shared_key_revoked_response()
         return None, shared_key_refused_response()
     g.agentassetid = assetid
     return assetid, None
diff --git a/plugins/endpoints/api/enrollment.py b/plugins/endpoints/api/enrollment.py
index 972d6ebd..cf4e3ee9 100644
--- a/plugins/endpoints/api/enrollment.py
+++ b/plugins/endpoints/api/enrollment.py
@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ ENROLL_RATELIMIT_WINDOW_SECONDS = 60
 PENDING_CAP_SETTING = 'plugin.endpoints.maxpendingenrollments'
 DEFAULT_PENDING_CAP = 500
 
+# How long a pending request may go untouched before the cap treats it as
+# abandoned. An agent waiting for approval re-asks about once a minute, so a row
+# nothing has touched for a week is a PC that was re-imaged, renamed or scrapped,
+# or a junk row somebody wrote at the open door. At the cap those are dropped to
+# make room before a PC nobody has seen before is refused, so a queue that filled
+# with abandoned rows drains itself instead of blocking every new PC on site.
+PENDING_STALE_AFTER = timedelta(days=7)
+
 _NONCE_PATTERN = re.compile(r'^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{32,128}$')
 
 REASON_UNKNOWN_HOSTNAME = 'unknown hostname'
@@ -265,6 +273,38 @@ def _pending_queue_is_full():
     return pending >= cap
 
 
+def _drop_stale_pending():
+    """Delete pending requests nothing has touched in PENDING_STALE_AFTER.
+
+    Only PENDING rows: an admin decision (approved, rejected, issued) is never
+    aged out, so a rejection keeps standing however long the PC argues with it.
+    Returns how many rows went, for the caller to decide whether the cap is
+    still reached.
+    """
+    cutoff = _naive_utcnow() - PENDING_STALE_AFTER
+    stale = (EndpointEnrollRequest.query
+             .filter(EndpointEnrollRequest.status
+                     == EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_PENDING,
+                     EndpointEnrollRequest.lastseenat < cutoff)
+             .order_by(EndpointEnrollRequest.lastseenat.asc())
+             .all())
+    if not stale:
+        return 0
+    for row in stale:
+        db.session.delete(row)
+    current_app.logger.info(
+        'endpoint enroll: aged out %d pending requests untouched for %d days',
+        len(stale), PENDING_STALE_AFTER.days)
+    AuditLog.log(
+        'deleted', 'EndpointEnrollRequest',
+        entityname=stale[0].hostname,
+        details='aged out {0} pending enroll requests untouched for {1} '
+                'days, to make room under the pending cap'.format(
+                    len(stale), PENDING_STALE_AFTER.days))
+    db.session.commit()
+    return len(stale)
+
+
 def _pending_queue_full_response(hostname, serialnumber):
     """Refuse a new row, say so plainly in the log and leave an audit trail."""
     cap = pending_cap()
@@ -349,15 +389,42 @@ def enroll_endpoint():
 
     if row is None:
         # First contact for this hostname and serial. This is the only branch
-        # that grows the table, so it is the only one the cap guards.
+        # that grows the table, so it is the only one the cap guards. Every
+        # other contact reuses the one row this identity already owns, which is
+        # what keeps a single PC from holding a queue's worth of them.
         if _pending_queue_is_full():
-            return _pending_queue_full_response(hostname, serialnumber)
+            # Abandoned rows come out before a real PC is turned away.
+            _drop_stale_pending()
+            if _pending_queue_is_full():
+                return _pending_queue_full_response(hostname, serialnumber)
         row = EndpointEnrollRequest(
             hostname=hostname, serialnumber=serialnumber, enrollnonce=nonce,
             status=EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_PENDING, requestedat=now)
         db.session.add(row)
     else:
         samenonce = hmac.compare_digest(row.enrollnonce, nonce)
+        if row.status == EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_REJECTED:
+            # A rejection binds to the IDENTITY - this hostname and serial - not
+            # to the nonce it was rejected with. A new installation on the same
+            # PC brings a new nonce, and re-arming the row on it would put the
+            # request back in the queue and, with the shared key and auto-enroll
+            # on, hand the retry the credential an admin had just refused.
