New decnet/config_ini.py parses a role-scoped INI file via stdlib
configparser and seeds os.environ via setdefault — real env vars still
win, keeping full back-compat with .env.local flows.
[decnet] holds role-agnostic keys (mode, disallow-master, log-file-path);
the role section matching `mode` is loaded, the other is ignored
silently so a worker never reads master-only keys (and vice versa).
Loader is standalone in this commit — not wired into cli.py yet.
The module-level _require_env('DECNET_JWT_SECRET') call blocked
`decnet agent` and `decnet updater` from starting on workers that
legitimately have no business knowing the master's JWT signing key.
Move the resolution into a module `__getattr__`: only consumers that
actually read `decnet.env.DECNET_JWT_SECRET` trigger the validation,
which in practice means only decnet.web.auth (master-side).
Adds tests/test_env_lazy_jwt.py covering both the in-process lazy path
and an out-of-process `decnet agent --help` subprocess check with a
fully sanitized environment.
Adds /api/v1/swarm-updates/{hosts,push,push-self,rollback} behind
require_admin. Reuses the existing UpdaterClient + tar_working_tree + the
per-host asyncio.gather pattern from api_deploy_swarm.py; tarball is
built exactly once per /push request and fanned out to every selected
worker. /hosts filters out decommissioned hosts and agent-only
enrollments (no updater bundle = not a target).
Connection drops during /update-self are treated as success — the
updater re-execs itself mid-response, so httpx always raises.
Pydantic models live in decnet/web/db/models.py (single source of
truth). 24 tests cover happy paths, rollback, transport failures,
include_self ordering (skip on rolled-back agents), validation, and
RBAC gating.
Add deploy/ unit files for every DECNET daemon (agent, updater, api, web,
swarmctl, listener, forwarder). All run as User=decnet with NoNewPrivileges,
ProtectSystem, PrivateTmp, LockPersonality; AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_ADMIN
CAP_NET_RAW only on the agent (MACVLAN/scapy). Existing api/web units migrated
to /opt/decnet layout and the same hardening stanza.
Make the updater's _spawn_agent systemd-aware: under systemd (detected via
INVOCATION_ID + systemctl on PATH), `systemctl restart decnet-agent.service`
replaces the Popen path so the new agent inherits the unit's ambient caps
instead of the updater's empty set. _stop_agent becomes a no-op in that mode
to avoid racing systemctl's own stop phase.
Tests cover the dispatcher branch selection, MainPID parsing, and the
systemd no-op stop.
- _run_pip: on first venv use, install decnet with its full dep tree so the
bootstrapped environment actually has typer/fastapi/uvicorn. Subsequent
updates keep --no-deps for a near-no-op refresh.
- run_update_self: do not reuse sys.argv to re-exec the updater. Inside the
live process, sys.argv is the uvicorn subprocess invocation (--ssl-keyfile
etc.), which 'decnet updater' CLI rejects. Reconstruct the operator-visible
command from env vars set by updater.server.run.
If the agent was started outside the updater (manually, during dev,
or from a prior systemd unit), there is no agent.pid for _stop_agent
to target, so a successful code install leaves the old in-memory
agent process still serving requests. Scan /proc for any decnet agent
command and SIGTERM all matches so restart is reliable regardless of
how the agent was originally launched.
Adds a separate `decnet updater` daemon on each worker that owns the
agent's release directory and installs tarball pushes from the master
over mTLS. A normal `/update` never touches the updater itself, so the
updater is always a known-good rescuer if a bad agent push breaks
/health — the rotation is reversed and the agent restarted against the
previous release. `POST /update-self` handles updater upgrades
explicitly (no auto-rollback).
- decnet/updater/: executor, FastAPI app, uvicorn launcher
- decnet/swarm/updater_client.py, tar_tree.py: master-side push
- cli: `decnet updater`, `decnet swarm update [--host|--all]
[--include-self] [--dry-run]`, `--updater` on `swarm enroll`
- enrollment API issues a second cert (CN=updater@<host>) signed by the
same CA; SwarmHost records updater_cert_fingerprint
- tests: executor, app, CLI, tar tree, enroll-with-updater (37 new)
- wiki: Remote-Updates page + sidebar + SWARM-Mode cross-link
`swarm list` only shows enrolled workers — there was no way to see which
deckies are running and where. Adds GET /swarm/deckies on the controller
(joins DeckyShard with SwarmHost for name/address/status) plus the CLI
wrapper with --host / --state filters and --json.
deploy --mode swarm was failing on every heterogeneous fleet: the master
populates config.interface from its own box (detect_interface() → its
default NIC), then ships that verbatim. The worker's deployer then calls
get_host_ip(config.interface), hits 'ip addr show wlp6s0' on a VM whose
NIC is enp0s3, and 500s.
