The installer's restore path printed "Settings restored" and had never restored
a setting. backupRestoreSystemConfig only STAGES — right in general, since
overwriting a running control plane's config should not be automatic — but
nothing ever adopted the staged tree. The backup locations, domains and logins
landed in $restore_dir/system-config and stayed there.
So adoption is its own step now (`restore adopt`), allowed only on a machine
with nothing on it yet. backup/locations/ is adopted as a subtree, since the
index is part of the path and that directory is the whole point: it holds every
repository and its credentials, which is what makes "one password unlocks the
rest" true. Deliberately NOT adopted: the container account and its generated
password, port allocations, docker/rootless wiring, and storage/locations —
those describe the old machine, and a registry of drives this box does not have
would make every placement lookup resolve to a phantom.
The guard failed in the shape this project keeps hitting. It globbed the
containers directory, but the manager can traverse that without listing it, so
the glob returned a literal '*', the loop skipped it, and the function returned
"first run" on a machine with three apps. It adopted over a live install in
testing. It now asks the container user for the listing and fails closed: an
unreadable directory means "in use", never "empty".
Two config modes were inverted, found because a restore cannot restore from a
snapshot that was never taken:
- storage location configs were 0640 and hold no secrets. The backup runs as
the container user, could not read them, and restic wrote an INCOMPLETE
snapshot and exited 3 — so EVERY system-config backup failed once a second
storage location existed. Now 0644, with the test asserting they stay
secret-free so that mode remains defensible.
- backup location configs were 0644 and hold the repository password; nobody
could read them. They cannot simply be tightened, because the backup has to
read the credentials it uses — so the directory carries the restriction
(config-secure, manager:container 0750) and the file stays readable to the
two accounts that belong.
Fixing that surfaced a third: config-adopt clamped existing parent directories
to manager:manager 0750, closing configs/backup to the container user and
breaking the credential read the directory fix had just preserved.
restore domains reports which restored domains point here, and the installer
offers to drop the strays. Three verdicts, not two: setupCheckDomainPointsHere
falls back to hostname -I, and comparing a public A record to a private 10.x
address would condemn every correctly-pointed domain on a LAN-only box, which
is the deployment this product targets. Unverifiable is never offered for
deletion.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_app_dir resolved an app name to "$CONTAINERS_DIR/$app" and gave up if that did
not exist. An app on a registered storage location is not there, so every root
action keyed on an app name quietly did nothing for those:
app-data-remove linkding -> rc=0, nothing removed
which is what restoreAppStart calls at step 4, "Wiping existing app folder". So
restoring an app that lives on a second disk laid the snapshot over whatever was
already there instead of replacing it, and files deleted since the backup would
survive a restore meant to undo their deletion.
Search the primary root first, then each REGISTERED location. Candidate paths
come from the root-owned registry and never from the caller, so this cannot be
pointed anywhere root does not already own. app_data_remove goes through the
resolver now instead of building the path itself.
Found by the flow test: destroying linkding on disk1 reported success and left
all nineteen files in place.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
secret-dir was wired into the WebUI ownership reconcile last commit and still
did nothing on a fresh install. It demanded frontend/data already exist, and the
reconcile runs before the container has made it — so it returned 1, and the
caller has no reason to check a return, so the drop was simply absent. Timing
from a clean run: reconcile at install, frontend/data created a minute later.
Create the parent when missing, owned by the container user, which is who owns
it anyway. An existing directory is left exactly as it is — this must not take
ownership of the WebUI's data directory out from under it.
Verified on the clean install: with frontend/data removed entirely, secret-dir
recreates both, .secrets at 2730 dockerinstall:libreportal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A password typed in the WebUI has to reach the host, and both existing routes
leak it. As part of a task's command string it lands in
frontend/data/tasks/*.json — 0644, inside a world-readable directory — and is
visible in `ps` while the task runs; as a plain file there it is either
world-readable at 0644 or unreadable by the manager at 0640. Verified still true
on a clean install. A backup repository password sent that way is the key to
every backup the user has, readable by any local account.
libreportal-ownership gains `secret-dir`: the mirror of _webui_bind_access.
That one makes manager-owned config readable by the container; this makes a
container-written file readable by the MANAGER. The directory is
<container>:<manager> mode 2730 — setgid so each file inherits the manager's
group, the container writes it 0640, and 0730 leaves the directory unlistable
because the manager is handed a filename rather than going looking. Group rwx
is what lets it unlink after reading.
The WebUI then sends a REFERENCE ("secret:<id>") wherever it used to send the
value, and configUpdateBatch redeems it at the last moment before the write.
