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ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 3967a6cffc fix(security): re-harden root sudo helpers; installer fixes; ARCHITECTURE and PERMISSIONS docs (#640)
* docs: add ARCHITECTURE and PERMISSIONS guides

ARCHITECTURE.md maps the processes, the state the display and web
services share through the cache, the display loop, the plugin system,
the web UI and the update path, with links into the code and a
where-to-start table.

PERMISSIONS.md lists who owns what after install, both sudoers files
(and why iptables is not granted), the polkit rule, and which
scripts/fix_perms script to run as which user.

Both are linked from the docs index, along with the MQTT bridge README
and src/common/README.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: correct stale setup, service and troubleshooting claims

- README: quick actions run systemctl on ledmatrix.service (run.py), not
  display_controller.py; use_short_date_format has no effect; the
  installer uses system pip with --break-system-packages, not a venv.
- CONFIG_DEBUGGING: LEDMATRIX_DEBUG must be "true"; logs are in journald.
- GETTING_STARTED, WEB_INTERFACE_GUIDE, TROUBLESHOOTING: enabling a
  plugin, plugin settings, brightness and Vegas settings apply without a
  restart; matrix hardware settings still need one.
- TROUBLESHOOTING: install dependencies with sudo so the root service
  sees them; point permission problems at PERMISSIONS.md instead of a
  project-wide chown.
- ADVANCED_FEATURES: real BackgroundDataService stats keys; Vegas hooks
  return VegasDisplayMode and None falls back to capture; cache files
  are 0660; fix_web_permissions.sh runs as the web user and does not
  touch sudoers.
- STARLARK_APPS_GUIDE: only the linux-arm64 pixlet binary is downloaded.
- HOW_TO_RUN_TESTS: test class examples that exist.
- CLAUDE.md: PluginStoreManager, plugin_dirs.py, monorepo installs via
  the Trees API with ZIP fallback, requirements.txt is optional.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: mark deprecated plugin APIs and state manifest fields once

Methods @deprecated("3.7.0") (the set pinned in test_deprecation.py)
were shown as current API in the quick reference, API reference,
advanced guide, development guide and FONT_MANAGER. Each is now marked
deprecated with its replacement. FONT_MANAGER is rewritten around the
current API; the override editor is gone and override methods are
deprecated.

Required manifest fields were stated three different ways. The API
reference now has one section: the 7 schema-required fields, the 4 the
store refuses without, class_name for the loader, and the 8 to set.
The other guides link to it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: document every src/common module and every widget

- src/common/README.md covered 7 of 17 modules. It now has a table of
  all of them (purpose, whether plugins import it, release to floor
  on), a short entry each, and logging advice that matches the code.
- SPORTS_UNIFICATION listed two shared modules and called
  sports_helpers the first; it now lists all six.
- The widgets README lists all 28 registered widgets plus the support
  files, and absorbs the parts that only docs/widget-guide.md had
  (x-options.labels, x-advanced, x-display hidden, plugin-file-manager).
  docs/widget-guide.md is now a pointer to it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(security): fix_web_permissions.sh re-hardens the root sudo helpers

The script chowns the whole project to the web user. That included
scripts/fix_perms/safe_plugin_rm.sh and safe_pip_install.sh -- the two
helpers /etc/sudoers.d/ledmatrix_web lets the web user run as root -- so
running it turned both into a root shell for whoever can edit them. It
also re-grouped config_secrets.json away from ledmatrix.

After the chown it now does what first_time_install.sh's Steps 11 and
11.1 do: helpers back to root:root 755, and config_secrets.json back to
the web unit's User=:ledmatrix 640. Each step is non-fatal and prints the
manual command if it fails.

Also fixes what the script and its docs claimed: it never configured
sudoers, its closing hint pointed at ./configure_web_sudo.sh (wrong
path), and the README and ADVANCED_FEATURES.md said to run it with sudo,
which it refuses.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(security): validate and harden every sudoers drop-in the scripts write

configure_wifi_permissions.sh copied its rules into
/etc/sudoers.d/ledmatrix_wifi without `visudo -c`. A malformed drop-in
makes sudo refuse every command for every user, which on a headless Pi
leaves no way back in. It now checks first and leaves the installed file
alone when the rules do not parse, as the other two writers do. (It
already used mktemp, so that part of the review did not apply.)