Fix: agent.executor._relocalize() runs on every swarm-mode deploy.
Re-detects the worker's interface/subnet/gateway/host_ip locally and
swaps them into the config before calling deployer.deploy(). When the
worker's subnet doesn't match the master's, decky IPs are re-allocated
from the worker's subnet via allocate_ips() so they're reachable.
Unihost-mode configs are left untouched — they're already built against
the local box and second-guessing them would be wrong.
Validated against anti@192.168.1.13: master dispatched interface=wlp6s0,
agent logged 'relocalized interface=enp0s3', deployer ran successfully,
dry-run returned ok=deployed.
4 new tests cover both branches (matching-subnet preserves decky IPs;
mismatch re-allocates), the end-to-end executor.deploy() path, and the
unihost short-circuit.
The swarmctl API already exposes POST /swarm/check — an active mTLS
probe that refreshes SwarmHost.status + last_heartbeat for every
enrolled worker. The CLI was missing a wrapper, so operators had to
curl the endpoint directly (which is how the VM validation run did it,
and how the wiki Deployment-Modes / SWARM-Mode pages ended up doc'ing
a command that didn't exist yet).
Matches the existing list/enroll/decommission pattern: typer subcommand
under swarm_app, --url override, Rich table output plus --json for
scripting. Three tests: populated table, empty-swarm path, and --json
emission.
New `decnet listener` command runs the master-side RFC 5425 syslog-TLS
receiver as a standalone process (mirrors `decnet api` / `decnet swarmctl`
pattern, SIGTERM/SIGINT handlers, --daemon support).
`decnet agent` now accepts --agent-dir so operators running the worker
agent under sudo/root can point at a bundle outside /root/.decnet/agent
(the HOME under sudo propagation).
Both flags were needed to stand up the full SWARM pipeline end-to-end on
a throwaway VM: mTLS control plane reachable, syslog-over-TLS wire
confirmed via tcpdump, master-crash/resume proved with zero loss and
zero duplication across 10 forwarded lines.
pyproject: bump asyncmy floor to 0.2.11 (resolver already pulled this in).
New sub-app talks HTTP to the local swarm controller (127.0.0.1:8770 by
default; override with --url or $DECNET_SWARMCTL_URL).
- enroll: POSTs /swarm/enroll, prints fingerprint, optionally writes
ca.crt/worker.crt/worker.key to --out-dir for scp to the worker.
- list: renders enrolled workers as a rich table (with --status filter).
- decommission: looks up uuid by --name, confirms, DELETEs.
deploy --mode swarm now:
1. fetches enrolled+active workers from the controller,
2. round-robin-assigns host_uuid to each decky,
3. POSTs the sharded DecnetConfig to /swarm/deploy,
4. renders per-worker pass/fail in a results table.
Exits non-zero if no workers exist or any worker's dispatch failed.
The forwarder module existed but had no runner — closes that gap so the
worker-side process can actually be launched and runs isolated from the
agent (asyncio.run + SIGTERM/SIGINT → stop_event).
Guards: refuses to start without a worker cert bundle or a resolvable
master host ($DECNET_SWARM_MASTER_HOST or --master-host).
Worker-side log_forwarder tails the local RFC 5424 log file and ships
each line as an octet-counted frame to the master over mTLS. Offset is
persisted in a tiny local SQLite so master outages never cause loss or
duplication — reconnect resumes from the exact byte where the previous
session left off. Impostor workers (cert not signed by DECNET CA) are
rejected at TLS handshake.
Master-side log_listener terminates mTLS on 0.0.0.0:6514, validates the
client cert, extracts the peer CN as authoritative worker provenance,
and appends each frame to the master's ingest log files. Attacker-
controlled syslog HOSTNAME field is ignored — the CA-controlled CN is
the only source of provenance.
7 tests added covering framing codec, offset persistence across
reopens, end-to-end mTLS delivery, crash-resilience (offset survives
restart, no duplicate shipping), and impostor-CA rejection.
DECNET_SWARM_SYSLOG_PORT / DECNET_SWARM_MASTER_HOST env bindings
added.
