diff --git a/client/server/provision_identity_test.go b/client/server/provision_identity_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c944cdb1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/server/provision_identity_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/netbirdio/netbird/client/internal/profilemanager"
+)
+
+// The daemon provisions the peer's identity and persists it, because a key that
+// stayed in memory would come back different on the next start and register a
+// second peer. Provisioning is idempotent: a profile that already has an
+// identity keeps the one on disk.
+func TestProvisionProfileIdentity(t *testing.T) {
+	origDir := profilemanager.DefaultConfigPathDir
+	origPath := profilemanager.DefaultConfigPath
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		profilemanager.DefaultConfigPathDir = origDir
+		profilemanager.DefaultConfigPath = origPath
+	})
+
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	profilemanager.DefaultConfigPathDir = dir
+	profilemanager.DefaultConfigPath = filepath.Join(dir, "default.json")
+
+	activeProf := &profilemanager.ActiveProfileState{ID: "default"}
+
+	t.Run("a profile with no file is provisioned and written", func(t *testing.T) {
+		_, err := os.Stat(profilemanager.DefaultConfigPath)
+		require.True(t, os.IsNotExist(err), "the fixture starts without a config file")
+
+		config, existed, err := provisionProfileIdentity(activeProf)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.False(t, existed, "the file was reported as pre-existing")
+		require.NotEmpty(t, config.PrivateKey)
+
+		stored, err := profilemanager.GetExistingConfig(profilemanager.DefaultConfigPath)
+		require.NoError(t, err, "provisioning did not write the config out")
+		require.Equal(t, config.PrivateKey, stored.PrivateKey, "the persisted identity is not the one returned")
+		require.NotEmpty(t, stored.SSHKey)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("a second call keeps the identity on disk", func(t *testing.T) {
+		before, err := profilemanager.GetExistingConfig(profilemanager.DefaultConfigPath)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		config, existed, err := provisionProfileIdentity(activeProf)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.True(t, existed)
+		require.Equal(t, before.PrivateKey, config.PrivateKey, "provisioning minted a second identity")
+
+		after, err := profilemanager.GetExistingConfig(profilemanager.DefaultConfigPath)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.Equal(t, before.PrivateKey, after.PrivateKey, "provisioning rewrote the stored identity")
+	})
+}
diff --git a/client/server/server.go b/client/server/server.go
index eb7d4aaa3..c57bbc6a3 100644
--- a/client/server/server.go
+++ b/client/server/server.go
@@ -1504,9 +1504,16 @@ func (s *Server) handleActiveProfileLogout(ctx context.Context) (*proto.LogoutRe
 	return &proto.LogoutResponse{}, nil
 }
 
-// getConfig resolves the active profile's config, provisions its identity and
-// reports whether the config file already existed.
-func (s *Server) getConfig(activeProf *profilemanager.ActiveProfileState) (*profilemanager.Config, bool, error) {
+// provisionProfileIdentity resolves the active profile's config and puts the
+// keys that identify the peer on disk, reporting whether the config file
+// already existed.
+//
+// This is the daemon's provisioning point: the config resolved here is the one
+// the peer runs with, so it needs its identity, and that has to reach disk — a
+// key that stays in memory would come back different on the next start and
+// re-register the peer. Reads themselves are pure, so the write is here, in
+// the open, instead of hiding inside the reader.
+func provisionProfileIdentity(activeProf *profilemanager.ActiveProfileState) (*profilemanager.Config, bool, error) {
 	cfgPath, err := activeProf.FilePath()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("failed to get active profile file path: %w", err)
@@ -1522,11 +1529,6 @@ func (s *Server) getConfig(activeProf *profilemanager.ActiveProfileState) (*prof
 		return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("failed to get config: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	// This is the daemon's provisioning point: the config resolved here is the
-	// one the peer runs with, so it needs the keys that identify it, and those
-	// have to reach disk — a key that stays in memory would come back different
-	// on the next start and re-register the peer. Reads themselves are pure, so
-	// the write is here, in the open, instead of hiding inside ReadConfig.
 	generated, err := config.EnsureIdentity()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("ensure profile identity: %w", err)
@@ -1538,6 +1540,17 @@ func (s *Server) getConfig(activeProf *profilemanager.ActiveProfileState) (*prof
 		}
 	}
 
+	return config, configExisted, nil
+}
+
+// getConfig resolves the active profile's config, provisions its identity and
+// reports whether the config file already existed.
+func (s *Server) getConfig(activeProf *profilemanager.ActiveProfileState) (*profilemanager.Config, bool, error) {
+	config, configExisted, err := provisionProfileIdentity(activeProf)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, err
+	}
+
 	// Apply the daemon-owned MDM policy on top of the just-resolved Config.
 	// profilemanager's apply() initialises the policy to empty — the Loader
 	// lives outside Config, so this overlay step is driven externally here.
@@ -2778,6 +2791,15 @@ func (s *Server) authorizeAndPrepareLogin(callerCtx context.Context, msg *proto.
 		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("persist login overrides: %w", err)
 	}
 
+	// Provisioning under the same lock as the decision above, and next to the
+	// write it guards. getConfig would otherwise mint the identity and persist
+	// it once this returns: between its read and its write, a SetConfig that
+	// had already answered its caller would be overwritten by the config this
+	// login read before it landed.
+	if _, _, err := provisionProfileIdentity(activeProf); err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+
 	return ctx, activeProf, nil
 }