| 2026-07-26 |

D-137 phase 2: fix the eight confirmed false-greens, regression-lock each
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Tier 2 is now scoped by (host-role, SITE-KEY). Keying on role alone merged
all three jumphost creds folders into one basename namespace, so a credential
present at ANY site satisfied the row for EVERY site -- how SEC-021's dc0
opnsense-api.txt absence passed a green sweep while tier 1 flagged it. Four
committee lenses converged on this. vm-secret-locations gains a site column.
Also fixed, each reproduced by the committee and each now regression-locked:
- probe_remote called a successfully-read location UNREACHABLE when its glob
matched nothing, gating the role and turning every absence FAIL there into
an [ok]; a __DONE__ liveness marker now separates "ran, found nothing" from
"could not reach".
- literal-file locations skipped absent/unreadable detection entirely (the
T33 false green surviving in the other path form).
- an EMPTY locations list bypassed ruling 3's refusal.
- a zero-row matrix reported clean over the empty set.
- a mint-ref pointing at a directory crashed with exit 1 -- indistinguishable
from findings -- and skipped S5/S6/S7, silently dropping the conflation and
asymmetry findings.
- mode enforcement was custody-gated, leaving 43 of 77 rows unchecked
including the SEC-020 and SEC-022 stores; a world-readable check now
applies at any custody.
- S5's dc1->dc0 direction was untested; deleting it left the harness green.
- rows with no declared location for their scope are disclosed, not skipped.
- declared paths/targets are charset-validated and shell-quoted: an
unvalidated `;` reached a remote shell, under sudo when --privileged.
- creds-audit sprawl globs now cover dotfiles; the prior widening could not
see .admin.pass, the dotfile sibling of its own motivating secret.
T24 replaced with a checked-in finding-CLASS baseline. The old form grepped
for the literal "IDENTITY CONFLATION", so REMEDIATING that defect would have
turned the gauntlet red for whoever did the right thing -- making "edit the
test" the cheapest response exactly when the guard mattered.
Harness 35 -> 43, creds-audit 13 -> 15, gauntlet ALL GREEN (80), lint 0-fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HvCyrwvYTTcDYnRErfMsNf
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D-137 tier 2: privileged sweep completed; permission gap fixed; 6 inferred filenames corrected
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The block was a PATTERN GAP, not a policy conflict. Bash(ssh * sudo *) was
already in the project ask list, but it needs a literal space before `sudo`
and the command was ssh <host> 'sudo ...' -- the quote meant no rule matched,
so it fell through to the classifier. Added the quoted variants plus a
targeted rule for the privileged invocation; all `ask`, never `allow`.
FLAGGED NOT FIXED (hard rule 1): Bash(ssh * virsh *) has the identical gap.
MEASURED (docs/audit/d137-tier2-privileged-20260726.txt): the region secrets
dir holds exactly admin.apikey/admin.pass/db.pass/lxd-trust.pass at 0600 --
precisely the SEC-020(i) carve-out list; netbox holds admin.pass/api.token/
secret_key at 0600; the SEC-022 shadow stores are confirmed and now audited.
ZERO undeclared files at any declared location: SEC-020 and SEC-022 are
accounted for.
OWNED: the first matrix draft carried SIX filenames I authored plausibly
instead of measuring -- a hard-rule-2 miss. The checker's undeclared-detection
caught every one on first contact with real hosts. Corrected to measured
values, real locations declared, and five colocated non-secret artifacts
declared so the check stays meaningful. Matrix 72 -> 77 rows.
9 findings remain, all true: SEC-021 (3 declaration + 2 on-disk), the ruling-5
conflation, and 3 S5 asymmetries -- dc0's snap power key is the generic
id_ed25519 while dc1's is the dedicated id_dc1_power, the SEC-012/SEC-016
per-DC-isolation divergence made visible.
