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Claude 935c9ae6ac Let people change their own password, and a location be switched off while editing it
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Three gaps, all of the "half-built" kind.

Nobody could change a password. Fortify's updatePasswords feature was switched
off, so an account created with a generated password kept it until someone
opened a shell on the server — including the owner's own. Both settings pages
have the form now, sharing one concern, because two copies of a password rule is
how one of them ends up weaker. It goes through Fortify's own action rather than
hashing here, and the current password is required: an unlocked machine should
not be two keystrokes away from locking its owner out.

The datacenter edit form had no active switch. The column and the scope existed,
and the list page has a toggle — but the form you open to change the thing did
not offer the one lifecycle action a location actually needs. Switching one off
now says what it does NOT do: existing hosts keep running. Once, on the actual
transition, and as the only message — the generic "saved" toast would otherwise
replace it, and an already-inactive location would have announced its own
deactivation every time its name was edited.

The staff table's actions cell is empty for your own row, because you cannot
revoke yourself. With a one-person team the column was therefore always blank
and read as broken rather than as a rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 07:49:07 +02:00
Claude 276f926d57 Add the update button, and give it a host-side agent that can actually update
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The panel had no way to update the installation, and could not have one on its
own: it runs as www-data inside a container, and the update restarts that
container. A button that shelled out would kill its own web server
mid-response, and would need the application to hold host-level credentials —
a far worse thing to own than an out-of-date checkout.

So the button is a mailbox. The panel writes a request into the checkout; a
systemd timer on the host, running as the service account, consumes it, runs
deploy/update.sh and writes back what happened. The same timer answers the
question the panel cannot answer alone — is there anything to update — which
needs a git fetch, and therefore credentials the application does not have.

The parts that were wrong before review, all of which would have shipped as a
button that looks fine and does nothing:

- The agent was only installed by install.sh, which the installed base never
  runs again. Every existing server would have shown the button permanently
  disabled. It has its own root entry point now, install.sh delegates to it,
  and update.sh says so when the unit is missing.
- On a release-pinned server the checkout is detached, so it followed
  "origin/HEAD" and then ran an update that deliberately stays on the pinned
  tag: updates advertised, nothing applied. It now compares TAGS in release
  mode and passes the target release through.
- On a branch other than main it advertised that branch's commits and then
  deployed main's, because update.sh defaults to main.
- A request written while the agent was down was executed whenever the agent
  next started, days later.
- A single status file meant the routine five-minute check overwrote a failed
  update with "idle" before anyone saw it.
- An agent that had been stopped left the button enabled forever, because a
  status file written once counted as an agent.
- The agent's error messages were German strings rendered into an English
  interface; it reports codes now and the panel translates them.

Also: the add-address button in the console-access panel was as tall as the
field plus its hint, because the hint was a sibling inside the flex row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 05:33:17 +02:00