feat(nh3-svos): SVOS front door uses HTTP Basic auth (login Vuong); WhoIs gate retired

Prime's ruling: basic auth saved in the browser, mesh-only access. basic_auth argon2id with the account hash in a root:caddy file outside git (plaintext vaulted). After auth, Tailscale-User-Login is set from the authenticated user and Authorization is deleted, since the kernel's human path refuses requests that carry it. Removed svos-whois-auth (every mesh node is login pfi). Verified from a mesh peer against a temporary header echo: 401 without/with wrong credentials, 200 with exactly one Tailscale-User-Login: Vuong and no forged or Authorization headers upstream.
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# SVOS front door on nh3-svos (eshpfi configs/svos-front/), 2026-10-05. Prime: mesh-only, svos.phasefinal.com.
# - Listens ONLY on the tailnet address (100.64.0.9:443). There is no LAN or internet listener and no :80 redirect server.
# - Cert: Let's Encrypt via Cloudflare DNS-01 with a phasefinal.com-only token (env CF_API_TOKEN, /etc/caddy/env).
# - Identity: every request goes through forward_auth to svos-whois-auth on 127.0.0.1:8405, which resolves the
# SOCKET peer ({http.request.remote.host}:{port}; no trusted_proxies, so never a client header) with tailscaled
# WhoIs and returns Tailscale-User-Login only for allow-listed logins. Fail closed (403) otherwise.
# - Client-supplied identity/forwarding headers are deleted BEFORE auth; the verified login is the only one sent.
# - Identity: HTTP Basic auth (Prime 2026-10-05: "Basic auth is fine, saved in browser is fine"; mesh-only because we
# don't host externally). One account, `Vuong` (Prime is how SVOS addresses him). argon2id hash in
# /etc/caddy/svos-basic-auth.accounts (root:caddy 0640, NOT in git); plaintext vaulted nh3-svos/basic-auth-vuong.
# The WhoIs/forward_auth gate that preceded this was retired the same day (every mesh node is login `pfi`).
# - Client-supplied identity/forwarding headers are deleted BEFORE auth. After auth, Tailscale-User-Login is set to
# the authenticated user ({http.auth.user.id}) and Authorization is deleted: the kernel's human path (INV-U1-06)
# refuses any request that carries an Authorization header, and the app has no business seeing the password.
# reverse_proxy sets X-Forwarded-Proto=https and X-Forwarded-For itself; Host passes through; Origin untouched.
# - App side (svos-dev): kernel 127.0.0.1:8400 (/api/* with the prefix stripped, /api/health is the kernel's),
# connector 127.0.0.1:8403 (/health, /verbs/ping|pins|pin|unpin, /openapi.json), static UI /opt/svos/current/static.
@@ -30,11 +33,11 @@ https://svos.phasefinal.com:443 {
request_header -Forwarded
request_header -X-SVOS-Peer
forward_auth 127.0.0.1:8405 {
uri /auth
header_up X-SVOS-Peer {http.request.remote.host}:{http.request.remote.port}
copy_headers Tailscale-User-Login
basic_auth argon2id SVOS {
import /etc/caddy/svos-basic-auth.accounts
}
request_header Tailscale-User-Login {http.auth.user.id}
request_header -Authorization
handle_path /api/* {
reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8400
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[Unit]
Description=SVOS front door (Caddy, tailnet-only, svos.phasefinal.com) - eshpfi configs/svos-front
After=network-online.target tailscaled.service svos-whois-auth.service
Wants=network-online.target tailscaled.service svos-whois-auth.service
After=network-online.target tailscaled.service
Wants=network-online.target tailscaled.service
[Service]
User=caddy
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""svos-whois-auth: Caddy forward_auth target for the SVOS front door on nh3-svos (eshpfi configs/svos-front/).