It also grants the two literal commands wifi_manager.py runs for
NetworkManager's shared-mode dnsmasq drop-in -- `cp
/tmp/ledmatrix-nm-dnsmasq.conf .../dnsmasq-shared.d/ledmatrix-captive.conf`
and `rm -f` of that file. The directory's mkdir was granted, the file was
not. Both are pinned in test_sudo_allowlist_covers_calls.py.

configure_web_sudo.sh wrote its rules to /tmp/ledmatrix_web_sudoers_$$,
a predictable name in a world-writable directory; it now uses mktemp with
an EXIT trap, as first_time_install.sh does. It sets mode 440 on the
installed file instead of leaving the temp file's mode, and finds visudo
in /usr/sbin when that is not on the user's PATH, which skipped the
check silently.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(install): escape the project path in the DNS-fix and MQTT unit renderers

install_dns_fix.sh and install_mqtt_bridge.sh substituted
__PROJECT_ROOT_DIR__ with the raw path, while the other three renderers
go through sed_escape_replacement from lib_systemd_render.sh. A checkout
under a path containing `&`, `\` or `|` rendered a corrupted unit from
these two only. Both now source the helper and use it, and a test checks
that every placeholder substitution in scripts/install uses an escaped
value.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(install): stop the installer scripts reporting things that are not true

- first_time_install.sh printed "Password: ledmatrix123" for the setup
  access point. wifi_manager creates it as an open network ("No
  password" on the panel), so it now says so.
- Step 10.1 printed "✓ WiFi management permissions configured" straight
  after its own failure message; install_wifi_monitor.sh printed
  "✓ Package installation completed" after a failed apt install. The
  tick now only follows success.
- Step 7 printed "Web dependencies already installed ... in Step 5" in
  the one branch that runs because Step 5 did not install them, then
  created .web_deps_installed on that basis. It now warns and leaves the
  marker off so the next run retries, as the comment below it intends.
- check_system_compatibility.sh called Debian 12 Bookworm "full
  compatibility confirmed" while first_time_install.sh refuses anything
  but Debian 13. Bookworm, older Debian and non-Debian systems are now
  errors. Its counters used ((X++)), which under `set -e` exits the
  script at the first warning or error (the expression is 0), so the
  check never reached its summary on any system with one.
- configure_web_sudo.sh and configure_wifi_permissions.sh finished by
  testing `sudo -n test -f ...` and `sudo -n nmcli device status`,
  neither of which is granted, so they always reported a failure. They
  now ask `sudo -n -l` about commands the new rules do grant, which
  checks the rule without running anything.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(install): print the completion summary before rebooting

With -y -- and so for every one-shot `curl | bash` install, which always
passes -y -- first_time_install.sh ran `reboot` about 180 lines before
its "Installation Complete / Web UI Access" summary. reboot returns at
once, so the summary printed while the Pi was going down and the SSH
session usually dropped before the web UI address could be read.

The reboot block moves, unchanged, to the very end of the script. The
interactive prompt now also follows the summary. Because the summary now
runs before the -y reboot, its one command that could fail under
`set -Eeuo pipefail` (the SSID lookup, when nmcli reports a connected
device but no active network line) gets `|| true`; a missing SSID was
already handled as "SSID unknown".

one-shot-install.sh prints its "Next steps" after the installer returns,
by which time the reboot is under way, so it now says so, and README's
Quick Install mentions the automatic reboot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(scripts): correct wrong comments and messages, drop dead code

No behaviour change except the output text noted below.

- 2775 is setgid, not the sticky bit (first_time_install.sh Step 3.1,
  fix_plugin_permissions.sh), and root needs no "PWM hardware access"
  to plugin files.
- The 777 comments in first_time_install.sh Step 3's fallback and
  fix_assets_permissions.sh said root needs it to write. Root ignores
  mode bits; the comments now say what 777 actually opens. The 777
  itself is unchanged.
- apt_remove ends in `|| true`, so Step 12's "Some packages could not be
  removed" branch could never run; it is gone and the helper stays
  non-fatal.
- detect_web_service_user's comment named Step 8 for the web unit
  (install_service.sh installs it in Step 7.5) and now says which
  branch actually runs.
- Step 5 described an "already installed" check that does not exist;
  the ACTUAL_USER comment described the re-exec backwards.
- on_error printed a literal "\n" before "Common fixes:".
- Dead code: one-shot-install.sh's uncalled fix_tmp_permissions,
  LEDMATRIX_ELEVATED=1 (never read) on the sudo re-exec, and
  configure_web_sudo.sh's unused PYTHON_PATH, which also made a missing
  python3 fatal for rules that never mention it.
- start_display.sh / stop_display.sh said "for user: <you>"; the
  service runs as root.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(fix_perms): fix_cache_permissions.sh uses setup_cache.sh's model

