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pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 b5aa2e0387 keep the shell templates together in scripts/setup
starship.toml, tmux.conf and zshrc side by side. tmux.conf and zshrc moved up out
of machine-setup/.

starship.toml could not have moved down to join them: the PLATFORM reads it, at
src/servers/os-user-shell.ts:34, to deploy to every member's Linux account. That
is a runtime path rather than an import, so moving it would have broken member
provisioning silently — no build error, members simply get no starship config.
So the templates collect where the shared one already had to be.

Left as a marker for tomorrow rather than resolved: there are now TWO zshrc
templates, this one for the owner and shell-skel/zshrc for members, while
starship.toml is deliberately one file for both. Either the owner needs different
shell config from a member or they should be the same file. tmux.conf has the
same question waiting, since it is going into provisioning too. Noted in the
zshrc header where whoever picks it up will be looking.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 02:47:08 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 e2faad40a3 rename the tmux template to tmux.conf, no leading dot
It is a template in the repository, not a dotfile in a home directory — and the
destination it is increasingly installed to, ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf, has no dot
either. Naming the source after a path it may not be written to is how the wrong
file gets read.

The two remaining dotted references are correct and stay: they name the
DESTINATION ~/.tmux.conf, which does have a dot when that is where tmux looks.

.setup-answers and .setup-progress keep theirs too. They are runtime state in a
directory, not templates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 02:44:07 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 61a3ae720f install the tmux config where tmux actually reads it
tmux 3.1 added an XDG location and it takes PRECEDENCE over ~/.tmux.conf.
Verified on 3.4 here by writing a different marker into each and asking tmux
which one it ended up with:

  both present       -> ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf
  only ~/.tmux.conf  -> ~/.tmux.conf
  only the XDG one   -> the XDG one

So the Shell section writing ~/.tmux.conf on a machine that already has the XDG
file produced a file tmux will never read, and reported "tmux config installed"
having changed nothing anybody could observe. That is the worst shape a config
step can have: it looks done.

tmux_config_target now picks the path tmux will actually load — the existing XDG
file if there is one, otherwise ~/.tmux.conf, which is still what every guide
names and what a machine with neither should get. When both exist the section
says so out loud before targeting the winner, because "your other file wins" is
not something anyone infers from a success message.

Also removed an untracked duplicate at scripts/setup/.tmux.conf. The one the
script installs is scripts/setup/machine-setup/.tmux.conf — SCRIPT_DIR is the
machine-setup directory — and two identical copies with only one of them read is
the drift this whole evening has been about.

Nothing to change about the config itself: the tracked copy is already byte-for-
byte the owner's own ~/.tmux.conf.

Not yet wired into per-user provisioning. src/servers/shell-skel/ seeds a zshrc
for a member and has no tmux config beside it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 02:43:08 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 b075f1f882 macOS is a dev machine, and machine-setup now treats it as one
Officer on a Mac is a dev helper on a laptop somebody sits at. It is never the
homelab or VPS case, so the role is not asked for there — it is `dev`, and every
section that exists to make a machine a good server is skipped.

Seventeen of twenty-six sections skip, listed once in MACOS_SKIP in lib/base.sh
with a reason each, rather than an `if macos` threaded through each section. Most
would simply fail — no systemd, no ufw, no netplan, no useradd, no
/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d — but a few would SUCCEED and be wrong, which is worse:
stopping a laptop from sleeping, or freezing the address of a machine that moves
between networks daily.

Nine run: System update, Core utils, Tailscale, Command-line tools, Git, Docker,
Neovim, JavaScript runtimes, Agent CLIs.

The blocker was root. Linux needs it for nearly everything; Homebrew REFUSES to
run as root and says so, so the whole script under sudo would have failed at the
first brew install having already taken a password. It is now required on Linux
and refused on macOS, which works precisely because the macOS path skips
everything that needed it.

Docker is checked, not installed. Docker Desktop is a GUI app that wants opening,
permissions and a running window — not a shell script's business — and colima and
lima both cost an evening the first time something does not resolve. So the step
reports whether the daemon answers and points at the download otherwise. The
group-vs-rootless choice below it is Linux only: Desktop runs containers in a VM
owned by whoever is logged in, so there is no group to join.

Added the Xcode command line tools as a macOS-only step, before anything that
builds. node-pty ships no prebuilt binary on any platform and always falls
through to node-gyp, so `bun install` cannot finish without a compiler — and it
fails deep in a dependency tree naming neither Xcode nor node-pty. `xcode-select
--install` opens a dialogue and returns immediately, so the step says to come
back rather than pretending to have waited.

Tailscale takes the cask, not install.sh — that script is a Linux package-manager
wrapper. The cask ships a usable CLI; the Mac App Store build is sandboxed and
does not.

Not run on a Mac. There isn't one here, so this is read from the code and from
what each tool documents, not observed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 02:29:56 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 f063fc0c08 remove origin validation
ALLOW_ANY_ORIGIN, ALLOW_ANY_ORIGIN_MUSIC, and everything they gated. The flag
defaulted to ON, so none of it ran on a real install — what comes out is
documented defence in depth that was already switched off. The file said so
itself: "Both flags and their call sites come out once the tailnet is the
perimeter."

Origin was never authentication here in any case. An app's `officer://<hex>`
origin is chosen by the client, forgeable outside a browser, and extractable from
a shipped binary.

Gone: the two flags, isOriginAllowed, isOriginCheckDisabled, isMusicOriginExempt,
originValidationMiddleware, ORIGIN_RULES and the whole OFFICER_<APP>_ORIGIN
scheme, PUBLIC_URL's origin/host derivation, and origin-validation.test.ts, which
existed only to pin them. CORS now echoes whatever Origin it is given, which is
what every install already did.

What SURVIVES is the reason this needed care. origin-validation.ts held two
unrelated things, and the second was the global authorization gate — a valid
non-owner token reaches only what its role grants, deliberately NOT under the
flag because it is account-based rather than origin-based. Its own comment called
it "the airtight half". Deleting the file wholesale would have deleted
authorization.

So it moves to _middlewares/capability-gate.ts as capabilityGateMiddleware, with
the name matching what it does: nothing in it reads an Origin header any more.
hono.ts mounts it in the same position, ahead of every router.

origin-middleware.ts stays and is untouched — it extracts the Origin for six auth
handlers that log it, and for passkeys. Extraction, not validation.

Also updates every claim that rested on the old model: CLAUDE.md's security
section and repo map, docs/secret-store.md, docs/mobile-api-keys.md, and five
messages in machine-setup's Tailscale section which told the owner to set
ALLOW_ANY_ORIGIN=false when declining a tailnet. That advice is now impossible to
follow, and the honest version is different: with no tailnet the token is the
whole lock, so put a proxy in front and restrict who can reach it.

Not typechecked (empty node_modules, frozen installs). Every changed file parses;
the setup section was run and writes four variables now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 00:15:25 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 e120dfa36e full read: fix the set -e footguns a full run would have hit
Read the whole thing — 2392 lines of entry point and 2700 of libraries — looking
for what shellcheck cannot see. shellcheck itself is clean at error level; its
warnings are cross-file false positives and one deliberate tilde in a display
string. Everything below is a real defect.

── The Git section aborted on any machine where git was not already configured ──

`git config --global --get <key>` exits NON-ZERO when the key is simply unset,
and `VAR="$(git_get …)"` propagates that under `set -e`. So on a fresh machine —
the case this script exists for — the section died at its first assignment,
before printing anything, and took the remaining nine sections with it.

It passed every earlier test because those harnesses sourced the section under a
`bash -c` with no `set -e`. Verified now against a genuinely fresh account with
the real script: the section completes and writes a correct .gitconfig.

── An optional step failing aborted the whole run ──

Twelve functions ended on a command that can fail — `systemctl enable --now
earlyoom`, `systemctl restart systemd-logind`, `chsh`, `sysctl -w`, `chown -R`,
the oh-my-zsh installer, and others. Called as plain commands under `set -e`, any
one of them failing ends the script, so a masked unit or a container without
systemd would abort a 28-section run over an optional improvement.

They now return 0 explicitly and the callers verify the outcome instead — which
also fixed a lie: the sleep section printed "sleep disabled, logind reloaded"
whether or not the restart had worked. It now checks the targets and the logind
values and reports honestly.

