The startup normalize and _run_acme_preflight covered daemon startup and issue/renew, but the recurring collector poll called lib.acme.list_certs() without normalizing ACME_HOME. A non-daemon run (e.g. a manual run as the WebUI user) re-creating account.conf owner-only made every acme.sh --list exit 2, so the collector returned certs=[] and the UI showed no certs until the next issue/renew or daemon restart.
- collector: normalize_acme_home() before list_certs() so the poll self-heals
- issue pre-check: normalize before the direct lib.acme.list_certs()
- _parse_account_conf: read acme.sh v3 account.conf (not just .account.conf)
- _collect_acme: actionable status.error for the account.conf perm case
- install.sh: chown ACME_HOME conf files to the daemon user
- hoover: #comp registry + expanded-content cache now per render
container; committing one root no longer unmounts/remounts
components owned by another root (infinite load loop on pages
whose load() re-mutates reactive state)
- auth_model: refresh timer scheduled from the token's remaining
exp claim (unverified decode, mirrors lib/auth.py); falls back to
the configured TTL for non-JWT/malformed/already-expired tokens
- docs: hoover.md documents both behaviors
- tests: exp-claim TTL cases in test-auth-model.js; new
test-render-lifecycle.js regression suite
Generated management-domain server blocks now include a
location /static/ aliasing webui/static/ with Cache-Control: no-cache
(ETag revalidation -> 304), nosniff, and a restrictive CSP, so SPA
asset requests no longer reach Flask. Flask's static route remains
the dev-mode fallback.
- lib/nginx.py + daemon/handlers/nginx.py: static_root render context
(the handler renders the template directly, so both paths need it)
- template: alias uses a trailing slash (nginx concatenates the
location remainder onto the alias value)
- install.sh: a+rX on webui/static plus execute-up-the-parent-chain
so the nginx worker (www-data) can traverse repo-in-$HOME installs
- tests: mgmt static location assertions (positive + non-mgmt negative)
- docs: AGENTS.md, architecture.md, security.md static-serving notes
- move state collectors from lib/state.py to daemon/collectors/ (7
modules, registration side-effect; daemon/server.py imports the
package before the first populate())
- webui/api: new daemon_route() decorator factory in common.py
collapses the try/except daemon-proxy boilerplate in all 8
blueprints (rules/params/body/transform keep responses identical)
- firewall: interface-coverage invariant — config is the source of
truth for zone interfaces (absent key = empty, no hands-off
zones); pure validate_coverage() enforced at save (400) and apply
(409, force: true overrides), top-level `unmanaged` exemption
- lib: get_config() reads are now pure (no dir creation or writes);
new lib/bootstrap.py creates runtime dirs and persists the
one-shot nginx legacy migration at daemon start, after
system_import (lib.nginx.migrate_config_file)
- lib/common: compute_pending() apply-bookkeeping helper
- daemon: emit_and_refresh() handler helper; refresh_state(bump=) so
/status/refresh no longer bumps versions (poll/mutation only)
- acme: move --log last so acme.sh never treats a real arg as the
log-file argument
- docs: AGENTS.md, config.md, state-model.md, api.md updated;
HARDEN.md dropped (plan implemented); apply-confirm force wording
Tests: 917 passed; ruff check + format clean.
Add hoover/dirty.js: line-matching helpers that flag UI rows/cards
edited (saved to config) but not yet applied, consuming the pending
state the daemon already streams — status.pending_diff for hash
subsystems, firewall pending zone+type for firewalld. Visual language
is amber (.config-dirty + PendingDot), distinct from the red
.pending-delete; orphanInfo surfaces removed entries (e.g. WireGuard
peers) on their container table. Wired into the backends, dhcp,
interfaces, nat, proxy, rules, wireguard, and zones pages; Card and
Table gain cls/title props. Covered by 27 node tests
(tests/test-dirty.js).
