Without rotation, the syslog listener and per-host collector grow
/var/log/decnet/ without bound — a noisy attacker (or an active
probe storm) fills the disk in hours on a small VPS. New
deploy/logrotate.d/decnet caps at 7 daily rotations or 100 MiB,
whichever comes first, and uses copytruncate because the ingester
and forwarder hold the files open via Python and won't reopen on
a rename rotation.
Wire install / remove into `decnet init` and `decnet init --deinit`
alongside the existing tmpfiles.d / polkit handling.
Worker unit mirrors decnet-webhook.service shape: simple type, runs
as the decnet user/group, append-style log file, full security
hardening (NoNewPrivileges/ProtectSystem/ProtectHome/PrivateTmp/
LockPersonality + the rest). Added /var/lib/decnet to ReadWritePaths
because the API process persists operator-uploaded canary blobs there.
CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE granted (ambient + bounded) so an operator who
overrides DECNET_CANARY_DNS_PORT to 53 or HTTP_PORT to 80/443 in
.env.local doesn't need to fight systemd. The defaults stay
unprivileged (5353 / 8088).
Added decnet-canary.service to decnet.target so 'systemctl start
decnet.target' brings it up alongside the rest of the workers.
decnet init auto-discovers deploy/decnet-*.service.j2 files (per
decnet/cli/init.py:_install_units) so no further wiring needed —
running 'decnet init' on a fresh host installs the new unit.
Static tests confirm the unit references decnet canary, depends on
the bus, carries the standard security directives, and is listed
in the master target.
Plug emailgen into the systemd-supervised fleet:
- New deploy/decnet-emailgen.service.j2 mirroring decnet-orchestrator's
shape: simple service, restart-on-failure, docker supplementary group
(driver shells `docker exec` to drop EMLs into the spool), the same
hardening directives as the rest of the fleet.
- decnet.target now Wants both decnet-emailgen.service and
decnet-orchestrator.service. Orchestrator's absence from the target
was a historical oversight — fixing it here while the file is open.
`decnet init` already globs deploy/decnet-*.service.j2 so the new unit
ships automatically; no init-side change needed. Emailgen-specific env
knobs (DECNET_EMAILGEN_LLM, _MODEL, _PERSONAS, _TIMEOUT) are documented
in the unit and operator-tunable via /opt/decnet/.env.local.
Two pieces, one PR because they share a deployment surface:
1. systemd. decnet-reconciler.service.j2 mirrors the orchestrator unit
shape (docker group, hardened sandbox, append-logs). Read-only
/var/lib/decnet so it can read decnet-state.json without write
access. Auto-discovered by `decnet init` via the existing
decnet-*.service.j2 glob — no init.py change needed. Added to
decnet.target so `systemctl start decnet.target` brings it up
alongside collector / sniffer / mutator / etc. Also added to the
agent reaper script so self-destruct cleans it up on workers.
2. Bus signal. reconcile_once now publishes
`decky.<host_uuid:name>.state` on every insert / delete /
state-changed transition. Reuses the existing DECKY_STATE topic
family (no bus/topics.py change → no wiki update needed per the
bus-signals doc rule). Composite host_uuid:name segment keeps
fleet rows distinguishable from MazeNET TopologyDecky rows whose
ids are bare UUIDs. Quiet ticks publish nothing — convergence
means silence.
Bus is plumbed through the worker, defaults to None for unit-test
callers. publish_safely keeps the source-of-truth contract: DB write
is authoritative, the publish is best-effort notification.
Captures previous_state into a local before update_fleet_decky_state
runs — a fake repo that mutates rows in-place would otherwise see the
post-update state and report previous == current. Real repos don't
have this concern but the fix is cheap and makes the function less
order-dependent.
Adds a new decnet orchestrate worker whose job is to keep the honeypot
ecosystem from looking suspiciously static — a frozen LAN with no
inter-host traffic and no filesystem aging is its own honeypot tell.
MVP scope:
- New OrchestratorEvent table + repo methods (purpose-built sibling
to Log so synthetic events stay separable from attacker-driven ones).
- New orchestrator.{activity,file}.<decky_id> bus topics +
system.orchestrator.health heartbeat.
