Tracks the durable follow-up to 323077b. The transcripts soft-fail
shipped in that commit keeps the API from 500-ing on
/var/lib/decnet/artifacts/** permission mismatches, but the real
issue is that decoy containers write artifacts under a uid the API
can't read — today's workaround is a manual `sudo chown -R` after
every new deploy.
Three design options documented (container-runs-as-host-uid, setgid
+ shared group, inotify sidecar) with a recommendation, plus an
acceptance criterion: fresh init + deploy + record session → the
API can read the transcripts with no manual chown.
Registers a generic @app.exception_handler(Exception) that catches anything
uncaught in route handlers / dependencies. Prod response is opaque:
{detail: 'Internal Server Error', error_id: <uuid4 hex>}. Dev mode
(DECNET_DEVELOPER=True) adds exception_type and traceback fields so
failures are debuggable without tailing server logs.
The error_id is logged alongside the full traceback server-side, letting
operators correlate a user's 500 report with the exact exception via
`grep <error_id> /var/log/decnet.log`.
FastAPI's own HTTPException routing and the existing
RequestValidationError / ValidationError / RateLimitExceeded handlers
still take precedence — this handler only fires on genuinely-uncaught
exceptions.
Flips threat model F1/I 'traceback / stack trace leakage' from ? to M
and logs a follow-up checklist entry for 4 detail=str(e) sites in the
fleet deploy router (admin-gated, different threat class, separate
audit).
Adds slowapi two-bucket rate limit on /auth/login — 10 attempts per
5 minutes per-IP AND per-username, tripping either → 429. Per-IP
catches botnets hitting one account; per-username catches distributed
credential stuffing against one account. In-memory storage: dashboard
API is single-process, Redis is disproportionate for v1.
X-Forwarded-For is deliberately NOT trusted (spoofable); reverse-proxy
deployments get one shared bucket per proxy IP. Logged in the threat
model as accepted risk DA-08, to be revisited when a verified-proxy
config lands.
Also scaffolds development/THREAT_MODEL.md with STRIDE-per-element
methodology, system-context DFD, and Dashboard↔API as the first fully
worked component (7 sub-flows, ~50 threat entries). F1 Authn ships
with 3 threats mitigated: rate limit (new), uniform 401 (verified
already in place), bcrypt length clamp (verified already in place via
Pydantic max_length=72).
Units + polkit rule + systemd_control helper + start endpoints +
installed flag + UI wiring all landed. SWARM-host start/stop and
crash-quarantine policy stay as named deferrals.
Paging, truncation surfacing, admin gate, path traversal, sid-regex and
decky-mismatch rejection for /transcripts; mirror coverage for
/attackers/{uuid}/transcripts. Flips the Session Recording box in the
roadmap (sessrec pty relay now shipping end-to-end).
New decnet/templates/_shared/sessrec/ — a small C program installed as the
login shell in SSH / Telnet deckies. Forkpty-relays /bin/bash, records each
chunk as an asciinema v2 event into a shared JSONL day-shard keyed by sid,
and emits one RFC 5424 session_recorded line on exit (direct to PID 1's
stdout, same pattern syslog_bridge.py uses).
Storage: one shard per (decky, UTC day) at
/var/lib/systemd/coredump/transcripts/sessions-YYYY-MM-DD.jsonl. Concurrent
appends are lock-free: each write is chunked below PIPE_BUF so O_APPEND
interleaves atomically. Per-session cap 10 MB with a trunc sentinel; disk-
free precheck (<200 MB) falls through to plain bash with a session_skipped
log event. Attacker src_ip resolves from \$SSH_CONNECTION, getpeername(0),
or utmp in that order. SIGWINCH appends a 'r' resize event so ncurses
replays stay aligned.
Stealth for v1: /etc/passwd shell-swap to /usr/libexec/login-session
(plausible login-machinery path) + prctl comm disguise. Full LD_PRELOAD
argv-zap is deferred — sshd strips LD_PRELOAD from the session env, so
wiring the existing argv_zap.so into this path needs a separate wrapper.
DEBT-033 opened for size-based day-shard rotation; v1's disk-free precheck
covers the worst case but can be blinded by a one-shot disk fill.
The mutation-event stream landed this session closes the "deckies are
atomic nodes" gap for service-list changes, but substrate identity is
really ``(service, implementation_fingerprint)``. A base-image
rebuild that rotates OpenSSH 8.4 → 9.2 without changing the service
list is invisible to the correlation graph today because the prober's
dedup set is in-memory and per-run — no cross-run diff, no
"fingerprint changed" event.
