The wizard's first question is now "is this a new server, or a replacement for
one?", which §2 of the roadmap described and nothing implemented. Start asks,
and the answer selects one of two disjoint step sets:
new Start > Experience > Identity > Domains > Storage > Backups
> Import > Recommended > (Metrics)
restore Start > Source > Contents > Rebuild
Disjoint deliberately. A restore is never asked for an install name, domains or
an app list — the backup answers all three, and asking invites someone to type
an answer that is about to be written over. The test asserts non-overlap in
both directions, not just that the restore steps appear.
Source collects the repository the way the Backup page does, minus everything
that only means something for a place you write TO: no retention, no schedule,
no enable toggle. The password leaves through the one-shot secret:<ref> channel
and is cleared from the DOM, and the test asserts the value never appears in
the payload — that payload reaches a task command line, and tasks are recorded
world-readable.
Contents is the reconciliation, rendered: apps with sizes, and each domain with
a verdict, checked through the same /api/setup/dns-check the Domains step uses
rather than adding a second way to ask. Plus the offer to leave the strays out
until DNS is repointed.
Rebuild runs `restore rebuild`: settings first (they carry every other
repository's credentials), then domains, then apps with no explicit list so
bulk discovers and re-preflights them itself.
Inserting Start shifted every step index by one. validateStep was a chain of
idx === 1 … idx === 6, carrying a comment that already explained which earlier
insertions had moved them — it is keyed on the step name now.
lp-storage-step-test had the same pin and did not survive: it called
validateStep(3) for Storage, which had become Domains, and reported that
nothing blocked. That reads exactly like validation being broken. Tests look
their step up by name now too.
Also: locationRemove's fix means a failed connect can finally clean up after
itself, so a wrong password no longer leaves a dead destination behind on every
retry.
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restore inspect answers "what would a restore from here bring?" without writing
anything: hosts, apps with sizes, and the domains — read out of the
system-config snapshot with engineDumpFile, the same way the preflight reads an
app manifest. Knowing a backup hands you six domains of which four point
elsewhere, before committing, is the difference between a rebuild and a
surprise.
restore connect is the WebUI entry point: creates the location from a base64
payload, redeems the repository password from the single-use secret channel,
inspects. Deliberately does not engineInitLocation — every other path that
creates a location initialises it because it is about to write there; this one
reads a repository that already exists. This is what unblocks the constraint
app_portable.sh records: a .lpapp could live in the WebUI because nothing
secret crosses from browser to host, and the repository restore could not. The
secret:<ref> channel is that missing piece.
A wrong password is the ordinary case and the user retries, so a failed connect
removes the location it just made. Otherwise every attempt left another
half-configured destination behind.
Three things found by using it:
- locationRemove never worked. It unlinked as the container user, but
configs/ is manager-owned, so it was always denied — and the result was
never checked, so isSuccessful printed anyway and a "removed" location came
back on the next listing. Now runInstallOp, and the directory is checked.
- webuiSecretSweep had no callers. An abandoned flow left its repository
password on disk forever. The sweep now runs in /api/setup/secret before
each write, tied to the one event guaranteed to happen.
- Adoption took the WebUI down. config-adopt chowned every adopted file to
manager:manager 0640, and webui_logins is bind-mounted into the container,
which then could not read its own credentials: exit 137 with no log line.
It also clamped every parent directory it passed through, closing
configs/webui and configs/backup to the container user.
The fix is a principle, not a special case: a restore replaces the CONTENT
of a config file and nothing else. The live install already knows who may
read each one. Adoption preserves the destination's ownership and mode,
defaults closed only for a file that did not exist, and never
re-permissions a directory it passes through.
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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.
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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.
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The resolver already supported per-app placement — CFG_<APP>_STORAGE names a
location and appDir sends data, compose and config there — and 37 of 39 app
templates ship the field. What was missing was choosing AT INSTALL TIME. The
only routes were editing a config by hand before installing, or installing onto
the default disk and then `app move`ing it, which copies the data twice.
libreportal app install <app> --storage=<location>
and the App Center's existing storage dropdown, which travels inside
config_variables. Both resolve to one answer in storageChoiceFor, so there is a
single code path.
Ordering is the whole difficulty, and getting it wrong is quiet. installApp
copies the app template into appDir(), sources it, and later applies the form
overrides. The choice has to be live before the copy (or the directory is
created on the wrong disk), written into the config before the source (or the
template's "default" wins and every later appDir in that process returns the
primary root), and folded into config_variables (or the override pass writes
"default" back). Miss any one and the directory and its config disagree — which
resolves correctly only until something sources the config.
Refuses an unknown or unmounted location, an existing directory, and an app
whose template marks the field **READONLY** (fixed to the primary root because
other apps reach it by literal path — storageMoveApp already refuses to move
those, and installing one elsewhere is the same violation from the other end).
Three shipped bugs found making this work:
* updateConfigOption chose its write helper by comparing the path against
$containers_dir — the PRIMARY root only — so an app on any other registered
location took the manager branch and `sed -i` failed with exactly the
permission error the comment above that code describes. `app move` writes
the new location with `|| true`, so it reported a successful move while
leaving the config naming the old disk.
* storageLocationName resolved a location's name only from an in-scope
CFG_STORAGE_LOC_<id>_NAME, falling back to the bare id. That name is the
value CFG_<APP>_STORAGE is set to, so the generated dropdown offered
"location-1" as both label and value — a choice that does not resolve. Read
it from the location's config when the variable is not in scope.
* storageSyncAllAppComments was written for "the regen path" and never wired
into one. Every CFG_<APP>_STORAGE option list was frozen at install time, so
adding a drive did not make it selectable anywhere. Called from the storage
generator now, which runs exactly when those lists go stale — and extended
to app TEMPLATES, since an app not installed yet is precisely the one whose
install form needs to show which drives exist.
Verified on a live install with three locations: linkding and authelia on disk1,
ipinfo on disk2, fourteen on the default root, each config naming its own drive.
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The user-namespace prefix that lets an unprivileged restore put back a file's
original owner was only wired into restic. borg extract and kopia snapshot
restore run as the same backup user with the same lack of CAP_CHOWN, so both
lost <container-uid>:<backup-user> exactly the way restic did — an app whose
data comes back owned by the backup user cannot write it, which is how grafana
kept dying with "attempt to write a readonly database".
borg is quieter about it than restic: it does not print an "ignoring error"
line at all, so there was nothing to notice.
Move the prefix to engine_dispatch.sh as backupUsernsPrefix — it was never
restic-specific — and use it from all three engines.
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portFindNextAvailablePort consulted LibrePortal's own network_resources table
plus a hardcoded list (8080, 6060) and CFG_RESERVED_PORTS_EXTRA — while the
comment above it claimed a picked port "can never collide with a host service at
compose-up time". It can: the list only covers what someone thought to write
down. Ask the kernel instead, via ss, read once per allocation rather than per
candidate. No ss => empty set => exactly the old behaviour.
Found while restoring 13 apps onto a desktop, though not the cause there:
stoat's livekit publishes a FIXED udp range (50000-50100, which it advertises to
clients and so cannot be re-rolled), and kdeconnectd held 50016. That collision
needs its own answer; this fixes the randomly-allocated ports, which had the
same exposure with no reason to.
Also make the bulk restore stop reporting a half-running app as a clean success.
continue-on-error lets a failed compose-up log and carry on, so restoreAppStart
returns 0 either way — which is how that run printed "13 apps restored" while
four of stoat's containers had exited 101. checkSuccess already appends every
failure to error_report.log, so watch it grow across each app and name the ones
that were noisy.
scripts/dev/lp-port-host-test binds a real socket and asserts the allocator
refuses that port; verified it fails when the check is removed.