+            # Nothing the PC sends clears a rejection; an admin approving the
+            # request does.
+            #
+            # The nonce is still recorded, because a rejected row hands nothing
+            # out and an admin who does approve it later has to bind that
+            # approval to the installation asking NOW, not to the one that was
+            # refused weeks ago.
+            row.enrollnonce = nonce
+            row.lastseenat = now
+            row.sourceip = sourceip
+            if agentversion:
+                row.agentversion = agentversion
+            db.session.commit()
+            return success_response(
+                {'status': 'pending', 'requestid': row.requestid,
+                 'reason': REASON_REJECTED}, http_code=202)
         if row.status == EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_APPROVED:
             row.lastseenat = now
             row.sourceip = sourceip
@@ -380,16 +447,10 @@ def enroll_endpoint():
             row.lastseenat = now
             row.sourceip = sourceip
             return _pending(row, REASON_NONCE_CHANGED, row.matchedassetid)
-        if row.status == EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_REJECTED and samenonce:
-            row.lastseenat = now
-            row.sourceip = sourceip
-            db.session.commit()
-            return success_response(
-                {'status': 'pending', 'requestid': row.requestid,
-                 'reason': REASON_REJECTED}, http_code=202)
         if row.status != EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_PENDING:
-            # Issued earlier (credential since revoked) or rejected for another
-            # installation: a new enrollment cycle bound to this nonce.
+            # Issued earlier and the credential has since been revoked: a new
+            # enrollment cycle bound to this nonce. Rejected rows never reach
+            # here - they returned above, whatever nonce they carried.
             row.enrollnonce = nonce
             row.requestedat = now
             row.decidedat = None
@@ -574,6 +635,7 @@ def _page(rows):
 def _settings_payload():
     return {'sharedkeyallowed': agentauth.shared_key_allowed(),
             'autoenroll': agentauth.auto_enroll_enabled(),
+            'revokeddeniessharedkey': agentauth.revoked_denies_shared_key(),
             'maxpendingenrollments': pending_cap()}
 
 
@@ -667,6 +729,11 @@ def approve_enroll_request(requestid):
     The pending reason for a one-off PC is by definition `unknown hostname`, so
     this is the normal case, not the exception.
 
+    Approving is also the only way out of a rejection: a rejected request keeps
+    refusing its PC whatever nonce it sends, and this is the deliberate admin
+    step that lifts it. The approval binds to the nonce of that PC's most recent
+    contact, so an agent reinstalled while it was refused still collects it.
+
     Body: {"assetid": 123, "sethostname": false}. A computer with no hostname
     is stamped with the request's. A computer carrying a DIFFERENT hostname is
     refused with 409 naming both, until the caller repeats the approval with
@@ -734,6 +801,7 @@ def approve_enroll_request(requestid):
                      details='hostname {0} from enroll request {1}'.format(
                          hostnameresult, row.requestid))
 
+    wasrejected = row.status == EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_REJECTED
     row.status = EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_APPROVED
     row.matchedassetid = assetid
     row.reason = None
@@ -741,8 +809,9 @@ def approve_enroll_request(requestid):
     row.decidedby = _username()
     AuditLog.log('updated', 'EndpointEnrollRequest', entityid=row.requestid,
                  entityname=row.hostname,
-                 details='enroll request approved for asset {0}, hostname {1}'
-                         .format(assetid, hostnameresult))
+                 details='enroll request {0} for asset {1}, hostname {2}'
+                         .format('approved out of a rejection' if wasrejected
+                                 else 'approved', assetid, hostnameresult))
     db.session.commit()
     approved = row.to_dict()
     approved['hostnameresult'] = hostnameresult
@@ -780,6 +849,11 @@ def revoke_endpoint_credential(assetid):
     before rolling a PC back to an agent that only knows the shared key: without
     it the current agent re-enrolls within seconds and the older agent is then
     refused. A PC whose credential is already revoked can still be blocked.
+
+    Whether a revoked PC may still report on the shared key is the site setting
+    plugin.endpoints.revokeddeniessharedkey. It is off here, so today it can -
+    which is what makes the rollback above work, and what keeps a rotation from
+    silencing the PC while it waits for approval.
