Keep every password, token and API key the vault's, never a setting (hq issue 342)

A setting outranked the vault: baserow, grafana, letta and unifi merged a layer's
password over the ${secret:...} in their runtime config, and the gitea,
home-assistant, icecast, influxdb, mailu and nextcloud clients read the settings
file before the vault's file. A secret in a setting cannot be rotated and is read
back by the settings verb.

The four files now keep their password protected, so the controller refuses a
setting of it. The six clients ignore a secret in the settings file and say so
once, by key and never with the value; icecast reads its admin password from the
vault's file. checks/secrets refuses a mergeable file whose secret a layer could
replace; searxng's nested server.secret_key is listed as known until the
controller protects a nested key.

modules/icecast/client.ts

@@ -42,6 +42,24 @@ function meshConfig(file?: string): Record<string, string> {
   catch { return {}; }
 }
 
+/**
+ * A password, token or API key is the vault's, never a setting (novox/hq issue 342): a value for one of
+ * them in the settings file is ignored, and that is said once — by its key, never with its value.
+ */
+const saidIgnored = new Set<string>();
+function ignoreSecretSetting(cfg: Record<string, unknown>, key: string): void {
+  if (cfg[key] === undefined || saidIgnored.has(key)) return;
+  saidIgnored.add(key);
+  console.error(`the setting ${key} is ignored: it comes from the vault`);
+}
+
+/** A secret delivered as a file, trimmed; undefined when there is none. */
+function readSecret(path: string | undefined): string | undefined {
+  if (!path) return undefined;
+  try { return readFileSync(path, "utf8").trim() || undefined; }
+  catch { return undefined; }
+}
+
 export class IcecastClient {
   readonly baseUrl: string;
   private readonly authHeader?: string;
@@ -57,7 +75,9 @@ export class IcecastClient {
   static fromEnv(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env): IcecastClient {
     const cfg = meshConfig(env.MESH_ICECAST_CONFIG_FILE);
     const url = cfg.url ?? (env.MESH_ICECAST_URL ?? `http://127.0.0.1:${env.ICECAST_PORT ?? "8000"}`);
-    return new IcecastClient(url, cfg.user ?? env.MESH_ICECAST_ADMIN_USER, cfg.password ?? env.MESH_ICECAST_ADMIN_PASSWORD);
+    ignoreSecretSetting(cfg, "password");
+    const password = readSecret(env.MESH_ICECAST_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE) ?? env.MESH_ICECAST_ADMIN_PASSWORD;
+    return new IcecastClient(url, cfg.user ?? env.MESH_ICECAST_ADMIN_USER ?? "admin", password);
   }
 
   async getStatus(): Promise<IcecastStatus> {