- SSH-only driver. Traffic action runs python3 inside src container
to TCP-connect dst:22 and read the SSH banner — real on-the-wire
SSH-protocol traffic without shipping creds. File action drops or
refreshes a small file via docker exec on the destination.
- Random scheduler (50/50 traffic/file when >=2 SSH-capable deckies
are running). Diurnal shaping, role-aware pairing, and session-aware
backoff are explicit non-goals for MVP.
- CLI registration, systemd unit (SupplementaryGroups=docker),
worker-registry entry so the dashboard shows orchestrator health.
- 11 tests: scheduler policy, driver argv shape + injection-safety,
end-to-end one-tick integration with FakeBus + SQLite.
decnet-clusterer.service.j2 ships the identity clusterer that
landed last session (was overlooked) — bus-woken on attacker.>,
publishes identity.> events.
decnet-campaign-clusterer.service.j2 ships the campaign clusterer
from this session — bus-woken on identity.>, publishes campaign.>
events plus the cross-family identity.campaign.assigned. After=
decnet-clusterer.service so the identity layer is up before the
campaign layer reads its rows.
decnet.target Wants both new units. Both follow the same security
hardening profile as enrich + reuse-correlator.
Mirrors decnet-reuse-correlator.service.j2: same hardening posture
(NoNewPrivileges, ProtectSystem=full, etc.), same restart policy, same
log file convention. The decnet init renderer picks it up automatically
via the decnet-*.service.j2 glob.
Also reconciles a naming inconsistency I shipped earlier: the heartbeat
name was 'intel' (the package) but the CLI command and unit are 'enrich'
(the action). Renamed the heartbeat to 'enrich' so the workers panel
displays the same string the operator types and the same string in the
systemd unit file. Convention across the project: heartbeat name =
registry key = unit basename = CLI command name.
Registers 'enrich' in worker_registry.KNOWN_WORKERS and in the
start-all preferred order. The decnet.target Wants= list also picks
up the new unit so 'systemctl start decnet.target' brings everything
up together.
Adds the systemd template for the credential-reuse correlator daemon
and wires it into decnet.target so `decnet init` installs it
automatically (the unit installer globs decnet-*.service.j2). Mirrors
the mutator template: bus-woken Type=simple service with the standard
hardening + on-failure restart.
Also registers `reuse-correlator` in the in-process worker registry
(so the dashboard panel surfaces its heartbeat instead of dropping it
as unknown) and slots it into the start-all preferred order between
mutator and webhook.
The api unit's ProtectHome=read-only made the user's HOME read-only
inside the unit's namespace. docker compose --build then tried to
write ~/.docker/buildx/activity/* and got EROFS — which we'd been
misdiagnosing as a buildx wedge for the last few iterations.
Real fix: set DOCKER_CONFIG and BUILDX_CONFIG in the unit's
Environment= to a path inside ReadWritePaths. Hardening stays on,
docker CLI writes to install_dir/.docker instead of /home/<user>/.docker.
The wedge classifier now detects this case (count==0 + /home/ in
the stderr path) and emits a recipe pointing at the env-var fix
instead of the driver-rebuild path. Test added.
Wiki gets the new branch first since it's the most common cause
on systemd-managed installs.
Introduces the `decnet webhook` long-running worker that consumes the
internal bus and POSTs matching events to configured subscriptions.
Design: one task per (subscription, pattern) pair. Each task opens
its own bus subscription, iterates events, and dispatches via the
shared deliver() client. No intermediate queue, no in-memory filter
matching — the bus's own pattern matcher is the filter. Reloads on
`system.webhook.subscriptions_changed` signals from the CRUD router,
with a 60s fallback timer in case a signal is lost.
Shutdown propagates via CancelledError on the outer task; all inner
subscription tasks are cancelled and awaited in a finally block.
Bus unavailable → worker stays up in idle mode per the DEBT-031
pattern, logging one warning.