There were two models for /var/cache/ledmatrix. setup_cache.sh (the
installer's Step 2) and install_web_service.sh share it through the
ledmatrix group: root:ledmatrix, 2775, files 660, which is also what
DiskCache relies on to give files the directory's group.
fix_cache_permissions.sh instead made it 777 and re-grouped it to the
invoking user's group, undoing that.

It now runs setup_cache.sh for /var/cache/ledmatrix and keeps its own
handling of ~/.ledmatrix_cache. Dropped: /var/cache/ledmatrix/
placeholder_logos (nothing reads it) and the checks against the
`daemon` user (no service runs as daemon).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: pin actions/checkout in the Claude workflows, drop template comments

claude.yml and claude-code-review.yml used actions/checkout@v4 while
test.yml and release-version-check.yml pin the v4.2.2 commit SHA; they
now pin the same SHA. The commented-out starter-template settings
(prompt, claude_args, paths, author filter) are removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(scripts): index every script and list removal candidates

New scripts/README.md gives one line per top-level script and scripts
directory, marked keep, dev-only or diagnostic, and lists the eight
scripts nothing in the repo refers to as candidates for removal (kept
for now). The install, utils and dev READMEs now list the files they
were missing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: tighten two checks that mutation testing showed were too loose

- The wifi sudoers check matched `visudo -c -f "$TEMP_SUDOERS"` in the
  error report too, so replacing the check with `if false` still passed.
  It now requires the command as the condition.
- The summary test never had the setup access point up, so reinstating
  the bogus "Password: ledmatrix123" line went unnoticed. A case with
  hostapd active now checks the AP is described as open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(permissions): describe the repaired fix_perms scripts and new WiFi grants

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(changelog): docs-scripts

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 17:31:41 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 9c0c0dc851 consolidate(web): credential exposure, secret loss, and the update path (#485)
* fix(web): stop /config/main handing out every credential it holds

The endpoint returned the raw config to anyone who could reach the port, and
this web interface has no authentication of any kind. An unauthenticated
request against a live rig returned:

    github.api_token                40 chars
    incoming-packages.ha_token     183 chars
    jellyfin-now-playing.api_key    32 chars
    ledmatrix-weather.api_key       32 chars
    on-air.mqtt_password             8 chars
    youtube.api_key                 20 chars
    youtube-stats.api_key           39 chars

A GitHub token and a Home Assistant long-lived token among them. Anything on
that LAN could read them.

The x-secret masking the plugin config endpoints use does not reach here: this
route never consults a schema, and core keys such as github.api_token have no
schema to carry the marker. Several of the fields above *are* tagged x-secret
in their plugin's schema and were still returned in full, which is what rules
out the schema route as the fix for this endpoint.

Credential-named fields are now blanked. Matching on the name is blunt, and
for a whole-config dump that is the right default: anything named like a
credential should not leave the process, and a new plugin adding a
differently-shaped secret is covered without anyone remembering to tag it.

Blanked rather than removed, and safe to blank: POST /config/main merges into
the freshly loaded config and writes only the keys it was given, so a client
that round-trips this response cannot erase a secret it never saw. The web API
suites confirm it -- 81 passing, unchanged.

On the test that matters: the first version of this suite exercised the two
helpers and nothing else, and reverting the single line that wires the
redactor into the route passed all thirty of them. A property asserted on a
helper is not a property asserted on the endpoint, and it is the endpoint that
is exposed to the network. The added test goes through the view function, and
it does fail on that revert.

This also corrects an earlier claim of mine. I reported that GET /api/v3/config
did not expose these values; that path 404s, so the check proved nothing. The
real route is /config/main and it exposed all of them.

* fix(web): stop an unrelated config edit from erasing a plugin's secret

Saving any field on a plugin's config form destroyed that plugin's stored
credential. On a rig with a weather API key, changing the city silently
emptied the key, and the plugin stopped working at the next fetch with no
indication why.

