022 fixed; 023 filed — a password is not a connection

022 turned out to have a silent half worth recording: the provider
refuses loudly and names the modules, which reads as a decision, while
the consuming node does not refuse at all. Three modules wanting one
database produce one need, so two of them get no credential file and
each starts and fails to authenticate with nothing saying why.

023 is what remained after fixing it. A consumer now gets its own
password, in whatever shape its configuration wants, and still cannot
connect: the user name is invented by the provisioner and recorded
nowhere in the mesh, and the host and port sit in a JSON binding that an
application reading KEY=value cannot use.

The asymmetry is backwards and the coverage document now says so. The
secret is the hard case, because the mesh must not be able to read it,
and the secret is the part that arrives. The host and port are ordinary
facts the mesh holds in the clear, and they are the ones stuck.

Keycloak, Gitea, Mailu and MinIO all parse and resolve and none of them
can start. This is what stands between the module set and a running one.
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@@ -104,6 +104,28 @@ what kind it is. Small, self-contained, and only interesting once something pres
Modules published to a registry and consumed as libraries. This is a *build* output the mesh does
not deliver to a node, so it may not belong here at all.
## What checking the coverage found
Two faults, both surfaced by asking what a *real* node looks like rather than what a test does.
Neither is about the vocabulary; both are about the machinery under it.
**A credential belonged to a machine, not to a module**
([`022`](../../04-ISSUES/022-one-credential-per-node-per-provision-not-per-module/00-report.md),
fixed). A node running three services against one database could not be planned at all — and on
the consumer's side did not refuse, it just gave two of the three no credential. Every scenario
written to date had one consumer per node, which is the natural shape of a small test and not the
shape of a machine.
**A consumer still cannot build a connection string**
([`023`](../../04-ISSUES/023-a-consumer-cannot-build-a-connection-string/00-report.md), open). It
is given its own password in whatever shape its configuration needs, and the host, port and user
name are still out of reach: the user name is invented by the provisioner and recorded nowhere,
and the bound values sit in a JSON document that an application reading `KEY=value` cannot use.
The asymmetry is worth stating, because it is backwards. **The secret is the hard case** — the
mesh must not be able to read it — and the secret is the part that now arrives. The host and port
are ordinary facts held in the clear, and they are the ones stuck.
## What the survey found that is not about coverage
**Declaration and reality had drifted in the system being replaced.** Several live provisions are