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storageSnapshotSourcePath resolved a snapshot's source path with
engineSnapshotsJson "$idx" "$snapshot_id"
but that function's second parameter is an app TAG filter. So it ran
`restic snapshots --tag app=<snapshot-id>`, matched nothing, and returned 1 —
every time, for every snapshot, since the file was written.
Nothing broke loudly, because both callers have a fallback:
* storageRestoreAppTo fell through to "restoring in place", reinstating the
exact cross-root bug the file exists to fix — restoring onto a host whose
containers root differs from the source's matched no include path and
restored nothing, silently
* the first-run preflight never read a manifest, so every app reported size
"?" and its fit and location checks passed unconditionally. Thirteen green
ticks that had checked nothing.
Add engineSnapshotPaths: restic answers it with a positional snapshot id, kopia
by filtering its list. borg has no adapter on purpose — it rebuilds its listing
from archive metadata that carries no paths — so a missing adapter is a quiet
"no" and those callers keep their in-place fallback.
Add scripts/dev/lp-preflight-test, which pins the cases that must say NO: an
app too big for the disk, one this version no longer ships, one whose storage
location is gone, and a resolver that reaches for the app-tag filter again.
Verified against both historical bugs — reintroducing either fails the test.
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Adds the wizard step for importing existing apps, so the common case is
answerable in the WebUI rather than only from a terminal.
Path-based, not upload, and that is the design rather than a shortcut. A
.lpapp is a plain tarball and the file is already on the server, so
nothing secret crosses into the browser — which is exactly why this can
live in the WebUI when the encrypted-repository restore cannot (§4.1).
Accepts a single file or a folder of them.
Check first, then accept: the step enqueues `app import-check --publish`,
polls the document it writes, and renders one row per file with its
verdict — ready, a warning (its old storage location is gone, so it will
land on the default), or a refusal (already installed, no longer shipped,
will not fit). Refused rows are shown greyed with the reason rather than
hidden, and cannot be selected.
setupApplyConfig re-runs appImport's own checks rather than trusting the
payload: the machine can change between the check and the apply, and the
list arrives from a browser.
The backend route shell-quotes the path — it reaches a command line and
is user input.
Verified: the step renders as "Step 6 of 7", and the underlying check was
proven against real .lpapp files (correct app name from the tar, size
from the manifest, warning for a missing storage location, refusals for
an already-installed app and a non-export).
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`libreportal app import-check <file-or-directory>` reports what an import
would do, as one JSON object per file, without touching anything. It runs
the same checks appImport makes — app still shipped, not already
installed, fits on the target, storage location still exists — so a UI can
show them and ask for acceptance before acting.
This is what makes a path-based import safe to drive from the WebUI when
the repository restore is not. A .lpapp is a plain tarball, not encrypted,
so there is no password to collect and nothing secret crosses from the
browser to the host — the blocker recorded in first-run-restore.md §4.1
simply does not apply.
Accepts a single file or a directory of them, so "point at this folder"
works as well as "point at this file".
Verified against real .lpapp files built for the purpose: app name read
from the tar's top-level directory rather than the filename, size read
from the manifest, a location the machine does not have downgraded to a
warning naming the fallback, and refusals for an already-installed app
and a file that is not an export at all.
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`libreportal app export <app>` writes one app to a single file;
`libreportal app import <file>` installs it here. This is the thing the
original request described as "upload or navigate to the backup file" — a
restic repository is not a file, but the want behind the phrasing is real.
The format is deliberately boring: gzipped tar of the app directory with
its .libreportal-manifest.json at the root. That manifest already records
size, images, volumes, databases and storage location, so import reuses
the phase-3 checks for free — refusing an app this version no longer
ships, or one that will not fit, before unpacking anything.
Export stops the app first. A tar of a running Postgres is a corrupt
Postgres, and a file that looks fine until you restore it is worse than a
refusal. tar runs as the owning user with --numeric-owner so container
sub-UIDs survive the round trip instead of being remapped through this
machine's /etc/passwd.
Import re-runs the normal install pipeline after unpacking, because the
compose still carries the SOURCE machine's ports, IPs and domains — that
pipeline is what re-allocates them here, and migrateUrlRewrite fixes the
host-bound CFG_* fields.
Documented throughout as a courier format, not a backup: no history, no
retention, no encryption. Importing under a different name is refused
outright rather than half-working — the CFG_<APP>_* namespace and compose
identities would all need rewriting, and `instance create` already
answers "a second copy".
Fixes a bug this surfaced: _appDirIntended did an indirect expansion on
CFG_<SLUG>_STORAGE without checking <SLUG> can be a variable name, so a
hyphenated or mistyped app name emitted "invalid variable name" and then
reported the misleading "storage location is not mounted" for an app that
simply did not exist.
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`restore preflight <loc_idx> <host>` reads every app's manifest out of its
own snapshot (engineDumpFile pulls a single file without restoring) and
checks it against this machine before anything is written:
* an app this version no longer ships is skipped — restoring one
produces a directory that can never start, and looks like success
until someone opens it
* an app that will not fit is skipped individually, because filling the
disk part-way through takes the apps that already landed with it
* a manifest naming a storage location this machine lacks falls back to
the default, and says which app moved where
The installer's restore path runs it and asks once before continuing.
Two bugs found by running it against the live repository rather than
reading it:
The CLI dispatcher calls handlers with NO arguments, so `shift 4; "$@"`
inside one operates on an empty list. `restore first-run bulk` has always
had this — a bulk restore silently received zero apps. Fixed at the entry
point: start.sh now captures LP_CLI_ARGS from "$@", and both call sites
use it.
And the wrapper fills unset argv slots with the literal string "empty"
(${5:-empty} … ${9:-empty}), so a trailing slot arrives as a five-
character app name rather than a blank. Filtering on -n alone let five
phantom apps through and reported each as "no longer shipped". Both call
sites now drop the sentinel. That also caps any explicit list at five, so
preflight discovers the host's apps itself when given none.
Verified against the live repository: 13 apps discovered and checked.
Sizes read "?" there because those snapshots predate manifests carrying
size_bytes — the intended graceful fallback, not a refusal.
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The Storage step was a technical dump: every check's full sentence
concatenated onto the card, so the fstab line the user is meant to act on
was buried in prose nobody reads.
The card now shows plain facts and at most two short flags — "Low on
space · Won't be mounted after a reboot" — with everything else behind a
Details button. The modal carries the technical spec (device, UUID, mount
options, removable), every check with its full explanation, and the
fstab offer.
That needed the shell to stop joining checks into one string: the
generator emits a record per check, plus the fstab line as its own field,
so neither the card nor the modal has to parse anything back out of the
other.
The screenshot caught a bug this restructure introduced: summaries keyed
on check id alone, so a PASSING check printed the failure wording next to
a green tick — "This drive's format can't store file ownership" above
"Filesystem: ext4". Now severity-aware.
On writing /etc/fstab — §1 ruled it out and §6.3 now records why that
reverses. The warning is useless to the audience this is for: "add this
line to fstab" assumes SSH, root, an editor, and knowing what fstab is,
and the likely outcome is a reboot where nothing starts. What makes it
defensible is nofail + x-systemd.device-timeout, which mean a missing
device can never block boot — without that pair it would stay a non-goal,
because the failure being risked (an unbootable machine) is worse than
the one being fixed.
Enforced in the root helper: UUID never /dev/sdX, append inside a marked
block, refuse a target or UUID already described, refuse the root
filesystem, require a live mount, timestamped backup, and
`findmnt --verify` before the file is installed — a file that doesn't
parse never reaches /etc. Opt-in only.