Caddy calls GET /auth with X-SVOS-Peer = the TCP peer of the accepted connection ({remote_host}:{remote_port},
taken from the socket by Caddy; never from a client header). We ask the local tailscaled (LocalAPI over its unix
socket) who that peer is and answer:
200 + Tailscale-User-Login: <LoginName> only if WhoIs resolves the peer AND the login is in the allow-list
403 on anything else: no/garbled peer, WhoIs error, unknown peer, login not
allowed, empty allow-list (fail closed)
The allow-list is /etc/svos-front/allowed-logins: one exact LoginName per line, '#' comments. Re-read per request.
Stdlib only; listens on 127.0.0.1 only.
"""
import http.client
import http.server
import ipaddress
import json
import socket
import sys
import urllib.parse
LISTEN = ("127.0.0.1", 8405)
TAILSCALED_SOCK = "/var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock"
ALLOW_FILE = "/etc/svos-front/allowed-logins"
TIMEOUT_S = 3.0
class _UnixHTTPConnection(http.client.HTTPConnection):
def __init__(self, path):
super().__init__("local-tailscaled.sock", timeout=TIMEOUT_S)
self._path = path
def connect(self):
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.settimeout(TIMEOUT_S)
s.connect(self._path)
self.sock = s
def allowed_logins():
try:
with open(ALLOW_FILE, encoding="utf-8") as f:
return {ln.strip() for ln in f if ln.strip() and not ln.lstrip().startswith("#")}
except OSError:
return set()
def parse_peer(value):
"""'100.64.0.4:51234' or '[fd7a::4]:51234' -> canonical 'ip:port' string, else None."""
if not value:
return None
try:
if value.startswith("["):
host, _, port = value[1:].partition("]:")
else:
host, _, port = value.rpartition(":")
ip = ipaddress.ip_address(host)
port_n = int(port)
if not 0 < port_n < 65536:
return None
except ValueError:
return None
return f"[{ip}]:{port_n}" if ip.version == 6 else f"{ip}:{port_n}"
def whois(peer):
conn = _UnixHTTPConnection(TAILSCALED_SOCK)
try:
conn.request("GET", "/localapi/v0/whois?addr=" + urllib.parse.quote(peer, safe=""),
headers={"Sec-Tailscale": "localapi"})
resp = conn.getresponse()
body = resp.read()
if resp.status != 200:
return None
data = json.loads(body)
return (data.get("UserProfile") or {}).get("LoginName"), (data.get("Node") or {}).get("Name")
finally:
conn.close()
class Handler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
server_version = "svos-whois-auth"
def _deny(self, why):
self.log_message("DENY %s", why)
self.send_response(403)
self.send_header("Content-Length", "0")
self.end_headers()
def do_GET(self): # noqa: N802 (stdlib naming)
if self.client_address[0] != "127.0.0.1":
return self._deny("non-loopback caller")
peer = parse_peer(self.headers.get("X-SVOS-Peer", ""))
if peer is None:
return self._deny("missing or malformed X-SVOS-Peer")
try:
found = whois(peer)
except Exception as e: # tailscaled down, timeout, bad JSON: fail closed
return self._deny(f"whois error for {peer}: {e.__class__.__name__}")
if not found or not found[0]:
return self._deny(f"whois: no identity for {peer}")
login, node = found
if login not in allowed_logins():
return self._deny(f"login {login!r} (node {node}) not in {ALLOW_FILE}")
self.log_message("ALLOW %s login=%r node=%s", peer, login, node)
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Tailscale-User-Login", str(login))
self.send_header("Content-Length", "0")
self.end_headers()
def log_message(self, format, *args): # noqa: A002 (stdlib signature)
sys.stderr.write((format % args) + "\n")
if __name__ == "__main__":
http.server.ThreadingHTTPServer(LISTEN, Handler).serve_forever()
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[Unit]
Description=SVOS front door identity check (tailscaled WhoIs, fail closed) - eshpfi configs/svos-front
After=tailscaled.service
Wants=tailscaled.service
[Service]
DynamicUser=true
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/lib/svos-front/svos-whois-auth.py
NoNewPrivileges=true
ProtectSystem=strict
ProtectHome=true
PrivateTmp=true
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=2
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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## Recent decisions
- `[2026-10-05]` **nh3-svos (VM 111, nh3-pve-2) built for the new SVOS (svos-dev relaying Prime); front door = mesh-only `https://svos.phasefinal.com` with HTTP Basic auth, login `Vuong` (Prime, direct)** — WhoIs gate retired (all mesh nodes are login `pfi`; Prime declined a mesh restructure). Password vaulted `nh3-svos/basic-auth-vuong`. qemu-ga freeze hooks were never run on Debian; now `configs/qemu-ga/fsfreeze-dispatch` (fails the freeze on a hook failure). Live-service backup drill pending. → `servers/nh3-svos/README.md`.
