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jochen 0b4c86e3be Count a setuid find only where the account can execute it, read at every judgement (hq issue 361)
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed
mesh/delivery delivered
The two finds on the control-node sit in the operator's home of mode 0700, which the agent account cannot
search. The search keeps every find; each judgement reads the modes on the way again, since an account can
open its own home without root. A find in a home is said by count, its path in the journal alone. Also
from review: a checkpoint racing SearchNow forgets the walk it just kept, and a walk kept by an older engine
says its counts as lower bounds.
2026-10-10 02:00:10 +02:00
jochen 2dbbda51c6 Walk for setuid programs in the engine and carry an interrupted walk on (hq issue 361)
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed
mesh/delivery-group group fix/361-the-setuid-search-runs-to-completion ready: every member ready, and composed together they pass
mesh/delivery superseded: a newer head of the same pull request
The control-node's walk takes far longer than the engine runs between
updates, so a search that starts over at every restart never completes.
The walk is the engine's own, in lexical order, so its progress is one
cursor per filesystem, kept every minute beside the engine's state and
carried on after a restart while younger than rootsearch.FreshFor. It runs
on a thread of its own at nice 19 and the idle I/O class.
2026-10-10 01:00:47 +02:00
jochen 2673e7a2c9 Let the setuid search run to its 15-minute bound, ask pacman once, and call a walk with errors incomplete
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
mesh/repo-check fail: its merge-check.sh failed: --- FAIL: TestHomesAreAPersonsOrAnAgentsNotAServicesOrRoots (0.00s)
mesh/delivery superseded: a newer head of the same pull request
The search kept a two-minute limit of its own inside its 15-minute bound, so
a long walk always ended incomplete; pacman was asked once per path; and find
exiting with an error but some output was read as a complete walk. The bound
and the not-judged reasons move to the public rootsearch package so the
controller reads the same values (the review of 2026-10-09).
2026-10-09 12:11:57 +02:00
jochen d4af8bba1b Judge an opened file's kind and links below a home, and more ways to root
A hard link swapped in for ~/.claude would have had root chown another
account's file; fstat on the descriptor now refuses a second link, a fifo or
an unexpected kind before anything is changed (hq ADR 0266, the re-review).
The judge also finds polkit rules for every account, a runtime's API on TCP,
setgid-to-root programs whoever owns them, setuid programs on every suid
filesystem, and unprotected links; the rest is listed as not judged.
2026-10-09 10:07:52 +02:00
jochen b89b143fe7 Follow no link below a home as root, and judge more ways to root
An account could replace ~/.claude with a link to /etc and have the
node-engine chown, chmod or write through it on the next apply. Below a
person's or an agent's home every component is now opened without
following a link, and a link refuses the resource in words.

The root judge also reads doas and polkit rules, the container runtimes'
sockets with their ACLs, ACLs on the secrets, and setuid-root programs no
package owns, in the C locale; Judged and NotJudged write down exactly
what it covers (hq ADR 0266 review).
2026-10-09 10:07:52 +02:00
jochen 3a727011ad Judge whether an account declared never to become root can, so a machine's agents are known confined
An account an agent runs as (novox/hq ADR 0266) is read on every look for a
uid of 0, a group that grants root, any sudo rule and a mesh secret it can
read; any way found is unhealthy and said, a read that fails is unknown.
2026-10-09 10:07:35 +02:00