Verified against a real filesystem: entry added and verifies, the
persistence warning then disappears on the next scan, and duplicate /
root-fs / non-mountpoint / relative are each refused with the reason.
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Phase 3 of docs/roadmap/storage-locations.md.
The step appears only when the candidate scan finds a filesystem
LibrePortal isn't already using, so the single-disk case — which is most
boxes — is completely unchanged. It sits before Recommended because a
location has to exist before an app can be placed on it.
Supporting two conditional steps meant the wizard could no longer treat
'position in the DOM' and 'step index' as the same number: Metrics was
advanced-only and got away with 'length minus one', but a step hidden in
the MIDDLE leaves a gap. Navigation, progress, validation and submit now
all run off _visibleSteps(), and section matching is by data-step rather
than DOM position.
Unusable candidates render greyed WITH the reason rather than being
filtered out — 'why isn't my drive listed?' is a support burden, and
'exFAT can't store file ownership' is actionable. The step is skipped
only when nothing usable was found at all.
What the wizard sends is a request, not an instruction: setupApplyConfig
feeds each path through storageAdd, so the fitness checks and the root
helper's admission rules both re-run regardless of what arrived in the
payload.
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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.
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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.
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Phase 1 of docs/roadmap/storage-locations.md — locations can now exist.
Nothing places an app on one yet; that is phase 2.
libreportal-storage is the only writer of the root-owned registry, and
its admission rules are what make adding a location safe: absolute and
canonical (a symlinked path is refused), outside the protected system
set, non-nesting with any known root in either direction, and EMPTY — or
already carrying our marker, which is the adopt case for a drive that
already holds app data. Root only ever chowns an empty directory, so
acceptance cannot hand away anything that existed. The parent must also
not be manager-writable, which is what closes the validate-then-chown
race; /mnt and /srv qualify, a path inside the manager's home does not.
The fitness checks answer a different question — "will app data actually
work here" — and grade rather than refuse. Only checks 1-5 (filesystem
type, mount options, ownership, sub-UID range, write/read-back) can block.
Reboot persistence and removability warn, because both describe supported
setups and start-up is already gated by the marker test.
The ownership probe had to move into the root helper. For a candidate the
directory is not ours yet — a fresh /mnt/disk is root-owned 0755 — so an
unprivileged probe could only ever report "cannot create a directory
here", which says nothing about the filesystem. Verified against a real
loopback ext4: it now reports ownership, sub-UID and read-back cleanly.
The Disks view unions the registry with attached hardware, registry
first. Verified on the live box that pulling a drive leaves its row in
place as not-attached, naming the app stranded on it, rather than the row
silently disappearing at exactly the moment someone needs it.
Also registers storage_scripts with both loaders, adds the CLI category
(auto-dispatched by cli_initialize.sh), and bumps footprint_version to 6
for the new root helper and the widened sudoers allowlist.
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Two mechanical sweeps, no behaviour change on a single-root install.
The 14 `[[ "$p" == "$containers_dir"* ]]` prefix tests that decide
manager-vs-container-user elevation become pathIsContainerData, so a file
on a second storage root is no longer misclassified as manager-owned —
which would have written it with the wrong owner and failed later, far
from the cause. The 65 references to the WebUI's own tree become
webuiDir(), which is pinned to the primary root by design.
Two traps found while doing it:
run_privileged.sh is sourced directly by init.sh without paths.sh, so it
needs a fallback. Defining one named pathIsContainerData was wrong:
generate_function_manifest.sh indexes top-level definitions, and the
resulting autoload stub would have shadowed the real multi-root
implementation with the primary-only fallback — silently classifying
every file on a second disk as manager-owned, which is exactly the bug
this sweep exists to prevent. Renamed to _runCfgIsContainerPath, which
delegates when the real one is loaded.
setup_lock.sh built its path in a top-level assignment, so it was
evaluated at source time and needed the file flagged eager. Made it a
function instead: the path resolves on call, and the file drops off
LP_EAGER_FILES entirely.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixing _instanceRewriteTools does nothing for an instance already on disk, and
a clone from the old code is broken in ways that never announce themselves:
every Tools action answers "App '<slug>' has no tool '<id>'" because
dockerAppRunTool wants app<Ucfirst><Pascal>; `authPersistCfg <type>` writes the
instance's new admin credential into the BASE app's config; and the clone
defines the base app's adapter and tool names while its bodies exec against the
instance's container, so the loader keeps whichever it sourced last and the
base app's user tools can end up administering the instance — decided by
nothing but find(1) order. Seen on a live install: the generated manifest
resolved [appBookstackListUsers] to bookstack_test's copy.
libreportal instance repair [slug] [--dry-run]
Rewrites the template dir only — no container is touched, nothing reinstalled,
so it does not route through the task system the way create/remove do.
Idempotent by construction. Two of the three renames match their own output
(appMattermost_teest… still starts with appMattermost), and a clone from the
old code is only PARTLY wrong — its suffix hooks were always correct and end at
the slug with no trailing underscore, which the infix rule would otherwise read
as type + id + () and append the id twice
(appSetupComposeTags_nextcloud_family_family). Three sentinels park the
already-correct spellings before the rewrite and restore them after, so a
healthy instance is a no-op and an interrupted run can just be re-run.
Verified against fixtures built with the old rule set for all five
multi-instance apps that ship tools: after repair each tree is byte-identical
to a fresh clone from the fixed cloner, a second pass reports "already
correct", and --dry-run leaves checksums untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Prometheus kept being found stopped after boots, always Exited(0),
always alone. The journal settles it: both stops sit seconds before a
host shutdown boundary — container stopped 05:45:22, boot ended
05:45:30; stopped 04:41:59, boot ended 04:42:05. This is a laptop-class
host that gets shut down, and under ROOTLESS docker the containers are
ordinary processes in the user session, torn down by systemd in
parallel with dockerd's own exit.
That parallelism is the race. An app that handles SIGTERM promptly
exits while dockerd is still alive to record "stopped" — and
unless-stopped then means what it says: not restarted at the next
boot. Apps that exit slower, or die only when dockerd does, are
recorded as running and come back. Prometheus loses reliably because it
is the best-behaved process on the box ("See you next time!"), but
which app loses is a scheduling accident — changing Prometheus's
restart policy would treat the sample, not the race.
So an @reboot crontab entry now waits for the rootless daemon (up to
five minutes, then gives up rather than hang) and `compose up -d`s
every installed app via the existing dockerComposeUpAllApps. Idempotent:
running apps see no diff, stopped ones start, ordering is compose's
problem. Registered through crontabRefresh like the other entries, and
installed on this box.
The accepted trade, stated rather than hidden: an app deliberately
stopped before a reboot comes back after it. On a self-hosting box "the
fleet is up after boot" is the promise unless-stopped was already trying
to make; a stop that must survive reboots is what uninstall is for.
Verified by direct execution: daemon answered immediately, all
installed apps reconciled, running containers untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The unmaintained warning runs on one field — when upstream last rebuilt
the image — and off-Hub apps had no value for it. Hub answers in a single
call; the OCI API does not expose it at all, so an app on ghcr.io, quay.io
or lscr.io simply could not be assessed for staleness, which is the one
signal a user cannot work out for themselves.
It is in the image, just further down: manifest -> (if a multi-arch
index) a platform manifest -> config blob, whose "created" is the build
time. Three requests instead of Hub's one, once per registry window, and
only for the apps Hub cannot answer for — which is why Hub keeps its
cheap path rather than being routed through this.