acme:
- acme.sh chmods its tree to owner-only (700/600) every run, which
broke the two-user model: a tree left owner-only by one user made
every acme.sh call of the other exit 2
- normalize_acme_home() reopens group access (sudo chmod g+rwX,
files only — setgid dirs trip RestrictSUIDSGID); _run_acme_preflight
is the choke point before every daemon acme.sh call + startup
- acme service now runs as the daemon user; --log persists the raw CA
transcript; SYS_LOG=6 journals manual issue/renew runs
- timer daily-only: two runs/day landed inside ZeroSSL's 24h
validation backoff (Retry-After: 86400) — a permanent renewal lockout
- _collect_acme no longer raises on cert-list failure; reports
status.error (AcmeState.status) so the certs page can surface it
firewall: re-stamp the applied baseline on live zone mutations
(interfaces/services/rich-rules/masquerade/forward-ports) so cancel-all
reverts to post-mutation state, not a stale install-era snapshot;
set_masquerade syncs the declarative config for existing zones;
add_forward_port records toaddr only with toport
status: apply-all accepts {"force": true} (forwarded to the firewall
apply only); ApplyConfirm force checkbox; applyResultToasts() — the
errors map wins over the 200; ActionButton checks errors before the
success toast; dashboard uses ApplyConfirm
system_import: drift re-imports carry the existing apply-meta; first
import stamps the adopted content as applied (it is the running state)
— no phantom pending changes
nginx: get_config only re-saves when migration actually changed the
config (no more owner/mtime churn on every read)
install: repair mis-owned top-level system dirs (tmpfiles
unsafe-path-transition), warn with a full-repair command for deeper
mis-ownership
daemon/server: loop.get_exception_handler() (aiohttp API fix)
tests: 888 pytest + 24 node passing; ruff clean
Post-DHCP-incident hardening per HARDEN.md.
- apply guard: refuse (ConflictError, `force` overrides) when a
network-managed interface would end up in no zone; absent
`interfaces` key = hands-off, explicit `[]` = unassign-all
- surface `uncovered_interfaces` in firewall state (lo/wg* filtered)
+ advisory in /api/status/pending; zones.js banner + interfaces-picker
last-zone confirm
- target drift (Option A): absent or default-normalizing target is
unmanaged: not diffed, never re-set by apply; create_zone runs
--new-zone first and sets non-default targets only; importer omits
the target key for default zones
- FirewallToDhcpSync keeps stale DHCP ranges and flags them instead of
deleting; `dnsmasq` affected only on a real gateway mutation
- real pre-apply recovery snapshot in data/firewall/rules.json
({timestamp, default_zone, zones, config}); drop the empty post-apply
skeleton
- daemon shutdown: bounded grace for in-flight tasks + suppressed
teardown exception noise on SIGTERM
- also carries the firewall service-descriptions feature
(get_service_descriptions + service_descriptions state field + UI)
- tests + docs across firewall/status/state/sync/schema; ruff clean,
867 passing
- lib.common.revert_to_applied(): restore a config file from its
_last_applied_config snapshot (stamped hash); no baseline -> skip with
reason, file untouched
- firewall config_apply now stamps the applied baseline like the other
subsystems; GET /firewall/config and the state collector strip the
internal _last_applied_* keys
- POST /status/cancel-all + /api/status/cancel-all: revert pending
subsystems, {cancelled, skipped, errors}, partial-failure safe
- dashboard: "Cancel All Changes" button with confirm modal
(CancelConfirm, reuses the pending-changes modal rows); the pending
changes card is hidden entirely when nothing is pending
- tests: revert_to_applied, status_cancel_all, firewall stamping/meta
stripping, /api/status/cancel-all route, node tests for CancelConfirm;
firewall _config_apply tests no longer write the real repo config
- docs: api.md, state-model.md, config.md, hoover.md
- lib/common: stamp_applied() now records a _last_applied_config
snapshot alongside the hash; strip_apply_meta() centralizes
bookkeeping-key stripping; deep_diff() reports field-level changes
- state collectors (dnsmasq/nginx/wireguard/networkd) expose
pending_diff so the dashboard can show exactly which fields
changed since the last apply (wireguard diff excludes
private_key paths)
- dashboard pending-changes card renders per-change lines with a
generic fallback when no snapshot is recorded
- firewall: firewalld built-in zones no longer flagged as
unmanaged; public-zone masquerade skipped in pending changes
since apply drives it via nftables propagation
- schema: PendingChange TypedDict; pending_diff on DnsmasqStatus /
WgStatus; tests in test_common.py, test_firewall.py, test_state.py
The script restarts system services via systemctl, which requires root.