- `[2026-10-05]` **fv-ml1 Docker → tank zvol + host patched (Prime, park 99 DONE)** — run 1 aborted on its own guard (live rsync walked into an overlay `merged` view; seats down 0218–0228, rolled back); run 2 ok 0231–0240 (`-x`, merged excluded, path-list verify, auto-restore trap). Kernel 6.12.111 broke NVIDIA DKMS → purged + kernel metas removed; ZFS stack + nvidia-container-toolkit held. Root 49%→8%. → `servers/fv-ml1/README.md`
- `[2026-10-05]` **ana-docker: Docker CE repo bullseye → bookworm, 29.8.2 (Prime)** — with `live-restore: true` the engine upgrade kept containers up, but 6 that bind-mount `docker.sock` (crowdsec, traefik, dozzle, beszel-agent, dockge, gitea-runner) went stale and needed restarts. → `servers/ana-docker/README.md`
- `[2026-10-05]` **RMM wildcard cert now auto-renews (Prime)** — `*.phasefinal.com` on pfi-tacticalrmm was certbot `manual` (could never renew; was 16 days from expiry). Now dns-cloudflare with a phasefinal.com-only token (vault `pfi-tacticalrmm/cloudflare-certbot-dns01-token`); reissued to 2027-01-03, dry-run OK. → `servers/pfi-tacticalrmm/README.md`
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scripts/elway infra-ops@10.100.50.43 --playbook playbooks/nh3-svos-host.yaml
```
## Front door: built 2026-10-05, mesh-only `https://svos.phasefinal.com` (Prime). Fail-closed until the owner identity is set
## Front door: mesh-only `https://svos.phasefinal.com`, HTTP Basic auth (Prime, 2026-10-05)
- **Mesh:** tailscaled joined headscale as `nh3-svos`, **100.64.0.9**, `--accept-dns=false --accept-routes=false`.
- **Name:** `svos.phasefinal.com` exists ONLY as a headscale MagicDNS extra record (`/var/lib/headscale/extra-records.json`
@@ -42,25 +42,33 @@ scripts/elway infra-ops@10.100.50.43 --playbook playbooks/nh3-svos-host.yaml
`caddy-svos.service`, config `/etc/caddy/Caddyfile` (canonical `configs/svos-front/Caddyfile`). It listens **only on
100.64.0.9:443**, with no `:80`. The LE cert for `svos.phasefinal.com` comes via DNS-01, token `nh3-svos-caddy-dns01`
(phasefinal.com only), in `/etc/caddy/env` (root:caddy 0640), vaulted `nh3-svos/cloudflare-caddy-dns01-token`.
- **Identity:** `svos-whois-auth.service` (`configs/svos-front/svos-whois-auth.py`, DynamicUser, 127.0.0.1:8405). Caddy's
`forward_auth` passes the SOCKET peer; the responder asks tailscaled WhoIs and answers 200 + `Tailscale-User-Login` only
for logins in **`/etc/svos-front/allowed-logins`** (empty = nobody). Client identity/forwarding headers are deleted
first, as whole families by prefix (`Tailscale-User-*`, `X-Forwarded-*`, svos-dev's ask) plus `Tailscale-Headers-Info`,
`X-Real-IP`, `Forwarded` and `X-SVOS-Peer`. The wildcard was tested on a scratch Caddy first: case-insensitive, and
look-alikes outside the family (`X-Forwardedness`, `Tailscale-Other`) survive.
