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57_WolveandClaude Opus 5 85d945ccde feat(ergo): persistent message history, plus deployment-readiness audit fixes
Ergo keeps history in RAM by default, so it is lost on every restart --
including the ones this stack's updater performs. HISTORY now selects a backend
at first deploy: sqlite (default, a file beside ircd.db, no extra container),
postgres (a pinned container via docker-compose.postgres.yml, loopback-only,
POSTGRES_PASSWORD_FILE so no secret lands in .env), or off. Both SQL backends
need Ergo 2.18.0+, which deploy.sh enforces. HISTORY_EXPIRE (default 30d) sets
retention, because upstream's 1w expire-time DELETES from persistent storage --
persistence with the shipped default would buy only a week.

Ergo opens the history backend only at startup and, unlike MySQL, has no
"after launching the server" guard for sqlite/postgresql: a rehash that enables
one reports success and then silently discards every message. So `ergoctl
history` restarts, and `ergoctl edit` detects a backend change and refuses to
apply it by rehash. The config validator runs with no network by design, so it
neutralises postgresql in its copy and reachability is checked separately.

Audit fixes (six lenses over first-deploy, runtime, lifecycle, security, docs):

- SECURITY (blocker): ircd/ is writable by the container uid while the 15-minute
  cert sync and every ergoctl config edit run as root. cp/install/> follow a
  symlink, so code execution in Ergo could redirect a root write onto any host
  file. All such writes now stage under $STACK_DIR (0700 root) and land via mv
  (rename(2) replaces a symlink instead of following it); root reads use cp -P
  or refuse. Regression-tested with real symlinks.
- deploy.sh no longer swaps the image when ERGO_TAG changes on a deployed stack
  (that bypassed pre-flight, snapshot, user warning and rollback); it points at
  `TARGET_VERSION=... ergoctl update update`.
- restore was lossy and could lock you out: it now snapshots the current config
  as well as the database, restores message history, re-points the postgres
  password and re-hashes the local admin password into the restored config, and
  validates before starting.
- `install -d -m` re-modes existing directories: `ergoctl backup /var/backups`
  no longer chmods it 0700 root, and the updater no longer re-modes /var/log
  (0775 root:syslog on Debian, which rsyslog needs).
- The admin oper password is printed only on a first run at a TTY, so it stays
  out of cloud-init serial-console logs.
- A failed update is remembered, so the daily job stops repeating a disruptive
  warn/stop/swap/roll-back cycle every night; postgres readiness gates an update
  that would otherwise stop a healthy server it cannot restart.
- certsync no longer sends "TLS recovered" for outcomes that synced nothing.
- ergoctl history writes .env only after the restart is healthy, and returns 0.
- CR/LF is stripped before IRC framing, so a multi-line argument cannot inject a
  second command; the ntfy token moves out of curl's argv.
- ufw/firewalld are additive, so 6667 is now explicitly revoked when PLAINTEXT=0.
- build.sh refuses to build a deploy.sh whose archive is missing a file the
  script reads -- the failure mode that would have shipped a stack aborting on
  every host.

Docs corrected against the code throughout, including retention, the pre-connect
account-registration default, encrypted-restore (AGE_IDENTITY), what a re-run
really does to .env, and what the update log does and does not contain.

Verified locally: all six suites pass (config render for each backend against the
real 2.19.1 template, yaml/oper/version/env helpers, the IRC client against a
fake server, and the audit fixes including the symlink escalation). Still not
exercised on a Docker host: the containers, ACME issuance, cert sync and
PostgreSQL itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 14:32:37 -05:00
57_WolveandClaude Opus 5 4cbd808eb1 feat(ergo): add Ergo IRC server deployment with ergoctl admin CLI
New deployments/ergo/: the Ergo IRC server behind Caddy for Let's Encrypt TLS
and the IRC-over-WebSocket endpoint. Docker rather than a native OpenRC/systemd
service, because Alpine's apk ergo trails upstream (3.24 ships 2.18.0 against a
2.19.1 security release) and Debian/Alma package it at all -- so native would
mean three install paths plus a per-distro ACME client.

Both containers run with network_mode: host. IRC bans, throttling and cloaking
key on the client's address, and Docker's userland proxy would hide every IPv6
client behind the bridge gateway; host mode also makes the repo's INPUT firewall
genuinely govern 80/443/6697. Caddy reaches Ergo over loopback, which is what
lets Ergo honour X-Forwarded-For (proxy-allowed-from defaults to localhost) and
mark web sessions secure.

- deploy.sh generates ircd.yaml ONCE from the pulled image's own default.yaml
  (version-matched), rewriting the listeners/websockets blocks wholesale rather
  than patching lines, then asserts hard post-conditions and validates with
  `ergo run --smoke` in a throwaway container before anything starts.
- update.sh: pinned vX.Y.Z tags, GHSA + "### Security" release-note policies,
  pre-flight against the new image, user NOTICE + grace, stop-consistent DB
  snapshot, health check (IRC-level, not a bare TCP connect) and rollback that
  restores the DB only when the schema actually moved. Compatibility-break
  releases are held for review. certsync copies Caddy's cert pairwise-atomically
  and verifies the fingerprint served on 6697 after the rehash.
- ergoctl: status/users/logs, validated edit+rehash, oper add/passwd/rm,
  moderation, backup/restore, cert and update passthrough. Talks IRC to the
  loopback listener over bash /dev/tcp and strips control characters from
  replies.
- Ergo runs as a non-root system user, read-only rootfs, all caps dropped;
  Caddy keeps only NET_BIND_SERVICE, with admin API and HTTP/3 off.

Reviewed adversarially across six lenses; 20 confirmed findings fixed, notably
a dead SIGHUP fallback (`rc=$?` after an `if` is always 0), several `set -e`
aborts from non-total pipelines, a release-list cache that only ever populated
in a subshell, and re-runs that used shell defaults instead of the deployed
.env. Verified locally: bash -n, LF endings, the ircd.yaml render against the
real 2.19.1 template in both PLAINTEXT modes, the yaml/oper/version/env helpers,
and the IRC client against a fake server (registration, oper, rehash success and
400-failure, control-character stripping, server-down paths). Not yet exercised
on a Docker host: the containers themselves, ACME issuance and cert sync.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 13:19:31 -05:00