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>
sourceScanFiles sourced every file two levels deep under configs/, and
sourcing means executing. A directory used there as ordinary storage
therefore turned its contents into a script.
storageIndexSet caches an app -> root TSV at configs/storage/app_locations,
with no .category marker alongside it. Every line is `<slug><TAB><path>`,
which bash reads as a command and its argument. That stayed invisible while
no slug matched a real executable — and became a fork bomb the moment the
index recorded the app named `libreportal`, because that IS the CLI on PATH:
sourcing ran `libreportal /libreportal-containers`, which re-entered the same
scan, which sourced the file again, one process pair per level until the host
died of OOM. Every CLI invocation on the box detonated it, the task
processor's own poll included, so the machine black-screened out of memory
minutes after each boot.
Files in a SUBDIRECTORY are now sourced only when that directory carries
.category — the contract commandReloadConfigs already enforces in the CLI
wrapper, and one every real config category (webui, general, security,
backup, network) already satisfies. Files directly in configs/ are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
sourceScanFiles "app_configs" runs as the docker install user and walks
all of containers/. Container-created data dirs (e.g. <app>/postgres,
uid 231141 mode 0700 under rootless) aren't listable by that user, so
find printed a "Permission denied" line per dir into the middle of every
app install's output — noise that reads like the install is touching
other apps.
Prune unreadable/non-traversable dirs instead of descending into them.
They never hold a .config, and pruning keeps genuine find errors
visible where a blanket 2>/dev/null would not. Verified the scan returns
the same 10 configs, with no stderr.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Reverts the 2>/dev/null band-aids and fixes the root cause. The
manager-run install boot scans app configs under /docker/containers AS
the container user (runFileOp). But init.sh's initFolders creates that
dir manager-owned, and the handover to the container user happened later
(start_preinstall), AFTER the boot scans — so the scans ran as the
container user against a dir it didn't own yet: "find:
'/docker/containers/': Permission denied" (cosmetic; the dir is empty
that early, but it's the wrong ownership at the wrong time).
Add initContainerLayer() to init.sh's root phase (after initGIT +
initUpdateConfigs, before the manager-run handoff): rootless-only, it
creates the docker-install user if missing and chowns /docker/containers
to it (751). The later rootless setup is now idempotent — it finds the
user existing and just (re)asserts its password + daemon config (moved
updateDockerInstallPassword out of the create-only branch). Rooted is
unaffected (containers stay manager-owned, which the manager reads).
Result: by the time the boot scans run, /docker/containers is owned by
the user doing the scanning — no permission error, nothing suppressed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Early in an install the docker-type config isn't loaded yet, so runFileOp
falls back to the manager, which can't list the container-owned (751)
/docker/containers/ dir. Two best-effort scans then leaked
"find: '/docker/containers/': Permission denied" to the install output
(x3 per run): scan_files.sh's app_configs scan and the application config
reconcile. No app configs exist that early on a fresh install, so the
empty result is correct — just suppress the find stderr (the -print0
output still flows). Cosmetic only; doesn't change what's enumerated once
the config is loaded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
scan_files used 'sudo find' to enumerate config files to source. Under the
scoped sudoers that's denied, so NO configs got sourced -> CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_TYPE
ended up empty -> runFileOp/runFileWrite fell back to the manager branch and
every container-path write failed. Root cause of the 'sudo: a password is
required' + 'tee: Permission denied' storm when running under the scoped grant.
- configs/ scan (manager-owned): plain find
- app_configs scan (/docker/containers, docker-install-owned, not list-readable
by the manager): runFileOp find (enumerate as that user; manager still sources
each .config, which is o+r). 'containers' install templates stay plain find.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
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