DEBT-032 documents the required piece: a per-(decky, service,
probe_type) persistence layer + diff-on-change emission, with the
correlator's existing mutation-marker interleaving pattern as the
model for fingerprint markers. A mutation-vs-fingerprint divergence
detector then falls out of the data model for free — fingerprint drift
without a preceding mutation ⇒ substrate_divergence finding.
All nine service workers now participate in the host-local bus: sniffer,
prober, correlator (via profiler), profiler, collector, ingester, agent,
forwarder, updater. Pre-bus behavior is preserved end-to-end for
DECNET_BUS_ENABLED=false and get_bus() failures.
Three items intentionally deferred: realism-probe decky.{id}.state
(needs a realism probe path that doesn't exist yet), correlator session
boundaries (needs session state), and bus-wake subscriptions (publishes
landed; wake side wired to no subscriber today).
Per-worker integration of the service bus shipped in DEBT-029. Publishes
are fire-and-forget; subscribes wake polling loops. Bus stays optional —
if get_bus() fails or DECNET_BUS_ENABLED=false, workers log once and
continue in poll-only mode (mirrors decnet/mutator/engine.py:run_watch_loop).
- scripts/bus/smoke-mutator.sh: boots decnet bus, subscribes to
topology.>, publishes one event per mutation-lifecycle state plus
a topology.status transition, asserts all four land on the
subscriber. Cheap E2E for the topic hierarchy the mutator + SSE
route rely on.
- development/DEBT.md: mark DEBT-030 ✅ resolved (Phase A) with a
summary of what shipped; flag the optimistic staged-buffer editor
as Phase B follow-up, not debt.
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.
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.
Commit-by-commit evidence of the perf work: each CSV is the raw
Locust output for the commit hash in its filename, plus the four
fb69a06 variants (single worker, tracing on/off, single-core pinned,
12 workers) referenced in the README baseline table.
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).
Extends tracing to every remaining module: all 23 API route handlers,
correlation engine, sniffer (fingerprint/p0f/syslog), prober (jarm/hassh/tcpfp),
profiler behavioral analysis, logging subsystem, engine, and mutator.
Bridges the ingester→SSE trace gap by persisting trace_id/span_id columns on
the logs table and creating OTEL span links in the SSE endpoint. Adds log-trace
correlation via _TraceContextFilter injecting otel_trace_id into Python LogRecords.
Includes development/docs/TRACING.md with full span reference (76 spans),
pipeline propagation architecture, quick start guide, and troubleshooting.
Gated by DECNET_DEVELOPER_TRACING env var (default off, zero overhead).
When enabled, traces flow through FastAPI routes, background workers
(collector, ingester, profiler, sniffer, prober), engine/mutator
operations, and all DB calls via TracedRepository proxy.
Includes Jaeger docker-compose for local dev and 18 unit tests.
- templates/sniffer/decnet_logging.py: add logging configuration for sniffer integration
- templates/ssh/decnet_logging.py: add SSH service logging template
- development/DEVELOPMENT.md: document new MySQL backend, p0f, profiler, config API features
- pyproject.toml: update dependencies for MySQL, p0f, profiler functionality
real_ssh was a separate service name pointing to the same template and
behaviour as ssh. Merged them: ssh is now the single real-OpenSSH service.
- Rename templates/real_ssh/ → templates/ssh/
- Remove decnet/services/real_ssh.py
- Deaddeck archetype updated: services=["ssh"]
- Merge test_real_ssh.py into test_ssh.py (includes deaddeck + logging tests)
- Drop decnet.services.real_ssh from test_build module list
Phase 1 is complete. Live testing revealed:
- Window size (64240) is already correct — Phase 2 window mangling unnecessary
- TI=Z (IP ID = 0) is the single remaining blocker for Windows spoofing
- ip_no_pmtu_disc does NOT fix TI=Z (tested and confirmed)
Revised phase plan:
- Phase 2: ICMP tuning (icmp_ratelimit + icmp_ratemask sysctls)
- Phase 3: NFQUEUE daemon for IP ID rewriting (fixes TI=Z)
- Phase 4: diminishing returns, not recommended
Added detailed NFQUEUE architecture, TCPOPTSTRIP notes, and
note clarifying P= field in nmap output.
- Buffer DATA body until CRLF.CRLF terminator — fixes 502-on-every-body-line bug
- SMTP_OPEN_RELAY=1: AUTH accepted (235), RCPT TO accepted for any domain,
full DATA pipeline with queued-as message ID
- Default (SMTP_OPEN_RELAY=0): credential harvester — AUTH rejected (535)
but connection stays open, RCPT TO returns 554 relay denied
- SASL PLAIN and LOGIN multi-step AUTH both decoded and logged
- RSET clears all per-transaction state
- Add development/SMTP_RELAY.md, IMAP_BAIT.md, ICS_SCADA.md, BUG_FIXES.md
(live-tested service realism plans)