── chown user:user assumed the primary group is named after the user ──

True on Debian and Ubuntu, which create a group per user. Not true for an account
from LDAP, or made with `useradd -g users`, or on an image with a shared group —
there `install -g <user>` fails with "invalid group" and the step aborts. Proved
it against an account whose primary group is `oddgroup`: the old form fails, the
new one gets ownership right. Eight call sites now ask `id -gn`.

── Also hardened ──

agent_path and current_editor gained `|| true` for the same reason git_get needed
it: "nothing is set" is an answer, not a failure.

Verified afterwards: shellcheck clean at error level, every section runs
standalone without aborting, and the two apparent failures in that sweep are
correct behaviour — Timezone and Git refusing an empty answer from /dev/null.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 21:34:20 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 30052e3295 port the firewall, last, and bind the Docker rules to the real interface
Last in the run for the reason the original gave: enabling a firewall is the one
step that can cut the connection it is running over.

The security bug is in the shipped rules. ufw-docker-rules.conf hardcodes eth0 in
all three of its rules. Docker publishes container ports by writing its own
iptables rules underneath ufw — DOCKER-USER is the hook that lets ufw have a say
at all — so on a machine with predictable interface names (ens18, enp1s0, most
VPS images) none of those rules match, the final DROP never fires, and every
published port is open to the internet while `ufw status` reports active. A
firewall that says it is working and is not is worse than no firewall. The rules
are now substituted with the interface the machine actually uses, verified by
applying them against a stubbed ens18.

Order inside the section is the other thing that matters: OpenSSH is allowed
BEFORE anything is enabled, unconditionally, because a firewall enabled without
an ssh rule on a machine reached over ssh needs a console to fix. The prompt says
so, and says to open a second session before closing the current one.

tailscale0 is checked and offered, because the default is deny inbound and the
tailnet is an inbound interface like any other — without that rule Officer is
unreachable over the tailnet while Tailscale reports itself connected.

A correction to something I said while writing this: I reported that this host was
missing its tailscale0 rule. It is not. I had run `ufw status verbose | head -8`,
which cut the output above the rule list. The full status shows it allowed, and
nothing was wrong.

That leaves the NOT PORTED list empty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 21:25:13 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 d6a78d7b5a put the shell configuration in one place, after everything it configures
The Shell section moves to 26, after Neovim, the runtimes and the agent CLIs.
Everything that writes to .zshrc now happens there and only there: the starship
init, the PATH for the agent CLIs (moved out of that section), the aliases, and
the editor.

That ordering is what the editor choice needs — it offers whichever of nvim, vim
and nano are actually present, so it has to run after Neovim is installed rather
than naming an editor that is not there. Which was the original's mistake in the
other direction: it set core.editor to nvim four sections before installing it.

The default editor is the setting git's core.editor was deliberately left out in
favour of. EDITOR, VISUAL and SUDO_EDITOR go in the account's shell, and the
Debian `editor` alternative is set too — an account's shell config cannot reach
root or sudoedit, and those are exactly the cases where the wrong editor is most
annoying.

Recorded a limitation of append_once while cleaning up after it: renaming a
marker orphans the block that used the old name, and changing a block's content
does nothing because the marker is still found. Both need the old block removed
by hand. This run left exactly that — a `local-bin` block superseded by
`agent-clis` — in the dev box's .zshrc, now removed.

UFW is deliberately still unported and will be last, for the reason the original
gave: it is the one step that can cut the connection the run is happening over.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 21:22:15 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 607a962115 port the agent CLIs, using Anthropic's installer rather than npm
Claude Code goes in through https://claude.ai/install.sh, matching what the
platform already does for members in os-user-claude.ts and chosen there for the
auto-update npm does not give. The comment at os-user-claude.ts:28 claiming
setup.sh already did this was simply wrong — setup-ubuntu.sh used
`npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code`.

Two things that installer insists on, both of which a naive port gets wrong and
both of which os-user-claude.ts had already found:

  It REFUSES to run under sudo from a regular user's shell — it checks for uid 0
  with SUDO_USER set, because everything it writes goes under $HOME and under
  sudo that is root's. This script runs as root, so the install has to be done AS
  the account.

  It declares #!/bin/bash and uses [[ … =~ … ]], so it must be piped to bash. On
  Ubuntu /bin/sh is dash and `| sh` fails.

Two bugs found by running it rather than reading it:

  opencode does not install to ~/.local/bin. It goes to ~/.opencode/bin, which is
  what sidecar/opencode/index.ts:22 hardcodes. The first version looked in the
  wrong place, reported a working install as missing, and installed it again —
  the run said "did not complete" while the installer had plainly succeeded.

  claude on this machine came from npm, so `command -v claude` found it and the
  section would have left a copy that never updates. It now detects an npm
  install by resolving the binary into node_modules, says so, and offers to
  reinstall through the official installer — naming the npm copy and how to
  remove it rather than deleting something it did not put there.

~/.local/bin and ~/.opencode/bin are both added to the account's PATH. The
sidecars do not need it — they check the exact paths — but a user who cannot run
`claude` in their own terminal reasonably concludes it was never installed.

PI stays optional and says outright that nothing in the platform spawns it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 21:18:10 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 cb3e7062b9 ensure the bun symlink on every run, not only after installing it
The link was made as part of install_bun, so a machine that already had bun never
got one. That is this machine: bun 1.3.14 in ~/.bun/bin, no /usr/local/bin/bun,
and `bun` resolving to nothing at all for root. Nothing has broken yet only
because `pm2 startup` has never been run here — the moment boot persistence is
enabled, all twenty ecosystem apps that say `script: 'bun'` fail at boot and work
perfectly when started by hand.

ensure_bun_symlink now runs whether or not this script did the install, and says
which of the three things happened: made it, found it already correct, or could
not find bun to link. The last records an error, since a missing link is a
reboot-shaped failure rather than a cosmetic one.

Safe across upgrades, which was the question: a symlink resolves by path, not by
inode, and `bun upgrade` replaces the file at $BUN_INSTALL/bin/bun rather than
moving it. Demonstrated by replacing a target with a new file — new inode, link
still resolves. It breaks only if the home directory goes, which breaks bun
anyway.

Also fixed the status line, which reported "not installed" on a machine with bun
in the user's home: it asked root's PATH, which is exactly what has no bun before
the link exists. bun_version now asks whichever copy is there.

This run created the link on this machine — /usr/local/bin/bun -> the account's
copy, and root can now run bun.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 21:11:38 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 00e58931ff port the JS runtimes: node, bun and pm2 installed rather than offered
Not a choice. Officer does not run without them, so asking would be asking
whether to install Officer — which was settled by running the script. They are
installed and reported, with the reason each is load-bearing stated once:

  node  pm2 is a Node application, and officer-pty compiles node-pty against
        whatever Node is installed. There is no Linux prebuild, so this is not
        an ABI question — it is a build dependency on every machine.
  bun   the platform itself and nineteen of the twenty pm2 apps.
  pm2   supervises all of them, and the ecosystem files are written for it.

Node now tracks the current LTS, asked of nodejs.org, rather than the pinned
setup_22.x the original used — which ages into "the version we happened to pick"
the moment a new LTS lands. Resolves to v24.19.0 (Krypton) today, and NodeSource
publishes setup_24.x, checked with a HEAD request before anything is piped into a
shell.

Deno is the one genuine choice and stays optional, defaulting to no. Nothing in
Officer imports it — verified across the whole tree, the only references left are
in the old setup script — so the prompt says that outright and offers it for the
user's own work rather than pretending it is part of the platform.

bun is installed as the account and then symlinked into /usr/local/bin. pm2
started at boot by systemd has no login shell and therefore no ~/.bun/bin on
PATH; without the symlink every bun-based sidecar fails on reboot and works when
started by hand, which is a miserable thing to debug.

Every install is verified after it runs rather than trusting an exit status. A
NodeSource run can succeed while apt holds an older nodejs back, and reporting
the version asked for instead of the one present is how a machine ends up
disagreeing with its own setup log. Tested with an installer stubbed to succeed
and change nothing: both report failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 21:08:41 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 0286cc6db6 port the Neovim section
Kept as it worked — upstream tarball, symlink, a config repo cloned into the
account's ~/.config/nvim — with the defects fixed rather than the design changed.

