name the mint, not the publisher, as the writer of the client secrets

Finishes the sweep of prose that said the publisher unit writes or carries the OIDC client secrets: rust docs, nix comments and option descriptions, test names and docs.

docs/scheduler/observability.md

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ the label isn't taken from the payload at all.
 **Nothing to set where the hive holds its store identity.** The hive's collector
 reads its secret from the swarm's secret store under the hive's own leaf
 (`deploy.bao.clientCertFile`): `swarm-bao-hive-otel-oidc.service` fetches
-`swarm/hives/<hive>/oidc/client`, which the publisher in authelia's container
+`swarm/hives/<hive>/oidc/client`, which authelia's mint, in its container,
 writes, into `/run/hive-otel-oidc/` (tmpfs, so never on persistent disk). It
 runs at boot and retries every 30s until the store answers; until then the
 collector runs on an empty file and the swarm refuses its exports. When a

nix/host-modules/glue-bao-tls.nix

@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ in
 
         # The secret publisher's, minted here for the reason the controller's
         # line above gives — and it serves that case more often, not less: the
-        # publisher runs in AUTHELIA's container, on the one host
+        # publisher's unit runs in AUTHELIA's container, on the one host
         # guaranteed not to be this one once the store has a host of its own.
         [ -s ${pkiDir}/secret-publisher.pem ] || ${signLeaf} ${pkiDir} secret-publisher \
           ${lib.escapeShellArg deployCfg.bao.secretPublisherCommonName} "" clientAuth

nix/host-modules/glue-secret-publisher-bao-identity.nix

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 # ⚠️ The minting is NOT here. ./glue-bao-tls.nix holds the CA and signs the
 # leaf, because the thing that owns a private key owns issuing from it. What
-# belongs here is the pairing: which host paths go to the publisher in
+# belongs here is the pairing: which host paths go to the publisher's identity in
 # authelia's container.
 #
 # ⚠️ Gated on a PKI directory existing, not on the store alone — the same rule

nix/host-modules/hive-forge/default.nix

@@ -1201,8 +1201,8 @@ in
     # The forge's OIDC client secret, out of the swarm secret store under the
     # forge publisher's leaf — the one route, wherever authelia runs. Same
     # shape as ../hive-matrix.nix's `swarm-bao-matrix-oidc`: the login and the
-    # read both fail loudly, and `storeRetry` retries until the publisher in
-    # authelia's container has written the secret.
+    # read both fail loudly, and `storeRetry` retries until authelia's mint,
+    # in its container, has stored the secret.
     #
     # On the host, which reads that leaf from its own files. A host with no
     # publisher leaf fails here, naming the options, rather than rendering no

nix/host-modules/hive-matrix.nix

@@ -1064,8 +1064,7 @@ in
           #
           # `Restart=on-failure` covers a sealed store or one still starting;
           # the timer below repeats the run, which a unit without `RemainAfterExit` allows.
-          # The start timeout is bounded for the reason
-          # ./swarm-secret-publisher.nix states: a sealed store answers on the
+          # The start timeout is bounded because a sealed store answers on the
           # port and never answers the read.
           systemd.services.swarm-matrix-appservice-sync = lib.mkIf ctlActive {
             description = "keep the swarm's appservice registration in step with the swarm secret store";

nix/host-modules/otel.nix

@@ -786,8 +786,8 @@ in
       # This hive's OIDC client secret, out of the swarm secret store under the
       # hive's own leaf. Same shape as ./hive-matrix.nix's
       # `swarm-bao-matrix-oidc`: the login and the read both fail loudly, and
-      # `storeRetry` retries until the publisher in authelia's container has
-      # written the secret, because the collector does not start without it.
+      # `storeRetry` retries until authelia's mint, in its container, has
+      # stored the secret, because the collector does not start without it.
       #
       # The collector re-reads `client_secret_file` on every token fetch, but
       # the file it reads is `LoadCredential`'s copy, made at start: a changed

nix/host-modules/swarm-authelia.nix

@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ let
   # no other collector shares it. The module requires a value.
   forwarderTelemetryPort = 8901;
   # A client this container registers and mints for itself. Its secret goes
-  # through the store like every other forwarder's: the publisher carries it
+  # through the store like every other forwarder's: the mint creates it
   # there and the forwarder reads it back under the same identity.
   forwarderClient = {
     id = forwarderClientId;
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ let
     accessTokenSignedResponseAlg = "RS256";
   };
 
-  # The secret publisher runs in this container, beside the mint whose secrets
-  # it copies. It needs a store identity, and a reader is defined by holding a
+  # The mint runs in this container and creates its secrets in the store. It
+  # needs a store identity, and a reader is defined by holding a
   # certificate the store accepts, never by standing next to it — the rule
   # ./swarm-bao.nix's `deploy.bao` options block states in full.
   # `deploy.bao.enable` here would be the co-location assumption itself.

nix/host-modules/swarm-bao.nix

@@ -539,8 +539,8 @@ let
     }
   '';
 