_schemas.py was a local exception to the codebase convention. The rest
of the app keeps all API request/response DTOs in decnet/web/db/models.py
alongside UserResponse, DeployIniRequest, etc. — the swarm endpoints now
follow the same convention (SwarmEnrollRequest, SwarmHostView, etc).
Deletes decnet/web/router/swarm/_schemas.py.
Splits the three grouped router files into eight api_<verb>_<resource>.py
modules under decnet/web/router/swarm/ to match the convention used by
router/fleet/ and router/config/. Shared request/response models live in
_schemas.py. Keeps each endpoint easy to locate and modify without
stepping on siblings.
Adds decnet/web/swarm_api.py as an independent FastAPI app with routers
for host enrollment, deployment dispatch (sharding DecnetConfig across
enrolled workers via AgentClient), and active health probing. Runs as
its own uvicorn subprocess via 'decnet swarmctl', mirroring the isolation
pattern used by 'decnet api'. Also wires up 'decnet agent' CLI entry for
the worker side.
29 tests added under tests/swarm/test_swarm_api.py cover enrollment
(including bundle generation + duplicate rejection), host CRUD, sharding
correctness, non-swarm-mode rejection, teardown, and health probes with
a stubbed AgentClient.
- decnet.models.DeckyConfig grows an optional 'host_uuid' (the SwarmHost
that runs this decky). Defaults to None so legacy unihost state files
deserialize unchanged.
- decnet.agent.executor: replace non-existent config.name references
with config.mode / config.interface in logs and status payload.
- tests/swarm/test_state_schema.py covers legacy-dict roundtrip, field
default, and swarm-mode assignments.
decnet.swarm.client exposes:
- MasterIdentity / ensure_master_identity(): the master's own CA-signed
client bundle, issued once into ~/.decnet/ca/master/.
- AgentClient: async-context httpx wrapper that talks to a worker agent
over mTLS. health/status/deploy/teardown methods mirror the agent API.
SSL context is built from a bare ssl.SSLContext(PROTOCOL_TLS_CLIENT)
instead of httpx.create_ssl_context — the latter layers on default-CA
and purpose logic that broke private-CA mTLS. Server cert is pinned by
CA + chain, not DNS (workers enroll with arbitrary SANs).
tests/swarm/test_client_agent_roundtrip.py spins uvicorn in-process
with real certs on disk and verifies:
- A CA-signed master client passes health + status calls.
- An impostor whose cert comes from a different CA cannot connect.
Worker agent (decnet.agent):
- mTLS FastAPI service exposing /deploy, /teardown, /status, /health,
/mutate. uvicorn enforces CERT_REQUIRED with the DECNET CA pinned.
- executor.py offloads the blocking deployer onto asyncio.to_thread so
the event loop stays responsive.
- server.py refuses to start without an enrolled bundle in
~/.decnet/agent/ — unauthenticated agents are not a supported mode.
- docs/openapi disabled on the agent — narrow attack surface.
tests/test_base_repo.py: DummyRepo was missing get_attacker_artifacts
(pre-existing abstractmethod) and so could not be instantiated. Added
the stub + coverage for the new swarm CRUD surface on BaseRepository.
decnet.swarm.pki provides:
- generate_ca() / ensure_ca() — self-signed root, PKCS8 PEM, 4096-bit.
- issue_worker_cert() — per-worker keypair + cert signed by the CA with
serverAuth + clientAuth EKU so the same identity backs the agent's
HTTPS endpoint AND the syslog-over-TLS upstream.
- write_worker_bundle() / load_worker_bundle() — persist with 0600 on
private keys.
- fingerprint() — SHA-256 DER hex for master-side pinning.
tests/swarm/test_pki.py covers:
- CA idempotency on disk.
- Signed chain validates against CA subject.
- SAN population (DNS + IP).
- Bundle roundtrip with 0600 key perms.
- End-to-end mTLS handshake between two CA-issued peers.
- Cross-CA client rejection (handshake fails).
Introduces the master-side persistence layer for swarm mode:
- SwarmHost: enrolled worker metadata, cert fingerprint, heartbeat.
- DeckyShard: per-decky host assignment, state, last error.
Repo methods are added as default-raising on BaseRepository so unihost
deployments are untouched; SQLModelRepository implements them (shared
between the sqlite and mysql subclasses per the existing pattern).
