I continued looking for an answer elsewhere, and found one.
Basically, the “cookie domain origin policy” was the issue, not sign-in process. I was calling domain.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php from a subdomain fr.domain.com.
I called fr.domain.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php instead, and that worked.
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