     """
     payload = request.get_json(silent=True) or {}
     if not isinstance(payload, dict):
@@ -853,12 +927,24 @@ def allow_endpoint_reenroll(assetid):
 @endpoints_bp.route('/enrollment/settings', methods=['PUT'])
 @require_role('admin')
 def update_enrollment_settings():
+    """Change the enrollment settings.
+
+    revokeddeniessharedkey is off by default, which is what the fleet does
+    today: a PC whose credential was revoked falls back to the shared key, so a
+    credential rotation, and the rollback to an older agent that revoke +
+    blockreenroll exists for, both keep reporting. Turning it on makes a revoke
+    an eviction - that PC reports nothing until it is allowed to enroll again -
+    and is only safe once every PC here holds its own credential.
+    """
     from shopdb.api import Setting
 
     payload = request.get_json(silent=True) or {}
     changes = {}
-    for key, settingkey in (('sharedkeyallowed', agentauth.SHARED_KEY_SETTING),
-                            ('autoenroll', agentauth.AUTO_ENROLL_SETTING)):
+    for key, settingkey in (
+            ('sharedkeyallowed', agentauth.SHARED_KEY_SETTING),
+            ('autoenroll', agentauth.AUTO_ENROLL_SETTING),
+            ('revokeddeniessharedkey',
+             agentauth.REVOKED_DENIES_SHARED_KEY_SETTING)):
         if key not in payload:
             continue
         if not isinstance(payload[key], bool):
@@ -878,7 +964,8 @@ def update_enrollment_settings():
     if not changes:
         return error_response(
             ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
-            'Send sharedkeyallowed, autoenroll and/or maxpendingenrollments')
+            'Send sharedkeyallowed, autoenroll, revokeddeniessharedkey '
+            'and/or maxpendingenrollments')
 
     before = _settings_payload()
     for key, (settingkey, value, valuetype) in changes.items():
diff --git a/plugins/endpoints/frontend/views/EnrollmentSettings.vue b/plugins/endpoints/frontend/views/EnrollmentSettings.vue
index d0da4eca..0915b6c0 100644
--- a/plugins/endpoints/frontend/views/EnrollmentSettings.vue
+++ b/plugins/endpoints/frontend/views/EnrollmentSettings.vue
@@ -229,6 +229,27 @@
             on record matches. Anything else waits below for an admin.
           </span>
         </label>
+        <label class="checkbox-row">
+          <input
+            type="checkbox"
+            class="toggle-revokeddenies"
+            :checked="enrollmentSettings.revokeddeniessharedkey"
+            :disabled="!isadmin || busy"
+            @change="onRevokedDeniesToggle($event)"
+          />
+          <span>
+            <strong>A revoked PC loses the shared key too.</strong> (setting
+            <code>plugin.endpoints.revokeddeniessharedkey</code>) Off by
+            default, which is what the fleet does today: a PC whose credential
+            was revoked falls back to the shared key and keeps reporting, so a
+            credential rotation does not strand it. Turn this on and a revoke
+            becomes an eviction - that PC reports nothing and receives no
+            commands until it enrolls again - and the documented rollback of
+            revoke plus block re-enrollment onto an older agent that only knows
+            the shared key stops working. Only safe once every PC here is
+            enrolled.
+          </span>
+        </label>
         <label class="number-row">
           <span>
             <strong>Pending request limit.</strong> How many requests may wait
@@ -670,6 +691,9 @@ const DEFAULT_PENDING_CAP = 500
 const enrollmentSettings = ref({
   sharedkeyallowed: true,
   autoenroll: true,
+  // Matches the seeded default (plugin.endpoints.revokeddeniessharedkey is
+  // false), so the box renders unchecked before the first read lands.
+  revokeddeniessharedkey: false,
   maxpendingenrollments: DEFAULT_PENDING_CAP
 })
 // Bound with v-model rather than :value so the field holds what the operator
@@ -697,6 +721,8 @@ async function loadEnrollment({ quiet = false } = {}) {
     enrollmentSettings.value = {
       sharedkeyallowed: data.settings?.sharedkeyallowed !== false,
       autoenroll: data.settings?.autoenroll !== false,
+      // Opt-in, so anything but an explicit true reads as off.