The host-side sniffer interface depends on the deploy's driver choice
(--ipvlan flag). Instead of hardcoding HOST_MACVLAN_IFACE, probe both
names and pick whichever exists; warn and disable cleanly if neither
is present. Explicit DECNET_SNIFFER_IFACE still wins.
- Relaxed RFC 5424 regex to accept either NILVALUE or a numeric PROCID;
sshd / sudo go through rsyslog with their real PID, while
syslog_bridge emitters keep using '-'.
- Added a fallback pass that scans the MSG body for IP-shaped
key=value tokens. This rescues attacker attribution for plain logger
callers like the SSH PROMPT_COMMAND shim, which emits
'CMD … src=IP …' without SD-element params.
Adds the server-side wiring and frontend UI to surface files captured
by the SSH honeypot for a given attacker.
- New repository method get_attacker_artifacts (abstract + SQLModel
impl) that joins the attacker's IP to `file_captured` log rows.
- New route GET /attackers/{uuid}/artifacts.
- New router /artifacts/{decky}/{service}/{stored_as} that streams a
quarantined file back to an authenticated viewer.
- AttackerDetail grows an ArtifactDrawer panel with per-file metadata
(sha256, size, orig_path) and a download action.
- ssh service fragment now sets NODE_NAME=decky_name so logs and the
host-side artifacts bind-mount share the same decky identifier.
Rename the container-side logging module decnet_logging → syslog_bridge
(canonical at templates/syslog_bridge.py, synced into each template by
the deployer). Drop the stale per-template copies; setuptools find was
picking them up anyway. Swap useradd/USER/chown "decnet" for "logrelay"
so no obvious token appears in the rendered container image.
Apply the same cloaking pattern to the telnet template that SSH got:
syslog pipe moves to /run/systemd/journal/syslog-relay and the relay
is cat'd via exec -a "systemd-journal-fwd". rsyslog.d conf rename
99-decnet.conf → 50-journal-forward.conf. SSH capture script:
/var/decnet/captured → /var/lib/systemd/coredump (real systemd path),
logger tag decnet-capture → systemd-journal. Compose volume updated
to match the new in-container quarantine path.
SD element ID shifts decnet@55555 → relay@55555; synced across
collector, parser, sniffer, prober, formatter, tests, and docs so the
host-side pipeline still matches what containers emit.
inotifywait watches writable paths in the SSH decky and mirrors any
file close_write/moved_to into a per-decky host-mounted quarantine dir.
Each artifact carries a .meta.json with attacker attribution resolved
by walking the writer PID's PPid chain to the sshd session leader,
then cross-referencing ss and utmp for source IP/user/login time.
Also emits an RFC 5424 syslog line per capture for SIEM correlation.
Previous attempt (shield + sync invalidate fallback) didn't work
because shield only protects against cancellation from *other* tasks.
When the caller task itself is cancelled mid-query, its next await
re-raises CancelledError as soon as the shielded coroutine yields —
rollback inside session.close() never completes, the aiomysql
connection is orphaned, and the pool logs 'non-checked-in connection'
when GC finally reaches it.
Hand exception-path cleanup to loop.create_task() so the new task
isn't subject to the caller's pending cancellation. close() (and the
invalidate() fallback for a dead connection) runs to completion.
Success path is unchanged — still awaits close() inline so callers
see commit visibility and pool release before proceeding.
Under high-concurrency MySQL load, uvicorn cancels request tasks when
clients disconnect. If cancellation lands mid-query, session.close()
tries to ROLLBACK on a connection that aiomysql has already marked as
closed — raising InterfaceError("Cancelled during execution") and
leaving the connection checked-out until GC, which the pool then
warns about as a 'non-checked-in connection'.
The old fallback tried sync.rollback() + sync.close(), but those still
go through the async driver and fail the same way on a dead connection.
Replace them with session.sync_session.invalidate(), which just flips
the pool's internal record — no I/O, so it can't be cancelled — and
tells the pool to drop the connection immediately instead of waiting
for garbage collection.
Locust @task(2) hammers /auth/login in steady state on top of the
on_start burst. After caching the uuid-keyed user lookup and every
other read endpoint, login alone accounted for 47% of total
_execute at 500c/u — pure DB queueing on SELECT users WHERE
username=?.
5s TTL, positive hits only (misses bypass so a freshly-created
user can log in immediately). Password verify still runs against
the cached hash, so security is unchanged — the only staleness
window is: a changed password accepts the old password for up to
5s until invalidate_user_cache fires (it's called on every write).
