hyperhive/nix/module-eval/bao-grants.nix
atlas 1261b525d6 matrix: one sender account and one sender token per hive
A swarm runs one homeserver and every hive on it logged in as the same
`@hive:` localpart, holding the same access token out of one swarm-wide
store path. That is one matrix identity for N hives: the homeserver
cannot attribute an action to the hive that took it, and revoking one
hive's standing revokes every hive's.

Three changes, and the third is the one that makes the other two real:

- **The localpart carries the hive's name** (`hive-<hive>`), derived in
  one place, `swarm_secret_client::matrix::hive_localpart`.
  `hive-matrix.nix` renders the same string as the appservice
  registration's `sender_localpart`, so the shared account stops being
  created rather than merely stops being used.
- **The store path is templated by hive**, not a constant. The
  "a swarm runs one homeserver, so this is a constant rather than a
  parameter" rationale went with it; it stopped holding the moment two
  hives shared the homeserver it describes.
- **The path moved out from under the grant every hive has.** It sat at
  `swarm/services/matrix/sender-token`, inside the
  `secret/data/swarm/services/*` read stanza `policy::render` gives every
  hive. It now sits under that hive's own stanza,
  `secret/data/swarm/hives/<hive>/*`, which interpolates the reader's
  name — so a hive reads its own token and is refused another's. The
  policy renderer itself is unchanged: narrowing the `services/*` grant
  would break the OIDC-secret read it exists for, and moving the
  credential is what this needed instead. A policy test walks the
  rendered stanzas and asserts none of hive alpha's covers hive beta's
  sender token, so a later stanza that widened it fails here.

`swarm-matrix-ctl` takes a new required `MATRIX_MINT_HIVE` and writes
that hive's path; its store grant in `swarm-bao.nix` follows, scoped to
one hive's leaf via the new `deploy.bao.matrixCtlHiveName` (defaulting to
this host's `hiveName`) rather than a `hives/*` wildcard, which would
hand the matrix container every hive's token back.

Migration: no outage at deploy. `ensure_hive_user` short-circuits on the
local token file, so a hive keeps running on what it has; with no such
file it reads the new per-hive path, finds nothing, and falls through to
the existing register-or-appservice-login ladder against its own
localpart — which needs only the per-hive `as_token` on local disk. The
old shared object is read by nothing afterwards. Rooms do not follow the
identity, and that is the one operator step; both ways out are written
into `docs/integrations/matrix.md`.

No admin standing is granted to the per-hive accounts: `admin_execute`
stays empty and the assertion pinning it is untouched.
2026-09-20 22:07:16 +02:00