Index and single-arch manifests are distinguished explicitly rather than
by position: in an index the first digest is a CHILD manifest, in an
image manifest it is the config itself, so reading "the first digest"
would silently fetch the wrong blob for one of the two shapes.
Live: stoat 2026-08-08, bookstack 2026-08-17, speedtest 2026-08-16,
invidious 2026-08-05 — all previously null. Hub unchanged, navidrome
still answered by the single-call path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Version discovery spoke only hub.docker.com, and every other registry
got a shrug: updaterTagExists returned "no" and updaterRegistryTags
returned nothing. Five apps live off Hub — stoat and wireguard on
ghcr.io, bookstack and speedtest on lscr.io, invidious on quay.io — and
for all of them the updater reported "up to date" having never asked.
That is the same dishonesty as a scan that never ran: an absence of
evidence rendered as a clean bill of health.
There was never a barrier, only unwritten code. The standard
Distribution API needs one extra step: request, read the
WWW-Authenticate challenge, fetch a token from the realm it names,
retry. ghcr.io, quay.io and lscr.io all answer anonymously for public
images — lscr.io by pointing its realm at ghcr.io, quay.io by not
challenging at all.
Docker Hub deliberately keeps its own path. hub.docker.com returns tags
NEWEST-first, so the 100 it pages are the 100 that matter, and it draws
on a different budget from the pull limit — registry-1.docker.io
manifest reads count against the anonymous 100/hour that the updater
needs for actual pulls, and a ladder probes a tag per rung.
Tag LISTING off Hub is a weaker signal and the comment says so: /v2/
tags/list is lexical, not newest-first, and large repos cap the page, so
the newest release can legitimately be absent. Probing backfills it,
which is why the probe fallback added earlier matters more off Hub than
on it.
Verified against all four registries: existence probing correct on eight
cases including true negatives; stoat climbs v0.15.0 -> v0.15.1 through
ghcr.io, and correctly reports nothing above v0.15.1 — the same answer
as before, but now because it looked. Hub unregressed: matrix still
resolves v1.158.0 -> v1.159.0 and nextcloud still ladders 31 -> 32 33 34.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stoat shipped with no account and no way to make one from LibrePortal. It is
first-come-first-served, with invite_only=false, no captcha and no email
verification, so every install left a window between the API answering and
someone signing up in which anyone who could reach the port could take the
instance. The installer now claims the configured account as soon as the API
responds, and prints the credentials instead of "go and register".
Provisioning goes over HTTP, not Mongo: an account needs a login AND a
completed onboarding (accounts holds one, users the other) and passwords go
through Stoat's argon2 layer. Failure is deliberately non-fatal — it leaves the
instance exactly as it was before this existed, which must not fail an
otherwise good install of sixteen containers.
Both obvious config defaults are rejected by Stoat, which is only visible as a
failed install, so both are chosen against its rules: example.com comes back
DisallowedContactSupport (reserved domain) hence admin@stoat.local, and "admin"
comes back InvalidUsername (reserved) hence "administrator".
Two of the three missing adapter operations are now implemented:
- createUser: create, log in, complete onboarding. Without the last step an
account can sign in and then sits on a pick-a-username screen forever.
- setPassword: previously excluded because hand-rolling argon2 risks writing a
hash nothing can verify, locking the holder out with no error at the time.
That objection is answered by refusing to hash at all — authifier already
owns a reset flow, so this writes only its password_reset token to Mongo and
lets PATCH /auth/account/reset_password do the hashing with the same code
that verifies. Verified: reset by username and by email, new password logs
in, token consumed.
setAdmin is still NOT implemented, and the header now says so with evidence
rather than assertion. Stoat has no instance-level admin flag: the user
document holds only _id/username/discriminator and GET /users/@me adds only
relationship and online. Permissions are per-server bitfields on server_members.
A "make admin" button would invent a concept the app does not have.
Also fixed two things found while testing:
- post_start returned early when the public URL needed no settling, which
skipped everything after it — so provisioning would have been silently
missed on exactly the domain-backed installs that guessed the URL right.
- _stoatBaseUrl advertised $public_ip_v4, the WAN address from an external
resolver, in URLs compiled into the web client. Same fix as the APP_URL
processor: prefer $local_ip_v4, since LibrePortal never forwards ports.
Verified end to end on a clean install: the owner account is created and
onboarded, the generated password logs in, both new tools run through
`libreportal app tool`, and a created account survives a password reset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GATE 1 refuses to ladder an app that cannot prove a rung landed, and
only mastodon, nextcloud and stalwart could. None of those are installed
here, so the stepped upgrade — button or automatic — was unreachable for
every app on the box.
Three fixes.
_updaterPrimaryContainer assumed the container is "<app>-service". It is
a convention, not a rule: matrix names its anchor service matrix-synapse
and stoat names its api (container stoat-api). The verifier therefore
inspected a container that does not exist, saw no state, and could only
time out — on exactly the stateful apps that most need verifying. It now
reads the anchor service's container_name from the compose, buffering
per service block because container_name may sit either side of the
image line.
Added updaterVerifyHttpVersion: poll the app over its PUBLISHED port
from the host, pull the version from a JSON field or a response header,
and require agreement three polls running. Probed from the host rather
than `docker exec … curl` because half these images ship no curl at all
(mattermost is one), so exec-based probing is a coin flip on the
vendor's base image. Version comparison matches only the components both
sides state, since tags and self-reported builds rarely share precision:
v1.158.0 vs 1.158.0, 11.9 vs 11.9.1, 8.7.0 vs 8.7 all agree; 11.9 vs
11.10 does not.
Each app hook is then three facts. Verified live: all three confirm at
the version they are actually on, and all three REFUSE a version they
are not — which is the property that makes stepping them safe.
updaterUpgradeAuto now skips apps with no verifier instead of queueing a
task that GATE 1 will reject, which would otherwise mean a failure
notification every day for an app that was never eligible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Audit of the per-app install hooks for singleton assumptions. The naming work
so far made identities unique, but a second copy still has to bind its own
ports, and `8201:80` is the same 8201 for every instance — the second container
simply fails at compose-up. `random:<internal>` is what makes an app
instanceable, since portAllocate then hands each instance its own host port.
Seven apps are caught: pihole (53 tcp+udp), stalwart (25/465/587/993), unbound
(5335 tcp+udp), traefik (443), searxng (8083), vaultwarden (8201), stoat
(7881). The message distinguishes the two cases, because they need opposite
fixes: an arbitrary pin like vaultwarden's 8201 should just become random,
while a DNS server on 53 or a mail server on 25 is genuinely one-per-host and
should never be instanced.
Runs before anything is cloned — this is a property of the app, not of the
instance. Bookstack is unaffected (all its ports are already random).
The rest of the hook audit found nothing further to fix:
- No hook writes to another app's config or deployed directory. The three that
reference ${containers_dir}traefik / headscale only test [[ -d ]] to detect
whether those are installed.
- Only two hooks read a foreign CFG_ namespace, and both are system-wide
settings (CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_TYPE, CFG_ENABLE_VIDEO), not another app's.
- No app declares a fixed container IP; all come from IP_TAG allocation.
- Host-level writes are limited to wireguard's sysctl IPv4-forwarding drop-in
(global and idempotent) and its /etc/wireguard/params conflict probe. Traefik
writes only under $containers_dir$app_name. Stalwart's /etc/stalwart path is
inside its container.
Not mechanically checkable, so left as maintainer judgement: gluetun is a
network provider other apps join via network_mode container:gluetun-service,
and it plus wireguard hold NET_ADMIN and /dev/net/tun. Both are one-per-host
for reasons no guard can see.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two halves: the ladder could not climb the commonest versioning scheme,
and nothing ever climbed it on its own.