The per-request SELECT users WHERE uuid=? in require_role was the
hidden tax behind every authed endpoint — it kept _execute at ~60%
across the profile even after the page caches landed. Even /health
(with its DB and Docker probes cached) was still 52% _execute from
this one query.
- dependencies.py: 10s TTL cache on get_user_by_uuid, well below JWT
expiry. invalidate_user_cache(uuid) is called on password change,
role change, and user delete.
- api_get_config.py: 5s TTL cache on the admin branch's list_users()
(previously fetched every /config call). Invalidated on user
create/update/delete.
- api_change_pass.py + api_manage_users.py: invalidation hooks on
all user-mutating endpoints.
Round-2 follow-up: profile at 500c/u showed _execute still dominating
the uncached read endpoints (/bounty 76%, /logs/histogram 73%,
/deckies 56%). Same router-level TTL pattern as /stats — 5s window,
asyncio.Lock to collapse concurrent calls into one DB hit.
- /bounty: cache default unfiltered page (limit=50, offset=0,
bounty_type=None, search=None). Filtered requests bypass.
- /logs/histogram: cache default (interval_minutes=15, no filters).
Filtered / non-default interval requests bypass.
- /deckies: cache full response (endpoint takes no params).
- /config: bump _STATE_TTL from 1.0 to 5.0 — admin writes are rare,
1s was too short for bursts to coalesce at high concurrency.
SQLite is a local file — a SELECT 1 per session checkout is pure
overhead. Env var DECNET_DB_POOL_PRE_PING stays for anyone running
on a network-mounted volume. MySQL backend keeps its current default.
Popen moved inside the try so a missing uvicorn falls through to the
existing error message instead of crashing the CLI. test_cli was still
patching the old subprocess.run entrypoint; switched both api command
tests to patch subprocess.Popen / os.killpg to match the current path.
Every /stats call ran SELECT count(*) FROM logs + SELECT count(DISTINCT
attacker_ip) FROM logs; every /logs and /attackers call ran an
unfiltered count for the paginator. At 500 concurrent users these
serialize through aiosqlite's worker threads and dominate wall time.
Cache at the router layer (repo stays dialect-agnostic):
- /stats response: 5s TTL
- /logs total (only when no filters): 2s TTL
- /attackers total (only when no filters): 2s TTL
Filtered paths bypass the cache. Pattern reused from api_get_config
and api_get_health (asyncio.Lock + time.monotonic window + lazy lock).
require_role._check previously chained from get_current_user, which
already loaded the user — then looked it up again. Inline the decode +
single user fetch + must_change_password + role check so every
authenticated request costs one SELECT users WHERE uuid=? instead of
two.
Only database, docker, and ingestion_worker now count as critical
(→ 503 unhealthy). attacker/sniffer/collector failures drop overall
status to degraded (still 200) so the dashboard doesn't panic when a
non-essential worker isn't running.
The ingester now accumulates up to DECNET_BATCH_SIZE rows (default 100)
or DECNET_BATCH_MAX_WAIT_MS (default 250ms) before flushing through
repo.add_logs — one transaction, one COMMIT per batch instead of per
row. Under attacker traffic this collapses N commits into ⌈N/100⌉ and
takes most of the SQLite writer-lock contention off the hot path.
Flush semantics are cancel-safe: _position only advances after a batch
commits successfully, and the flush helper bails without touching the
DB if the enclosing task is being cancelled (lifespan teardown).
Un-flushed lines stay in the file and are re-read on next startup.
Tests updated to assert on add_logs (bulk) instead of the per-row
add_log that the ingester no longer uses, plus a new test that 250
lines flush in ≤5 calls.
Adds BaseRepository.add_logs (default: loops add_log for backwards
compatibility) and a real single-session/single-commit implementation
on SQLModelRepository. Introduces DECNET_BATCH_SIZE (default 100) and
DECNET_BATCH_MAX_WAIT_MS (default 250) so the ingester can flush on
either a size or a time bound when it adopts the new method.
Ingester wiring is deferred to a later pass — the single-log path was
deadlocking tests when flushed during lifespan teardown, so this change
ships the DB primitive alone.
A module-level asyncio.Lock binds to the loop it was first awaited on.
Under pytest-anyio (and xdist) each test spins up a new loop; any later
test that hit /health or /config would wait on a lock owned by a dead
loop and the whole worker would hang.