That is the single point every config write from the WebUI passes through, so
this covers every password field rather than only the backup ones — which is
what docs/roadmap/first-run-restore.md §4.1 asked for. A reference that cannot
be redeemed leaves the field unchanged rather than blanking it.
Verified on a live install: the container drops a secret, the manager applies it
by reference, the file is unlinked, `nobody` can neither read nor list it, and a
second redemption of the same reference fails.
footprint_version 9 -> 10 (root-owned helper changed).
Also fixes a block of constructor initialisations I spliced into the middle of
renderStorageChoices in aa44e0b: on a single-drive box — the case in the
screenshot that prompted this — rendering the Storage step silently reset
backupDest and cleared the import selections.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`restore system` reported
✓ Success System config restored to: /libreportal-system/restore/system-config
for a directory that did not exist. Nothing had been written — on the step the
whole restore ordering depends on, since the system config carries every other
backup location's credentials.
Restore stages through $SYSTEM_DIR, which the manager owns, but the thing that
writes into the staging tree is restic, and runBackupOp runs it as the container
user. Both call sites created the directory as the wrong principal, in opposite
directions:
backupRestoreSystemConfig runFileOp mkdir -> container user; denied on the
0751 manager-owned restore_dir, and unchecked
storageRestoreAppTo runInstallOp mkdir -> manager; restic could then
not create anything beneath it
Restic reports a permission denial as "ignoring error ..." and still exits 0, so
the callers' success checks were satisfied either way.
libreportal-ownership gains restore-stage (creates it cowner:MANAGER 0750 —
owner writes, manager traverses to confirm and review) and restore-unstage
(removes it; neither principal can, so staging trees simply accumulated). Both
confine the path to one component directly under the restore/migrate area.
footprint_version 8 -> 9.
backupRestoreSystemConfig now verifies the tree landed as the user that wrote
it, because the manager cannot read inside its own staging directory.
Verified on a live install: system config stages 57 real files, and the
relocation branch of storageRestoreAppTo ran for the first time — speedtest
restored from a snapshot taken at /libreportal-containers/speedtest into
/libreportal-alt/speedtest via stage-and-move, staging cleaned up afterwards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Restore built its restic include filter from THIS host's containers root:
engineRestoreSnapshot "$idx" "$id" "/" "$containers_dir$app"
restic reproduces a snapshot's absolute paths, so that only works when
both sides agree byte-for-byte. LibrePortal has shipped configurable
roots for a while, so restoring a snapshot taken on a host installed with
--containers-dir=/mnt/ssd/apps onto a default host matched no include
path and restored NOTHING — with no error, because an include filter that
matches nothing is not a failure. Storage locations turn that from a rare
cross-host case into an ordinary one.
storageSnapshotSourcePath asks the repository where the app actually
lived. storageRestoreAppTo restores in place when that agrees with where
the app belongs here, and stages-then-moves when it does not — which is
also what makes "restore this app onto a different disk" possible at all.
Both restore_app_start.sh and resticRestoreAppLatest go through it, and
both fall back to the old behaviour when a snapshot does not report its
paths, so older snapshots restore exactly as before.
The move into place runs as root (app-adopt) for the same reason app-move
does: a restored tree carries container sub-UIDs the manager cannot
recreate. Staging is constrained to the restore/migrate area and the
destination is validated against the root-owned registry, so neither end
is taken on trust from the caller.
The manifest now records where an app lived — location name, path and fs
uuid. The name is what travels, since a path means nothing on the other
host; the rest is for diagnostics and for answering "is this the same
disk?" during a migrate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 2 and 4 of docs/roadmap/storage-locations.md. Apps can now be
placed on a location and moved between them.
CFG_<APP>_STORAGE lands in all 37 app templates, holding a location NAME
rather than a path: names survive a migrate to a host with different
disks, paths do not. The 11 infrastructure apps that other apps reach by
literal path (traefik, prometheus, grafana, adguard, gluetun, crowdsec,
headscale, dashy, pihole, unbound, wireguard) are pinned. libreportal
itself never gets the key — it is pinned structurally by webuiDir.
Pinning needed no second config key. "Pinned" is not a fact about a value,
it is a statement about whether the field may be edited, so it goes in the
comment beside **ADVANCED** and **DEV** as **READONLY**, and the field
factory renders those disabled. That marker earns its keep beyond this
feature: derived fields already warned in prose that editing them does
nothing (crowdsec.config:72) next to a perfectly editable input.
storage_app_config.sh keeps the comment honest — it carries the resolved
path for hand-recovery and regenerates the dropdown from the registry, but
only writes when something actually changed, since the app .config is
user-editable and lives in the container-owned tree.
app move stops the app (a live copy of a running Postgres is a corrupt
copy), snapshots it, copies, verifies, and only then removes the source.