+      revokeddeniessharedkey: data.settings?.revokeddeniessharedkey === true,
       maxpendingenrollments: Number.isFinite(Number(data.settings?.maxpendingenrollments))
         ? Number(data.settings.maxpendingenrollments)
         : DEFAULT_PENDING_CAP
@@ -771,6 +797,26 @@ function onAutoEnrollToggle(event) {
   })
 }
 
+function onRevokedDeniesToggle(event) {
+  const turningOn = event.target.checked
+  if (turningOn) {
+    // Typed confirm, like the shared-key switch: this one silences PCs that
+    // are reporting right now, and the revoke-plus-rollback recipe in the
+    // runbook stops working the moment it is on.
+    const answer = prompt(
+      'Deny the shared key to revoked PCs?\n\n'
+      + 'Any PC whose credential was revoked stops reporting and stops '
+      + 'receiving commands until it enrolls again. The revoke + block '
+      + 're-enrollment rollback onto an older agent no longer works.\n\n'
+      + 'Type DENY to confirm.')
+    if (!answer || answer.trim().toUpperCase() !== 'DENY') {
+      event.target.checked = false
+      return
+    }
+  }
+  return saveSettings({ revokeddeniessharedkey: turningOn })
+}
+
 function onPendingCapChange() {
   const wanted = Math.trunc(Number(pendingCapInput.value))
   if (!Number.isFinite(wanted) || wanted < 0) {
diff --git a/plugins/endpoints/models/credential.py b/plugins/endpoints/models/credential.py
index 93c7753f..f573e704 100644
--- a/plugins/endpoints/models/credential.py
+++ b/plugins/endpoints/models/credential.py
@@ -4,16 +4,25 @@
                  One row per asset. Holds only the sha256 of the secret the
                  agent was issued, plus a short display prefix. Revoking sets
                  revokedat; re-issuing after a revoke UPDATES the same row, so
-                 an asset never carries two credentials. reenrollblocked keeps
+                 an asset never carries two credentials. The row therefore also
+                 says that this PC has enrolled at least once, which is how
+                 agentauth tells a revoked PC from one that never enrolled:
+                 plugin.endpoints.revokeddeniessharedkey refuses the shared key
+                 to the first and never to the second. reenrollblocked keeps
                  a revoked PC from enrolling again (rolling it back to an agent
                  that only knows the shared key, or a compromised PC) until an
                  admin allows it.
 
   EndpointEnrollRequest
-                 One row per (hostname, serial number) that asked to enroll. The
-                 agent's enrollment nonce is recorded on first sight and is what
-                 an admin approval is bound to, so a second machine claiming the
-                 same hostname and serial cannot collect the approved credential.
+                 One row per (hostname, serial number) that asked to enroll -
+                 the endpoint's identity, and the reason every contact from one
+                 PC lands on one row. The agent's enrollment nonce is recorded
+                 on first sight and is what an admin approval is bound to, so a
+                 second machine claiming the same hostname and serial cannot
+                 collect the approved credential. A REJECTED row binds to the
+                 identity instead: any nonce from that hostname and serial stays
+                 rejected, so a reinstall cannot argue its way back into the
+                 queue. Only an admin approving the request clears it.
 
   EndpointMigrationWave
                  An admin action that pushed the agent upgrade to a set of PCs.