Harness 35/35, gauntlet ALL GREEN (80), repo-lint 0-fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HvCyrwvYTTcDYnRErfMsNf
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D-137 tier 2 (EXISTENCE): declared-location bound, existence checks, widened globs
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Tooling only -- the LIVE three-site sweep has NOT run, so SEC-021's on-disk
half, SEC-022 and SEC-023 are not yet reproduced as live findings.
creds-manifests/vm-secret-locations (ruling 3): the absolute bound on
discovery. Covers the jumphost creds folders, the SEC-022 headend shadow
stores, the SEC-020 region secrets dir, the three dirs outside the SEC-009
convention, plus two the ruling's note did not name -- the in-clone PKI
overlay and the DOCFIX-175 plaintext tfstate. Tenant dirs are LOCAL-only:
no tenant VM/project/host is reachable from this file, so D-069 holds by
construction rather than by good behaviour. `<repo>` is substituted at
runtime (D-110: the repo name is never hardcoded).
creds-matrix.py --tier2 [--remote]: E1 expected-but-absent, E2 mode, E3
undeclared-at-a-declared-location. Probes are `stat` over ssh -- metadata
only, never content. An unreachable host SKIPS with an explicit [ok],
because "could not look" must never read as "nothing there".
--pending-stage is supplied by the CALLER so a not-yet-reached mint stage
defers instead of failing; encoding which stages have run would put a
status claim in code, and GA-R1 puts status in CURRENT-STATE only.
creds-audit.sh sprawl globs widened for the SEC-023 blind spots
(admin.pass, *.apikey, *.key, *.pem, *_ed25519, *_rsa, *openrc*). The old
six patterns could not have matched the SEC-020 secret that sat undetected
12 days, any bare SSH key or PEM, or the predicted Stage-5 ~/admin-openrc.
Harnesses: creds-matrix 33/33 (8 new tier-2 cases), creds-audit 13/13
(was 7; five blind-spot fixtures plus T13 asserting the widening did NOT
become trigger-happy). Gauntlet ALL GREEN (80), repo-lint 0-fail.
FLAGGED DIVERGENCE from the plan's Files list: --remote is implemented in
creds-matrix.py, not creds-audit.sh. Tier 2 IS the preflight Pn and the
matrix plus locations list both live there; splitting it would mean two
implementations of one bounded walk. Ruling 3 names a bound, not a script.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HvCyrwvYTTcDYnRErfMsNf
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| 2026-07-25 |

SEC-020: MAAS admin-account recovery -- consolidate `admin`, mint `operator`, creds-audit CLEAN x3
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Operator task: recover the MAAS admin accounts and save the creds retrievably.
The task premise was FALSIFIED by measurement before any mutation: the ledger's
2026-07-25 "MAAS web-GUI login does NOT exist / never minted" was wrong. The
`admin` password was minted 2026-07-13 by site-headend-install.sh:452 and is
MEASURED working (login 204 vs 400 wrong-password control). It was merely
root-only on voffice1 and un-consolidated -- the SEC-009 miss class, not a
missing account. Scope re-ruled by the operator after that finding:
"New account + consolidate only" -- no existing password rotated.
- NEW MAAS superuser `operator` for human GUI login; password generated on
vcloud, set via stdin (never argv -- SEC-018 discipline; changepassword has
no --password and createadmin --password would expose it).
- `admin` password CONSOLIDATED byte-identical (sha256-verified) to
~/vr1-office1-creds/. NOT rotated, so the VM copy REMAINS source-of-record;
a future rotation must update both or the VM copy becomes a stale trap.
- juju-vr1-dc0/dc1 untouched BY RULING: their SEC-018/019 API keys are
load-bearing for the blocked Stage-5 bootstrap.
- Manifest backfill -> creds-audit CLEAN on all three sites (was RED: dc0 3 +
dc1 1 undeclared), closing the dc0 edge-keypair queued finding named in
vr1-dc1.manifest:18-20.
- Root cause recorded: `admin` doubles as the automation identity (19 `maas
admin` call sites in 4 scripts), so automation never needed the password and
nothing forced it into the folder. Proposable as the next-free D-number
[ARCH]; NOT assigned (GA-R3 doubt-resolves-DOWN).