-  # The identity that copies authelia's minted OIDC client secrets into the
-  # store. Named outside `hive-*` for the same reason as the controller's: the
+  # The identity authelia's mint creates its OIDC client secrets in the store
+  # with. Named outside `hive-*` for the same reason as the controller's: the
   # controller may create policies under that prefix, and a policy it can
   # rewrite is not a constraint on anything.
   secretPublisherPolicyName = "swarm-secret-publisher";
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ let
   swarmAppserviceRegistrationLeaf = "swarm/controller/swarm-controller/matrix/appservice-registration";
 
   # The controller's own OIDC client secret, the nix half of
-  # `swarm_secret_client::queue::controller_client_path`. The publisher writes
+  # `swarm_secret_client::queue::controller_client_path`. Authelia's mint writes
   # it; the controller reads it and holds no other copy.
   controllerClientLeaf = "swarm/controller/swarm-controller/oidc/client";
 
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ let
   # and read like the API key above.
   classifierAcpKeyLeaf = "swarm/services/review-classifier/acp-provider";
 
-  # The UI's OIDC client secret. The publisher writes it; the granter reads it
+  # The UI's OIDC client secret. Authelia's mint writes it; the granter reads it
   # into the `oidc` auth method's config, which is the only copy bao uses.
   baoUiClientLeaf = "swarm/services/${cfg.ui.oidc.clientId}/oidc/client";
 
@@ -1672,7 +1672,7 @@ let
   # own and lands it in a collector's container — because that route is
   # proven and there is no second one worth inventing.
   #
-  # Where the publisher in authelia's container leaves it. A swarm service's
+  # Where authelia's mint, in its container, stores it. A swarm service's
   # client is registered once for the whole swarm, so its secret is one value.
   # The `swarm-forwarder-oidc` role's grant is this one path, so any other
   # answers 403 however correct it looks.
@@ -1983,8 +1983,8 @@ in
       example = "swarm-secret-publisher.svc";
       description = ''
         Subject the store's secret-publisher cert-auth role accepts — the
-        identity that copies authelia's minted OIDC client secrets into the
-        store so a hive that does not host authelia can read its own.
+        identity authelia's mint creates its OIDC client secrets in the
+        store with, so a hive that does not host authelia can read its own.
 
         A **second** identity rather than reuse of
         {option}`services.hyperhive.deploy.bao.controllerCommonName`: the

nix/host-modules/swarm-builder.nix

@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ in
     description = ''
       The OAuth2 client id the swarm builder presents to the swarm queue.
       Read-only: the host running authelia registers it, the queue's
-      auth-callout responder grants it the build subject, and the secret
-      publisher carries its secret to the store, all from this one value.
+      auth-callout responder grants it the build subject, and
+      authelia's mint stores its secret in the store, all from this one value.
     '';
   };
 

nix/host-modules/swarm-claude-login.nix

@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ in
     description = ''
       The OAuth2 client id the claude login minter presents to the swarm
       queue. Read-only: the host running authelia registers it, the queue's
-      auth-callout responder grants it the login subject, and the secret
-      publisher carries its secret to the store, all from this one value.
+      auth-callout responder grants it the login subject, and
+      authelia's mint stores its secret in the store, all from this one value.
     '';
   };
 

nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana.nix

@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ let
     "/var/lib/grafana-metrics/bearer"
   ];
 
-  # Where the publisher in authelia's container leaves this client's secret. A
+  # Where authelia's mint, in its container, stores this client's secret. A
   # swarm service's client is registered once for the whole swarm, so its
   # secret is one value and not one per hive. Both ends compose this from the
   # same swarm-wide client id, so a rename cannot leave one of them behind.
@@ -719,8 +719,8 @@ in
     ++ map (p: "r ${p}") legacyHostSecretPaths;
 
     # THE delivery unit — one route, in every deployment. The secret authelia
-    # minted arrives out of the swarm secret store, which the publisher in
-    # authelia's container wrote it into, and that is true whether authelia is
+    # minted arrives out of the swarm secret store, which authelia's mint,
+    # in its container, wrote it into, and that is true whether authelia is
     # a network away or in the container next door.
     #
     # 🩸 No second unit copies the plaintext out of authelia's tree
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ in
     # there" into a value.
     #
     # ⚠️ An ABSENT secret is "not published yet", not a fault of this host's.
-    # The publisher runs in authelia's container and authelia mints on its
+    # The mint runs in authelia's container and authelia mints on its
     # first boot, so early in a swarm's life there is legitimately nothing to
     # read.
     # Nothing here writes a stand-in: there is no such thing as a locally valid

nix/host-modules/swarm-notify-router.nix

@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ in
     description = ''
       The OAuth2 client id the notification router presents to the swarm
       queue. Read-only: the host running authelia registers it, the queue's
-      auth-callout responder grants it the router's subjects, and the secret
-      publisher carries its secret to the store, all from this one value.
+      auth-callout responder grants it the router's subjects, and
+      authelia's mint stores its secret in the store, all from this one value.
     '';
   };
 

nix/host-modules/swarm-otel.nix

@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ let
   # regression rather than a choice anyone made.
   hiveReaderIdentity = baoDeploy.clientCertFile != null && baoDeploy.clientKeyFile != null;
 
-  # Where the publisher in authelia's container leaves this client's secret —
+  # Where authelia's mint, in its container, stores this client's secret —
   # composed from the same swarm-wide `clientId` the registration in
   # ./glue-swarm-otel-oidc-client.nix uses, so a rename cannot leave one of
   # them behind. The same prefix ./swarm-grafana.nix reads its own client
@@ -554,8 +554,8 @@ in
     # ./swarm-grafana.nix has for its own client.
 
