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Accounts with stable ids; the roster moves into the system repository

31df8baea9c9e8acf74b71bdda26d27907b30f2a · Keenan Nemetz · 17d ago · parent 36293228

Accounts with stable ids; the roster moves into the system repository

Names were the primary key everywhere — the keys file name, the ACL entry, the
approval file — so renaming someone broke their access, orphaned their approvals,
and left a retired name able to hand a newcomer the old holder's rights. This
splits identity into an account (stable id, anchored by its SSH keys) and a name
(mutable, never reissued).

  data/system.git  refs/heads/main
    users/<ulid>/meta.json   name, status, keys, former_names

Everything that grants authority now holds the id: ACL entries, approval files,
and the identity resolved at the SSH handshake (VOLE_ACTOR_ID). A rename is a
one-file change that disturbs nothing else, and both the old and new names stay
reserved forever.

The roster moved from a trusted-keys directory back into git, which reverses an
earlier simplification — deliberately, and in a smaller shape (one file per
account, one writer, no CAS plumbing for unused fields). Git buys what a directory
could not: `git log` answers who renamed whom and when a key appeared, and the
roster is now readable by anyone who can clone, since it is served read-only at
ssh://host/system.git. `vole request new` and `approve` use exactly that to turn a
name typed on the command line into the account id they store.

Two latent bugs surfaced, both caught by tests added here:

- gitx inherited git's repository-scoped environment. pre-receive runs with
  GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY and GIT_QUARANTINE_PATH pointing at the pushed repository's
  quarantine, so every git call a hook made for a *different* repository silently
  read the pushed one: the hook saw an empty roster. gitx now scrubs those
  variables and the hook restores them for the pushed repository only.
- The hook built the repository name with filepath.Base on receive-pack's path,
  which carries a trailing separator, so refusals read "does not have write access
  to .". Cleaned first.

Verified end to end on a live instance: two accounts file, approve and land a
change; `vole user rename wilbur robert` keeps the same key's write access and the
approval still reads as current, now credited to robert; the roster history shows
"user: rename wilbur to robert"; retiring an account rejects its key within five
seconds and refuses to reissue the name.

internal/web/web.go +4−2

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
18 18 "github.com/rodent-software/vole/internal/acl"
19 19 "github.com/rodent-software/vole/internal/config"
20 20 "github.com/rodent-software/vole/internal/gitx"
21 "github.com/rodent-software/vole/internal/identity"
21 22 "github.com/rodent-software/vole/internal/index"
22 23 "github.com/rodent-software/vole/internal/repo"
23 24 )
@@ -25,12 +26,13 @@ import (
25 26 type Web struct {
26 27 Repos *repo.Store
27 28 Index *index.Store
29 Ident *identity.Store
28 30 Cfg *config.Config
29 31 Tmpl *template.Template
30 32 Logger func(format string, args ...any)
31 33 }
32 34
33 func New(repos *repo.Store, ix *index.Store, cfg *config.Config) (*Web, error) {
35 func New(repos *repo.Store, ix *index.Store, ident *identity.Store, cfg *config.Config) (*Web, error) {
34 36 t, err := template.New("vole").Funcs(template.FuncMap{
35 37 "since": humanSince,
36 38 "short": shortSHA,
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ func New(repos *repo.Store, ix *index.Store, cfg *config.Config) (*Web, error) {
39 41 if err != nil {
40 42 return nil, err
41 43 }
42 w := &Web{Repos: repos, Index: ix, Cfg: cfg, Tmpl: t}
44 w := &Web{Repos: repos, Index: ix, Ident: ident, Cfg: cfg, Tmpl: t}
43 45 w.Logger = func(string, ...any) {}
44 46 return w, nil
45 47 }