The copy runs in libreportal-ownership because it must: app data holds
rootless sub-UID files the manager can neither read nor recreate.
Verified against two real ext4 filesystems that a cross-device move
preserves uid 231141 and the payload, and that the source survives every
refusal path — unregistered destination, the WebUI app, a traversal in the
app name, and an occupied destination.
Task titles registered in both tables, with a specific rule so a move
renders as "Nextcloud - Move to bigdisk" rather than the generic fallback
dropping the destination. lp-task-names could not be run to confirm — it
borrows the WebUI container's node and no containers are running.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to 928e244, which stopped configs/ subdirectories being sourced
without a .category marker. That closed the hole; this removes the thing
that fell into it.
storageIndexFile pointed at configs/storage/app_locations. The file's
requirements are only "manager-owned" and "not on a removable disk" —
configs/ satisfies both, which is why I put it there, and it was still
wrong: that tree carries a third property the file violates. sourceScanFiles
SOURCES what it finds under configs/, and sourcing means executing.
The index is a TSV of "<slug><TAB><root>", which bash reads as a command
and its argument. Harmless while no slug matched a real executable. The
row for the app named `libreportal` armed it, because that IS the CLI on
PATH: sourcing ran `libreportal /libreportal-containers`, which re-entered
the scan, which sourced the file again — one process pair per level until
the host OOMed and took the desktop session with it.
It now lives at $system_dir/storage/app_locations, with a one-shot
migration so an install that already has an index keeps knowing where its
apps live rather than silently forgetting. libreportal-ownership
reconciles the new directory, and scan_files.sh gained a note that
configs/storage/ carries no .category on purpose.
scripts/dev/lp-configs-guard-test covers both ends: the index never lands
in configs/, a legacy one migrates, and a file of the exact detonating
shape placed in an unmarked configs/ subdirectory is not executed while a
marked category still loads.
Also wires sourceStorageLocations into the config scan beside
sourceBackupLocations — per-location configs sit at depth 3, below the
generic scan, and need their own walker like the backup ones do.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The rootless WebUI container reads its bind-mount sources (configs/webui/*)
through the container-owner GROUP since a2376e2 switched those files from
world-readable to 0640 group=container-owner. But the WebUI credential
randomizer rewrites webui_logins via `sed -i` as the non-root manager, which
recreates the file with the manager's own group — dropping the container-owner
group. The installer then started the container immediately, so node hit
EACCES on /app/webui_logins at require-time (parseConfigFile) and exited 1;
nothing listened on the WebUI port. `libreportal webui login reset` had the
same latent bug (rewrite → restart). Under the old world-readable model a
post-sed file stayed o+r so the container could still read it, which is why
this only surfaced on fresh rootless installs after a2376e2.
Fix: make reconcileWebuiDirOwnership the single "ready the WebUI for its
container" pass — it now also restores the configs/webui bind access (new
`webui-bind` ownership action) on top of the container-dir chown. Reorder the
installer so the credential randomizer runs BEFORE the before-start permission
pass, making that pass the last ownership touch before the container starts;
and call reconcileWebuiDirOwnership before the restart in login reset.
Live box recovered via `libreportal-ownership reconcile`; WebUI 200.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
_webui_bind_access granted o+r to every file in configs/webui so the
rootless container could read its bind-mount sources — but that also made
secrets like webui_logins world-readable to any local user. Under rootless
the container's gid 0 maps to the container owner's gid, so group access is
sufficient: chown the webui dir + files to MANAGER:container-owner, dir
0751 (traverse, not list), files 0640. Container reads via group; other
local users get nothing; the manager (owner) still rewrites them.
Verified live: container READ ok, world READ denied, manager rw, WebUI
login still 200. Live helper updated in lockstep with this source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
dockerDeleteData (uninstall) and the wipe-before-restore step in
restoreAppStart both did `runFileOp rm -rf $containers_dir$app_name`,
which runs as $CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_USER (dockerinstall, uid 1002 on
rootless). That user owns app-template files but CANNOT remove
container sub-UID dirs created by the daemon's userns mapping —
postgres data at uid 232070, nextcloud html at uid 33, etc. The rm
therefore silently failed with
rm: cannot remove '/libreportal-containers/invidious/postgresdata':
Permission denied
while still reporting "<app> successfully uninstalled" — leaving the
sub-UID directory tree on disk to confuse the next install and leak
storage.