- Falsified ledger claim struck+corrected; machine-derived block re-seeded
(was stale on every line: SEC 12->16, next-free D 133->137, DOCFIX 200->204).
Evidence: docs/audit/maas-admin-recovery-20260725.txt (generated, no secret
values; scanned for password bytes = 0 hits with a planted-control check).
repo-lint 0 fail; gauntlet ALL GREEN (79).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HvCyrwvYTTcDYnRErfMsNf
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| 2026-07-23 |
G12 dc1: SEC-016 power key wired + commissioning 9/9 READY -- [V] leg complete
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- SEC-016 dedicated dc1 MAAS->libvirt power key minted, authorized on the
rack, installed in the region MAAS snap (per-host ssh config; dc0 SEC-012
key untouched -- true per-DC isolation); manifest updated (creds-audit CLEAN)
- maas-node-power.sh --commit: power_type=virsh on all 9, each verified by a
real query-power-state (proves the SEC-016 region->rack path)
- commissioned all 9 -> ALL 9 READY in ~3.5 min (no timeout, no SERVFAIL),
shapes EXACT to D-121 Option C; dc0's two stacked faults pre-empted by
pinned MACs + the dc-rack-net forwarder
- G12 [V] leg (dc1 build) COMPLETE; NEXT is close-out + operator-gated merge
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VUjEb7onHpdqFHUnio6iVw
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G12 dc1: edge bootstrap + v4 addressing COMPLETE (D-112c + D-113a2 proven on 26.7)
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Edge phase for vr1-dc1, resuming the 2026-07-22 close handoff:
- D-112(c) console bootstrap: SSH + dc1 edge key materialized (payload
needed util.inc/shell_safe() -- dc0 lesson iv the .b64 artifact lacked)
- key-only SSH verified (15.1-RELEASE-p1)
- D-113(a2) API key minted via vendor model; GET core/firmware/status
exit 0, product_abi 26.7
- edge addressed: WAN 172.30.3.2/24 gw 172.30.3.1 (egress 0% loss),
LAN -> 10.12.64.1/22 (ruled provider-public gw), API at new LAN
- interim reach leg removed; rack provider-public leg 10.12.64.2/22 live
- creds consolidated to ~/vr1-dc1-creds/ (creds-audit CLEAN); rack edge-key
copy shredded -> SEC-015 (transient, remediated)
Two queued findings: bootstrap .b64 missing util.inc; opnsense-bootstrap-apikey.sh
scp transient post-restart-sshd failure (readiness-wait/retry candidate).
CURRENT-STATE G12 row + security-ledger SEC-015 + manifest updated (GA-R1/C1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VUjEb7onHpdqFHUnio6iVw
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| 2026-07-16 |

DC0 deploy-readiness handoff: per-env-key ruling implemented + netem ruled + prep checklist
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Prep for a fresh session to run the Stage-3 Phase-2 DC0 build. Nothing applied;
the outer tofu apply remains the first (operator-gated) mutation.
Per-env-key (D-126, operator ruling 2026-07-16, option a): vvr1-dc0 gets its OWN
access key, not office1's. Minted ~/vr1-dc0-creds/vr1-dc0_svc_ed25519 (creds-audit
CLEAN); added variable vr1_dc0_ssh_pubkey_path; vvr1-dc0 cloud-init now installs the
dc0 pubkey (voffice1 keeps office1's key -- only the vvr1_dc0 block changed). Re-
validated + re-planned: outer plan UNCHANGED at 5 add / 0 change / 6 destroy (the
cloud-init edit is create-only content, no new destroys/replaces of live infra).
netem (D-100 gap #11): RULED = placeholder for the rehearsal; final values deferred.
docs/dc0-deploy-readiness.md (NEW): the full readiness state (outer plan verified
safe -- vvr1-dc0 416GiB/108vcpu, 6 empty-plane relocation, 980GiB RAM headroom),
remaining prep (pre-apply / mid-deploy / non-blocking), fresh-session bootstrap, and
the gated A-E deploy sequence. Ledger points at it.