The ladder stepped by bumping a tag's LAST numeric component, so
v1.158.0 went v1.158.1, v1.158.2, … and never arrived at v1.159.0. It
then failed closed, refusing to build a path. Synapse publishes
v1.159.0 and no v1.158.1 at all, so Matrix could not be laddered by the
button either — three-part semver minor bumps were simply unreachable.
updaterNextRung now considers a bump of every component, keeps the
candidates that exist upstream and takes the smallest: the next release
by definition, whether it lands in the patch position or crosses into a
new major. Shape discipline is unchanged, so 31-fpm-alpine still never
becomes 31-apache, and each rung is still probed, so none can be
skipped. updaterTagBumpAt moves here from the scan, its natural home,
which also breaks a source cycle.
updaterUpgradeAuto then climbs at most ONE rung per app per calendar
day, inside the install window, for apps set to auto. One rung because a
ladder run unattended can be several migrations deep before anyone
looks, and "restore the snapshot from a minute ago" stops comforting
once four have stacked; one a day so there is time to notice. It crosses
a major if that is genuinely the next release — refusing would strand an
app on the last version of its line forever — but one step at a time,
never as a leap. Two stamps: the target rung (a failure is not retried
until something newer ships) and the day.
Every rung goes through updaterUpgradeApp unchanged, so GATE 1 still
refuses any app without a real verifier, and the per-rung contract is
identical to the button: snapshot fail-closed, set version, pull, up,
verify, restore that rung and stop on any failure. History now records
the trigger instead of hardcoding "manual", including on the rollback
paths. CFG_UPDATER_LADDER_AUTO gates the whole thing separately from
CFG_UPDATER_AUTO, because "keep my apps patched" and "move my apps
between versions unattended" are different appetites for risk.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Audit of per-app hooks/tools found 19 of 33 apps whose helpers would have
operated on the BASE app after cloning. Two general causes, both fixed by
rewriting classes rather than patching apps:
- Container references escaped the rewrite whenever a flag sat between the
docker verb and the target (`docker exec -u git gitea-service …`), since the
old rule only matched a name immediately after the verb — and the hyphenated
form missed the `<type>_` rule too. Hook trees now get the same discovered
identity rename the compose does, reading names from the TYPE's compose since
the clone has already been rewritten by then. Safe to apply broadly: the
compose pass runs first and aborts for any app whose identities aren't
<type>-prefixed, so a bare word like stoat's `api` never reaches it.
- Hooks that build the deployed path as "${containers_dir}<type>/..." instead
of "$containers_dir$app_name/..." read and WROTE the base app's files —
adguard's auth adapter edits AdGuardHome.yaml, so an instance would have
rewritten the original's config. The trailing slash is optional in the match:
dashy tests [[ -d "${containers_dir}dashy" ]] and gluetun cds into it, both
ending at the quote. Only the first path component is touched, so
${containers_dir}prometheus/prometheus/... keeps its inner segment.
Re-audit: all 33 apps with hook trees are clean. Stoat still leaks, but it is
refused at the compose stage and never reaches this code.
Volumes audited too, and need no changes: no app uses named volumes, so the
./relative bind mounts every app uses resolve inside each instance's own
deployed dir. The absolute sources that exist are host or in-container paths
correctly shared read-only (/etc/localtime, /sys, /etc/ssl/certs). Jitsi's
${CONFIG} is set per-app by its own hook to $containers_dir$app_name/... and so
follows the slug.
Bookstack's rewritten tool tree is byte-identical to the live instance's across
all 8 files, so the running instances are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An instance's isolation never needed a domain — its own slug, dir, secrets,
IP and randomly-allocated host port already make two copies independent. But
the routing layer assumed one, so a LAN-only box got a broken instance rather
than a port-served one. Four fixes:
- instanceCreate now rewrites the parent-service column of the cloned config's
PORT_ rows to match the service names it stamps into the compose. That value
is stored as network_resources.parent_service and joined against the
compose-derived service names, so an instance left carrying the TYPE's
service name matched nothing: it rendered in the WebUI with no port, no URL
and no login row despite being up and reachable.
- `instance create --local` (plus a LAN-only toggle in the modal) forces every
port to access=private, traefik=false, for a second copy that should stay
off the domain even when one is configured.
- initializeAppVariables forces the traefik column false when no CFG_DOMAIN_n
is set. Previously a traefik=true port with an empty domain stamped
Host(`app.`) — a trailing-dot host matching nothing — and dragged APP_URL to
https://app. with it, breaking every app that builds its links from APP_URL.
host_setup is blanked for the same reason. The published host port is
untouched; access type, not the traefik flag, gates allocation.
- APP_URL's direct host-port branch now prefers a new $local_ip_v4 (the source
IP for the default route) over $public_ip_v4, which is the WAN address from
an external resolver. LibrePortal never forwards ports, so the WAN address
was unreachable for exactly the LAN/VPN clients that branch serves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
updaterNewerVersionByProbe guarded on updaterTagExists being defined
and gave up when it was not. That function lives in the ladder, and a
cross-file function is not reliably loaded in the generator's context —
updaterAppPolicy a few lines below already carries an explicit source
fallback for exactly this. Without one the probe silently did nothing,
which is the failure mode it was added to remove.
Source the ladder when the function is absent, matching the existing
idiom. Verified by calling the probe with updaterTagExists undefined:
it now loads the ladder and returns v1.159.0 for matrixdotorg/synapse
instead of an empty string.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
footprint_update_needed only ever came from comparing the installed marker
against a channel manifest, so it could not fire on a git or local install —
they have no channel to ask. Those are exactly the installs whose code tree is
synced by hand, i.e. the ones most able to drift, and the drift was silent: the
helpers in /usr/local/lib/libreportal could sit behind the code that calls them
with nothing reporting it. That is how this box ended up running a crowdsec
helper with no bouncer-traefik-rotate action while the tool that needs it
shipped.
init.sh is what bakes the marker, so the install tree's own init.sh is
authoritative for every mode. lpInstallTreeFootprintVersion reads it and
lpFootprintStale compares. Wired into both non-release branches of the WebUI
status generator, and into the local branch of the interactive update check,
which is where a local operator actually looks.
Fails safe: a tree older than the marker, or a missing init.sh, reports current
rather than warning — verified alongside the real stale case.
Also gives webuiSystemUpdateCheck the self-reload guard webuiGenerateAppsToolsConfig
already documents. The WebUI task service sources these once at startup, so
without it an edited generator keeps writing the old JSON from memory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Running any tool jumped to the Tasks tab and left the user stranded there. That
is right for an install — long, log-heavy, worth watching — and wrong for a
tool, which is a short admin action whose answer is one line. Worse, half of
these are only meaningful back on Tools: List Users opens a modal over that tab,
and Create User Account returns a generated password that was being buried in a
log the user then had to go read.
Tools now stay put. On completion the tool's own outcome lines — the
isSuccessful/isError/isNotice output, ANSI stripped and framework boilerplate
filtered — are shown in a small result modal, with a View log button for
anything needing the full detail. list_users is left alone because the existing
account-list modal is already a better result view.
Also stops generate_arrays.sh walking scripts/dev. That directory is
`export-ignore`d, so it exists in a working clone but never in a shipped
install; generating a files_dev.sh entry from it wrote a reference into
files_source.sh that no install could satisfy, and the loader treats a missing
array file as a broken installation — every libreportal command stopped with
"files_dev.sh is missing from your LibrePortal Installation". Excluded alongside
unused/, system/ and release/. Regenerating also picked up scripts/validation,
which had never had an array file.