diff --git a/tests/test_plugins/test_endpoints_credentials.py b/tests/test_plugins/test_endpoints_credentials.py
index dc888486..ed4f8f3d 100644
--- a/tests/test_plugins/test_endpoints_credentials.py
+++ b/tests/test_plugins/test_endpoints_credentials.py
@@ -689,6 +689,7 @@ def test_enrollment_listing_and_settings(client, db, app, keyheaders,
     body = response.get_json()
     data = body['data']
     assert data['settings'] == {'sharedkeyallowed': True, 'autoenroll': True,
+                                'revokeddeniessharedkey': False,
                                 'maxpendingenrollments': 500}
     assert data['counts'] == {'enrolled': 1, 'notenrolled': 1,
                               'pendingcomputers': 1, 'pending': 1}
@@ -711,6 +712,7 @@ def test_enrollment_listing_and_settings(client, db, app, keyheaders,
     assert put.status_code == 200
     assert put.get_json()['data'] == {'sharedkeyallowed': False,
                                       'autoenroll': True,
+                                      'revokeddeniessharedkey': False,
                                       'maxpendingenrollments': 500}
     bad = client.put('/api/endpoints/enrollment/settings',
                      json={'autoenroll': 'yes'}, headers=auth_headers)
diff --git a/tests/test_plugins/test_endpoints_enrollment_denials.py b/tests/test_plugins/test_endpoints_enrollment_denials.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..979f59f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_plugins/test_endpoints_enrollment_denials.py
@@ -0,0 +1,352 @@
+"""What a denial means at the enrollment door, and how long it lasts.
+
+Three denials meet here, and each one used to be undone by the PC on the other
+side of it:
+
+  reject      An admin refuses a request. The agent then sends a new nonce and
+              the row was re-armed as a fresh cycle - which, with the shared key
+              and auto-enroll on, auto-issued the credential the admin had just
+              refused. A rejection binds to the identity (hostname + serial), so
+              it survives any nonce; only an admin approving it clears it.
+  cap         The pending queue is bounded, and at the cap a PC nobody has seen
+              before is refused. Abandoned rows come out first, so a queue that
+              filled with junk drains itself instead of blocking every new PC.
+  revoke      A revoked credential falls back to the shared key, which is how
+              the un-migrated fleet and the rollback to an older agent keep
+              reporting. plugin.endpoints.revokeddeniessharedkey (off by
+              default) turns a revoke into an eviction instead.
+"""
+
+from datetime import timedelta
+
+import pytest
+
+from shopdb.core.models import Asset, AssetType, Setting
+
+from plugins.endpoints.api import agentauth
+from plugins.endpoints.api.enrollment import (
+    PENDING_CAP_SETTING, PENDING_STALE_AFTER,
+)
+from plugins.endpoints.models import EndpointCredential, EndpointEnrollRequest
+
+
+COLLECTOR_KEY = 'testcollectorkey'
+ENROLL_URL = '/api/endpoints/enroll'
+ALERTS_URL = '/api/endpoints/alerts'
+NONCE = 'n' * 40
+OTHER_NONCE = 'm' * 40
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def keyheaders(app):
+    app.config['COLLECTOR_API_KEY'] = COLLECTOR_KEY
+    return {'X-API-Key': COLLECTOR_KEY}
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def nolimiter(app):
+    """The per-IP limiter counts in a process-wide cache that outlives a test.
+
+    Nothing here is about how FAST a PC asks, and another test in the same
+    worker may already have spent the budget for this window and address, so the
+    limiter is off for this module and put back as it was.
+    """
+    key = 'ENDPOINTS_ENROLL_RATELIMIT_ENABLED'
+    previous = app.config.get(key)
+    app.config[key] = False
+    yield
+    if previous is None:
+        app.config.pop(key, None)
+    else:
+        app.config[key] = previous
+
+
+def _computer(db, hostname, serialnumber='SER-1'):
+    from plugins.computers.models import Computer
+
+    atype = AssetType.query.filter_by(assettype='computer').first()
+    if atype is None:
+        atype = AssetType(assettype='computer')
+        db.session.add(atype)
+        db.session.flush()
+    asset = Asset(assetnumber=hostname, assettypeid=atype.assettypeid,
+                  serialnumber=serialnumber, isactive=True)
+    db.session.add(asset)
+    db.session.flush()
+    db.session.add(Computer(assetid=asset.assetid, hostname=hostname))
+    db.session.commit()
+    return asset.assetid
+
+
+def _body(hostname='BAY-01', serialnumber='SER-1', nonce=NONCE):
+    return {'hostname': hostname, 'serialnumber': serialnumber,
+            'enrollnonce': nonce, 'agentversion': '1.20.0'}
+
+
+def _enroll(client, headers, **kwargs):
+    return client.post(ENROLL_URL, json=_body(**kwargs), headers=headers)
+
+
+def _pending_request(client, db, keyheaders, **kwargs):
+    """A request waiting for an admin, with auto-enroll back on afterwards.