The path had no guard at any step. The config partial masks secrets before
rendering (pages_v3.py:740), so the browser posts them back blank; _parse_value
deliberately preserves "" for optional string fields; separate_secrets routes
that "" into secrets_config, which is a truthy dict; deep_merge writes it over
the stored value; save_raw_file_content persists it.

The blank does not even need the round-trip. merge_with_defaults injects the
schema's api_key default ("") into every save, so a client that never sends
the field at all still erases it. test_secret_count_message_counts_top_level_keys
was counting exactly that injected blank as a saved secret field -- the visible
edge of the bug, pinned as expected behaviour.

remove_empty_secrets() already existed for this, with seven unit tests and a
docstring describing this precise scenario ("clients will send those empty
strings back ... so that existing stored secrets are not overwritten with
blanks"). It was never wired into a call site. This wires it into both save
paths that merge into the secrets file.

A blank now means "unchanged" rather than "delete", which is the same contract
the helper's tests already describe. The cost is that a secret can no longer be
cleared by emptying the field; clearing needs its own affordance, since a
control that erases credentials as a side effect of ordinary edits is not one.

Verified by reverting the guard: the new round-trip test then fails with the
stored key read back as ''. 262 web tests pass with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

* fix(web): stop dumping the config and request headers to the journal

save_main_config logged its entire POST body and the full request headers at
ERROR on every save. The body is the configuration itself, and the headers
carry the session cookie, so a routine settings change wrote both to the
journal -- at a level that guarantees they survive any sane log filter.

The lines are leftover debug output: they say "DEBUG:" in the message while
calling logging.error, and they went through the root logger rather than the
module logger, bypassing the level configured for this blueprint.

Replaced with a debug-level line recording the shape of the request, which is
the part with diagnostic value. The local `import logging` went with them; it
shadowed a module-level import that was already there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

* fix(web): stop /config/secrets handing out every credential it holds

GET /api/v3/config/secrets returned config_secrets.json in full to anyone who
could reach the port, and this interface has no authentication. Probed against
a real rig it produced six populated credential fields: a 40-character GitHub
token, a 183-character Home Assistant token, and Jellyfin and weather API keys.
This is the second door onto the same credentials; #477 closes the first.

Masking the response alone would have been worse than the leak. The only
client fetches every secret, edits one field and posts all of them back, and
save_raw_file_content replaces the file wholesale -- so a masked GET followed
by the client's own save would write the mask over every credential the user
had not touched. That is why this was left open when the leak was found; it
needs both halves.

Read side: mask_all_secret_values(), which already existed for exactly this
endpoint -- its docstring names it -- and had never been wired to a call site.
It leaves empty values and YOUR_* placeholders alone, so a client can still
tell "set" from "not set" without being told the secret.

Write side: strip the echoed mask and blanks from the submission, then merge
onto what is stored, so "unchanged" means unchanged. The cost is that a secret
can no longer be cleared by blanking it; that wants its own affordance, since
a control that erases credentials as a side effect of saving an unrelated one
is not one.

Browser side: the token field is now left empty rather than filled from the
response. Filling it with the mask would have stored eight bullet characters
as the token the next time the user pressed Save, and filling it with the real
value is the thing being fixed. It reports whether a token is saved instead.

Verified end to end through the Flask endpoints, not the helpers. Reverting
the masking fails the leak tests; reverting the merge fails the preservation
tests; both halves are independently guarded. 278 web tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

* fix(web): stop reporting "no update" when the update check could not run

check-update returned update_available=False whenever git failed. The banner
is the only route to the update button, so a checkout git refuses to touch
looked exactly like a current one -- permanently, with nothing on screen to
act on and only a log line recording why.

The common cause is an install performed as root. scripts/install/one-shot-install.sh
clones into ${HOME}/LEDMatrix, never consults SUDO_USER, and contains no chown
at all, while its own error text suggests running the whole thing under sudo.
The result is a root-owned checkout, and on a rig this is what every git
command in it does:

    fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '...'

including the fetch this endpoint runs. Verified on real hardware rather than
assumed.

A failed check now reports check_failed with a message the user can act on --
for dubious ownership, the chown that fixes it. The banner shows that message
instead of hiding itself, with the update button suppressed since updating
cannot work until the cause is fixed. The success path is untouched.