And Matrix's account listing prints its aligned line from python rather than
re-splitting the marker line in bash: TAB is IFS whitespace, so an empty display
name collapsed into the previous delimiter and shifted every later column.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`libreportal validation app|system|all|status` dispatched to four functions that
were never defined anywhere and were absent from the manifest, so every
subcommand failed. They exist now.
The checks are the ones that would have caught the bugs found while auditing the
credential rework, all of which were invisible at runtime — a mis-declared key
does not crash, it silently stops working:
* two keys sharing one RANDOMIZED<n>, which gave Gitea's metrics token and its
admin password the same value
* a generated key with no slot number
* an annotation whose value is absent from its line body, so the tag can never
substitute — how 0.1.0 Mastodon shipped a placeholder as its live password
* an auth adapter persisting a key the config does not declare, making every
password reset a silent no-op
* duplicate keys, keys under the wrong app prefix, and compose tags with
nothing to fill them
Verified both directions: clean across all 39 apps today, and each of the seven
bug classes above is caught when reintroduced into a scratch copy of the catalog
(including the real 0.1.0 mastodon compose pulled from git history).
Version tags are exempt from the backing-key check: the updater builds both the
CFG name and the tag name from the slug at runtime, so neither literal exists to
find.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An app's deployed config is written once, on first install, and never
touched again — dockerConfigSetupToContainer copies only when the file is
absent, precisely so an update can never overwrite values someone has
edited. Right default, unchosen consequence: an app that gains a CFG_
option in a new release has it on every fresh install and on no existing
one.
The failure is silent, which is the worst part. Nothing errors. The key
reads as empty and whatever depends on it quietly does something else.
Two halves, because there were two gaps. Per-app, when a config is set up,
options present in the template and missing from the deployed file are
appended with their comment blocks — the comment is the only explanation
of a new option that exists, and a bare key at the end of a documented file
is not actionable. And a sweep across every installed app after an update,
because an update redeploys LibrePortal itself and nothing else, so without
it a new option would reach an app only when someone next reinstalled it —
which, for an app that is working, may be never.
Existing values are never touched, and keys the deployed file has but the
template no longer does are left alone: a removed option is usually a
rename, and deleting someone's value is not recoverable. Deliberately not a
regenerate-from-template, which would place new keys in their proper
section and refresh the docs, but would put a whole-file rewrite of every
app config in the path of every app action — appending cannot lose a line.
Backfilled RANDOMIZED* defaults are generated in both paths. A placeholder
left in place would otherwise be a credential identical on every install
that took the upgrade.
The sweep is driven from the template directory, not the container one:
under rootless the container tree is drwxr-x--x and owned by the docker
user, so the manager can traverse it but not list it, and a glob there
expands to nothing — the sweep would report success having examined no apps.
Run against this install it found real drift beyond the test fixtures:
mattermost was missing CFG_MATTERMOST_ADMIN_PASSWORD, whose own comment
notes that without it the password-reset tool has nothing to write to, and
speedtest was missing its password key entirely.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both _titleBlock implementations title-cased the slug themselves instead of
calling getAppDisplayName, so the Tools tab read "Run app-specific actions for
Rocketchat" and Services read "the docker compose services that make up
Speedtest".
getAppDisplayName already resolves a slug to the app's declared title through
window.apps. Using it fixes four apps beyond Rocket.Chat:
rocketchat Rocketchat -> Rocket.Chat
speedtest Speedtest -> LibreSpeed
ipinfo Ipinfo -> IPinfo
libreportal_catalog Libreportal Catalog -> LibrePortal Catalog
The slug casing is kept as the fallback for the window.apps-not-loaded-yet case,
which is what the helper does internally anyway.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Tools tab has an interactive modal: when a list_users task completes it
parses the task log for EZ_USER lines and renders one row per account with
reset / promote / delete buttons. All four new apps failed its contract in every
respect, so running List Users produced log text and nothing else.
- The marker is EZ_USER, tab-separated as email, username, roles. Matrix and
Stoat emitted LP_USER in a different field order; Mattermost and Rocket.Chat
emitted no marker at all.
- Matrix and Stoat then consumed their own marker lines in the formatting loop
and printed only the pretty version, so nothing reached the log to parse.
- The row buttons look up tools by id: reset_password, set_admin, delete_user.
The deactivate tools were named deactivate_user / disable_user, so no delete
button rendered.
- Prefill only fills a field named email or username. Rocket.Chat's and Stoat's
identifier field was called user, so a row action would have opened with an
empty box.
- '-' placeholders are truthy, so the modal's `email || username` fallback
picked '-' over the real username for accounts without an email (rocket.cat).
The EZ_USER line now carries an empty string; '-' stays in the readable line.
Mattermost's listing is rebuilt on `mmctl --json`, which carries roles and
delete_at. The text listing has neither, and there is no --system-admin filter
on user list, so every account was reported as a plain user. Two parsing notes
that cost time: mmctl prints status lines both before and after the JSON, so it
needs raw_decode rather than json.loads; and --per-page above 200 makes it emit
a warning line ahead of the payload.
The modal's delete button also stops asserting "Delete user" over whatever the
tool actually does — it takes its label and icon from the tool, because most of
these deactivate and Matrix cannot delete at all.
Verified by replaying the modal's own parser over real tool output: 2 rows for
Matrix, 4 for Mattermost, 3 for Rocket.Chat, with admin and deactivated states
resolving correctly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Instance install (bugs found by running one end to end):
- The cloned compose kept the TYPE's tag namespace
(#LIBREPORTAL|BOOKSTACK_APP_KEY_1_TAG|...) while the config had been
re-namespaced to CFG_<SLUG>_*, so tagsProcessorAppConfigValues matched
nothing, the placeholders survived and the pre-start guard refused to
launch. Rewrite the tag names and *_DATA tokens too — narrowly, so an
app whose compose sets a real env var named after itself is untouched.
- Tools/hooks kept uppercase CFG_<TYPE>_ reads, so an instance
provisioned itself from the type's config and ignored its own values.
- Cloned hooks were never loaded: both loaders run at startup, before the
instance dir exists, so _appCallHook's `declare -F` found nothing and
every <slug>_install_* hook silently no-opped — for bookstack that is
the readiness probe and the admin bootstrap. Source the instance's own
scripts in-process, then regen arrays + manifest for later runs.
- bookstack's hook hardcoded the container name after `docker exec -e ...`
flags, where the rewriter can't see it, so an instance's admin bootstrap
ran against the BASE app's container — including a tinker DELETE of a
user. Target "$app_name" instead, and teach the rewriter the
container="<type>" assignment form used by auth adapters.
network_resources uniqueness:
UNIQUE(resource_type, resource_value) is right for 'ip' and 'port' but the
port-tag writer stores descriptive rows in the same table with INSERT OR
REPLACE, so every install DELETED the matching row from whichever app held
it. traefik_managed and url_accessible are booleans, so the whole table
could only ever hold one row of each. Observed live: installing a second
bookstack took all four traefik_managed/url_accessible rows from stoat and
bookstack, and removing that instance took the stolen rows with it.
Replace it with a partial unique index scoped to ip/port, and migrate
existing databases in place (SQLite can't drop a constraint, so the table
is rebuilt inside a transaction). The migration is invoked from
portUpdateComposeTags, not just databaseCreateTables — the latter only
runs from startPreInstall, which a working install never re-runs.
Verified: two bookstacks now hold port_tag_internal=80, traefik_managed
and url_accessible simultaneously; duplicate host ports and IPs are still
rejected; instance installs, serves HTTP 200, provisions its own admin in
its own database, and removes cleanly with no orphan rows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A mail server is two quite different products wearing one name, and until
now LibrePortal only offered the hard one. Installing Stalwart meant being
handed a wall of DNS records, a red error about port 25 and a warning about
reverse DNS — all of it correct, none of it fixable by the installer, and
most of it irrelevant to someone who wanted mailboxes and a shared calendar
on their own network.
