hive-agent-forge-token and hive-agent-queue-credential both run with
UMask=0377. Their scripts captured bao's stderr in `err="$(mktemp)"`,
which under that umask is created 0400; the very next `2>"$err"` on the
`bao login` line cannot reopen it for writing, so bash fails the
redirect with "Permission denied" before bao ever runs. The `if !`
around the login then took the only error branch it had and printed
"this agent's certificate was refused by the swarm secret store" — the
store was never contacted. No agent has fetched either credential.
The stderr file now lives in each unit's own 0700 RuntimeDirectory and
is removed before every redirect into it, so the redirect creates it —
the idiom forge-token.nix already used for its staging file.
The login's error branch now says which of these happened, then quotes
bao's output:
- `$err` could not be created, so bao never ran;
- the store answered with HTTP 4xx (refusal) or another status;
- the store sent a TLS alert rejecting the certificate;
- no answer at all (network, DNS, or local TLS).
Unreadable cert/key credentials are reported before bao runs.
bao.nix has the same fetch shape but no UMask=, so its mktemp file is
0600 and writable; it is untouched.
Closes#4735
Every agent on a hive authenticates to the swarm queue with the same
hive-scoped OIDC client, so at the auth callout one agent is
indistinguishable from its co-hived neighbours. The commit before this
one mints a secret per agent at swarm level into
secret/swarm/agents/<agent>/queue; nothing read it.
Read it here, and read it from the container itself. A hive courier in
the path would be the hive vouching for which agent this is, which is
the property a per-agent credential exists to remove -- so the agent
logs in to the store with the certificate hive-agent-bao-identity
already proves it can log in with, and reads its own path. The store
certificate is for reaching the store and nothing else: what the new
unit writes to /run is the secret it read back, and nothing hands a
BAO_CLIENT_* path to anything queue-shaped.
The read needs no policy change. render_agent grants read on
secret/data/swarm/agents/<agent>/*, which covers this path and the
bao-mtls one beside it alike -- which is also why this unit degrades
where the identity check fails. A refusal this unit sees and that check
did not cannot be a policy that drifted; it is an object not yet minted,
the ordinary state of every agent created before its swarm knew to mint
one.
The harness resolves the path and reports which credential this agent
can present. It does not yet present it: the auth-callout responder
still verifies only the hive-scoped token, and an agent offering a
credential nothing on the other end reads back would simply be refused.
Teaching swarm-nats-auth to read the same path is the next slice.