The one that mattered: the asset name. Neovim publishes nvim-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
and nvim-linux-arm64.tar.gz. The original mapped aarch64 to "aarch64", which is
not a name Neovim has ever published, so on an arm machine it downloaded a 404
and handed the HTML error page to tar. Verified against the release API — same
class of bug as lazygit's hardcoded x86_64, and the second one this port has
found in an arch mapping. The tarball is now checked with `tar -tzf` before
anything is removed, so a bad download says what is wrong instead of failing
inside tar.

The rest:

  The tarball went to the working directory, via `curl -LO`, and stayed there if
  tar failed. It goes to /tmp and is cleaned up.

  The old /opt install was removed before the new one was known to be good. The
  download and its sanity check now come first, so a failed fetch leaves the
  working copy alone.

  The custom-repo option defaulted to git@gogs:andrepadez/nvim-config.git — a
  private repository nobody else can clone, and the same mistake as defaulting
  the login server to a personal headscale. No default now.

  git clone runs from /, for the reason git config does: the script's working
  directory is usually under the invoking user's home at 0750, which the target
  account cannot stat.

  The ~/.config/nvim/.git removal is now conditional on it being the starter.
  That is a template and dropping its history is right; a config of the user's
  own is something they will want to keep pulling.

  An existing config is left alone and said so, rather than moved to a .bak that
  silently overwrote the previous .bak.

The PATH line the original appended to .zshrc is gone. /usr/local/bin/nvim is
symlinked and already on PATH, so it was doing nothing except growing the file on
every run.

Verified on this host (already current, existing config left alone) and against a
fresh account (LazyVim starter cloned, owned correctly, .git dropped).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 20:54:59 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 5a33a517e7 move Tailscale ahead of the command-line tools
Now section 6, with the tools at 7. No dependency in either direction: Tailscale
needs curl, which core utils installs at 5, and nothing in it touches lazydocker,
lazygit, starship or fastfetch.

Same reasoning as putting it early in the first place — it is a second way into
the machine, so it should exist before anything that can go wrong does, and
fetching four upstream binaries is a longer gap than it needs to sit behind.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 20:51:39 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 2b9e16c11e port the shell section, and make one starship config serve both audiences
os-user-shell.ts:33 calls scripts/setup/starship.toml "the prompt config the
owner's own install uses — one file, both audiences". It was not: the original
machine script wrote a DIFFERENT config inline, so the owner got a prompt that
only disabled language modules while every member got the repo file with its
custom format. Two prompts, one comment claiming otherwise.

This deploys the same file the platform does, which makes the comment true.
Verified with cmp against a fresh account: byte-identical to what a member gets.

Nothing overwrites any more:

  .config/starship.toml and .tmux.conf go through install_config, so they are
  written when absent, skipped when identical, and KEPT when they differ — with
  the cp printed, so taking ours stays the reader's decision. On this host that
  is what happens: the existing config differs and is left alone.

  The starship line in .zshrc is marker-wrapped by append_once. Verified over
  three consecutive runs: one block, not three. The original appended it
  unguarded every time.

The login shell is now its own question. Having zsh on the machine and being
handed it at every login are different decisions, and `chsh` made the second one
silently. It also adds the shell to /etc/shells first, which chsh requires.

.tmux.conf lives here now, with the rest of the dotfiles, rather than in user
creation where the original put it only because that is where $USER_HOME first
exists.

One bug found by running it: install_config returns 2 for "kept yours", which is
an outcome rather than a failure — but still non-zero, so calling it as a plain
command under `set -e` ended the run before `case $?` could read it. Captured with
&& / || at both call sites, and the contract is documented where the function is
defined so the next caller does not repeat it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 20:45:25 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 03cc01a135 say that stopping and coming back costs nothing
Choosing option 1 means leaving to set up a server elsewhere, which could take an
afternoon. The run now says outright that Ctrl-C is fine and that returning picks
up here — completed steps skipped, answers kept — so nobody feels they have to
finish in one sitting or start over.

The same promise once at the top, where the resume notice already was. That
notice is now phrased as what it means rather than as file paths: "2 step(s)
already done, and they will be skipped", with the command to start over instead
of a bare mention of the file.

On the question of why pre-flight kept re-asking: it does not, and I caused what
you saw. Nearly every test command I have run today ended with
`sudo rm -f .setup-answers`, so the file was deleted between your runs. Proved the
round trip — a run with the variables set writes all three, and a second run with
no environment at all asks nothing and prints what it remembered. The file is
gitignored, so there was never a reason to be deleting it. Stopped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 20:39:39 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 4fcc34de18 frame the public server as common to all three, not a cost of offscale
"offscale runs on a publicly reachable server" read as a demand offscale makes
and the easy route does not. It is not. Tailscale's coordination server is
publicly reachable too — they run it for you, and that is the entire difference
between option 3 and hosting it yourself.

Said that way round, the requirement stops being a reason not to self-host and
becomes what self-hosting means. Same sentence in all three places: the menu
entry, the branch taken when 1 is chosen, and the long answer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 20:37:26 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 a989f8fbfa say where offscale runs, which matters more than how it installs
"One command to install" was the wrong emphasis and read as though it happens
here. It does not: a coordination server has to be reachable by every device that
joins, including phones on mobile data and laptops in other buildings, so it
needs an address that resolves from anywhere. It goes on a small public VPS of its
own — not this machine, and not behind a home router.

That is the thing people get wrong, and getting it wrong produces a private
network unreachable from exactly the devices it exists to reach. It is a property
of being the thing everyone checks in with, so it is true of headscale too, and
the long answer now says so.

Choosing option 1 leads with it, links the install anchor rather than the page,
and says plainly that nothing below will work until that server is up and
answering — so somebody who has not done it stops here instead of typing an
address that does not exist yet.

"Installs in one command" survives in the goodies list, where it belongs: it is
one command ON THAT SERVER, and the sentence now says so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 20:34:40 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 c629a849d9 make all four network options work, including having no network at all
Option 1 no longer refuses. It assumes offscale is already running — installing
it is one command, documented on the site — and asks for its address and a key,
which is mechanically what option 2 does. The two share a branch because the
difference between them is what to say, not what to do: one is "you already have
a server", the other is "set one up first, here is where".

Option 4 is new: no private network. Presented as a real choice rather than a
failure to choose, with what it costs stated before it is taken and paged so it
is read rather than scrolled past:

  · anything reachable remotely has to be published deliberately and kept closed
    otherwise
  · TLS certificates are yours to obtain and renew
  · every exposed service needs its own authentication, since there is no longer
    a boundary in front of it
  · the machine will be found — anything on a public address is scanned within
    minutes

And the one that is specific to this platform rather than general advice:
ALLOW_ANY_ORIGIN defaults ON, which is deliberate and only defensible because
the tailnet is the perimeter. With no tailnet it must be set to false with an
HTTPS proxy in front, or Officer runs with a check disabled on an assumption that
is no longer true. The summary line says so, so it survives the run.

Declining option 4 redraws the menu rather than dropping to a bare prompt.
Tailscale is still installed when 4 is chosen, and the run says how to connect it
later.

Verified all four end to end with tailscale stubbed, plus the decline-and-choose-
again path.

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2026-08-12 20:32:27 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 06492c3297 name the control server explicitly, and log out before moving between them
Two gaps found by tracing the assembled command rather than assuming it, and the
first meant option 3 did not work at all on a machine like this one.

`tailscale up` with no --login-server keeps whatever ControlURL is already
stored. So on a node already pointed at a self-hosted server — which this host is
— choosing "the easy route" left it exactly where it was. No error, no message,
and a summary line claiming it had connected. The URL is now passed explicitly in
both cases, TS_DEFAULT_CONTROL_URL for Tailscale's own service.

And a node logged in to one coordination server cannot simply be pointed at
another; it has to be logged out first. That is now detected by comparing the
stored URL with the target, and offered rather than done quietly — the tailnet
drops while it happens, and the run says so, because on a machine reached over
the tailnet that is the session you are reading this in. Declining leaves the
node where it is and records that.

Verified all three paths with tailscale stubbed: switching logs out then connects
to controlplane.tailscale.com, declining leaves it on offscale, and reconnecting
to the SAME server offers no logout at all.