CFG_STALWART_MODE now names which one you are running:
private mailboxes, IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV on your own network. Port 25
is not published at all; the client ports stay bound to the host
but are never opened through the firewall. No MX, no PTR, no
deliverability. Nothing to publish, so nothing is printed.
public the internet mail server, as before.
auto public if Traefik is installed, private if not, resolved at
install and written back so it reads as a real answer afterwards.
DKIM keys are generated in both modes even though private has no use for
them today — that is what makes switching later a setting change rather
than a key ceremony. The WebUI gets a "Mail Exposure" tool that flips the
setting both ways and reconfigures the server, plus a "Show DNS Records"
tool that prints the live zone including current DKIM keys.
Two things this had to get right, both found by testing rather than
reading. Port access lives in the shell as CFG_<APP>_PORT_n, not just in
the config file, and the compose file is built from the parsed shell
values — editing only the file left the config claiming port 25 was
disabled while the container published it anyway. And going public needs
an AcmeProvider to exist before a domain can reference one, so the switch
creates it; note that doing so registers an account with Let's Encrypt.
Verified through real installs: auto resolves to private with no Traefik,
port 25 is genuinely unpublished and absent from the compose file, the
client ports are skipped by the firewall as host-bound, and the tool
round-trips private -> public -> private with the config landing back
exactly where it started.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three things running the tools against a live instance exposed:
- roles.addUserToRole takes roleId + username and nothing else. Passing roleName
fails schema validation with "must NOT have additional properties", and
roleId + userId is refused for a missing username. Set admin was broken in
both directions.
- Rocket.Chat enables a password policy by default demanding lower, upper, digit
AND special at 14+ characters, while generateRandomPassword is alphanumeric.
Reset failed with "does not meet the server's password policy". Notably
users.create does NOT enforce the policy, which is why creating an account
worked and resetting the same account's password did not — an inconsistency
worth knowing about rather than guessing at. Generated passwords now carry one
character from each class appended, leaving the generated entropy untouched.
- Deactivation had no counterpart, so "reversible from Admin → Users" was only
true if you left the WebUI. Adds an Enable tool, matching Stoat's.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rocket.Chat gets the full five — create, list, reset password, set admin,
deactivate — over its REST API. Two supporting changes make that possible:
- The first admin is now seeded at install from CFG_ROCKETCHAT_ADMIN_*, and
the setup wizard is marked completed. Previously the install left a wizard
for someone to click through, and, more to the point, left no account for
the tools to authenticate as. Rocket.Chat honours those env vars only while
no admin exists, so they are inert on every later boot.
- Calls go out with curl from the host rather than from inside the container.
The image ships node but no curl, and the base URL is read from the deployed
compose's ROOT_URL, which the APP_URL tag has already resolved to whatever
this install actually serves on.
Stoat gets three — list, disable, enable — and the adapter says plainly why it
stops there. Password reset would mean reimplementing its argon2 hashing in
bash, where being subtly wrong writes a hash nothing can verify and locks the
account out with no error at the time. "Make admin" would misrepresent the
model: Stoat's permissions are per-server bitfields on server_members, not a
global flag. Its service containers are distroless with no shell and it has no
admin CLI, so the database is the only durable handle.
Deactivate rather than delete in both, and the destructive actions refuse to
touch the account the tools authenticate as.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Answers "should we stop creating an admin/pass on start" with the split the
catalog actually has, rather than one way for everything.
Ten apps need it: adguard, authelia, bookstack, matrix, nextcloud, owncloud,
pihole, rocketchat, stalwart, speedtest and headscale either pass the generated
password into the container or hand it to an install hook that creates the
account. There the password IS the working credential — dropping it would lock
you out. Left alone.
Three do not create an account at all: gitea, invidious and mattermost seed no
user (the first one comes from their own signup flow or the Create Account tool),
so the password minted at install named nothing. The WebUI credentials card
showed a password that could not log in. They now match linkding — an empty,
unslotted ADMIN_PASSWORD the auth adapter fills when the operator makes the first
admin, and keeps in step on later resets. Unslotted because the slot number marks
a value the installer generates.
mattermost's adapter also had linkding's bug: it persists ADMIN_PASSWORD but the
config declared only ADMIN_EMAIL, so the write was a no-op.
WebUI: rocketchat's generated admin password had no field mapping, so the card
could not show it. Added, plus a generic ADMIN_USER entry — six apps record an
admin username the card had no way to display.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five Tools-tab actions: create account, list users, reset password, set admin,
deactivate.
Driven by mmctl --local, which talks to the server's unix socket rather than the
REST API — no credentials to store, no token to expire, and it keeps working
when the admin account is locked out or the site URL is wrong. mmctl is also the
only route available: the v11 image is distroless with no shell at all, so every
call has to be a direct exec of a binary.
Two things found by running them:
- `user promote` / `user demote` convert between GUEST and member accounts and
have nothing to do with administrator rights. Granting system admin is
`roles system-admin` / `roles member`. The first version used the wrong pair
and failed with "Unable to convert the guest to regular user because is not a
guest."
- mmctl errors are multi-line: a summary line, then an indented bullet carrying
the part that explains anything. Reporting the first line alone surfaced
"1 error occurred:" and threw the reason away.
Deactivate rather than delete, deliberately: Mattermost's delete is a permanent
content purge, which is not something a single WebUI button should do.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five Tools-tab actions backed by Synapse's admin API: create account, list
users, reset password, set admin, deactivate. All driven through
`docker exec matrix-synapse python` — the image has no curl, python is what
Synapse itself runs on, and talking to localhost:8008 means the tools work the
same LAN-only or behind Traefik and never depend on the published port.
Two Matrix facts are surfaced rather than hidden: a user ID is permanent, and
there is no delete — deactivation is terminal and burns the ID. The tool is
named "Deactivate" for that reason. Both destructive actions refuse to touch the
account the tools themselves authenticate as, which would otherwise lock the
Tools tab out of the server it manages.
The admin token is cached under data/. Logging in per invocation looked tidier
and was wrong: Synapse rate-limits /login, so a few tools in succession failed
with "Too Many Requests" — the tools were throttling themselves. One login,
reused, with a single re-login on 401 and a 429 retry that honours
retry_after_ms.
Also renames the Synapse logging config from log.config to log.yaml. The config
loader runs
find "$containers_dir" -maxdepth 3 -type f -name '*.config'
and `source`s every match as bash. The file lands at <app>/data/log.yaml, which
is exactly depth 3, so under its old name EVERY libreportal command sourced a
YAML document as a shell script. It printed "command not found" per line and
took a CLI call from 1 second to 100. Only resources/ is pruned from that scan,
not data/ — so *.config is effectively a reserved extension anywhere under an
app directory, not just at its root.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
linkding_auth.sh persists ADMIN_USER and ADMIN_PASSWORD when the first admin is
created, and keeps the password in step on later resets of that account, but
linkding.config declared neither — so both writes were no-ops and the WebUI
credentials card never had anything to show. Predates the slot work; it only
became visible once authPersistCfg started warning instead of failing silently.
Added empty rather than RANDOMIZED*, because unlike bookstack or nextcloud
nothing seeds a linkding account at install — the first user is created from the
WebUI. A generated password would name an account that does not exist, and the
card would display a password that cannot log in. Unslotted for the same reason:
the slot number marks a value the installer generates, and this one is written at
runtime by the tool.