Previously it would only fail per-command when run by an unprivileged
user. Add an EUID guard at the top that re-execs the script through
sudo, preserving the original path and arguments.
- POST /acme/renew returns a request_id and spawns a background task
(renew/deploy/refresh steps); dedups per-domain like issue
- completes as "skipped" when acme.sh reports the renewal window
has not been reached (no --force)
- new GET /acme/renew/status endpoint (iface + handler + blueprint)
- run acme.sh subprocesses off the event loop (asyncio.to_thread)
in both issuance and renewal
- ActionCell: busy/busyLabel props; certs page disables the Renew
button and polls renewal status with toasts for success/skip/fail
- daemon: send full snapshot on connect; versions/tick now carry the
full state of one subsystem (subsystem + data); no legacy
updated/subsystems payloads; refresh_state and POST /status/refresh
broadcast per-subsystem versions with data
- client: modelSet() patches models in place; onMessage/topic refresh
retired; 3s initial-load fallback via new POST /api/status/refresh
- schema: lib/schema.py TypedDicts + hoover/schema.js defaults +
docs/state-model.md as single source of truth for state shapes
- system: poll at 1s, volatile metrics registered, dashboard uses a
dedicated system model (status model removed)
- firewall: refuse to strip both https and ssh from the default zone
(409, force override via UI confirm); set_zone_services persists
services to the declarative config; collector exposes default_zone
- UI: pages migrate to flat state shapes; post-mutation modelFetch
refreshes removed (WS delta covers it)
- tests: ws snapshot/delta/broadcast, refresh-state, schema types,
model-set/js ws handler and reconnect fallback
systemd: pre-create volatile /run paths so vacuum-walld's ProtectSystem=strict namespace setup cannot fail with 226/NAMESPACE — RuntimeDirectory=vacuum-wall nginx plus a tmpfiles.d spec (installed to /etc/tmpfiles.d/) covering /run/firewalld and /run/nginx.pid. Drop /run/sudo from ReadWritePaths: NOPASSWD children never need it, and its absence crash-looped restarts after sudo removed /run/sudo.
webui: run the auth session check before mounting the shell so logged-out visitors never flash the sidebar or a protected page; router guard and sidebar now react to auth state, and the login page renders full-bleed.
ws: cap refresh->reconnect episodes at 2 consecutive failures; if the WS path stays dead after a token refresh, abandon reconnection instead of looping refreshAuth forever (UI keeps working via REST until reload).
api: GET /api/network/interfaces now includes loopback and returns per-interface {config, runtime}; dashboard reads runtime.state (carrier counts as up) and the interfaces page filters lo client-side.
daemon: re-collect nginx state after lazy config migration (cached list went stale when the on-disk format changed under it), skip system_import.nginx when config.json already exists (re-parsing vacuum-wall's own generated sites is lossy), and poll nginx (60s) / acme (300s) state so file drift self-heals.
- websocket.js passes the raw JWT as the Sec-WebSocket-Protocol subprotocol (no 'Bearer ' prefix): subprotocol names must be valid RFC 6455 tokens, and the space in 'Bearer <token>' made the browser reject the constructor with a SyntaxError.
- daemon accepts a JWT-shaped subprotocol plus the legacy 'Bearer <token>' form via _extract_ws_token; unit tests in tests/test_ws_auth.py.
- vdom.js applies inline styles through el.style (CSSOM) instead of setAttribute, which the management-domain CSP (no 'unsafe-inline') blocks.
- install.sh opens http/https/ssh on the public zone alongside WAN setup.
- docs (hoover.md, security.md) updated to match.