Also noted while tracing: lan_cidr correctly finds nothing on this host, since a
/32 with host routes has no subnet to advertise. That means the homelab
subnet-router prompt is the one path here that has not been exercised on real
hardware.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 20:29:26 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 22a661131d page the ? output
The long answer is now well past a screen, so it scrolls the question off the top
and the reader lands at a prompt having lost what they were choosing between.
Piped through a pager, so it is read a screen at a time and the menu is redrawn
underneath it afterwards.

`more` rather than `less`: it exits at the end of the file instead of sitting
there waiting to be quit, which is right for something asked for once.

Only when stdout is a terminal. Redirected or piped — a transcript, a log, the
test harness — it comes through whole, since a pager there either blocks or
mangles the output.

Applied to confirm()'s help hook as well, so every ? in the script pages, not
just this one.

Verified both ways: driven through a pty it shows --More--, and with output
piped all four help sections come through in full.

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2026-08-12 20:27:00 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 4d478cc0f1 add the offscale line, and fix a set -e bug the test exposed
The menu is one function now rather than being written out twice — it is shown
again after ? prints the long answer — and option 1 carries your line: offscale is
just tailscale and headscale, with our own sugar on top.

The bug it surfaced is the more useful half. load_answers used

    [[ -z "${MACHINE_ROLE:-}" ]] && MACHINE_ROLE="$value"

as the last statement in a while-read loop body. When the variable is already set
the test is false, the compound returns non-zero, and as the final statement in a
loop body under `set -e` that ends the script. The failure is silent about its
cause: the trap prints "Step: unknown" and a line number inside the library,
before pre-flight has run.

It needed both conditions to appear — an answers file on disk AND the variables
already set in the environment — which is why every earlier test missed it and
running with env overrides hit it immediately. Written as if/then now, and the
other lib files scanned for the same shape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 19:45:19 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 6a29c39b74 restructure the Tailscale network choice, with offscale left to be written
Four options, in the order you gave:

  1  set up your own network        (offscale)
  2  use a network you already run  (headscale, offscale)
  3  the easy route                 (tailscale.com)
  ?  what are tailscale, headscale and offscale?

? prints the long answer and then shows the options again, rather than dropping
the reader back at a bare prompt having forgotten what they were choosing
between.

The explanation frames all three as one question — who keeps the list of your
machines and hands out the keys — and says plainly that the coordination server
never carries traffic, since that is the thing people assume it does. Tailscale
and headscale are written. OFFSCALE is a marked placeholder, and so is what
option 1 actually does; both are yours to fill in and the run says so rather than
pretending.

Option 3 is the plain flow: no --login-server at all, and the auth-key prompt
says what that means — leave it blank and Tailscale prints a link that either
creates the account or adds this machine to an existing one. Option 2 keeps the
"no suggested URL" rule, because a coordination server URL is somebody's private
infrastructure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 19:41:43 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 059f0f6df2 lead the Tailscale section with the question, not the explanation
Ten lines of prose before the first prompt assumed the reader had never heard of
Tailscale. Anyone already running it does not need to be told what it is, and
having to scroll past it every run is the cost of writing for the other reader.

The prompt comes first now, and `?` is an answer. Typing it prints the full
description and asks again; not typing it costs nothing.

confirm() takes an optional help function as its third argument. Where one is
given the prompt becomes [Y/n/?], so the explanation announces that it is
available without taking up room. The same hook is there for any other section
that wants it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 19:34:09 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 a63a327065 remember the pre-flight answers between runs
The --only flag worked, in that it reached the section — but reaching it meant
answering four pre-flight questions first, every time, which is not usable for
working on one section. The same problem was already there without --only: a
resumed run re-asked the role, the account and the Officer path that it had been
told on the previous pass.

Answers are saved beside the progress file and loaded before anything is asked.
The environment still wins over what was saved, so SETUP_USERNAME=x on the
command line overrides it, and --reask throws the file away and asks again.

Read as assignments rather than sourced. The file sits next to the script and is
read by a run that is already root; sourcing it would make it executable content
in a place nothing guards.

Second run now goes straight through pre-flight, printing what it remembered, to
the one step asked for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 19:29:15 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 09303299cc port Tailscale as its own section, early, and stop it hanging
Moved to position 7 — after core utils, which give it curl, and well before SSH
hardening, which is the step that can lock you out. The argument is that
Tailscale is a second way into the machine, so it wants to exist before anything
that can go wrong does.

── Why the original hung, and what stops it now ──

Its prompt accepted an empty auth key and passed it anyway. `tailscale up
--authkey ""` falls back to the interactive flow: it prints a URL and blocks,
with no timeout, forever. From the outside that is a script that has frozen.

Nothing here passes an empty key — the flag is omitted entirely, and the run says
in advance that a URL is coming and that it will wait. Every call carries
--timeout=60s, and a timeout is reported with the command to run by hand rather
than left as silence. State is read with `tailscale status --json` before
anything is run, so a node that is already up is offered a reconfigure instead of
having `up` fired at it blindly.

Diagnosed on this host rather than guessed at, and honestly the diagnosis is
partial: the exit-node branch left no trace at all — no /etc/sysctl.d file,
networkd-dispatcher present but with zero mentions in apt history, so it came
with the image. ip_forward=1 came from the unconditional part of the section, not
the branch. That points at `tailscale up` as where it stopped, and the empty-key
path is the candidate that fits, but I could not reproduce it to be certain.

── What the section now covers ──

  control plane   Tailscale's own service by default; a self-hosted headscale as
                  an explicit choice with NO suggested URL. The original defaulted
                  to headscale.pastilhas.eu, so a stranger running it pointed
                  their machine at somebody else's control plane.
  auth            key, or the browser flow, stated as an equal option
  Tailscale SSH   ssh over the tailnet with no keys, governed by tailnet ACLs —
                  and pointed out as a way back in if the sshd hardening later in
                  the run goes wrong
  subnet router   homelab only, defaulting to this machine's actual LAN CIDR
  exit node       with what it means for whose traffic goes where
  forwarding      sysctls and Tailscale's recommended NIC offload settings, and
                  only when an exit node or a route actually needs them

Approval is mentioned: an advertised route or exit node does nothing until it is
approved in the admin console, which is otherwise a silent non-event.

Also added --only <step> and --list, because this section in particular needs to
be run on its own while it is being worked on. A step run that way ignores the
progress file and does not record itself — asking for one step is not progress
through the script.

One bash quirk fixed on the way: "${VAR:-Tailscale's own service}" does not
parse. An apostrophe inside a ${:-} default opens a quoted section that swallows
the closing brace, and the error surfaces as "unexpected EOF" 400 lines away.

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2026-08-12 19:25:12 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 9d53ff506e port Docker, with the group-versus-rootless choice spelled out
Three options, each explained rather than named, because the difference between
them is a security posture and the default is the one that sounds harmless.

  1  docker group, the default. The text says what the group actually is: anyone
     in it can run `docker run -v /:/host -it alpine chroot /host` and have a root
     shell. It is not "access to Docker", it is root by a longer route — the same
     framing os-user-docker.ts already uses for why members never get it.

     Whether that matters is conditional, and the run works it out rather than
     asserting either way: on an account that already has sudo it is a shorter
     path to something they can reach anyway, and it says so; on an account that
     does not, it is a real escalation, and it says that instead. Caught in
     testing, where the reassuring sentence was being printed for a throwaway
     account with no sudo at all — the exact case where it is untrue.

  2  rootless, with the thing nobody would find out stated at the prompt:
     Officer's app store cannot provision containers with it. compose.ts,
     preflight.ts and system-monitor all spawn `docker` with no environment of
     their own, so they reach /var/run/docker.sock; DOCKER_HOST is set only for
     member commands, in os-user-docker.ts. pm2 started at boot by systemd has no
     session either, so exporting it in a shell rc does not reach the process
     that matters. The consequence is recorded in the summary, not just spoken.

  3  neither, and what that costs.

Also fixed in the port: the repository codename came from `lsb_release -cs`, which
is wrong on every derivative — Mint reports "vanessa", Pop reports its own, and
Docker publishes neither, so `apt update` fails against a repository that does not
exist. os-release carries UBUNTU_CODENAME on exactly those systems for exactly
this reason; it is preferred now, with VERSION_CODENAME as the fallback, and the
ubuntu/debian half of the URL comes from ID_LIKE rather than being hardcoded.

The shared `services` network is created only when missing, checked with
`docker network inspect` rather than by running create and discarding the error.