Registered as a master-only CLI command (agents don't configure
webhooks — the subscription store lives on master). systemd unit
mirrors the profiler template; added to decnet.target Wants= list so
`systemctl start decnet.target` brings it up alongside everything
else. `decnet init` auto-picks up the new .service.j2 via its
existing `glob("decnet-*.service.j2")` sweep.
decnet-bus.service.j2 ran with User={{ user }} / Group={{ group }}
but the actual bus CLI invocation hardcoded --group decnet. The bus
chowns /run/decnet/bus.sock to that group at 0660 — so when an
operator ran `decnet init --group anti`, the socket ended up
owned by decnet:decnet while every worker (agent, api, collector,
forwarder, prober, updater) ran as anti and got EACCES on connect().
Each worker's bus-wiring catches the error, logs a warning, sets
bus=None, and carries on — which is correct for the data-plane but
silently kills Workers-panel heartbeats (run_health_heartbeat(None,
...) no-ops). So half the worker grid showed UNKNOWN even though
systemctl confirmed the processes were alive.
Swap the hardcoded --group decnet for --group {{ group }} so the
socket is owned by the same group the workers run under.
polkit rule 50-decnet-workers.rules hardcoded isInGroup("decnet"),
so when 'decnet init --group anti' installed systemd units as
User=anti / Group=anti, the API (running as anti) could no longer
systemctl start/stop decnet-*.service — polkit fell back to
'interactive authentication required', which in a daemon context is
a hard fail:
START FAILED · COLLECTOR — Failed to start decnet-collector.service:
Access denied as the requested operation requires interactive
authentication.
Rename the rule to .j2, parameterise the group on {{ group }}, and
route _install_polkit through _render_template /
_write_rendered_if_changed. Now the polkit rule matches whatever
group was passed to 'decnet init'.
Test fixture updated to seed the .j2 variant.
Four templates use backslash line-continuation on ExecStart
(decnet-bus, decnet-forwarder, decnet-listener, decnet-updater). My
earlier sed inserted StandardOutput= and StandardError= right after
the first ExecStart= line, which split the command and systemd fed
those two lines back to the binary as extra positional arguments —
the bus in particular crashed with:
Got unexpected extra argument
(StandardOutput=append:/var/log/decnet/decnet.bus.log)
Walk the ExecStart block (follow \-continuation lines) and insert
the two Standard* directives AFTER the last continuation line. The
nine single-line ExecStart templates are unaffected in shape but
re-written through the same path to keep the whole set uniform.
The agent-side enroll-bundle templates (decnet/web/templates/*) always
set DECNET_SYSTEM_LOGS + StandardOutput/StandardError to a per-unit
file under /var/log/decnet. The master-side init templates (deploy/*)
never did, so every 'decnet init'-installed service:
- inherited the default DECNET_SYSTEM_LOGS=decnet.system.log — a
relative path, landing in the unit's WorkingDirectory. All 13 units
shared the same cwd and fought for the same file, or more often
just failed to write it under ProtectSystem=full,
- emitted stdout/stderr to the journal by default, which is fine for
uvicorn's INFO banter but makes per-service grepping a pain when
you're chasing a single worker's trace.
Mirror the agent-side wiring on all 13 master templates:
- Environment=DECNET_SYSTEM_LOGS=/var/log/decnet/decnet.<name>.log
- StandardOutput=append:/var/log/decnet/decnet.<name>.log
- StandardError=append:/var/log/decnet/decnet.<name>.log
/var/log/decnet is already in ReadWritePaths so ProtectSystem=full
stays compatible. Operators now get a dedicated
/var/log/decnet/decnet.<unit>.log per service, both from the app's
structured logger and from any stray stderr — journalctl still
works too, but no longer the only option.
Every decnet-*.service.j2 hardcoded User=decnet / Group=decnet. The
init CLI accepted --user / --group and used them for useradd,
chown, /etc/decnet ownership and ReadWritePaths — but the Jinja
context omitted them entirely, so
sudo decnet init --install-dir $PWD --user anti --group anti
rendered
User=decnet
Group=decnet
into every unit, which at best ran the workers as a user that didn't
match the files (fails to read the venv / config), and at worst spun
a parallel system user the operator never asked for.
Swap the hardcoded lines to {{ user }} / {{ group }} across all 13
templates and add both to the Jinja context in _install_units.
The systemd unit templates hardcoded {{ install_dir }}/venv/bin/decnet.
