swarm-matrix-ctl: one control binary for the matrix container, not one per job

Renames `swarm-matrix-minter` and reshapes it around subcommands. Minting
is now `swarm-matrix-ctl mint`.

Running rust inside `containers.hive-matrix` is not free: it needs its own
store identity, its own cert role and its own bind mounts, and every one of
those is per-*container*, not per-task. A second single-purpose crate would
have had to duplicate that plumbing to add one action, so the next thing
that has to run in there should be a verb here rather than a new crate.
The old name guaranteed the opposite.

`main.rs` is clap dispatch; the minting logic moves to `mint.rs` unchanged.
A bare invocation is refused: `mint` writes a credential, so "no verb"
defaulting to it would make a typo in the unit mint rather than fail.

The environment prefix moves with it, `MATRIX_MINTER_*` → `MATRIX_MINT_*`.
Scoped to the verb and not to the binary, because a binary-scoped prefix is
one the next verb has to share or widen, and a widened one never narrows
again. A test asserts every variable carries the verb's prefix.

The principal renames too. The cert role, bao policy, granting unit, leaf
filename and `certAuthCns` entry all have to spell one string the same way,
so leaving them as `swarm-matrix-minter` would have rebuilt the naming
split this branch exists to remove. Renaming the nix options alongside is
free here: every one of them is introduced by this PR and has never been
released, so no operator config names them yet.

`ExecStart` now names the verb, which is a contract between a nix string
and a clap enum that fails at deploy time with no local signal. Both ends
assert it: `mint_is_spelled_the_way_the_unit_invokes_it` in the crate, and
a new module-eval arm reading the rendered `ExecStart`.