Fix: route the wipe through a new `app-data-remove` action in the
root-owned libreportal-ownership helper. Root can rm sub-UID files
unconditionally. The helper validates the app name (alphanumeric +
. _ -, no traversal), refuses the WebUI's own slot (libreportal), and
is idempotent when the dir is already gone.
Two callers updated:
- scripts/docker/app/uninstall/delete_data.sh
- scripts/restore/restore_app_start.sh
The helper itself ships root-owned at /usr/local/lib/libreportal/, so a
fresh install or release upgrade is needed to pick up the new action.
Bumped init.sh footprint_version 2 → 3 so the runtime updater
prompts a root re-install on the next release.
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Split the single tree into three owner-isolated roots and fix the backup
permission failure (restic, running as the container user, could not write the
manager-owned /docker/backups).
Ownership helper (libreportal-ownership), rewritten for three baked roots:
SYSTEM_DIR (manager) CONTAINERS_DIR + BACKUPS_DIR (container user)
- reconcile now drives each tree to its single owner; backups + the WebUI dir go
to the container user (the actual fix). The container user reaches only the
WebUI bind-mount sources (configs/webui/*) via a scoped _webui_bind_access —
traverse the system root + configs, read configs/webui only, nothing else.
- defence-in-depth: refuse dangerous/relative roots even if mis-baked; new
backups-top action.
Baking: init.sh initRootHelpers now seds __SYSTEM_DIR__/__CONTAINERS_DIR__/
__BACKUPS_DIR__ (alongside __MANAGER__) into every helper at install — the trust
boundary stays root-controlled. svc/socket/appcfg helpers updated to derive from
the baked SYSTEM_DIR; the svc unit now exports LP_*_DIR so the processor resolves
roots authoritatively. A baking-safe '*"__"*' sentinel check survives the sed.
Install/uninstall: initFolders creates the three roots; initContainerLayer hands
containers + backups to the container user; uninstall removes all three
(idempotent on legacy single-tree installs). Remaining functional /docker
literals in init.sh (config reads, setupConfigsFromRepo, uninstall) parameterised.
Compose: the WebUI's two relative ../../configs mounts (the only cross-tree
relative mounts in the tree) are now absolute, filled at generation via a new
CONFIGS_DIR_TAG; CONTAINERS_DIR_TAG likewise for the LP_CONTAINERS_DIR env.
Live box unaffected: installed helpers + the live compose only change on reinstall/
rebuild (both of which fill the tags); the CLI-wrapper heredoc paths are baked in
phase 3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Move the last runtime-critical root file-primitive subsystems behind
root-owned helpers so the type switcher + task service work under a scoped
sudoers:
- scripts/system/libreportal-socket: {rootless|rooted} {on|off} chmod of
the docker sockets (paths computed from config, not caller-supplied;
exit 3 = absent so the *_found flags come from its exit code)
- scripts/system/libreportal-svc: GENERATES + installs the systemd unit
from config (mode/uid/baked manager) — never accepts unit content from
the caller (arbitrary unit = root). Idempotent install/enable/restart.
- ownership helper: add db-own + app-file <app> <relpath> actions
- run_privileged: runSocket / runSvc
- set_socket_permissions -> runSocket; webui_install_systemd -> runSvc
(+ crontab cleanup runs as the manager directly, no sudo -u self)
- before_start: db chown -> runOwnership db-own; traefik cert/yml ->
runOwnership app-file (retires updateFileOwnership/changeRootOwnedFile)
- init.sh installs all five helpers
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Under Model A the runtime runs as the manager, so establishing the
/docker ownership model needs root. Granting the manager a blanket
'sudo chown'/'sudo chmod' in the scoped sudoers would be root-equivalent
(chown /etc/sudoers, ...). Introduce a self-contained, root-owned helper
that performs only a FIXED set of reconciles on FIXED LibrePortal paths,
with owners derived from config + a baked manager name (never the caller)
and a strictly-validated app-name argument.
- scripts/system/libreportal-ownership: the helper (actions: reconcile,
traversal, containers-top, app-perms, webui, taskdir, app-data-nobody)
- run_privileged: runOwnership wrapper (sudo the installed helper; run the
bundled copy directly when already root mid-install)
- init.sh: installOwnershipHelper bakes the manager name and installs it
root:root 0755 to /usr/local/sbin (manager can't modify it)
- libreportal_folders/app_folder/app_update_specifics/task processor:
delegate the ownership chowns to runOwnership instead of runSystem chown
This removes chown/chmod-on-/docker from the runtime sudo surface, a
prerequisite for a non-root-equivalent scoped sudoers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