+
+    Auto-enroll off is what puts a clean match in the queue instead of issuing
+    at once; turning it back on is what made the old code hand the retry a
+    credential, so every rejection test needs both halves.
+    """
+    _setting(db, 'plugin.endpoints.autoenroll', False)
+    response = _enroll(client, keyheaders, **kwargs)
+    assert response.status_code == 202, response.get_data(as_text=True)
+    _setting(db, 'plugin.endpoints.autoenroll', True)
+    return response.get_json()['data']['requestid']
+
+
+def _reject(client, auth_headers, requestid):
+    return client.post(
+        f'/api/endpoints/enrollment/requests/{requestid}/reject',
+        headers=auth_headers)
+
+
+def _setting(db, key, value, valuetype='boolean'):
+    Setting.set(key, value, valuetype=valuetype, category='plugin.endpoints')
+    db.session.commit()
+
+
+def _code(response):
+    return response.get_json()['data']['error']['code']
+
+
+# -- a rejection binds to the identity ---------------------------------------
+
+def test_a_new_nonce_does_not_lift_a_rejection(client, db, app, keyheaders,
+                                               auth_headers):
+    """The bug: reinstall the agent and the retry was auto-issued the
+    credential an admin had just refused."""
+    _computer(db, 'BAY-01')
+    requestid = _pending_request(client, db, keyheaders)
+    assert _reject(client, auth_headers, requestid).status_code == 200
+
+    retry = _enroll(client, keyheaders, nonce=OTHER_NONCE)
+
+    assert retry.status_code == 202, retry.get_data(as_text=True)
+    assert retry.get_json()['data']['reason'] == 'rejected'
+    assert retry.get_json()['data']['requestid'] == requestid
+    assert EndpointCredential.query.count() == 0
+    row = db.session.get(EndpointEnrollRequest, requestid)
+    assert row.status == EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_REJECTED
+    assert row.decidedat is not None
+    # Still one row for this identity: the retry did not queue a second.
+    assert EndpointEnrollRequest.query.count() == 1
+
+
+def test_a_rejection_survives_however_often_the_pc_asks(client, db, app,
+                                                        keyheaders,
+                                                        auth_headers):
+    _computer(db, 'BAY-01')
+    requestid = _pending_request(client, db, keyheaders)
+    _reject(client, auth_headers, requestid)
+
+    for index in range(5):
+        again = _enroll(client, keyheaders, nonce=('x%d' % index) * 20)
+        assert again.status_code == 202
+        assert again.get_json()['data']['reason'] == 'rejected'
+
+    assert EndpointCredential.query.count() == 0
+    assert EndpointEnrollRequest.query.count() == 1
+
+
+def test_a_rejection_does_not_touch_a_different_pc(client, db, app,
+                                                   keyheaders, auth_headers):
+    """Identity is hostname AND serial, so one PC's rejection is its own."""
+    _computer(db, 'BAY-01', serialnumber='SER-1')
+    other = _computer(db, 'BAY-02', serialnumber='SER-2')
+    requestid = _pending_request(client, db, keyheaders)
+    _reject(client, auth_headers, requestid)
+
+    clean = _enroll(client, keyheaders, hostname='BAY-02',
+                    serialnumber='SER-2')
+
+    assert clean.status_code == 201, clean.get_data(as_text=True)
+    assert EndpointCredential.query.filter_by(assetid=other).one() \
+        .revokedat is None
+
+
+def test_an_admin_clears_a_rejection_by_approving_it(client, db, app,
+                                                     keyheaders, auth_headers):
+    """The way back is the admin's, and it works for the reinstalled agent that
+    now carries a different nonce."""
