hub v0.84.0 — break-glass console credential on the host page

The credential existed and was not reachable when it was wanted. Every box has
had a strong random root@pam password since TASK G1, vaulted in the hub at day 0
and used for real during the sshd incident — but the only way to read it back was
a hand-written curl carrying the global operator key, a secret kept out-of-band.
In practice the PVE web console on a demo box felt locked.

The host page grows a Console access card: presence + username + set_at by
default, Reveal fetches the plaintext on demand for 60 s with a Copy button.
Masking clears the JS variable, and also fires on a second click and on
visibilitychange. A host with nothing vaulted says so, and says why.

The secret is NEVER rendered into the page, and that constraint shapes the
change. The render path uses a new store.GetHostRecoveryMeta whose struct and
SELECT both omit the secret column, so it is structurally incapable of carrying
one. The plaintext crosses the wire only in the response to POST
/hosts/{id}/reveal-recovery-credential (Cache-Control: no-store, CSRF-gated at
the ServeHTTP level; POST precisely so that gate applies and so no secret is
retrievable by URL alone). Deliberately NOT the customer page's data-secret
widget, which embeds the plaintext on every load.

A delivered reveal writes one recovery_credential_revealed event on the host's
customer timeline (info, source hub, Hungarian) via SaveEvent alone — no
dispatcher, nobody emailed, the log_tail_requested shape. Two reveals write two
events: the register records accesses, not states. A 404 is not an access. An
unbound host reveals fine and writes no event; the [INFO] hub line, carrying the
username and a length only, is then the record.

The global-key API path is untouched by design — it is the route for when the
hub UI itself is broken, and coupling it to the session layer would delete the
independence that makes it a fallback.

Recorded as a real trade: the hub session password alone now unlocks console root
fleet-wide, where retrieval previously also needed the global key. Accepted for a
single-operator, HU-geo-fenced hub that already stores these passwords in
plaintext at rest (CONTEXT.md ruling S-4). The plaintext-at-rest half is filed as
R-133 — every hub DB backup is a fleet-wide console-credential dump.

Tests 550 -> 559; four red-proofs (page leak, audit event, CSRF gate, route
order) each run, observed failing, and reverted. The route-order proof is a seam
test driving ServeHTTP: a handler-level test cannot see that defect, because the
handler is correct and simply never runs.
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</div>
</section>
<!-- Console access (v0.84.0): the break-glass root@pam credential. The page carries
presence + username + set_at ONLY — the plaintext NEVER enters this document and is
fetched on demand from POST /hosts/{id}/reveal-recovery-credential. Deliberately NOT
the customer_unified data-secret widget, which embeds the plaintext on every load. -->
<section class="card">
<h2>Console access</h2>
{{if .RecoveryVaulted}}
<div class="info-grid">
<div class="info-item">
<span class="label">User</span>
<span class="value"><code>{{.RecoveryUsername}}</code></span>
</div>
<div class="info-item">
<span class="label">Password set</span>
<span class="value">{{timeAgo .RecoverySetAt}}</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="credential-box">
<code id="console-pw-{{.HostID}}">&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;&bull;</code>
<button type="button" class="copy-btn" id="console-reveal-{{.HostID}}" data-reveal-url="/hosts/{{.HostID}}/reveal-recovery-credential" onclick="revealConsolePassword('{{.HostID}}')">Reveal</button>
<button type="button" class="copy-btn" id="console-copy-{{.HostID}}" onclick="copyConsolePassword('{{.HostID}}')" disabled>Copy</button>
</div>
<p class="hint" id="console-hint-{{.HostID}}" style="color: var(--text-muted); font-size: 0.85rem; margin-top: 0.5rem;">
Break-glass credential for the PVE web console at https://&lt;host-ip&gt;:8006 (realm: Linux PAM standard authentication). Revealing it is recorded on the customer's event timeline. Last vaulted value — if root@pam was changed on the box without re-vaulting, this is stale.
</p>
{{else}}
<p><span class="badge badge-neutral">not vaulted</span></p>
<p class="hint" style="color: var(--text-muted); font-size: 0.85rem;">
No console credential is vaulted for this host. Expected for a byo host — the owner manages root@pam. Otherwise the installer's step 4b did not run; re-run felhom-host-install.sh, or set and vault one per the break-glass runbook &sect;5.
</p>
{{end}}
</section>
{{if .RecoveryVaulted}}
<script>
// Fetch-on-demand: the password exists in this document ONLY between a Reveal and the next
// mask, and only in a local variable — never in localStorage, a data- attribute or the URL.
// `|| {}` because the customer page renders this sub-template once per host: a plain
// re-assignment would drop a sibling card's mask timer on the floor.
var consolePwState = typeof consolePwState !== 'undefined' ? consolePwState : {};
var consolePwMask = '••••••••••••••••';
function maskConsolePassword(hostID) {
var st = consolePwState[hostID];
if (st && st.timer) { clearTimeout(st.timer); }
consolePwState[hostID] = null; // CLEARS the retained plaintext
var code = document.getElementById('console-pw-' + hostID);
if (code) { code.textContent = consolePwMask; }
var reveal = document.getElementById('console-reveal-' + hostID);
if (reveal) { reveal.textContent = 'Reveal'; }
var copy = document.getElementById('console-copy-' + hostID);
if (copy) { copy.disabled = true; }
}
function revealConsolePassword(hostID) {
if (consolePwState[hostID]) { maskConsolePassword(hostID); return; } // second click hides
var hint = document.getElementById('console-hint-' + hostID);
var code = document.getElementById('console-pw-' + hostID);
var btn = document.getElementById('console-reveal-' + hostID);
code.textContent = 'Revealing…';
// The endpoint comes from the button's data-reveal-url — the SAME string a render test
// asserts, so the assertion cannot pass while the fetch targets somewhere else.
fetch(btn.getAttribute('data-reveal-url'), {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'X-CSRF-Token': '{{.CSRFToken}}'}
}).then(function(r){
if (!r.ok) { throw new Error('HTTP ' + r.status); }
return r.json();
}).then(function(d){
code.textContent = d.password;
consolePwState[hostID] = {pw: d.password, timer: setTimeout(function(){ maskConsolePassword(hostID); }, 60000)};
document.getElementById('console-reveal-' + hostID).textContent = 'Hide';
document.getElementById('console-copy-' + hostID).disabled = false;
}).catch(function(e){
code.textContent = consolePwMask;
hint.textContent = 'Could not reveal the credential (' + e.message + '). The global-key curl path in the break-glass runbook §3.1 still works.';
});
}
function copyConsolePassword(hostID) {
var st = consolePwState[hostID];
if (!st) { return; }
var pw = st.pw;
if (navigator.clipboard) { navigator.clipboard.writeText(pw); }
maskConsolePassword(hostID); // re-mask after use
}
document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', function(){
if (document.visibilityState === 'hidden') {
for (var id in consolePwState) { if (consolePwState[id]) { maskConsolePassword(id); } }
}
});
</script>
{{end}}
{{if .Deletable}}
<!-- Danger zone (v0.47.0): rendered ONLY for non-online hosts — deleting a live
host would brick its heartbeat channel, so the affordance never exists for one.