feat(appgate): apps with their own login can skip the node login
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Some apps carry a complete account system and are broken by an upstream
challenge: git clients speak basic-auth (not browser cookies), and a
BTCPay checkout link handed to a customer must open for that customer.
Both were behind the gate's login page — the "non-browser clients need an
access token" gap disclosed in five consecutive releases.

- New manifest port policy `auth: open`: the daemon still fronts the port
  exactly like `gated` (loopback pin, external binds, frame-header fixes,
  app-down retry page, Tor upstream) but serves it without the login
  challenge. Requires auth_rationale, same burden of proof as `none`.
  Gitea 3001 and BTCPay 23000 declare it.
- Runtime operator override per app (security.set-app-gate → app-configs/
  <id>.json "gateEnabled"), surfaced as Settings → app → Access control.
  Wins over the manifest in both directions and applies on the next
  request — no restart, and it works today on catalog-covered apps whose
  signed manifest still says `gated`.
- The gate resolves policy per-request from the live port map, so a
  toggle takes effect without waiting for the 60s rebind sweep. "Off"
  never releases the port: gated apps are loopback-pinned, so releasing
  would strand them, not open them.
- security.app-gate-status now reports gate_enabled + any override.
- New guard test pins the `auth: open` set (both entries reviewed); the
  `auth: none` count moves 25 → 26, absorbing pre-existing drift from the
  phoenixd onboarding (loopback JSON API with its own generated password).
- Docs: the manifest spec's ports row documented only host/container/
  protocol — bind, auth, auth_rationale and session_passthrough were
  undocumented. Added a full "Ports & the app gate" section plus a
  developer-guide entry telling app authors to enforce their own auth
  regardless, since the operator can flip the gate either way.

Verified live on archi-dev-box from an external address: gated → 401 gate
page; override off → Gitea 200 own page, BTCPay 302 to its own login,
git-over-HTTP info/refs 200; override on → 401 again; clear → default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-08-16 11:40:07 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 9b789a64ad
commit 58cdea5e79
15 changed files with 537 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ pub struct GatedPort {
/// companion UIs proxy that cookie to the daemon's authenticated
/// endpoints; for every other app the gate strips its own credential.
pub session_passthrough: bool,
/// Does the gate challenge for the dashboard login on this port?
///
/// Default comes from the manifest (`auth: gated`/undeclared → true,
/// `auth: open` → false); the operator's runtime override
/// (`app_gate_config`, Settings → app → App gate) wins over both.
/// False does NOT release the port — the gate keeps binding and
/// proxying (frame-header fixes, app-down page, Tor upstream); it just
/// forwards every request to the app's own authentication.
pub auth_enabled: bool,
}
/// A port deliberately left unauthenticated, and the manifest's stated reason.
@@ -187,6 +196,18 @@ pub fn build_port_map() -> PortMap {
}
}
// The operator's runtime override wins over the manifest default, in
// both directions: un-gate an app that fronts its own login, or force
// the challenge back onto an `auth: open` port. Overrides only toggle
// the challenge on gate-fronted ports — they never bind or release
// anything, so a stale override cannot expose or strand a port.
let overrides = crate::container::app_gate_config::all_gate_overrides();
for gp in map.gated.values_mut() {
if let Some(enabled) = overrides.get(&gp.app_id) {
gp.auth_enabled = *enabled;
}
}
map.exempt.sort_by_key(|e| e.port);
map
}
@@ -229,7 +250,10 @@ fn classify_manifest(manifest: &AppManifest, map: &mut PortMap) {
// Explicit opt-in: the app is on loopback and the daemon
// owns the external addresses. This is the ONLY way a
// port gets bound by the gate, regardless of `bind`.
PortAuth::Gated => {
// `open` is the same takeover with the login challenge
// defaulted off — the app fronts its own authentication
// (rationale-required, see PortAuth::Open).
PortAuth::Gated | PortAuth::Open => {
map.gated.insert(
port.host,
GatedPort {
@@ -239,6 +263,7 @@ fn classify_manifest(manifest: &AppManifest, map: &mut PortMap) {
icon: icon.clone(),
declared: true,
session_passthrough: port.session_passthrough,
auth_enabled: port.auth_policy() == PortAuth::Gated,
},
);
}
@@ -289,6 +314,10 @@ fn classify_manifest(manifest: &AppManifest, map: &mut PortMap) {
// An undeclared port never gets the node session —
// passthrough is an explicit manifest opt-in only.
session_passthrough: false,
// Undeclared ports are challenged wherever the gate
// can stand: reporting-and-protecting is the safe
// default (operator override still applies below).
auth_enabled: true,
},
);
}