stop reading the owner's vnc password in the main process

The password lives in the owner's ~/.vnc, and the sidecar is the process that
writes it — together with the rfbauth file x11vnc actually authenticates
against. Officer read the plaintext half directly and answered with it before
ever asking the sidecar, which is both a secret the proxy has no business
opening and a way to hand out a password that no longer matches: if `passwd`
went missing while `password` survived, officer kept serving the old plaintext
and the desktop refused every login. `vnc:ensure-password` reconciles the pair,
so ask it every time and delete the reader.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
parent b27dd7512b
commit 754fac42bb
2 changed files with 6 additions and 16 deletions
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import { createRouter } from '../../create-router';
import { getVncPassword } from './vnc-config';
import * as sidecar from '@@/sidecar-registry';
export const desktopRouter = createRouter();
// The desktop UI asks for the password before it can open the WebSocket — and that WebSocket is what
// starts the VNC session. So this cannot wait for a session to exist: on a fresh install nothing has
// ever written the password, and answering "not configured" deadlocked the page permanently. Ask the
// sidecar to provision it instead; it owns the .vnc directory and the call is idempotent.
// ever written the password, and answering "not configured" deadlocked the page permanently.
//
// Officer does not read the password file itself. It lives in the owner's ~/.vnc, next to the rfbauth
// file x11vnc authenticates against, and the sidecar is the process that writes both — so it is the
// process that answers for them too. `vnc:ensure-password` is idempotent: it returns the existing
// pair when both files are already there, and provisions them when they are not.
desktopRouter.get('/vnc-password', async (ctx) => {
const user = ctx.get('user');
const existing = await getVncPassword(user.email);
if (existing) return ctx.json({ password: existing });
if (!sidecar.isVncConnected()) {
return ctx.json({ error: 'VNC sidecar is not connected' }, 503);
}
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@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
import { join } from 'node:path';
import { getOwnerHomeDir } from '@@/data-path';
const getVncDir = (email: string): string => join(getOwnerHomeDir(email), '.vnc');
export async function getVncPassword(email: string): Promise<string | null> {
const file = Bun.file(join(getVncDir(email), 'password'));
if (!(await file.exists())) return null;
return (await file.text()).trim();
}