+    assetid = _computer(db, 'BAY-01')
+    requestid = _pending_request(client, db, keyheaders)
+    _reject(client, auth_headers, requestid)
+    _enroll(client, keyheaders, nonce=OTHER_NONCE)
+
+    approve = client.post(
+        f'/api/endpoints/enrollment/requests/{requestid}/approve',
+        json={'assetid': assetid}, headers=auth_headers)
+    assert approve.status_code == 200, approve.get_data(as_text=True)
+
+    issued = _enroll(client, keyheaders, nonce=OTHER_NONCE)
+    assert issued.status_code == 201, issued.get_data(as_text=True)
+    assert EndpointCredential.query.filter_by(assetid=assetid).one() \
+        .enrolledvia == 'approved'
+
+
+def test_an_approval_out_of_a_rejection_still_binds_to_one_installation(
+        client, db, app, keyheaders, auth_headers):
+    """It binds to the installation the PC was last seen with, so a third
+    machine claiming the same hostname and serial still cannot collect it."""
+    assetid = _computer(db, 'BAY-01')
+    requestid = _pending_request(client, db, keyheaders)
+    _reject(client, auth_headers, requestid)
+    _enroll(client, keyheaders, nonce=OTHER_NONCE)
+    client.post(f'/api/endpoints/enrollment/requests/{requestid}/approve',
+                json={'assetid': assetid}, headers=auth_headers)
+
+    impostor = _enroll(client, keyheaders, nonce='z' * 40)
+    assert impostor.status_code == 403
+    assert _code(impostor) == 'ENROLL_NONCE_MISMATCH'
+    assert EndpointCredential.query.count() == 0
+
+    issued = _enroll(client, keyheaders, nonce=OTHER_NONCE)
+    assert issued.status_code == 201, issued.get_data(as_text=True)
+
+
+# -- the pending cap ages out abandoned rows ---------------------------------
+
+def _stale(db, hostname, days):
+    from datetime import datetime, timezone
+
+    seen = (datetime.now(timezone.utc).replace(tzinfo=None)
+            - timedelta(days=days))
+    row = EndpointEnrollRequest(
+        hostname=hostname, serialnumber=hostname + '-SER',
+        enrollnonce=NONCE, status=EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_PENDING,
+        requestedat=seen, lastseenat=seen)
+    db.session.add(row)
+    db.session.commit()
+    return row
+
+
+def test_the_cap_ages_out_abandoned_rows_before_refusing(client, db, app):
+    """A queue full of PCs that stopped asking must not block the one that is."""
+    _setting(db, PENDING_CAP_SETTING, 2, valuetype='integer')
+    _stale(db, 'GONE-01', PENDING_STALE_AFTER.days + 1)
+    _stale(db, 'GONE-02', PENDING_STALE_AFTER.days + 3)
+
+    response = client.post(ENROLL_URL, json=_body(hostname='NEW-01',
+                                                  serialnumber='NEW-SER'))
+
+    assert response.status_code == 202, response.get_data(as_text=True)
+    hostnames = {row.hostname for row in EndpointEnrollRequest.query.all()}
+    assert hostnames == {'NEW-01'}
+
+
+def test_the_age_out_spares_rows_still_being_asked_for(client, db, app):
+    """Only rows nothing has touched go, and a decided row never goes: the
+    rejection above has to outlive any queue pressure."""
+    _setting(db, PENDING_CAP_SETTING, 2, valuetype='integer')
+    fresh = _stale(db, 'LIVE-01', 0)
+    stillasking = _stale(db, 'LIVE-02', 0)
+    decided = _stale(db, 'GONE-01', PENDING_STALE_AFTER.days + 1)
+    decided.status = EndpointEnrollRequest.STATUS_REJECTED
+    db.session.commit()
+
+    refused = client.post(ENROLL_URL, json=_body(hostname='NEW-01',
+                                                 serialnumber='NEW-SER'))
+
+    assert refused.status_code == 503
+    assert _code(refused) == 'ENROLL_PENDING_FULL'
+    for row in (fresh, stillasking, decided):
+        assert db.session.get(EndpointEnrollRequest, row.requestid) is not None
+
+
+# -- revocation and the shared key -------------------------------------------
+
+def test_a_revoked_pc_keeps_the_shared_key_by_default(client, db, app,
+                                                      keyheaders,
+                                                      auth_headers):
+    """Today's behaviour, and the setting default: a revoke is a rotation, not
+    an eviction, so the PC keeps reporting while it waits to enroll again."""
