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.
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The desktop page has never worked on a fresh install. Two faults, both fatal.
The password could never be created. DesktopView fetches /desktop/vnc-password
before opening the WebSocket, but ensureVncPassword ran only from startSession,
which only the WebSocket triggers — so the endpoint answered "not configured",
the UI stopped, and the socket that would have provisioned it was never opened.
A new vnc:ensure-password sidecar command provisions it directly; the endpoint
asks for it instead of returning 500.
The rfbauth file could never be written either. ensureVncPassword shelled out to
tigervnc's `vncpasswd -f`, which is not installed — and, contrary to the comment
in setup-desktop.sh, is not in tigervnc-common, which ships only tigervncconfig.
The failure was swallowed because only a zero exit wrote the file, so x11vnc got
-rfbauth pointing at nothing. x11vnc writes that format itself with -storepasswd,
so the dependency is gone and a failure now throws.
Verified on the box: the endpoint returns a password, .vnc/{passwd,password} are
written 0600, and the sidecar reports mirroring :0 on 5900 with x11vnc using the
generated rfbauth file.
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Officer is single-user: the server owner is the only account, created once by
/auth/bootstrap. Everything that existed to serve additional users was
unreachable, so it is gone rather than left looking like it does something.
Accounts: drop the invite / resend-invite / delete / list-users routes and the
Users settings screen, the inert /auth/signup handler, and the account
verification chain it fed (verify, resend-verification, VerifyScreen, the
UserInvite + VerifyAdmin + VerifyRegistration templates). /auth/verify-token
survives for password resets only, and now requires a reset-password token
rather than accepting any signed JWT.
Roles: drop the users.role column and the four-value USER_ROLES enum. The
permissions table granted every role identical methods, and every
role === 'Super Admin' check was permanently true. The JWT no longer carries a
role claim.
Sandbox: remove sidecar/sandbox.ts and its five call sites. bwrap was selected
only for non-Super-Admin users, so it never ran. It was also not a usable agent
jail as written — --share-net, the project root (with .env) bound read-only,
and runuser dropping to the server's own uid. Rebuilding it for agent
containment would be a different construction, and git history keeps this one.
getHomeDir keeps its DATA_PATH meaning; the new getOwnerHomeDir resolves the
owner's real login home, which is what terminals, chats and task runs use.
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replaces the single hardcoded systemd VNC service with a dynamic
sidecar that manages per-user VNC sessions on demand. any authenticated
user can now access their own desktop, not just Super Admin.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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