Create the lock on first use and drop it in the test-reset helpers so a
fresh loop always gets a fresh lock.
Under CPU saturation the sync docker.from_env()/ping() calls could miss
their socket timeout, cache _docker_healthy=False, and return 503 for
the full 5s TTL window. Both calls now run on a thread so the event
loop keeps serving other requests while Docker is being probed.
With --workers > 1, SIGINT from the terminal raced uvicorn's supervisor:
some workers got signaled directly, the supervisor respawned them, and
the result behaved like a forkbomb. Start uvicorn in its own session and
signal the whole process group (SIGTERM → 10s grace → SIGKILL) when we
catch KeyboardInterrupt.
Forwards straight to uvicorn's --workers. Default stays at 1 so the
single-worker efficiency direction is preserved; raising it is available
for threat-actor load scenarios where the honeypot needs to soak real
attack traffic without queueing on one event loop.
stdlib json was FastAPI's default. Every response body, every SSE frame,
and every add_log/state/payload write paid the stdlib encode cost.
- pyproject.toml: add orjson>=3.10 as a core dep.
- decnet/web/api.py: default_response_class=ORJSONResponse on the
FastAPI app, so every endpoint return goes through orjson without
touching call sites. Explicit JSONResponse sites in the validation
exception handlers migrated to ORJSONResponse for consistency.
- health endpoint's explicit JSONResponse → ORJSONResponse.
- SSE stream (api_stream_events.py): 6 json.dumps call sites →
orjson.dumps(...).decode() — the per-event frames that fire on every
sse tick.
- sqlmodel_repo.py: encode sites on the log-insert path switched to
orjson (fields, payload, state value). Parser sites (json.loads)
left as-is for now — not on the measured hot path.
Locust hit /health and /config on every @task(3), so each request was
firing repo.get_total_logs() and two repo.get_state() calls against
aiosqlite — filling the driver queue for data that changes on the order
of seconds, not milliseconds.
Both caches follow the shape already used by the existing Docker cache:
- asyncio.Lock with double-checked TTL so concurrent callers collapse
into one DB hit per 1s window.
- _reset_* helpers called from tests/api/conftest.py::setup_db so the
module-level cache can't leak across tests.
tests/test_health_config_cache.py asserts 50 concurrent callers
produce exactly 1 repo call, and the cache expires after TTL.
Creating a new docker.from_env() client per /health request opened a
fresh unix-socket connection each time. Under load that's wasteful and
hammers dockerd.
Keep a module-level client + last-check timestamp; actually ping every
5 seconds, return cached state in between. Reset helper provided for
tests.
- aiomysql → asyncmy on both sides of the URL/import (faster, maintained).
- Pool sizing now reads DECNET_DB_POOL_SIZE / MAX_OVERFLOW / RECYCLE /
PRE_PING for both SQLite and MySQL engines so stress runs can bump
without code edits.
- MySQL initialize() now wraps schema DDL in a GET_LOCK advisory lock so
concurrent uvicorn workers racing create_all() don't hit 'Table was
skipped since its definition is being modified by concurrent DDL'.
- sqlite & mysql repo get_log_histogram use the shared _session() helper
instead of session_factory() for consistency with the rest of the repo.
- SSE stream_events docstring updated to asyncmy.
verify_password / get_password_hash are CPU-bound and take ~250ms each
at rounds=12. Called directly from async endpoints, they stall every
other coroutine for that window — the single biggest single-worker
bottleneck on the login path.
Adds averify_password / ahash_password that wrap the sync versions in
asyncio.to_thread. Sync versions stay put because _ensure_admin_user and
tests still use them.
5 call sites updated: login, change-password, create-user, reset-password.
tests/test_auth_async.py asserts parallel averify runs concurrently (~1x
of a single verify, not 2x).
_ensure_admin_user was strict insert-if-missing: once a stale hash landed
in decnet.db (e.g. from a deploy that used a different DECNET_ADMIN_PASSWORD),
login silently 401'd because changing the env var later had no effect.
Now on startup: if the admin still has must_change_password=True (they
never finalized their own password), re-sync the hash from the current
env var. Once the admin sets a real password, we leave it alone.
Found via locustfile.py login storm — see tests/test_admin_seed.py.
Note: this commit also bundles uncommitted pool-management work already
present in sqlmodel_repo.py from prior sessions.