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# `checks.module-eval-bao-grants` — see ./lib.nix for the shared
# rationale (why this suite exists, naming convention, "evaluates
# not executes").
{
pkgs,
lib,
self,
nixosSystem,
}:
let
inherit
(import ./lib.nix {
inherit
pkgs
lib
self
nixosSystem
;
})
hive
runGroup
;
# The store, plus a placed bootstrap token: the only shape in which the
# swarm's first grant can be written at all.
baoGrantHere = hive {
deploy.bao.enable = true;
deploy.bao.bootstrapTokenFile = "/run/secrets/bao-bootstrap.token";
};
# The credential without the store. Writing the first grant is a store-side
# operation, so a host holding only the token has nothing to do — and this
# is the arm that separates "an operator placed a token" from "this box can
# act on it".
baoGrantNoStore = hive {
deploy.bao.bootstrapTokenFile = "/run/secrets/bao-bootstrap.token";
};
# The store and the token, with no CA to trust. `mkForce` because the PKI
# glue supplies one by default here — this is the deployment that brings its
# own certificates and has not named the authority yet, and it separates
# "the grant unit runs" from "cert auth can be set up".
baoGrantNoClientCa = hive {
deploy.bao.enable = true;
deploy.bao.bootstrapTokenFile = "/run/secrets/bao-bootstrap.token";
deploy.bao.clientCaFile = lib.mkForce null;
};
cases = [
{
# Reads the rendered unit on the HOST, which is where the write happens:
# every API listener demands a client certificate, and the host is the
# side that has one.
name = "a store host with a placed bootstrap token renders the granting unit on the host";
ok =
let
u = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-controller-policy;
in
lib.hasInfix "/run/secrets/bao-bootstrap.token" u.script
&& u.unitConfig.ConditionPathExists == "/run/secrets/bao-bootstrap.token";
}
{
# The move is the fix, so pin the side it landed on: in the container it
# had no identity to open a connection with, and no address that resolved
# to the store from its own netns.
name = "the granting unit is not rendered inside the store's container";
ok = !(baoGrantHere.containers.swarm-bao.config.systemd.services ? swarm-bao-controller-policy);
}
{
# `StartLimit*` are `[Unit]` settings that systemd ignores under
# `[Service]`, so a bound written into `serviceConfig` renders, deploys
# and does nothing. Asserted where nixpkgs puts it rather than where it
# was written. The values are pinned because they are the bound: under
# `shamir` a human unseals by hand, and anything shorter than a day gives
# up first — `start-limit-hit` does not self-heal.
name = "the granting unit's start limit lands in [Unit], not [Service]";
ok =
let
u = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-controller-policy;
in
toString u.unitConfig.StartLimitBurst == "2880"
&& toString u.unitConfig.StartLimitIntervalSec == "90000"
&& !(u.serviceConfig ? StartLimitBurst);
}
{
# The grants themselves, and the `hive-` prefix is the whole point:
# without it the controller can rewrite the policy that constrains it,
# which is a privilege escalation that renders, deploys and looks fine.
# Readable here only because the HCL is piped as an argument rather than
# written to a store path.
name = "the controller's bao grants cannot reach the policy that constrains it";
ok =
let
s = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-controller-policy.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "sys/policies/acl/hive-*" s && !(lib.hasInfix "sys/policies/acl/*" s);
}
{
# Same host-side reasoning as the controller's granting unit above: the
# write needs a client certificate and the host is the side that has one.
name = "a store host with a placed bootstrap token renders the publisher's granting unit too";
ok =
let
u = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-secret-publisher-policy;
in
u.unitConfig.ConditionPathExists == "/run/secrets/bao-bootstrap.token"
&& lib.hasInfix "swarm-secret-publisher" u.script;
}
{
# The control for the case above, and the same one the controller's unit
# has: rendered on the host means NOT rendered in the container, where it
# would have neither an identity nor a route to the store.
name = "the publisher's granting unit is not rendered inside the store's container";
ok =
!(baoGrantHere.containers.swarm-bao.config.systemd.services ? swarm-bao-secret-publisher-policy);
}
{
# The whole point of a second principal. The two prefixes it publishes to
# and not `swarm/`, so it cannot touch an agent's credentials; and no
# `read`, so a unit whose job is copying a file cannot recover what is
# already there. Pinned as the full capability list per prefix, because an
# added capability is exactly what a presence check misses.
name = "the publisher's grant is write-only and reaches the hive and service prefixes alone";
ok =
let
s = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-secret-publisher-policy.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "path \"secret/data/swarm/hives/*\" {\n capabilities = [\"create\", \"update\"]" s
&& lib.hasInfix "path \"secret/data/swarm/services/*\" {\n capabilities = [\"create\", \"update\"]" s
&& !(lib.hasInfix "secret/data/swarm/agents" s)
&& !(lib.hasInfix "secret/data/swarm/*" s)
&& !(lib.hasInfix "sys/policies/acl" s);
}
{
# The ordering is load-bearing and invisible at runtime: the controller's
# unit creates the KV and cert-auth mounts this one writes into, so
# without it a cold boot races and fails with "route entry not found",
# which names neither unit.
name = "the publisher's granting unit is ordered after the one that creates the mounts";
ok = lib.elem "swarm-bao-controller-policy.service" (
baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-secret-publisher-policy.after
);
}
{
# The third principal's grant, and the narrowest of the three: ONE path,
# spelled to the leaf. The negative arms are the property — a homeserver
# is not entitled to overwrite Grafana's OIDC client, so widening this to
# the `services/` prefix the publisher holds would be a real loss even
# though it would read as tidier.
#
# ⚠️ `hives` is PLURAL, because the path segment comes from
# `Kind::Hive`'s strum serialisation and not from `Kind::label`, which
# renders the singular for error text. The singular spelling evaluates,
# deploys, and 403s every read with "permission denied" and nothing else.
#
# 🩸 The hive NAME in the middle is the per-hive half of this credential:
# the token used to be one swarm-wide value under `services/matrix/`,
# which every hive's own policy granted read on. The negative arms below
# are what keep it from drifting back — neither the `services/*` tree nor
# a `hives/*` wildcard may appear, since either one hands matrix-ctl (or
# a hive) reach beyond the single leaf it owns.
name = "matrix-ctl's grant is one hive's sender token path and nothing else";
