sudo-rs — the default sudo from Ubuntu 25.10, so on 26.04 — does not
implement bare -E. It does not reject it either: it warns to stderr
("preserving the entire environment is not supported, '-E' is ignored")
and runs the command with the environment DROPPED, leaving the exit
status untouched. Callers capture stderr, so the warning is invisible and
the backup engines simply never receive RESTIC_PASSWORD / BORG_PASSPHRASE
/ KOPIA_PASSWORD and cannot open the repository.
Name the nine vars explicitly via --preserve-env=<list>, which sudo-rs
and classic sudo (>=1.8.21, so Debian 10's 1.8.27) both honour, so this
needs no version gate. The list is cross-checked against every
RESTIC_/BORG_/KOPIA_ var the engine env scripts export.
The list lives in variables.sh with a literal fallback in runBackupOp,
because init.sh sources run_privileged.sh directly during install without
ever loading variables.sh — an unguarded empty list would silently
reproduce the same dropped-credential bug.
restoreFirstRunDiscover now goes through runBackupOp rather than issuing
its own sudo. It was the only backup-engine call bypassing that funnel,
which is why it missed this fix by construction; routing it back also
gives it the -H that keeps restic's cache under the backup user's HOME.
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get.docker.com/rootless aborts when ip_tables/ip6_tables aren't loaded.
Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 ship both modules but don't autoload them on a
fresh box, so rootless setup died there — and because the caller captures
its output into $result, the reason never reached the console or the
error report. The install continued, reported success, and printed
credentials for a WebUI that was never running.
initPrerequires now modprobes both modules and persists them to
/etc/modules-load.d/libreportal-rootless.conf for subsequent boots,
failing with an actionable message when the kernel genuinely lacks them
(container/VM kernels without netfilter).
installDockerRootless gets its own guard, since it also runs outside
init.sh via start_docker / rootless_start_setup. It only attempts
modprobe when it can — the de-sudoed manager has no modprobe in the
LP_SYSTEM allowlist, matching how ubuntu.sh handles sudo-apt — and
returns non-zero rather than proceeding into a failure whose message
would be swallowed. Already-loaded modules are a clean no-op, so the
normal post-install re-run path is unaffected.
Uninstall removes the drop-in alongside the sysctl ones, and it's listed
in the footprint summary.
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Move the WebUI-updater settings out of general_terminal into their own
advanced webui-category file (webui_logs precedent): new
configs/webui/webui_updater holds CFG_UPDATER_SCAN_INTERVAL and the
migrated CFG_HOTFIX_AUTO, listed in webui/.category.
The move only reaches existing installs if the config convergence
machinery works, and three pieces of it silently didn't:
- checkConfigFilesMissingFiles walked a stale hardcoded category list
('general features network' — features doesn't exist; webui/backup/
security never healed). Derive the categories from the template tree
instead, and heal .category metadata too: copy it when absent and
merge missing SUBCATEGORY_ORDER entries when present, so healed files
actually appear in the WebUI Config editor. core_categories removed.
- Option reconciliation never touched ANY nested config file: configs_dir
carries a trailing slash, so rel stripping missed ('configs//'), the
template lookup failed, and reconcileConfigFile early-returned for
every file. Strip the slash before matching.
- reconcileConfigFile's AUTO_DELETE=false branch read a never-populated
live_line array, losing the dropped keys it promised to keep. Populate
it alongside live_value.
Also exclude *.bak from config sourcing (reconciliation writes <file>.bak
next to live configs — now that it runs, sourcing backups would resurrect
deleted keys), and add 'libreportal config check' as a non-interactive
front door to the converge pass (was only reachable via install flows and
the interactive menu).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Organise the system footprint outside /docker:
- All LibrePortal executables now live together in /usr/local/lib/libreportal/
(root:root): the 7 root helpers AND the CLI wrapper. /usr/local/bin/libreportal
becomes a symlink onto $PATH. run_privileged._runRootHelper, init.sh
(initRootHelpers + scoped-sudoers Cmnd_Alias + command setup) all point there.
The wrapper is now root-owned too (manager can't tamper with its entrypoint).
- Fix a real bug: rootless sysctl settings were written to /etc/sysctl/99-custom.conf,
a dir does NOT read, so net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start /
kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone never persisted across reboot. Moved to
/etc/sysctl.d/99-libreportal-rootless.conf (the existing
reload now actually applies them). Consistent libreportal* naming.
- Drop dead fqdn_file=/root/libreportal-fqdn.txt global (never used).
- Add FOOTPRINT.md: a manifest of every file LibrePortal places outside /docker
(doubles as an uninstall checklist).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
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