Gauntlet ALL GREEN (65 harnesses incl. the 2 new access harnesses); repo-lint 0-fail;
opentofu-validate clean (both roots + 12 modules). The dc0 private key + local tfvars
stay gitignored/off-repo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ck6xh3jWQi5b3Su8Dx1LEH
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D-126: durable rootless agent access to VR1 site VMs (shell + forward) + DC creds prep
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Establishes durable, rootless jumphost->site-VM access so the recurring
sudo-route friction stops (and generalizes to the DCs). Operator ruled Option A
(SSH via systemd --user / ssh_config ProxyJump), advisor-conferred.
Shell layer (FOUNDATION, EXERCISED): scripts/site-ssh-config.sh generates
~/.ssh/config.d/vr1-sites ProxyJump aliases (voffice1, office1-netbox,
office1-tailscale, office1-opnsense). All four aliases proven live from the
agent's session after the operator installed with the one-key office1 env key --
key read from IdentityFile, no creds path in any command (clears the guard hook).
Forward layer (convenience, reviewed-but-unexercised): scripts/site-forward.sh
holds a systemd --user SSH local-forward -> http://127.0.0.1:8000 for office1-netbox.
Secrets boundary: the key is operator-supplied via --key (a PATH, never read/baked);
generated fragments name that path and are written locally (not committed).
DC prep: per-env-key isolation (operator ruling) -- each DC gets a DEDICATED key in
its own ~/vr1-dc<N>-creds/ folder, minted at deploy. Folders pre-created (0700);
creds-manifests/vr1-dc{0,1}.manifest declare the keypairs. DC ssh aliases deferred
until their IPs are measured post-apply.
Also: D-124 dc0 rack tfvars written locally (opentofu/d124-rack.auto.tfvars,
gitignored) -- the independent `tofu plan` unblocker. vr1_dc1_rack_* NOT written
(no ruled dc1 addressing; variables absent) -- STOP flagged for an operator ruling.
Tests: site-forward 38/38, site-ssh-config 30/30; repo-lint 0-fail (1 legacy WARN).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ck6xh3jWQi5b3Su8Dx1LEH
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| 2026-07-15 |

creds-audit: enforce per-site credential consolidation (SEC-009); prevents the DC0/DC1 spread
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SEC-009 established "all site secrets live in ~/<site>-creds/" but nothing enforced
it, and it had two blind spots: VM-minted secrets (no forcing function to consolidate
-- office1-netbox's sandbox NetBox token went un-consolidated until needed) and silent
sprawl (a loose *.env in ~ had no detector). Standing up DC0/DC1 multiplies both.
Built (operator-directed):
- creds-manifests/<site>.manifest -- declares exactly the secrets a site must hold,
each with mode + provenance (local, or <vm>:<path> for the VM-minted class).
vr1-office1.manifest seeded (11 entries); the live folder audits CLEAN.
- scripts/creds-audit.sh <site> -- verifies the live ~/<site>-creds/ against the
manifest (0700 folder, declared modes, present, non-empty), flags UNDECLARED files,
and scans the home root for SPRAWL. Reads NO secret values (metadata only; harness
T7 asserts no cat/head/tail/od/xxd). CREDS_ROOT/MANIFEST_DIR overrides for testing.
- tests/creds-audit/run-tests.sh (7/7) -- missing VM-secret, wrong mode, undeclared
file, home-root sprawl, non-0700 folder, metadata-only. Auto-discovered by gauntlet.
- dc-dc-phase3 GATE -- non-negotiable close-out: consolidate + manifest each secret AT
MINT TIME, and creds-audit $DC must be CLEAN before a DC is declared done.
- security-ledger SEC-009 ENFORCEMENT note.
Verified: harness 7/7; live creds-audit vr1-office1 -> CLEAN (also tool-confirms the
sandbox-token gap is closed); gauntlet ALL GREEN (59); repo-lint 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015WgVrZE2ryY9aXP7JiBuwj
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