On production hosts enroll_bootstrap.sh creates exactly that path so it
worked. On dev boxes where the operator runs `sudo decnet init` against
a source checkout with a differently-named venv (.venv, .311, .312),
every decnet-*.service looped forever in auto-restart with:
Failed at step EXEC spawning .../venv/bin/decnet: No such file or
directory
Templates now use {{ venv_dir }} as an independent Jinja2 var. `decnet
init` adds --venv-dir (explicit override), otherwise autodetects:
1. $VIRTUAL_ENV (only when inside --install-dir, so a user-home venv
never gets baked into a root-owned unit),
2. {install_dir}/venv (production default; what enroll_bootstrap
creates),
3. {install_dir}/{.venv,.311,.312,.313} (common dev conventions).
Init aborts before any file writes if nothing resolves — an
operator-friendly error beats journalctl spam on every unit restart.
python3-venv doesn't set a persistent system variable — $VIRTUAL_ENV
lives in the activated shell only — so this has to be decided + baked
in at init time; there's no way for systemd to "inherit the current
venv" at unit start.
Test mode (--prefix) skips venv validation so the existing test suite
doesn't need to stub up a venv tree per case.
Distros reserve /opt for different things (some package managers own it
outright), and a DECNET install that wants to live at /srv/decnet or
/usr/local/decnet had to hand-edit 13 service files post-install.
Converts every deploy/decnet-*.service to a .j2 template keyed on
{{ install_dir }}, rendered by `decnet init` at install time. All other
paths (log_dir, state_dir, runtime_dir, user, group) stay standard —
only install_dir varies.
Changes:
- deploy/decnet-*.service → deploy/decnet-*.service.j2 (13 files).
- decnet init gains --install-dir (default /opt/decnet, preserves
existing behaviour byte-for-byte). Validates absolute-path at the
CLI boundary. Threads through useradd --home-dir and the dir-creation
list so the filesystem layout matches the rendered templates.
- _install_units renders via Jinja2 with StrictUndefined (typo → loud
error, not a silent broken unit). SHA over rendered output so
operators with a custom install_dir get idempotent re-runs.
- decnet.target, tmpfiles.d, polkit rule stay static — they don't
reference install paths.
- 4 new tests: custom install_dir renders into units, default remains
/opt/decnet, relative paths rejected, second run with same custom
dir is idempotent.
Creates the decnet system user/group, installs every unit file from
deploy/ into /etc/systemd/system, drops the polkit rule, seeds
/opt/decnet + /var/{lib,log}/decnet + /etc/decnet + /run/decnet,
writes a placeholder /etc/decnet/config.ini, applies the new
tmpfiles.d entry so /run/decnet survives reboots, daemon-reloads,
and `systemctl enable --now decnet.target`.
Idempotent (re-runs print [SKIP] on already-configured items),
--dry-run previews the plan without touching anything, --no-start
defers the target start, --force overwrites even matching unit
files. Master-only (added to MASTER_ONLY_COMMANDS).
9 orchestration tests cover the non-root gate, dry-run, useradd/
groupadd argv, SKIP on present user/group, unit-file idempotency,
--force overwrite, --no-start suppression, happy path, and the
"deploy/ not found" error message.
Scoped rule — matches only `decnet-<name>.service` and `decnet.target`.
Any unit outside that regex falls through to the default polkit policy.
Required so the API (running as the `decnet` user) can invoke
`systemctl start decnet-<name>.service` non-interactively.
Adds the five missing worker units plus a grouping target so
`systemctl start decnet.target` brings the whole fleet up in order.
Sniffer gets CAP_NET_RAW for scapy; collector and mutator join the
docker supplementary group for docker.sock access. Repoints
Documentation= across all existing units to the canonical
git.resacachile.cl wiki.
Land the `decnet bus` worker and `get_bus()` factory. Transport is a
host-local UNIX-domain socket (0660, group=decnet); authz is the file
mode. Wire framing is a tiny verb-line + 4-byte-BE length + orjson body.
NATS-style wildcard topics (`*`, `>`). At-most-once, fire-and-forget —
DB stays the source of truth. `FakeBus` / `NullBus` for tests and the
disabled path. Cross-host federation is deferred to a future
`--bridge-tcp` mode; DEBT-030 is master-only and unblocked.
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.