ok =
let
s = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-matrix-ctl-policy.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "path \"secret/data/swarm/hives/h1/matrix/sender-token\" {" s
&& !(lib.hasInfix "secret/data/swarm/services" s)
&& !(lib.hasInfix "secret/data/swarm/agents" s)
&& !(lib.hasInfix "secret/data/swarm/hives/*" s)
&& !(lib.hasInfix "sys/policies/acl" s);
}
{
# 🩸 `read` is load-bearing here and is the one capability neither
# sibling has. matrix-ctl's first act is to read this path back and stop
# if something is there — that read IS "and only once", so without the
# capability every container restart would mint a second access token and
# invalidate the hive's.
name = "matrix-ctl may read back the one path it writes";
ok =
let
s = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-matrix-ctl-policy.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "capabilities = [\"create\", \"update\", \"read\"]" s
&& lib.hasInfix "auth/cert/certs/swarm-matrix-ctl" s
&& lib.hasInfix "allowed_common_names=swarm-matrix-ctl" s;
}
{
# Same two controls its siblings carry: ordered after the unit that makes
# the mounts it writes into, and rendered on the HOST rather than inside
# the store's container, where it would have neither an identity nor a
# route to the store.
name = "matrix-ctl's granting unit is ordered after the mounts and rendered on the host";
ok =
lib.elem "swarm-bao-controller-policy.service" (
baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-matrix-ctl-policy.after
)
&& !(baoGrantHere.containers.swarm-bao.config.systemd.services ? swarm-bao-matrix-ctl-policy);
}
{
# The policy authorising this route lives in another file, and nothing
# else relates the grants to the paths the code actually writes.
#
# `secret/data/` is KV v2's ACL prefix; `swarm` is
# `swarm_secret_client::path::ROOT` and `agents` is
# `Kind::Agent.as_str()`, both of which that crate pins in its own test.
#
# The grant is still the agent kind alone because nothing writes another
# one yet. It widens when a path outside `agents/` gains a writer, not
# when the kinds are declared.
name = "the controller may write agent credentials, and only under the agent prefix";
ok =
let
s = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-controller-policy.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "secret/data/swarm/agents/*" s
&& !(lib.hasInfix "secret/data/*" s)
&& !(lib.hasInfix "path \"secret/*\"" s);
}
{
# Write-only is the property, not an accident of how it was typed: a
# `read` here would let the controller recover every agent's credentials
# instead of only replacing them. Pinned as the whole capability list,
# because an added capability is exactly what a presence check misses.
name = "the controller's grant on agent credentials is write-only";
ok =
let
s = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-controller-policy.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "path \"secret/data/swarm/agents/*\" {\n capabilities = [\"create\", \"update\"]" s;
}
{
# The policy above grants paths under a mount nothing else creates, so
# the unit that writes the policy has to create it too — otherwise every
# certificate login fails against a path that is not there.
name = "the granting unit creates the cert auth mount and the controller's role";
ok =
let
s = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-controller-policy.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "bao auth enable cert" s
&& lib.hasInfix "auth/cert/certs/swarm-controller" s
&& lib.hasInfix "/var/lib/swarm-bao-tls/client-ca.pem" s;
}
{
# Same shape as the cert mount above, for the engine the controller
# writes credentials through: a fresh store has no `secret/`, so the
# grant would name a mount nobody created and the first write would 404.
#
# ⚠️ Matched on the COMMAND, for the reason the no-client-CA case below
# spells out: the policy text is embedded in this same script and grants
# `secret/data/...`, so any arm keyed on the *path* is satisfied either
# way and could never fail.
name = "the granting unit creates the KV mount the controller writes through";
ok =
let
s = baoGrantHere.systemd.services.swarm-bao-controller-policy.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "bao secrets enable -path=secret kv-v2" s;
}
{
# The arm that makes the one above mean something. A role's trust anchor
# is the CA, so with none named there is nothing to write — and the
# policy write, which needs no CA, must survive that.
#
# ⚠️ Matched on the COMMANDS, not on `auth/cert/certs`: the policy text is
# embedded in this same script and grants that very path, so the shorter
# infix is present either way and the arm could never fail.
name = "with no client CA the unit still writes the policy and skips the role";
ok =
let
s = baoGrantNoClientCa.systemd.services.swarm-bao-controller-policy.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "bao policy write" s
&& !(lib.hasInfix "bao auth enable cert" s)
&& !(lib.hasInfix "client-ca.pem" s)
# The KV mount is NOT part of what a missing client CA switches off:
# the controller writes through it whether or not anything can log in
# by certificate. Asserted here rather than trusted, because both
# steps live in the same script and one indentation level decides it.
&& lib.hasInfix "bao secrets enable -path=secret kv-v2" s;
}
{
# What makes the granting-unit cases mean something, and the property
# the host-side half depends on: no store here, so no bind mount and no
# unit. Without it a hive that merely names a token would drag the
# store's container config into its evaluation.
name = "a bootstrap token on a host that runs no store grants nothing";
ok = !(baoGrantNoStore.systemd.services ? swarm-bao-bootstrap-dir);
}
];
in
runGroup "bao-grants" cases