Verified on this host, and against a throwaway account both with and without
sudo.

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2026-08-12 19:11:49 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 f9c6b7925a record the default-editor section, to come last
Asks for nano, vim or nvim and sets EDITOR/VISUAL in the shell config, plus the
Debian `editor` alternative so root and anything reading the system default agree
with it.

Has to come after the Neovim section, or nvim cannot honestly be offered as one
of the choices — which is the same ordering mistake the original made by setting
core.editor to nvim four sections before installing it.

This is the setting core.editor was left out in favour of: one preference that
git, crontab -e, visudo and systemctl edit all follow.

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2026-08-12 19:04:15 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 4339ab829d set pull.rebase, and say why core.editor is not set
pull.rebase true, which is the setting whose absence stopped this very repository
mid-session today: git refuses to pull when branches have diverged and asks which
of three things you meant, every time, until told once. Rebasing replays local
commits on top of what was fetched rather than adding a merge commit that records
nothing but the fact that you had not pulled yet.

core.editor stays out, deliberately, and the run says so rather than leaving its
absence to look like an oversight. Git's fallback chain is GIT_EDITOR →
core.editor → $VISUAL → $EDITOR → system default, so core.editor is a git-only
override sitting above $EDITOR. The original set both it and `export EDITOR` in
the shell section — two settings for one preference, which drift apart the moment
either is changed and leave git using an editor nothing else does. Setting only
$EDITOR means git, crontab -e, visudo and systemctl edit all follow one answer.

Verified on a throwaway account: .gitconfig comes out with user, init.defaultBranch
master and pull.rebase true.

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2026-08-12 19:02:49 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 28673869c3 port the git section, and stop it overwriting an identity that already exists
Detects first, then asks. If there is a name and email configured it shows them
and offers to change them, defaulting to no — the common reason to re-run this
script is everything except this. If there is nothing configured it just asks.

Default branch is master rather than main, unless the answer says otherwise.

Three problems in the original, beyond running unconditionally:

  prompt_value accepts an empty answer, so pressing Enter wrote `user.name = ""`.
  An empty name is worse than none: unset makes git refuse to commit and say why,
  empty makes it commit with a blank author and never mention it. ask_required
  re-asks instead.

  core.editor was set to nvim four sections before Neovim is installed, so
  anything invoking the editor in between failed. Dropped for now rather than
  moved — it is a preference, and worth deciding separately.

  Nothing checked whether the writes worked.

That last one was not theoretical. Testing against a throwaway account, all three
writes failed and the section still printed "OK: written". `git config --global`
needs no repository, but git stats the working directory on the way, looking for
one — and the script runs from under the invoking user's home, which is 0750, so
the target account cannot stat it:

  fatal: failed to stat '<cwd>': Permission denied

The wrappers now run in a subshell from /, which every account can stat, and the
caller checks the exit status and reads the value back before claiming success.

Also recorded where it is written: docs/agent-git-identity.md says every agent
Officer runs commits as the owner, because it runs as the owner. This is not only
the human's identity, it is what git log attributes agent commits to — which is
worth knowing while choosing it.

Verified both paths: this host's existing identity is shown and left alone by
default, and a fresh account gets a correct .gitconfig owned by that account with
defaultBranch master.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 19:00:54 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 08e7de1b6d move unattended-upgrades into core utils, and make sure it is actually on
apt only. It is a Debian and Ubuntu package — dnf's equivalent is dnf-automatic
and pacman has no equivalent at all — so it is not a name to translate across the
other lists.

Installing the package is not by itself enough to switch it on. The apt-daily
timers read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades, and on this host no package owns
that file: `dpkg -S` says it came from nothing, which means the original script
wrote it. So the section checks for it and offers to write it, rather than
assuming the install did.

Beyond that it only reports, because the interesting facts about unattended
upgrades are not whether it installed:

  It never reboots on its own, deliberately. A kernel or libc update is installed
  and then not used, and the machine keeps running the old one until it restarts.
  Nothing announces that except /var/run/reboot-required, which nobody reads. The
  section prints it, names the packages waiting, and puts it in the summary — it
  is the failure people do not notice for months.

  Ubuntu's Allowed-Origins includes plain ${distro_codename} as well as
  -security, so this takes ordinary updates too, not only security ones.

Verified both paths: this host reports enabled with no reboot pending, and
pointing AUTO_UPGRADES at a temp file exercises the enable path and writes the
three periodic settings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:56:27 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 f176b92378 move fail2ban into core utils, and reduce its section to a status report
Your call, and the reasoning holds: it configures nothing of its own, an existing
install with its own jails is untouched because pkg_install never names a package
that is already present, and it is worth having by default.

One thing recorded where it is declared, because it makes fail2ban unlike every
other entry in that list: it is a daemon, not a binary. Installing it starts it,
and Debian and Ubuntu ship an enabled sshd jail — so from that moment an address
that fails to log in five times in ten minutes is blocked for ten. That is the
point of it, and it includes you, from wherever you are connecting. (Recalled
rather than verified: fail2ban is not installed on this host and the sandbox
would not let me unpack the .deb to check the shipped jail.d file.)

The section no longer installs anything. It reports whether fail2ban is running,
which jails are active, and how to unban an address — because a daemon quietly
blocking connections is worth knowing about before it blocks yours, and a run
that installs it as one name in a list of twenty gives no hint that anything
started.

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2026-08-12 18:52:14 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 bdf13331ae port the static IP section, and offer the actual fix for the reboot-changes-IP problem
Homelab only, as it should always have been. On a vps the provider's DHCP is
authoritative and already stable, and pinning an address there is how an instance
is stranded; on dev the machine moves between networks and a fixed address is the
opposite of what is wanted. Both say so rather than skipping quietly.

The more useful change is that a static address is no longer the only answer
offered, because it is not the right one for the problem it was added to solve.

A fresh Ubuntu box taking a new IP on every reboot is not the router
misbehaving. systemd-networkd's ClientIdentifier defaults to `duid` — man
systemd.network is explicit — so the machine introduces itself to DHCP with an
RFC 4361 client ID built from an IAID and a DUID. This host shows it:

    DHCP4 Client ID: IAID:0x56504d98/DUID

Consumer routers key leases and reservations on the MAC. The two never match, so
the router does not recognise the machine as one it has seen and hands out the
next free address — and a reservation pinned to the MAC is never honoured, which
is the part that makes the router look broken.

`dhcp-identifier: mac` in netplan sets ClientIdentifier=mac and the router sees
what it expects. DHCP keeps working, reservations start being honoured, and
nothing is pinned on the machine. That is now the first option, with the static
address second and still carrying the original's warnings.

It is written as its own 99- netplan file and merged with whatever the installer
or cloud-init already wrote, rather than this script parsing and rewriting their
YAML. Deliberately NOT applied: it takes effect at the next reboot, which is the
moment the problem shows up anyway, so there is nothing to gain by dropping the
network now. `netplan generate` validates before either file is kept, and the
file is removed again if it does not.

Found and fixed while testing: dhcp_client_identifier parsed the value with
awk -F': *' and took field 2 — but the value is itself "IAID:0x…/DUID", so the
split yielded "IAID", the DUID test failed, and the helper reported "mac" on a
machine that was plainly sending a DUID. It would have told the user the opposite
of the truth about their own problem. Reads everything after the first colon now.

Verified on this host: correctly reports duid, explains why, and renders both the
homelab and vps paths.

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2026-08-12 18:49:50 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 7a5cf89819 port the DNS section, as a choice rather than a decision
The original hardcoded Cloudflare plus Google with no way to say otherwise, and
rewrote /etc/systemd/resolved.conf wholesale — discarding DNSSEC, DNSOverTLS,
Domains and Cache if anything had set them, without mentioning it had. The
settings are a drop-in now, and the resolver is picked from a list with a
"keep what is there" that is the default.

The part worth having explicit is which layer is being changed. With
systemd-resolved there are two:

  per-link   what DHCP handed each interface, and what Tailscale installs on its
             own. These answer for that link's domains — the provider's internal
             names, the tailnet — and are printed by this step precisely to show
             they are NOT being touched. Overriding them is how private
             networking quietly stops resolving.

  global     the resolver used when no link claims the query. This is the one
             the step sets.

On this host that distinction is live: eth0 has Hetzner's resolvers and
tailscale0 has 100.100.100.100, which is what answers ts.pastilhas.dev. Both are
left alone.

