diff --git a/app/auth.py b/app/auth.py
index 9894532..87f66c8 100644
--- a/app/auth.py
+++ b/app/auth.py
@@ -82,10 +82,11 @@ def _shell(heading, intro, inner, error=None):
 # Login
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-def _login_form(email="", error=None):
+def _login_form(email="", error=None, next_url=""):
     return _shell(
         "Sign in", "For Pack 73 and Troop 73 leaders and families.",
         f"""<form method="post" action="/login">
+<input type="hidden" name="next" value="{_esc(next_url)}">
 <label for="email">Email</label>
 <input id="email" name="email" type="email" autocomplete="username" required value="{_esc(email)}">
 <label for="password">Password</label>
@@ -98,21 +99,26 @@ def _login_form(email="", error=None):
 
 @router.get("/login", response_class=HTMLResponse)
 def login_form(request: Request):
+    # `next` arrives from the leader console's 401 redirect (next=/leaders/).
+    # identity.safe_next() keeps it same-origin; anything odd lands on /account.
+    nxt = identity.safe_next(request.query_params.get("next"))
     if current_person(request):
-        return RedirectResponse(url="/account", status_code=303)
-    return HTMLResponse(_render("Sign in", _login_form()))
+        return RedirectResponse(url=nxt, status_code=303)
+    return HTMLResponse(_render("Sign in", _login_form(next_url=nxt)))
 
 
 @router.post("/login")
-def login(request: Request, email: str = Form(""), password: str = Form("")):
+def login(request: Request, email: str = Form(""), password: str = Form(""),
+          next: str = Form("")):
+    nxt = identity.safe_next(next)
     try:
         person, token = identity.authenticate(
             email, password, ip=_client_ip(request),
             user_agent=request.headers.get("user-agent"))
     except identity.IdentityError as e:
-        return HTMLResponse(_render("Sign in", _login_form(email, e.detail)),
+        return HTMLResponse(_render("Sign in", _login_form(email, e.detail, nxt)),
                             status_code=e.status)
-    resp = RedirectResponse(url="/account", status_code=303)
+    resp = RedirectResponse(url=nxt, status_code=303)
     resp.set_cookie(COOKIE, token, max_age=identity.SESSION_ABSOLUTE_DAYS * 86400,
                     httponly=True, secure=COOKIE_SECURE, samesite="lax", path="/")
     return resp
diff --git a/app/identity.py b/app/identity.py
index 1450878..7ab4c76 100644
--- a/app/identity.py
+++ b/app/identity.py
@@ -606,6 +606,20 @@ def consume_invite(token, full_name, password, preferred_name=None, phone=None,
 # Rows, not signed cookies. A leader stepping down has to be revocable now
 # rather than at token expiry, and "sign out everywhere" has to be possible.
 
+def safe_next(value, default="/account"):
+    """Where to send someone after login. Only a same-origin relative path
+    survives: a single leading slash, no scheme, no protocol-relative `//`,
+    no backslash or control character that a browser might normalise into
+    one. Anything else falls back to default. This is what keeps /login from
+    being an open redirect the moment it starts honouring `next`."""
+    v = (value or "").strip()
+    if not v.startswith("/") or v.startswith("//") or v.startswith("/\\"):
+        return default
+    if any(ord(c) < 32 or c in "\\" for c in v):
+        return default
+    return v
+
+
 def start_session(person_id, ip=None, user_agent=None):
     tok = secrets.token_urlsafe(32)
     con = connect()
diff --git a/tests/smoke_identity.py b/tests/smoke_identity.py
index ed9392e..605267e 100644
--- a/tests/smoke_identity.py
+++ b/tests/smoke_identity.py
@@ -168,5 +168,17 @@ con.close()
 for k in ("invite.created", "invite.consumed", "login.ok", "login.failed", "login.throttled"):
     check("auth_events records %s" % k, k in kinds)
 
+print("\nsafe_next")
+check("relative path passes", I.safe_next("/leaders/") == "/leaders/")
+check("query string kept", I.safe_next("/leaders/nearby?x=1") == "/leaders/nearby?x=1")
+check("empty falls back", I.safe_next("") == "/account")
+check("None falls back", I.safe_next(None) == "/account")
+check("absolute URL rejected", I.safe_next("https://evil.example/") == "/account")
+check("protocol-relative rejected", I.safe_next("//evil.example/") == "/account")
+check("backslash form rejected", I.safe_next("/\\evil.example") == "/account")
+check("control char rejected", I.safe_next("/leaders\r\nX: y") == "/account")
+check("no leading slash rejected", I.safe_next("leaders/") == "/account")
+check("custom default honoured", I.safe_next("nope", default="/") == "/")
+
 print("\n%d passed, %d failed" % (PASS, FAIL))
 sys.exit(1 if FAIL else 0)