docs/getting-started/setup.md drops the sender token from its "live on the
host" list: setup does not touch this credential, so a setup guide has no
reason to name it.
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//! `swarm-matrix-ctl mint` — publish the appservice sender account's
//! homeserver access token to the swarm's secret store, once.
//!
//! A oneshot inside `containers.hive-matrix`, not a daemon and not part of the
//! swarm controller. It is this account rather than an agent's because a
//! homeserver has **one** appservice registration and so one sender account,
//! and a swarm runs one homeserver: "only once" is a property of what is being
//! minted, so there is nothing to lock and no trigger to serve.
//!
//! The store, not the homeserver, is the idempotency key — see
//! [`already_published`]. On the hive side `hive-c0re`'s
//! `matrix::ensure_hive_user` reads exactly the path written here, which is how
//! a hive that holds no `as_token` still gets its matrix account.
use anyhow::{Context, Result};
use swarm_secret_client::{
SecretStore,
client::{DEFAULT_CERT_MOUNT, Settings},
matrix,
};
use crate::{homeserver, registration};
/// Role on the store's `cert` auth mount to log in with. Its policy is what
/// allows the write below; the certificate the `BAO_*` variables name has to
/// carry the CN that role accepts.
const ENV_CERT_ROLE: &str = "MATRIX_MINT_CERT_ROLE";
/// Client-server API base of the homeserver beside us — loopback, since the
/// container shares the host netns.
const ENV_API_URL: &str = "MATRIX_MINT_API_URL";
/// The bind-mounted appservice registration, which is where the `as_token`
/// comes from. A path, never a value.
const ENV_REGISTRATION: &str = "MATRIX_MINT_REGISTRATION";
/// Localpart of the appservice's sender account. The registration's own
/// `sender_localpart`, and `hive-c0re`'s `matrix::HIVE_LOCALPART`.
const ENV_LOCALPART: &str = "MATRIX_MINT_LOCALPART";
/// Public base URL of the homeserver, stored beside the token so a reader can
/// reconstruct where it is good for. Optional: a swarm with no gateway vhost
/// has no such URL, and `matrix::Credential` types the field to say so.
const ENV_HOMESERVER: &str = "MATRIX_MINT_HOMESERVER";
/// Everything the unit tells this verb, checked before anything is opened.
///
/// Separate from the work for the reason `swarm_secret_client::client::Settings`
/// is: every arm is a misconfiguration an operator reads an error about, and
/// none of them needs a reachable homeserver or store to happen.
#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
struct Config {
cert_role: String,
api_url: String,
registration: String,
localpart: String,
homeserver: Option<String>,
}
impl Config {
/// Read the `MATRIX_MINT_*` variables from the process environment.
///
/// # Errors
/// Naming the first variable that is unset or empty.
fn from_env() -> Result<Self> {
Self::from_lookup(|k| std::env::var(k).ok())
}
/// [`Config::from_env`] against an arbitrary lookup.
///
/// # Errors
/// Naming the first variable that is unset or empty.
fn from_lookup(get: impl Fn(&str) -> Option<String>) -> Result<Self> {
let required = |var: &'static str| -> Result<String> {
get(var)
.filter(|v| !v.is_empty())
.with_context(|| format!("{var} is unset or empty"))
};
Ok(Self {
cert_role: required(ENV_CERT_ROLE)?,
api_url: required(ENV_API_URL)?,
registration: required(ENV_REGISTRATION)?,
localpart: required(ENV_LOCALPART)?,
// Empty is absent: systemd renders an unset nix option as
// `Environment=VAR=`, so that is the shape this arrives in.
homeserver: get(ENV_HOMESERVER).filter(|v| !v.is_empty()),
})
}
}
/// Is the credential already in the store?
///
/// **This read is the "and only once".** The homeserver is not asked — a
/// re-run of the container, or of this unit, costs one store read and stops.
/// It is also the read-back of what a previous run wrote, so the path published
/// and the path consulted cannot drift apart: they are one function call.
///
/// A failure to read is reported and treated as absent rather than raised. The
/// two cases that reach it are a path that has never been written (the first
/// run, which must go on to mint) and a token whose policy does not cover the
/// path — and the second fails again, loudly and with the store's own message,
/// at the write below.
async fn already_published(store: &SecretStore, path: &str) -> bool {
match store.read::<matrix::Credential>(path).await {
Ok(credential) => !credential.value.trim().is_empty(),
Err(e) => {
tracing::info!(%path, error = %e, "nothing readable in the store yet");
false
}
}
}
/// Run the verb.
///
/// # Errors
/// If the environment is incomplete, the store refuses the login or the write,
/// the registration cannot be read, or the homeserver refuses both the
/// registration and the appservice login.
pub async fn run() -> Result<()> {
let config = Config::from_env()?;
// Explicitly, rather than through `SecretStore::from_env`: a missing or
// misspelled `BAO_*` variable is the most likely thing to be wrong with a
// freshly deployed unit, and this reports it before the homeserver is
// touched at all.
let settings = Settings::from_env().context("reading the store's BAO_* environment")?;
let store = SecretStore::connect(&settings, &config.cert_role, DEFAULT_CERT_MOUNT)
.await
.with_context(|| {
format!(
"logging in to the swarm secret store as cert role {}",
config.cert_role
)
})?;
let path = matrix::sender_token_path();
if already_published(&store, &path).await {
tracing::info!(%path, "the sender token is already published; not minting");
return Ok(());
}
let as_token = registration::as_token(&config.registration)?;
let http = homeserver::client()?;
let token =
match homeserver::register(&http, &config.api_url, &config.localpart, &as_token).await? {
homeserver::Registered::Token(token) => token,
homeserver::Registered::AlreadyExists => {
// The expected arm, not an edge case: this account is the
// appservice's own `sender_localpart`, so the homeserver creates it
// when it loads the registration — before anything gets to ask.
tracing::info!("the sender account exists; logging in as the appservice instead");
homeserver::appservice_login(&http, &config.api_url, &config.localpart, &as_token)
.await?
}
};
store
.write(
&path,
&matrix::Credential {
value: token,
homeserver: config.homeserver,
},
)
.await
.with_context(|| format!("writing the sender token to {path}"))?;
tracing::info!(%path, "published the sender token");
Ok(())
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
/// A lookup standing in for a fully-configured unit's environment.
fn full(k: &str) -> Option<String> {
match k {
ENV_CERT_ROLE => Some("swarm-matrix-ctl".to_owned()),
ENV_API_URL => Some("http://127.0.0.1:8008".to_owned()),
ENV_REGISTRATION => {
Some("/var/lib/hyperhive/matrix-appservice/hyperhive.yaml".to_owned())
}
ENV_LOCALPART => Some("hive".to_owned()),
_ => None,
}
}
#[test]
fn a_complete_environment_is_accepted() {
// The control: without it every assertion below could be passing
// because `from_lookup` rejects everything.
let c = Config::from_lookup(full).expect("every required variable is set");
assert_eq!(c.localpart, "hive");
assert_eq!(c.homeserver, None, "an absent public URL is not an error");
}
#[test]
fn each_required_variable_is_named_when_it_is_the_missing_one() {
for var in [ENV_CERT_ROLE, ENV_API_URL, ENV_REGISTRATION, ENV_LOCALPART] {
let e = Config::from_lookup(|k| if k == var { None } else { full(k) })
.expect_err("one required variable is absent");
assert!(
format!("{e}").contains(var),
"dropping {var} should name {var}, got {e}"
);
}
}
#[test]
fn an_empty_variable_is_as_absent_as_an_unset_one() {
// systemd writes `Environment=VAR=` for an unset nix option, so empty
// is the shape these actually arrive in.
let e = Config::from_lookup(|k| {
if k == ENV_CERT_ROLE {
Some(String::new())
} else {
full(k)
}
})
.expect_err("an empty role is not a role");
assert!(format!("{e}").contains(ENV_CERT_ROLE), "{e}");
let c = Config::from_lookup(|k| {
if k == ENV_HOMESERVER {
Some(String::new())
} else {
full(k)
}
})
.expect("an empty public URL is optional, not fatal");
assert_eq!(c.homeserver, None);
}
/// The environment prefix is a contract with the nix unit, and the crate
/// rename that produced it moved every one of these. A verb-scoped prefix
/// is the point: the next verb brings its own, instead of widening a
/// binary-scoped one nobody can then narrow.
#[test]
fn every_variable_is_scoped_to_the_verb() {
for var in [
ENV_CERT_ROLE,
ENV_API_URL,
ENV_REGISTRATION,
ENV_LOCALPART,
ENV_HOMESERVER,
] {
assert!(
var.starts_with("MATRIX_MINT_"),
"{var} is not scoped to the mint verb"
);
}
}
#[test]
fn the_published_path_is_the_one_the_hive_reads() {
// Both ends of this slice's loop resolve the same function, so there is
// no second spelling to drift — this pins that the loop exists at all,
// and names the literal so a move of the path is a deliberate edit on
// both sides rather than a silent 404 on the reading one.
assert_eq!(
matrix::sender_token_path(),
"swarm/services/matrix/sender-token"
);
}
}