Refuse a node's accounts through any verb, and a stale or service-account agent verdict

The generic command verb ran node account and node agent-account, so an agent
could name itself the operator account and have the next send grant it root
(hq ADR 0266 review). Refuse every node subcommand but list and show through
any verb; refuse the operator account as the agent account in both
directions and well-known service accounts as an agent account; and count a
verdict heard more than 15 minutes ago as not judged, so stopping the
node-engine cannot freeze a healthy one. Re-pin mesh-host to its review head.
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jochen
2026-10-09 10:11:21 +02:00
parent fcfbf7e69e
commit dcbbf4487a
10 changed files with 155 additions and 18 deletions
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@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ func argvFor(verb string, args map[string]any) ([]string, error) {
return nil, err
}
argv, err := a.commandLine()
if err == nil {
err = terminalOnly(argv)
}
if len(a.misread) > 0 {
// The table and the command line disagree: the verb reads an argument no caller can see
// in its schema, so no caller could ever pass it.
@@ -1332,3 +1335,27 @@ func seatAnnouncement(handlers map[string]link.ToolHandler) micro.Info {
Endpoints: endpoints,
}
}
// nodeReads are the `node` subcommands a verb may run: the ones that only read.
var nodeReads = map[string]bool{"list": true, "show": true}
// terminalOnly refuses, through any verb, a command that is the operator's at the controller's terminal
// alone (novox/hq ADR 0266). **Every `node` subcommand that is not a read**: `node account` and
// `node agent-account` above all. Whoever may call a verb includes agents, and an agent that named itself
// the operator account, or cleared the agent account, would have the next send grant it root through the
// sudo module's rule. An allow list, so a subcommand added later is refused until it is judged a read.
func terminalOnly(argv []string) error {
if len(argv) == 0 || argv[0] != "node" {
return nil
}
if len(argv) > 1 && nodeReads[argv[1]] {
return nil
}
sub := "node"
if len(argv) > 1 {
sub += " " + argv[1]
}
return fmt.Errorf("%s is run at the controller's terminal only, never through a verb: a node's accounts "+
"decide who may become root on it (novox/hq ADR 0266). A verb may run node list and node show. "+
"Nothing was done", sub)
}