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iris 52446cb273 matrix accounts: server-side password login for swarm-controller
Extends PutMatrixAccountRequest with a mode field (token, the existing
behavior and default; or password). Password mode has swarm-controller
itself perform m.login.password against the caller-given homeserver
(mirrors hive-c0re's own /api/matrix-account-login for the hive-local
case) and stores the resulting token instead of a caller-supplied one
-- the password is used once, over this PUT, and never stored. Also
adds the 'main is reserved' guard hive-c0re's login form already has,
which swarm-controller had no equivalent of before this.

swarm-ui's link-matrix-account form gets a credential-mode toggle
wired to the same contract: token mode is unchanged, password mode
swaps the token field for user-id + password fields and makes
homeserver required (no hive-side fallback to resolve it against, per
PutMatrixAccountRequest::homeserver's own doc).

Per #4122.
2026-09-09 01:36:52 +02:00
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src matrix accounts: server-side password login for swarm-controller 2026-09-09 01:36:52 +02:00
Cargo.toml swarm-controller: accept an agent's external matrix account and put it in the store 2026-09-08 15:53:50 +02:00
README.md deploy: move the controller's socket and credentials out of swarm.controller 2026-09-07 14:24:52 +02:00

swarm-controller

The swarm-level daemon. Where hive-c0re owns the agents on one host, this owns what is true across hives — so a swarm runs one of them and most hives leave it off.

Opt-in per host via services.hyperhive.deploy.swarm-controller.enable, which is deliberately not derived from services.hyperhive.enable: turning it on is a statement about swarm topology, not about whether hyperhive is installed.

What it does today

Serves one /health endpoint and holds no state.

That is the whole intent of the first slice. The point is to make the unit real — service user, runtime and state directories, socket, nginx reachability — so the swarm-level surfaces that follow have somewhere to land. Inventing those surfaces before they are agreed would bake in a shape nobody chose. See #3066 and the hyperhive.swarm consolidation epic.

Why a unix socket, not a port

The hive-gateway's nginx is the only intended client and reaches the socket through a bind-mount. A listener that is never bound to an address cannot be reached from off-host by mistake.

The socket path is services.hyperhive.deploy.swarm-controller.socketPath, default /run/swarm-controller/controller.sock, exported to the process as SWARM_CONTROLLER_SOCKET.

⚠️ The socket's directory is its access control

The socket is 0666. It has to be: nginx runs as a different user and connect(2) needs write. This matches how hive-c0re publishes the per-agent sockets, and rests on the same argument — "the bind source dir is per-agent on host so blast radius is unchanged."

What keeps that safe is that the directory holds one socket. So:

Never point socketPath at a directory that carries anything else. /run/hyperhive above all — it holds host.sock, the host admin socket. Pointing nginx at that directory to reach this socket would put the admin socket within its reach too.

nginx is a host service, so nothing narrows what it can reach except the directory itself — that is the whole of the access control. A unit test pins the default path so a tidying edit fails instead of reviewing cleanly.

RuntimeDirectoryPreserve=yes and the daemon's stale-socket unlink on start are a pair: preserving the directory without the unlink means bind fails with EADDRINUSE after a restart.

Packaging

Built by the workspace derivation and extracted as its own package (nix build .#swarm-controller). Deliberately not in nix/packages' daemonBins — that list is the core stack and drives the bundle services.hyperhive.c0re.package points at, so folding this in would put a swarm-scoped service into every hive's closure.