Auth seeding (last-resort guard)
- `_seed_builtin_admin()` in get_db() now skips when
VACUUM_WALL_SEED_BUILTIN_ADMIN=0 or when the users table already
contains any user — previously a fresh service start after a non-default
bootstrap (e.g. --mgmt-user alice) seeded a hard-coded `admin` with an
unrecoverable random password, shadowing the operator's account
- bootstrap_auth.py sets VACUUM_WALL_SEED_BUILTIN_ADMIN=0: bootstrap
creates the operator user itself on a fresh install, so exactly one
account exists and no seeded admin can appear
Frontend (session recovery)
- on page load/restore the in-memory TTL timer is gone, so a valid
7-day refresh token could sit in sessionStorage while the access token
is already expired server-side: the session `check` now attempts
exactly one refresh (POST /api/auth/refresh with the stored refresh
token) on 401 before treating the session as dead
- extract shared `_doRefresh()` used by both the `check` 401 fallback and
the `refresh` action (removes the duplicated rotation logic)
Tests
- update seeding tests to the new any-user-present check; add
test_seed_skipped_when_users_exist, test_seed_skipped_via_env,
test_bootstrap_flow_creates_exactly_one_user, and the auth-model JS
test suite (tests/test-auth-model.js)
Docs
- AGENTS.md: document VACUUM_WALL_SEED_BUILTIN_ADMIN
- architecture.md / hoover.md / security.md: describe the bootstrap
check 401 → one-refresh fallback path
Refresh/logout and token robustness
- drop the post-rotation refresh_tokens row delete in auth_refresh so
logout blacklists the current (rotated) refresh token; remove the
dead _clear_refresh_token_after_rotation helper and clear_active_refresh_token
- reject non-object JWT payloads in _extract_unverified_sub so crafted
Authorization headers return 401 instead of crashing with 500
SQLite user store
- make builtin-admin seeding idempotent: on a concurrent first start the
losing seeder re-checks, finds the winner, and returns instead of
raising IntegrityError
- per-thread sqlite connections + busy_timeout so Flask worker threads
don't hit cross-thread ProgrammingError / SQLITE_BUSY
- add LogsDirectory + /var/log/vacuum-wall to ReadWritePaths in both
systemd units so the fallback admin password actually lands on disk
Frontend
- skip apiFetch 401-recovery for public auth endpoints so a failed
login no longer logs out a valid session
- add /passkeys to the nav (passkey registration was unreachable);
remove the dead checkWebAuthnCapable export
- drop the CSP-blocked inline WS-URL script and the
__WS_URL_PLACEHOLDER__ plumbing; the WS URL is derived from location
Daemon / WS
- parse Sec-WebSocket-Protocol manually (web.Request.get_subprotocols
does not exist in aiohttp 3.13); X-Auth-Token is a custom-nginx
fallback only — docstring and security docs corrected
Install / system
- bootstrap_auth.py is now idempotent: preserves existing auth config
and syncs the admin password on re-runs (new reset_password helper)
- WebUI server block renders auth_basic off (the UI is JWT-protected)
- install.sh chown/chmod skips .git to avoid git dubious-ownership
breakage
- tolerate unreadable /etc/wireguard during system import
Contracts / docs
- create_user returns 409 on duplicate username per docs/api.md
- correct docs/api.md response shapes, docs/security.md blacklist
cleanup wording + one-refresh-per-user caveat, stale WS-URL
references, and the .htpasswd description
Tests: +7 regression tests (rotation/logout revocation, crafted-token
401, concurrent seeding); placeholder-substitution tests replaced with
serve-as-is SPA root tests.
Add require_session parameter to validate_token to enforce session_id
matching for refresh operations. Attacker with stolen refresh token can
no longer bypass session binding by omitting session_id from request.
Also adds backend guard against deleting builtin admin user (was only
blocked at Flask blueprint layer), and removes unused _ALL_RW variable.
- Move get_all_credential_counts import to top-level in daemon/handlers/auth.py
- Remove unused PROJECT_DIR in scripts/bootstrap_auth.py
- Fix leading space in api.js tryRefreshToken function
- Document WebSocket session binding limitation in docs/security.md
The warning message referenced 'data/auth.log' but the actual file is
/var/log/vacuum-wall/auth.log. Also add error logging when the write
fails, instead of silently swallowing the OSError.