The drop-in is named 99- because systemd reads drop-ins in lexical order and the
LAST value wins. That is the opposite of sshd, whose drop-in three files away in
this same directory has to sort FIRST. Both are stated where they are written,
because getting it backwards fails silently in either direction.

resolv.conf is checked for actually pointing at resolved's stub before the
drop-in is trusted to do anything — a machine where something replaced the
symlink with a static file bypasses resolved entirely.

Resolution is tested afterwards rather than assumed. A resolver that does not
answer makes every later step fail for a reason that has nothing to do with it,
so that failure is reported and recorded rather than swallowed.

The choice names what each provider actually is, including that a resolver sees
every name the machine looks up.

Verified both paths against this host: keep reports unchanged, Quad9 renders the
right addresses, and the per-link display shows Hetzner and Tailscale correctly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:45:24 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 192293cdca offer to add an ssh key even when one already exists
The zip option was already gone — it never came across in the port, since the
file is key material that cannot live in the repository and the script no longer
sits next to it. Pasting a public key was already the first option. What was
missing is the case where the account HAS a key: the section went straight to
hardening, so there was no way to authorise a second machine, a rebuilt laptop or
anyone else, and the original had no way to do it at all.

The same menu is now offered either way. What differs is whether it can be
declined without consequence: with no key, declining means the hardening below
refuses too, and the run says so rather than quietly moving on.

confirm() takes an optional default so this one can be [y/N]. Most questions in
this script are "do the thing you already asked for" and Enter should mean yes; a
genuine extra defaulting to yes is how people end up agreeing to things by
reflex.

A pasted key is trimmed before validation. Copying from a terminal or a password
manager routinely brings leading or trailing whitespace, and ssh-keygen will not
parse a key with it attached — which would have read as "that is not a valid
key" for a key that is perfectly fine.

Also corrected the reason unzip is in core utils, which still said it was there
to open ssh-keys.zip.

Verified: the add-another prompt appears and defaults to no, a whitespace-wrapped
key is trimmed and accepted, and the already-hardened path is unchanged.

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2026-08-12 18:42:58 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 9591f917f5 port ssh keys and hardening as one section, and make the hardening actually work
They were two sections, and being two is what let the second lock you out of a
machine the first had failed to put a key on. Step 8 could warn-and-skip — no
ssh-keys.zip, or an unrecognised menu choice, since its case had no default arm —
and still mark itself done; step 9 then disabled password authentication and root
login regardless. No key, no password, no root, on a box that may be in a
datacentre.

Nothing here turns off password authentication without first confirming a usable
key is in place, and the refusal says why rather than skipping quietly.

The hardening also did not do anything on a modern Ubuntu, and could not be seen
not to:

  It sed'd /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Ubuntu includes /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/*.conf
  from line 12 of that file, and sshd takes the FIRST value it obtains for a
  keyword rather than the last. Cloud images ship 50-cloud-init.conf containing
  `PasswordAuthentication yes`, read long before the line the sed edited. The run
  reported "SSH hardened" and password login stayed on. The settings now go in a
  drop-in named 01-machine-setup.conf, which is the only placement that wins
  under first-value-wins.

  It also sed'd ChallengeResponseAuthentication, renamed to
  KbdInteractiveAuthentication in OpenSSH 8.7. On 24.04 the old name is nowhere
  in the file, so that substitution matched nothing at all.

State is read with `sshd -T`, which reports what sshd resolves across the main
file and every drop-in — reading the config files tells you what is written, not
what wins.

Keys are counted by asking ssh-keygen to parse authorized_keys rather than by
counting lines: comments, blanks and a half-finished paste all look like lines,
and "there is a file" is not "there is a key that works". A pasted key is
validated before it is stored, and matched on the key body rather than the whole
line, so re-running does not authorise the same key four times over four runs.

sshd -t validates the new config before anything is reloaded, and the drop-in is
restored or removed if it does not parse — a config sshd refuses is a machine
with no ssh after the next restart. Reload rather than restart, so the session
this is running over is not the experiment, and the run says out loud to test a
new connection before closing the current one.

Generating a keypair now says the obvious thing the original did not: the private
key is on the server, and a private key living on the machine it opens is a spare
copy of the lock rather than a second factor.

Verified against this host (1 key, already hardened, correctly does nothing) and
with sshd_effective stubbed to a fresh-cloud-image state — the guard refuses and
harden_sshd is never reached. Also verified key validation, dedup and 0700/0600
permissions.

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2026-08-12 18:39:23 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 c0eb3e3a85 create the user account first, and fix the sudoers filename bug that found
The user account section is now the first thing that acts, ahead of disk space.

The reason is a real defect, not tidiness. If the account does not exist yet,
USER_HOME is a path that is not there — and the ballast offers to put its file in
it, where ballast_create's `mkdir -p` runs as root and creates /home/<name> owned
by root:root. adduser afterwards finds the directory already present and does not
populate or chown it, so the account ends up with a home it cannot write to.
Making the account before any step can write into its home removes the ordering
entirely.

USER_HOME is re-read from getent after adduser runs. Until that point it is the
/home/<name> guess, because there is nothing to look up; adduser is free to have
used something else and every later step writes there.

Found while testing that, and worse than the thing it was testing:

  local user="$1" dest="/etc/sudoers.d/99-${user}-nopasswd"

bash expands ${user} before the assignment to user has happened, so dest came out
as /etc/sudoers.d/99--nopasswd with the name missing. The rule inside was correct,
which is what made it invisible — visudo passes, sudo works, and the account
really does get passwordless sudo. What breaks is everything around it: every
account granted this way writes to that same file, so a second grant silently
overwrites the first and revokes it; and has_passwordless_sudo looks for
99-<user>-nopasswd, never finds it, and re-grants on every run forever.

Split into separate declarations, with the reason recorded where it happened, and
an empty username is now refused outright. Scanned the other lib files for the
same shape — the remaining multi-assignment locals only read positional
parameters, which is safe.

The stray /etc/sudoers.d/99--nopasswd this created on the dev box during testing
has been removed and visudo -c re-verified.

Verified with a real throwaway account: correctly reports not-granted before,
writes 99-msdemo-nopasswd as root:root 0440 with the right rule, reports granted
after, and leaves sudoers valid.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:31:29 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 fbb90c917d default the username to whoever ran sudo, and look up their real home
Three changes to the question at the top of the run.

USER_HOME is looked up rather than assumed. The original built "/home/$USERNAME",
which is only the usual answer — an account created with a different home, or one
whose home was moved, had every later step writing to a directory that was not
theirs. getent passwd knows; the /home guess remains only as the fallback for an
account that does not exist yet, where there is nothing to look up.

The default is now whoever invoked sudo. On a re-run, or on a machine that is
already somebody's, that is the answer every time, and retyping it is a chance to
typo it into creating a second account. root invoking the script directly offers
no default, since root is never the account being set up — and is refused if
typed.

The name is validated against the portable shape of a Linux account name before
anything else happens. Letting adduser refuse it later means several questions
have already been answered against a name that was never going to work.

It also no longer goes through prompt_value, which obeys any environment variable
matching the name it is filling in. USERNAME is set by some login environments,
and a variable this script silently takes as an answer should not be one that
might already be set for unrelated reasons. SETUP_USERNAME is the explicit
override.

The tmux config write moved out of the user section entirely. It was there only
because the original copied it right after adduser, where $USER_HOME first
exists. It is a dotfile and belongs with .zshrc and the starship config in the
shell section.

Verified: defaults to the sudo invoker, resolves daemon's home to /usr/sbin
rather than /home/daemon, falls back to /home for an account that does not exist,
and rejects a name with a space, a leading digit, one over 32 characters, and
root.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:27:46 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 3fb0e5c887 port the user account section, and stop clobbering files in the home
Two real defects fixed on the way across.

The sudoers write was in the wrong order. The original echoed the rule straight
into /etc/sudoers.d, validated it afterwards, and chmod'd it later still. A
malformed file there breaks sudo COMPLETELY — and you cannot sudo to repair it,
so on a remote machine that is a rescue console — and so does one with loose
permissions, because sudo refuses to read its own configuration. Both of those
windows were live in the original ordering. grant_passwordless_sudo now writes a
temp file, runs visudo -c against it, and only then places it with install(1),
which applies the content and the 0440 mode in one step. Nothing reaches
/etc/sudoers.d that has not already been validated.