No AUTH_PROFILE key: nothing reads it (it exists only in a comment in
auth_adapter.sh), and adding an unread key is what was just cleaned up elsewhere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both apps demanded a domain and Traefik. That was over-constrained: LibrePortal
ships WireGuard, Headscale and private ports, so LAN and VPN-only is a
first-class deployment here, and Rocket.Chat and Mattermost already prove chat
apps work fine on http://<lan-ip>:<port>.
The gate on Matrix rested on a mistake of mine: server_name being permanent.
server_name and public_baseurl are independent — the identity can be a domain
you own with no DNS behind it while clients reach the server on a LAN address,
so federation can be switched on later by adding DNS and TLS, with no rebuild
and no lost history. CFG_MATRIX_SERVER_NAME now exposes exactly that, and the
install warns when it falls back to the machine's IP.
What is genuinely lost without a domain is stated where it belongs, at install:
Matrix cannot federate and Element's mobile apps want HTTPS; Stoat cannot do
camera or microphone, because browsers gate getUserMedia on a secure context
and a VPN does not change that, the check being on the URL scheme.
Both now derive their URL from the port that was actually allocated. Since ports
are only assigned during compose-up, each writes a best guess before start and
corrects it afterwards, restarting only when the value really changed.
Three bugs found while proving it works end to end:
- The Synapse image writes /data as its UID/GID env, default 991, which under
rootless is a host sub-UID owning nothing — so the generated signing key could
not be moved by the install user. Both the generate container and the service
now run as the same identity USER_TAG resolves to.
- Element's config.json is bind-mounted as a file, and docker silently creates a
DIRECTORY when the source is missing. An early return left exactly that
landmine, which then broke every later run. It is written first now, and a
stale directory is cleared.
- A successful admin registration was reported as an error: checkSuccess read $?
after an intervening [[ ]] test rather than the command's own status.
Verified with no domain and no Traefik installed: Synapse answers
/_matrix/client/versions and /health on http://<ip>:<port>, admin login returns
a token, and Element is configured against the corrected base_url.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VAPID: the two values are the halves of one P-256 keypair, not independent
secrets — the browser verifies that a push is signed by the private key matching
the public key it subscribed with. The RANDOMIZED* generators mint each
placeholder on its own, so they produced two unrelated strings and web push could
never have worked. Generate the pair in mastodon_install_post_setup the way stoat
already does, encoded as Mastodon's webpush gem expects: unpadded URL-safe base64
of the 32-byte private scalar and the 65-byte uncompressed public point, sliced
out of the SEC1 DER. Verified by rebuilding the key from the emitted private half
and re-deriving the public point — openssl accepts it and the point matches.
Generated once and never rotated (rotation would invalidate every subscription),
but a pair of the wrong shape is replaced, so an install carrying the old
unrelated strings heals itself on next install — their public half is 42 chars
where a real point is 87.
Slots: CFG_<APP>_DB_PASSWORD -> CFG_<APP>_DB_PASSWORD_1 and likewise for
DB_ROOT_PASSWORD, across mastodon, owncloud, mattermost, matrix, nextcloud and
bookstack, so a database credential is always a numbered slot and a second one is
just _2. Renaming a key means reconciliation drops the old and adds the new
holding its placeholder, so an existing install regenerates unless the value is
carried over first — documented, including that the old file survives as
.<app>.config.bak.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sixteen containers: MongoDB, Valkey, RabbitMQ, MinIO and eleven Stoat services.
Servers, channels, roles and voice/video through LiveKit — the nearest thing in
the catalogue to Discord itself, at the price of being much the heaviest app in
it. Does not federate.
The compose service keys are deliberately kept identical to upstream's
(database, redis, api, autumn, ...) while container_name is prefixed stoat-.
Compose registers both on the network, so upstream's internal defaults keep
resolving and LibrePortal still gets the prefixed names its port, firewall and
backup layers key on.
Upstream's Caddy is kept as the internal path router and Traefik simply proxies
to it, which is upstream's own supported behind-a-reverse-proxy mode —
reimplementing eight path routes as Traefik labels would be a second copy to
keep in sync for nothing. The install hook is a non-interactive port of
generate_config.sh, and it never rewrites an existing secrets.env:
REVOLT__FILES__ENCRYPTION_KEY decrypts every file ever uploaded, so
regenerating it would orphan the whole media store.
LiveKit's UDP media range is published literally rather than through the port
table, because the firewall rebuild emits /tcp rules only and a range declared
there would produce a wrong rule rather than no rule. Voice falls back to TCP
7881 until the range is opened by hand; the post-install notice says so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A new Stalwart drops you into a five-screen wizard — hostname, domain,
storage backend, directory, logging, DNS — before it will do anything.
LibrePortal already knows the two answers that matter and the rest have
sane defaults, so asking is asking a question we can answer ourselves.
v0.16 exposes those wizard fields as a `Bootstrap` singleton, so the whole
thing is one `update` applied through the Stalwart CLI. The CLI is not in
the server image (upstream split it into its own repo), but it publishes a
multi-arch container, so we borrow the server's network namespace and run
it there — nothing installed on the host, nothing to clean up, arm64 works.
Setup now also:
- generates DKIM keys (Ed25519 + RSA) with rotation left switched on, and
requests a TLS certificate. That last one is easy to miss: Traefik only
fronts the admin port, so 25/465/587/993 never see its certificate and
clients would hit a self-signed one on 993.
- creates postmaster@<domain>. The generated zone points DMARC and TLS-RPT
reports there and nothing was creating it, so those reports bounced.
- prints the record set read back from the server rather than composed
here, so it includes the real DKIM public keys, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT and the
SRV records clients autoconfigure from. This hook used to tell the user
to go and fetch DKIM themselves; by that point the keys exist.
Optionally hands DNS to a provider API (Cloudflare/DigitalOcean/DeSEC),
which keeps the whole record set in sync and makes DKIM rotation safe to
leave on. Off by default: the token can write to your zone and lives in
the mail server's database.
Re-running is safe — provisioning is skipped once config.json exists, and
the plans use upsert so they reconcile rather than duplicate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A failed verify makes the engine abort and restore, and a restore cannot
put back a bundle that was never downloaded — it would roll a working
mail server back a version to fix a missing web page, then hit the same
empty GitHub fetch next time. So the console check now warns loudly and
returns 0; readiness stays the only gate.
Renamed to stalwart_upgrade_check_admin_ui so the name cannot be read as
part of the gate, and bounded its poll to a 60s grace window (capped by
the caller's deadline) — the upgrade result is already decided by then,
so there is no reason to hold the run open on a web asset. The unreach-
able-probe branch is advisory for the same reason.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stalwart v0.16 does not ship the WebUI in its Docker image — the admin
console is fetched from GitHub on first start. With no outbound HTTPS at
that moment the fetch fails silently: /healthz/ready still answers 200
because the mail server genuinely is serving, so both the installer and
the upgrade verifier reported success while /admin and /account 404'd
with nothing to explain why.
Install hook now probes /admin after the port-25 and PTR checks and, on
404, names the GitHub download as the cause rather than emitting a
generic failure. Upgrade verifier treats stable readiness as necessary
but not sufficient and confirms /admin before returning 0; the console
is polled under the same deadline because the bundle download runs
behind the server coming up, and failing on the first 404 would abort an
upgrade that was seconds from finishing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removing Focalboard from the catalogue left its icon still being served:
the sync only ever ADDS, so every app ever dropped leaves a file behind
that the portal keeps offering for something that is gone. Same shape as
the task queue that only ever appended.
webuiPruneAppIcons runs at the end of the sync and removes only icons it
can match to a missing template — anything else in the directory is left
alone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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