- update_permissions: swap to upsert-first-then-delete-stale so a
failed upsert mid-loop rolls back cleanly, leaving the user's
permissions intact. Adds Q_DELETE_PERMISSION_SUBSYSTEM for
targeted removal.
- auth_refresh: generate and persist the new refresh token before
blacklisting/clearing the old one, so a failure in generate_tokens
doesn't leave the user locked out with no valid refresh token.
- Add session_id to refresh tokens and enforce it during validation,
preventing stolen refresh tokens from being usable without the
originating browser session
- Set router.isAuthenticated via auth:login event after successful
login (previously only set at page load)
- Add console.warn logging to WS message parse/handler errors
- Improve _refreshPromise error handling in token refresh flow
- Document rate limiter in-memory limitation and CSP connect-src
same-origin requirement
- Add 3 tests for session-bound refresh token validation
- Truncate admin password in logs; write full password to data/auth.log (0o600)
- Persist access token in sessionStorage so it survives page reloads
- Simplify tryRefreshToken to use GSAP-style promise deduplication
- Remove spurious POST redirect on 401 during token refresh
- Guard passkey button reference in login finally block
- Make session_id parameter optional in validate_token — only enforced when
provided, allowing WebSocket auth which cannot carry custom headers
- Remove decode_token round-trip from daemon WS handler
- Override WebAuthn registration username from JWT user_ctx to prevent users
from registering credentials under another user's account
- Frontend no longer sends username for WebAuthn registration
- Redirect to login on 401 after token refresh fails for POST requests
- Remove redundant auth session check from login page load
- Add tests for session_id semantics and WebAuthn ownership guard
Browsers cannot send custom X-Session-Id header on WebSocket connections,
so decode the token payload to extract session_id. Add WebAuthn
success/failure recording to support rate limiter counter resets.
- Raise ValueError on missing request body in auth_logout
- Add username check in verify_authentication to prevent credential reuse
- Replace N+1 queries in list_users with single JOIN query
Session binding was bypassable: if the X-Session-Id header was absent,
validate_token skipped the check entirely, allowing a stolen JWT to be
used without the originating session.
Server-side: reject 401 early in Flask middleware and daemon WebSocket
handler when X-Session-Id is missing, before calling validate_token.
Updated validate_token to always enforce session_id matching for access
tokens (refresh tokens are unaffected as they carry no session_id claim).
Frontend: removed dead if (stored.session_id) guards in api.js since
the header is now always required. Added X-Session-Id to logout request
headers and always store session_id on login/refresh.
The blacklist table grew indefinitely since cleanup only ran on
password changes and user deletions. Now each blacklist_token()
call has a 2% chance of triggering blacklist_expired() to prune
expired entries. Redundant cleanup calls in update_password()
and delete_user() are removed.
- Rate limiter tracks failures only; success resets counter
- Record failures/successes after password verification, not before
- WebAuthn rp_id/origin resolved dynamically from request domain
- Management domains auto-discovered from nginx backend config
- All WebAuthn operations validate domain against management list
- Add GET /api/auth/webauthn/capable endpoint for frontend checks
- Frontend checkWebAuthnCapable() function for domain-gated UI
- Timing side-channel fix: pre-compute dummy hash at module load
- Builtin admin seeded with random password (logged at WARNING)
- Logout handler returns consistent response shape
- update_permissions now calls blacklist_active_refresh_token and
rotate_user_secret to immediately invalidate stale tokens
- create_user uses returned id from tx.run_one instead of redundant SELECT
- websocket reconnect explicitly closes old connection after token refresh
to prevent onclose handler race condition
Drop ?v=N version pins from all JS imports and HTML <link>/<script> tags.
Cache invalidation is now handled solely by server-side cache-control headers.
Update docs and AGENTS.md accordingly.
component.js now creates an AbortController for each page mount, passing
it to load(). On unmount, the controller is aborted to cancel in-flight
requests that would otherwise mutate unmounted state.
Page load functions consistently pass the signal to apiFetch and guard
state mutations with abort checks. This eliminates the need for per-page
abortController boilerplate and prevents stale errors from appearing on
rapid navigation.
Users page now guards catch block and loading state cleanup against
aborted requests, matching passkeys.js pattern.
mteehan