The .tmux.conf copy overwrote whatever was in the home on every run. lib/files.sh
adds the two shapes that stop this whole class of thing:

  install_config  installs when absent, does nothing when identical, and keeps
                  what the user wrote when it differs — printing the cp to take
                  ours, so the choice stays theirs
  append_once     wraps a block in named markers so a second run recognises its
                  own work; also lets a human see which lines came from this
                  script and remove them as a unit

append_once is what the five unguarded `cat >>` into .zshrc need when those
sections are ported — a second pass currently duplicates the starship init, the
nvim PATH, bun, deno and the aliases.

Passwordless sudo is asked separately from creating the account, because it is a
security posture rather than part of making a user, and the cost is stated: a key
that can log into this account is root without a further step. Officer's actual
requirement is stated too — os-user-shell.ts runs `sudo -n`, and a prompt it
cannot answer surfaces as a permissions error rather than a question — and
refusing records that consequence in the summary instead of a bare "skipped".

Verified: all three install_config outcomes, append_once writing exactly once
across two runs, visudo rejecting junk before anything is installed, and the
section reporting correctly against this host's existing account.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:22:40 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 458510a0a8 scope sleep to homelab, and port the boot hang fix
Sleep and suspend is homelab only now. The two exclusions are for different
reasons and both are stated in the run rather than left implicit:

  dev — a laptop should sleep; disabling it is a hot bag and a flat battery.

  vps — not merely unnecessary, harmful. A virtual machine has no lid and no
  power button, but the provider's Shut down control works by sending an ACPI
  power button event. HandlePowerKey=ignore makes the VM ignore it, so graceful
  shutdown requests silently do nothing and the instance is hard-killed instead.
  systemd defaults that key to poweroff for exactly this reason.

The boot hang fix is everything except vps, where systemd-networkd genuinely
manages the network and the unit is load-bearing.

Rather than asking whether boot "feels slow" — a question people answer from
memory of the worst time it happened — the step prints what the unit actually
cost on this boot, from systemd's own accounting. On this host that is 14ms,
which ends the discussion. On a NetworkManager desktop it is two minutes, which
also ends it. On dev the wording says outright that a small number here means
there is nothing to do.

The original's live guard is kept and is what actually decides: NetworkManager
active and networkd not. Anything else, including "cannot tell", is left alone,
and the reason is printed. The warning against disabling systemd-networkd
outright is carried across into the library, where the alternative would be
attempted.

Verified all three roles on this host, which is a networkd machine: homelab and
dev both correctly refuse and explain, vps skips as not applicable, and the
timing helper reads 14ms out of systemd-analyze.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:17:17 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 c87127ff93 port the sleep and suspend section
The original ran unconditionally, so a laptop that went through it stopped
suspending — a hot bag and a flat battery. It is a server concern: dev is skipped
with the reason printed, like the ballast.

Four things wrong with it beyond the role:

  HandleLidSwitchDocked was never set. A laptop used as a homelab server, docked
  and closed, still suspends — which is the exact machine this setting exists
  for. Added.

  RuntimeDirectorySize=10% was set alongside the sleep handlers. It is the size
  of /run, has nothing to do with sleeping, and 10% is systemd's own default, so
  the line never did anything. Dropped.

  systemd-logind was restarted on every pass whether or not anything changed,
  disturbing live sessions for nothing. The step now checks first and does not
  reach the restart when the machine is already configured. (The platform's own
  scripts/setup-old/setup.sh already had this guard; the machine script did not.)

  The settings were sed'd into logind.conf in place. They are a drop-in at
  /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/99-machine-setup.conf now, so what this script set
  is one file that can be read or removed on its own.

Current state is printed before anything is asked — whether the targets are
masked, and what the lid, idle and power-key handlers actually do. logind_effective
reads the main file and every drop-in and takes the last match, since a drop-in
overrides logind.conf; reading only the main file reports a configured machine as
unconfigured.

The power-button consequence is stated rather than left to be discovered: after
this, pressing power physically does nothing and a clean shutdown is
`sudo poweroff`.

WSL has no logind and cannot suspend, and says so.

Verified both roles on this host, which the old script had already configured —
correctly reports the targets masked and the handlers set, and correctly reports
itself not fully configured because HandleLidSwitchDocked is missing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:11:16 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 6ffd3534bd do not offer the ballast on a dev machine, and route its alerts through one place
Servers only now. On a machine you sit at, a filling disk announces itself — the
editor refuses to save, the browser complains — and you are there to deal with
it. The reserve is for the box nobody is watching, where the first sign is a
service that stopped working hours ago.

Skipped rather than asked, but said out loud with the reason and recorded in the
summary. A section that silently produces no output is indistinguishable from
one that failed.

The cron this section installs was already there and is unchanged: /etc/cron.d
runs the checker as root every ten minutes, and it deletes the ballast when free
space falls under the threshold.

What changed is where its message goes. Both alerts now run through one notify()
inside the generated checker rather than calling logger directly, so there is a
single place to add a second channel. Today it is still syslog only — the
message lands in the journal and nowhere else, so nobody learns about it until
they go looking, which is precisely the wrong moment. Push, mail or Officer's own
notify sidecar hook in there. It also echoes to stderr now, so running the
checker by hand shows the message instead of appearing to do nothing.

Verified: dev reports not-applicable and asks nothing, vps still asks and records
a refusal, and the regenerated checker parses and reports status.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:09:03 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 d19dc5a92a ask where the ballast goes and how big it is
Three questions instead of one, because the two the original never asked are the
two that decide whether the thing is useful.

  1. Do you want one, with the explanation first.

  2. Where. Home (easiest to find again months from now), beside Officer, or a
     path typed in. This is not tidiness: the checker measures its own directory,
     so a ballast only protects the filesystem it sits on. Choosing where it goes
     is choosing which mount is covered.

  3. How much, as 5/10/20% — with the actual numbers, and with what would be LEFT
     rather than only what is taken:

       [1]   5%  — reserves 2.9GB    leaving 54.3GB free
       [2]  10%  — reserves 5.8GB    leaving 51.4GB free
       [3]  20%  — reserves 11.5GB   leaving 45.7GB free

     A percentage on its own is unanswerable. The number that decides it is the
     one on the right: the reserve has to be big enough to matter and small
     enough not to be the thing that filled the disk.

The size is computed against the filesystem the chosen path lands on, after the
location is known, so the percentages are of the right disk. ballast_free_kb
walks up to a directory that exists, since nothing has created the target yet.

An existing ballast in either default location is found and left alone rather
than a second one being made beside it.

Verified end to end in a temp home: created at the chosen path, 2.9G for 5% of
57.1GB, checker installed and reporting it present.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:05:42 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 d4b9b7b334 ask where Officer should be installed, in pre-flight
OFFICER_ROOT, defaulting to <user home>/officerdev. One directory holding the
four things Officer is made of, per docs/sidecar-app-store.md — the app, its
data, the item store, and any containers the app store provisions — so the whole
installation can be moved, backed up or deleted as a unit.

Asked at the start with the other questions rather than at the point it is first
needed. It decides the shape of several later steps: where the repository is
cloned, where DATA_PATH sits beside it, and which filesystem the app store's
bind mounts come out of. Asking once up front also means the run can be described
before it starts rather than discovered as it goes.

A leading ~ is expanded explicitly. It arrives as a literal from a read or an
environment variable — nothing expands it there — and would otherwise create a
directory actually named "~" in whatever the working directory happened to be.
Relative paths are refused with the value named, and a trailing slash is trimmed
so the path composes cleanly with what gets appended to it.

Nothing creates the directory yet; that belongs to officer-setup. This records
the answer and reports it, including whether it already exists.

Verified: Enter takes the default, ~ expands, trailing slash trims, OFFICER_ROOT
in the environment skips the prompt, and a relative path fails with the value
named.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 18:02:28 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 6947284f1b check the root filesystem is actually using the whole drive
New first section, before anything else that changes the machine, because the
swapfile and the ballast both size themselves from free disk.

Ubuntu Server's installer on its defaults gives the root logical volume a fixed
size and leaves the rest of the drive as unallocated extents in the volume group.
On a 2TB disk that is a ~100G root with nothing to indicate a problem: lsblk
shows the whole drive, df shows 100G, and the two are never seen side by side
until the day it fills. Growing a virtual disk at a provider leaves the same
shape one layer down, and so does resizing a partition without telling the
filesystem inside it.