- **Identity: HTTP Basic auth, one account `Vuong`** (Prime: "Basic auth is fine, saved in browser is fine. Access is
via mesh because we don't host externally." SVOS addresses him as Prime; the login is `Vuong`). The argon2id hash is in
**`/etc/caddy/svos-basic-auth.accounts`** (root:caddy 0640, not in git), imported into `basic_auth argon2id SVOS`.
The plaintext is vaulted at **`nh3-svos/basic-auth-vuong`**. To rotate: pipe the new password to
`caddy hash-password --algorithm argon2id` on stdin (never `--plaintext`), rewrite the accounts file, `secret put`,
then `systemctl reload caddy-svos`.
- **Headers:** client copies of `Tailscale-User-*`, `X-Forwarded-*`, `Tailscale-Headers-Info`, `X-Real-IP`, `Forwarded`
and `X-SVOS-Peer` are deleted before auth. After auth, `Tailscale-User-Login` is SET to the authenticated user, and
**`Authorization` is deleted**. That deletion is load-bearing: the kernel's human path (svoperatingsystem
`u1-principals` INV-U1-06) refuses any request carrying `Authorization`. As a result the front door is human-only; a
bearer client cannot come through it.
- **Retired 2026-10-05:** the WhoIs `forward_auth` gate (`svos-whois-auth`, 127.0.0.1:8405). Every mesh node has WhoIs
login `pfi`, so it could not tell Prime's devices from the servers without restructuring the mesh, and Prime declined
that. The unit, script, `/etc/svos-front/` and the repo files are removed; git history has them.
- **Config changes:** validate WITHOUT putting the token on a command line, then reload:
`sudo systemd-run --wait --pipe --collect -p User=caddy -p Group=caddy -p EnvironmentFile=/etc/caddy/env
-p "Environment=XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/lib/caddy XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/var/lib/caddy" /usr/local/bin/caddy validate --config
<file> --adapter caddyfile`, then `systemctl reload caddy-svos`. (`env $(cat /etc/caddy/env) caddy …` leaked the first
token into sudo's argv log on 2026-10-05; it was revoked.)
- **Tested 2026-10-05:** LAN → no connection; mesh peer fv-ml1 (login `pfi`) → 403; forged `Tailscale-User-Login`,
`Tailscale-User-Whatever` and `X-Forwarded-For` → 403; the responder directly with a bogus, garbage or empty peer → 403.
- **Still to run (handoff to svos-dev's acceptance):** once a login is allowed, an allowed device gets 200 and its forged
`Tailscale-User-*` / `X-Forwarded-*` headers (arbitrary family members included) are replaced or gone at the app; a
stopped tailscaled gives 403; and the live-service vzdump + restore-mount drill once the SVOS services run.
- ⚠ **Every mesh node, servers included, has WhoIs LoginName `pfi`** (headscale has one user). `pfi` must never go in
the allow-list: it would admit every server and LAN traffic SNAT'd through a subnet router. Prime's decision pending:
a separate headscale user for his devices (recommended) or a device allow-list.
- **Tested 2026-10-05 ~1950, from mesh peer fv-ml1, against a temporary header echo on 127.0.0.1:8400 (removed after):**
- no credentials → 401 `Basic realm="SVOS"`; wrong password → 401; username `vuong` (wrong case) → 401;
- right credentials with forged `Tailscale-User-Login`/`-Whatever`, `X-Forwarded-For/Proto/Zzz`, `Forwarded` and
`X-Real-IP` → 200. Upstream saw exactly one `Tailscale-User-Login: Vuong`, no `Authorization`, none of the forged
headers, `X-Forwarded-Proto: https`, `Host: svos.phasefinal.com`, and path `/health` (the `/api` prefix stripped);
- connector route with right credentials → 502 (auth passed; the connector was not running); cert verifies; LAN
10.100.50.43:443 → connection refused.
- **Still to run:** the live-service vzdump + restore-mount drill, once svos-dev runs the services.
### Original requirements (svos-dev)