This does not fix the installer, which is the real cause; it stops the symptom
being invisible. The installer needs SUDO_USER handling and a chown, and its
suggestion to run as root should go.

Reverting the endpoint change fails four of the five new tests; the fifth
guards the success path and correctly does not move.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

* fix(web): stop the installer chmod stripping exec bits on every update

git tracks five scripts as mode 644 that first_time_install.sh then chmods to
755 (start_display.sh, stop_display.sh, the two install_*_service.sh, and
one-shot-install.sh does the same to first_time_install.sh). With
core.fileMode true, the default on Linux, git reports all five as modified
from then on, in files the user never touched.

The update button stashes local changes before pulling, so it is not blocked
by this. But it never pops that stash -- stash pop and stash apply appear
nowhere in the update flow -- so the mode change is stashed away and left
there, and the files revert:

    === file modes after the update button's stash ===
      664  first_time_install.sh      <- installer had made these 755
      664  start_display.sh
      664  stop_display.sh
      664  scripts/install/install_service.sh

So every web-UI update silently strips the executable bit from the installer's
own scripts, and leaves a stash entry holding the difference. start_display.sh
and stop_display.sh stop working from the shell afterwards.

A manual `git pull --rebase` over SSH fails outright, since nothing stashes for
it: "cannot pull with rebase: You have unstaged changes". That is the likely
source of the reports, since plenty of people update that way.

Tracking the five as 755 -- what they should always have been, as the
installer chmodding them attests -- removes the spurious mode change
entirely: nothing to stash, nothing stripped, no stash entry, and manual
pulls work.

The pull also passes --autostash, for the case the code explicitly tolerates:
when the stash fails it logs a warning and pulls anyway, and that pull is what
then fails. Autostash also pops what it stashes, which the manual stash does
not.

Note that `git add -A` after `git update-index --chmod=+x` silently reverts
the index to the on-disk mode, so the modes here were set by chmodding the
files themselves.

Regression test asserts the five stay tracked executable; reverting any one
of them fails it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

* fix(web): ask for the restart that makes an update take effect

The update button pulls new code and restarts nothing. There is no systemctl,
restart, reload or reboot anywhere in the 172-line git_pull handler -- it
stashes, pulls, installs changed requirements, re-removes plugins the user had
uninstalled, and returns "Code updated successfully."

Meanwhile both services go on running the code they loaded at boot. So the
display keeps rendering the old build, the web interface keeps serving the old
build, and the user is told the update worked. Nothing on screen suggests
otherwise, and the next reboot is what actually applies it -- whenever that is.

The affordance for this already exists: the restart-pending banner, raised
after main-config saves, with a Restart Now button wired to the display
service. A code update is a stronger reason to show it than a config save is.

The response now reports restart_required, and applyUpdate raises the banner
with wording for a code update rather than a config save. The banner's message
became a parameter and is persisted next to the flag, since it outlives the
page that raised it.

restart_required is only true when the pull actually moved HEAD. "Already up
to date" is a success too, and prompting after a no-op would train users to
dismiss the prompt unread.

This covers the display service, which is what the Restart Now button drives
and what users notice. The web interface still picks up its own new code on
its next restart; restarting it from inside a request it is serving is a
larger change than this one.

Reverting the flag fails the test that a pull which moved HEAD asks for a
restart. 290 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

* Mask list-shaped secrets element-wise, close two vacuous tests

mask_all_secret_values treated any non-empty list as a scalar, so a
secrets file holding

  "accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": "tok-a"}, {...}]

came back as a single "••••••••". The caller could not see how many
entries existed, and the raw editor was handed a string where the file
holds an array. Recurse into lists in both _mask_value and _contains_mask.

Lists merge by replacement, not key-wise, so strip_masked_values now
drops a list outright if any element still carries the mask -- storing a
half-masked list would discard the untouched entries.

Two tests could pass without exercising what they claim to check:

- test_git_pull_resolution asserted modes only for paths git ls-files
  returned. A renamed or deleted installer target is simply absent from
  that output, so its mode was never checked. Assert every CHMODDED path
  is tracked first.
- test_config_secrets_masking never checked the POST status. A 500
  leaves the old file in place, which satisfies every assertion that
  follows. Assert 200 before reading the file back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 14:30:29 -04:00
ChuckBuilds a7b99c5c53 Add systemd service and control scripts for LED Matrix Display 2025-04-19 12:40:21 -05:00