Three layers, any of which can be the short one, so all three are measured and
printed together:

     drive:        76.3GB   /dev/sda
     volume:       76.1GB   /dev/sda1
     filesystem:   76.1GB   ext4, mounted at /

Seeing them in one place is most of the value. The fix is then whichever layer is
short: lvextend for free extents, growpart for a partition that stops early
(followed by pvresize and lvextend when LVM is in the way), or resize2fs alone
when only the filesystem is behind.

Only ever grows. Nothing here shrinks, creates or deletes a partition, and ext4,
xfs and btrfs all grow while mounted — so no unmount, no reboot, and a failure
part-way leaves a smaller filesystem on a larger container, which is the state it
started in.

growpart is the authority on whether a partition can move — it exits 1 with
NOCHANGE when the partition already reaches the end — but it comes from
cloud-guest-utils, which is not on every image. Installing a package purely to
ask a question is too eager, so plain arithmetic on the device sizes decides
whether it is even worth looking, and only then is growpart fetched.

A gigabyte of slack before anything is reported: a filesystem is always slightly
smaller than its container, and reporting journal and reserved-block overhead as
reclaimable space would make this section cry wolf on every machine.

Verified on this host: plain ext4 partition filling its disk, correctly reports
nothing to reclaim, and every helper returns the right device and size.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 17:59:38 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 9b0e05bfd8 add three resource-pressure sections, each asked rather than assumed
Swap covers memory pressure. These are its neighbours:

  8.  Emergency disk ballast  the same valve, for disk
  9.  earlyoom                what happens when swap runs out too
  10. inotify watch limit     the silent one

All three follow the rule this script now works to: the role sets which way the
recommendation points, never whether the question is asked. A dev machine is
still offered the ballast, with the recommendation pointing the other way; a
server is still offered the inotify raise, because anything running `bun --watch`
or serving a file browser is a watcher too.

The ballast is section 22 of the original, moved up beside swap where it belongs
and moved out of the user's home. The original wrote the checker into
$USER_HOME/.local/bin and ran it from a root cron — a root cron executing a
script in a directory its owner can write is a privilege escalation waiting to be
noticed. Moot on a box where that user already has passwordless sudo, but wrong.
Both the checker and the file are in root-owned system paths now.

Two bugs found by running the generated checker rather than reading it:

  It df'd the ballast's own directory, which does not exist before the ballast is
  created — and with `set -euo pipefail` that meant cron mailing an error every
  ten minutes. It now walks up to a directory that exists, and the installer
  creates the directory itself rather than depending on the create step.

  The inotify text claimed a default of 8192. This host is at 29461: Ubuntu
  raised it, and stating a number the reader can see is wrong on their own screen
  undermines the rest of the explanation. It now describes the failure instead
  and prints the machine's actual value.

earlyoom is a distro package and a systemd unit, so it is checked with
`systemctl is-active` and reports honestly when it installs but fails to start.

Verified: checker --status and its no-op path both exit 0 with no directory
present, and the helpers report correctly against this host.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 17:54:48 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 716a6e2750 port the swap section, and size it against the disk
Four things the original got wrong, all of which only show up on a machine that
is not this one:

  It detected swap with `swapon --show | grep -q '/'` — a test for a swap FILE.
  A machine using zram or a swap partition reports no swap at all, and the step
  would add a swapfile beside working swap. Reads SwapTotal from /proc/meminfo
  now, which covers every kind.

  It never looked at free disk. On a VPS with 4G free and 16G of RAM it would
  fallocate 8G, fail, and take the run down under `set -e`. The recommendation is
  now capped by what is actually there, keeping 5G back, and refuses rather than
  shrinking to something useless.

  fallocate was assumed to work. It produces a file that btrfs and zfs will not
  swap on, so dd is the fallback — slow, but it always works.

  swappiness was written by sed'ing /etc/sysctl.conf in place, tangling it with
  whatever else lives there. It is a drop-in at /etc/sysctl.d now, so what this
  script set is visible as its own file.

Role-dependent, which is the first use of MACHINE_ROLE: swappiness 10 on a
server, where swapping is the emergency valve and a page fault on a request path
is latency somebody is waiting for; the kernel default of 60 on dev, where
swapping out an application nobody has touched in an hour is exactly what you
want.

WSL is left alone entirely — WSL2 runs its own managed swap inside the VM, and a
swapfile written here is wasted disk the kernel will not use.

Sizes are reported rounded rather than floored. A 4 GiB swapfile is 4194300 kB,
which floors to 3 and reads as though a gigabyte went missing. Free disk stays
floored, deliberately: it decides how much to allocate, and rounding up invents
space.

Verified on this host — 4G RAM, 4G existing swap correctly detected and left
alone — and with the disk check stubbed at 6G free (caps to 1G) and 3G free
(refuses).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 17:48:45 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 b5948f9673 refresh the package index in pre-flight, not inside a skippable step
The refresh lived inside "System update", which `step` skips when its name is
already in the progress file. So a resumed run — the common case, since that is
what the progress file is for — installed core utils, added the fastfetch PPA and
set up the Docker repo against whatever the index happened to say hours or days
earlier. On a box left overnight that is a stale index and a "package not found"
somewhere unrelated.

It now runs in pre-flight, unconditionally, before any step exists to skip it.
`apt-get upgrade` stays where it was and stays confirmable: refreshing the index
changes nothing on the machine, upgrading is the one thing that does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 17:45:19 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 6480788979 port the timezone section
The original took whatever was typed and handed it straight to timedatectl. An
unknown zone — a typo, a guess at the spelling — fails there, and under `set -e`
that takes the whole run down four steps in. Names are now checked against
/usr/share/zoneinfo before use, and a bad one just re-asks.

It also never showed what the machine was already set to, and defaulted to option
1 (UTC) on Enter, so pressing return on a correctly-configured box silently moved
it. Now the current zone is printed, Enter keeps it, and a zone equal to the
current one reports nothing to do rather than setting it again.

timezone_current reads three sources — timedatectl, /etc/timezone, then the
/etc/localtime symlink — because they differ in availability rather than in
answer: timedatectl needs systemd, /etc/timezone is Debian's, and the symlink is
the one that is always there. timezone_set writes through timedatectl where
there is a systemd to talk to and the files directly otherwise, which is what it
would have written anyway; that is also the WSL path, where timedatectl exists
but does nothing.

Europe/Berlin added to the shortlist; TIMEZONE in the environment answers the
prompt ahead of time and is validated the same way, failing early with the bad
value named.

Verified detection (UTC here), validation of four names, and the env-var
rejection path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 17:43:20 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 163f8d5899 port the locale section
Was three unconditional lines that ran on every pass and reported success either
way. Now it checks, says what it found, and asks.

The original tracked one fact where there are two:

  what a new login shell is told to use   LANG in /etc/default/locale
  whether that locale actually exists     whether it has been generated

Setting the first without the second is what produces "setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot
change locale" on every ssh login and every perl invocation. They fail
differently, so the step names whichever one is actually missing rather than
reporting a flat "locale not set".

Also fixes two things the original would have hit on a minimal image:

  locale-gen comes from the `locales` package, which cloud base images do not
  ship and which is not in core utils. It is installed on demand rather than
  assumed, instead of failing with "locale-gen: command not found".

  The locale is uncommented in /etc/locale.gen rather than only passed to
  locale-gen as an argument. A locale generated by argument alone disappears the
  next time anything regenerates from that file.

`locale -a` prints en_US.utf8 where the configuration spells it en_US.UTF-8, so
both sides are folded before comparing — a literal match reports a working locale
as missing.

LOCALE in the environment overrides the default. pacman, dnf and brew branches
are written but unreachable while the pre-flight gate is apt-only; macOS has no
system locale to set and says so.

Verified both paths on this host: en_US.UTF-8 reports already set and generated,
pt_PT.UTF-8 correctly reports both facts missing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 17:41:49 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 1beb357f2e drop the ominous wording from the system update prompt
"the only step that changes software already on this machine" is true, and
reads like a warning about something dangerous rather than a description of
apt upgrade. The reasoning stays in the section comment, where it explains why
this is its own step; the prompt just says what it does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 17:39:16 +00:00