     # THE delivery unit — one route, in every deployment. The secret authelia
-    # minted arrives out of the swarm secret store, which the publisher in
-    # authelia's container wrote it into, whether authelia is a network away or
+    # minted arrives out of the swarm secret store, which authelia's mint,
+    # in its container, wrote it into, whether authelia is a network away or
     # in the container next door.
     #
     # 🩸 No unit here copies the plaintext directly out of authelia's

nix/host-modules/swarm-review-classifier.nix

@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ in
     description = ''
       The OAuth2 client id the review classifier presents to the swarm queue.
       Read-only: the host running authelia registers it, the queue's
-      auth-callout responder grants it the try-out subject, and the secret
-      publisher carries its secret to the store, all from this one value.
+      auth-callout responder grants it the try-out subject, and
+      authelia's mint stores its secret in the store, all from this one value.
     '';
   };
 

nix/module-eval/bao-grants.nix

@@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ let
         && !(lib.hasInfix "appservice-registration" baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-controller-policy.script);
     }
     {
-      # The controller's own OIDC client secret, which the publisher writes and
+      # The controller's own OIDC client secret, which authelia's mint writes and
       # the controller reads at start. Pinned as the whole stanza, so an added
       # capability fails.
       name = "the controller reads its own client secret and cannot write it";

nix/module-eval/bao-otel-collector.nix

@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ let
       # for: the reader's grant is one path under `services`, so a secret
       # filed under the hive that happens to run the store would be refused
       # rather than missing, however correct the path reads.
-      name = "the forwarder's secret is read from the prefix the publisher writes";
+      name = "the forwarder's secret is read from the prefix the mint writes";
       ok =
         let
           s = baoWithCollector.systemd.services.swarm-bao-forwarder-oidc.script;

nix/module-eval/grafana.nix

@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ let
       # refused rather than empty, however correct it reads. The negative arm is
       # the rename this is exposed to — a secret filed under the hive that runs
       # the service instead of under the service itself.
-      name = "grafana's OIDC secret is read from the prefix the publisher writes";
+      name = "grafana's OIDC secret is read from the prefix the mint writes";
       ok =
         let
           s = grafanaRemoteAuthelia.systemd.services.swarm-bao-grafana-oidc.script;

nix/module-eval/swarm-otel-core.nix

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ let
       # Same 403-not-a-miss reason as grafana's arm above: the reader's grant
       # covers the `services` prefix, so a path outside it is refused rather
       # than empty, however correct it reads.
-      name = "the collector's OIDC secret is read from the prefix the publisher writes";
+      name = "the collector's OIDC secret is read from the prefix the mint writes";
       ok =
         let
           s = otelBaoRemoteAuthelia.systemd.services.swarm-bao-otel-oidc.script;

swarm-nats-auth/src/oidc_secret.rs

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 //! with. Read from the secret store as the responder starts and held in
 //! memory, never in a file, `argv` or the environment.
 //!
-//! The secret can change under a running responder: the publisher in authelia's
-//! container re-publishes it when it is re-minted. So when the `IdP` refuses an
+//! The secret can change under a running responder: authelia's mint, in its
+//! container, writes a new one when it re-mints. So when the `IdP` refuses an
 //! introspection as a credential (a 400 or 401), the secret is read from the
 //! store again ([`StoredSecret::after_refusal`]) and, when it changed, the
 //! introspection is tried once more. Both fit in the one request's
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ pub fn path(client_id: &str) -> Result<String> {
     Ok(format!("{prefix}/oidc/client"))
 }
 
-/// The secret at `path`, with surrounding whitespace trimmed: the publisher
-/// stores the minted file as is, and a trailing newline is not part of the
-/// secret. Errors name the path, never the value.
+/// The secret at `path`, with surrounding whitespace trimmed: an earlier
+/// release stored the minted file as is, and a trailing newline is not part of
+/// the secret. Errors name the path, never the value.
 ///
 /// # Errors
 /// When the store cannot be read, or holds nothing or only whitespace there.

swarm-secret-client/src/builder.rs

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ pub fn client_secret_path(client_id: &str) -> Result<String, Error> {
 /// No `Debug`: `value` authenticates the builder at the queue.
 #[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct ClientSecret {
-    /// The secret, under the field name the publisher writes.
+    /// The secret, under the field name authelia's mint writes.
     pub value: String,
 }