+    assetid = _computer(db, 'BAY-01')
+    assert _enroll(client, keyheaders).status_code == 201
+    client.post(f'/api/endpoints/enrollment/assets/{assetid}/revoke',
+                headers=auth_headers)
+
+    assert client.get(ALERTS_URL + '?hostname=BAY-01',
+                      headers=keyheaders).status_code == 200
+
+
+def test_revoked_denies_shared_key_evicts_the_pc(client, db, app, keyheaders,
+                                                 auth_headers):
+    assetid = _computer(db, 'BAY-01')
+    assert _enroll(client, keyheaders).status_code == 201
+    client.post(f'/api/endpoints/enrollment/assets/{assetid}/revoke',
+                json={'blockreenroll': True, 'reason': 'stolen'},
+                headers=auth_headers)
+    _setting(db, agentauth.REVOKED_DENIES_SHARED_KEY_SETTING, True)
+
+    refused = client.get(ALERTS_URL + '?hostname=BAY-01', headers=keyheaders)
+
+    assert refused.status_code == 401
+    assert _code(refused) == 'SHARED_KEY_REFUSED'
+    assert 'revoked' in refused.get_json()['data']['error']['message']
+
+
+def test_a_pc_that_never_enrolled_is_never_evicted(client, db, app,
+                                                   keyheaders, auth_headers):
+    """The un-migrated fleet has no credential row at all, so the setting can be
+    turned on without silencing it."""
+    _computer(db, 'BAY-01', serialnumber='SER-1')
+    _computer(db, 'BAY-02', serialnumber='SER-2')
+    assetid = _computer(db, 'BAY-03', serialnumber='SER-3')
+    _enroll(client, keyheaders, hostname='BAY-03', serialnumber='SER-3')
+    client.post(f'/api/endpoints/enrollment/assets/{assetid}/revoke',
+                headers=auth_headers)
+    _setting(db, agentauth.REVOKED_DENIES_SHARED_KEY_SETTING, True)
+
+    assert client.get(ALERTS_URL + '?hostname=BAY-01',
+                      headers=keyheaders).status_code == 200
+    assert client.get(ALERTS_URL + '?hostname=BAY-02',
+                      headers=keyheaders).status_code == 200
+    assert client.get(ALERTS_URL + '?hostname=BAY-03',
+                      headers=keyheaders).status_code == 401
+
+
+def test_the_collector_contract_follows_the_same_rule(client, db, app,
+                                                      keyheaders,
+                                                      auth_headers):
+    """The generic collector path asks the plugin, not bind_hostname, so it has
+    to answer the same way."""
+    from plugins.endpoints.plugin import EndpointsPlugin
+
+    assetid = _computer(db, 'BAY-01')
+    assert _enroll(client, keyheaders).status_code == 201
+    client.post(f'/api/endpoints/enrollment/assets/{assetid}/revoke',
+                headers=auth_headers)
+    refused = EndpointsPlugin().agent_shared_key_refused
+
+    with app.test_request_context():
+        assert refused('BAY-01') is False
+        _setting(db, agentauth.REVOKED_DENIES_SHARED_KEY_SETTING, True)
+        assert refused('BAY-01') is True
+        assert refused('UNKNOWN') is False
+
+
+def test_the_eviction_switch_is_editable_and_defaults_to_today(client, db,
+                                                               auth_headers):
+    """A setting nobody can change is a constant with extra steps."""
+    read = client.get('/api/endpoints/enrollment',
+                      headers=auth_headers).get_json()['data']
+    assert read['settings']['revokeddeniessharedkey'] is False
+
+    put = client.put('/api/endpoints/enrollment/settings',
+                     json={'revokeddeniessharedkey': True},
+                     headers=auth_headers)
+    assert put.status_code == 200, put.get_data(as_text=True)
+    assert put.get_json()['data']['revokeddeniessharedkey'] is True
+    assert Setting.get(agentauth.REVOKED_DENIES_SHARED_KEY_SETTING) is True
+
+    bad = client.put('/api/endpoints/enrollment/settings',
+                     json={'revokeddeniessharedkey': 'yes'},
+                     headers=auth_headers)
+    assert bad.status_code == 400