host-install v1.16.0 (FELHOM_ESCROW via canonical sudoers fetch; hub hostInstallVersion synced, no deploy) + RUNBOOK-escrow-ceremony rewrite: controller wizard PRIMARY, CLI operator fallback, F1 threat-model paragraph (R over CF tunnel accepted 2026-07-13), stale-blob/supersede/void semantics

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customer-held recovery code R. The hub stores only the opaque blob + a non-reversible password hash;
neither Felhom nor a hub compromise can open it. Cross-validated live: fork-4 validation (blob →
recover → decrypted the real repo) and the offsite arc (auto-confirm on hash match).
v0.127.0/v0.88.0 (TASK 2026-07-13): the PRIMARY path is the controller wizard — the customer runs
the ceremony themselves; the CLI remains the operator fallback. Mechanics validated by
audits/SPIKE-controller-escrow-2026-07-13.md (all five GO).
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## When a ceremony runs
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`pending` until the hub-verified auto-confirm.
3. **Any new unrecoverable secret / suspected R exposure**: re-ceremony (R cannot be retro-fitted —
it is never retained).
4. **Stale-blob warning** (v0.127.0, Scenario F): the controller re-checks the hub blob's password
hash on every report ACK even in the `escrowed` state. If the CURRENT blob does not cover the
current offsite password (hash mismatch, or a hash-less superseding blob — e.g. a CLI ceremony
run without the staged secret), the Távoli mentés card shows "A letétben lévő helyreállítási
csomag nem fedi a jelenlegi távoli mentési jelszót" and offers a re-ceremony. Runs are NOT
blocked (offsite copies still protect against non-total loss); the fix is one wizard run.
## Prerequisites (check BEFORE scheduling with the customer)
- **Agent version:** ≥ v0.79.0 (the ceremony records `restic_pw_sha256` — older agents produce a blob
auto-confirm can never match).
- **⚠ No-PBS hosts: the ceremony CANNOT run — and that is now POLICY, not a gap.** The previously
documented "identity-only mode (≥ v0.80.0)" was NEVER implemented — v0.80.0's actual feature was
seeding `escrow.pbs_storage_id` on PBS hosts. `escrow-create` hard-requires a PBS storage id +
its key file (drill-proven 2026-07-12, finding F-6 of DRILL-day0-vm-2026-07-12.md).
**Operator decision 2026-07-12 (DR-tier-by-default, decision 4): identity-only escrow is
formally PARKED — F-6 is closed by policy, not by implementation.** Every install ships the
full DR plumbing (host-install ≥ v1.15.0); activation is the hub's per-customer DR-tier flag
(default ON), and offsite backup REQUIRES that flag (hub v0.51.0 enforces the coupling:
"Offsite backup requires the DR tier"). A box therefore always reaches the ceremony THROUGH
the tier: WG peer → PBS-DR descriptor applied → ceremony. Revisit identity-only ONLY if a
customer class demands lean-tier offsite — this line is here so a future session knows the
absence is a decision, not an oversight.
- **Host packages:** `age` must be installed (identity wrap dependency; installed by host-install
since v1.15.0 — drill finding F-10 closed. Pre-v1.15.0 boxes: `apt-get install -y age`).
- **K gate (PBS hosts):** `escrow.pbs_storage_id` set and the key file present
(`cfg.Backup.PBSEncKeyPath(<id>)`).
- **Staged secret (offsite):** offsite enabled → `EscrowState="pending"` on the controller and the staged
password file present on the agent (`escrow-stage/restic_repo_password` — pushed automatically at
enable; re-saving the offsite config re-pushes it if missing).
- The customer is present/reachable: R is displayed ONCE and must land in their hands.
## PRIMARY PATH — the controller wizard (customer-driveable, agent ≥ v0.88.0, controller ≥ v0.127.0)
The customer (or the operator in the customer's session) opens **Távoli mentés →
"Helyreállítási kód létrehozása"** (`/backup/escrow`) and clicks through:
1. **Preflight** — the wizard checks: PBS storage id configured, DR tier applied, `age` present,
hub upload target configured, the FELHOM_ESCROW sudo grant listed (list-mode probe), staged
secret (informational). Red rows block the start.
2. **Warnings** — the R-is-final copy; a re-ceremony additionally shows the supersede warning
("a korábbi kód érvényét veszti…").
3. **Re-auth** — the dashboard password, typed again (rides the login rate-limiter).
4. **Run** — the controller RE-STAGES the current offsite password first (when offsite is
configured; a staging failure ABORTS the start — a ceremony without the staged secret would
mint a hash-less blob), then triggers the agent's local-API job. The agent runs
`sudo -n felhom-agent --config /etc/felhom-agent/agent.json --selftest=escrow-create --upload
--output=json` — ONE fixed argv, byte-matched by sudoers (spike §2.2).
5. **Reveal** — R is delivered by a ONE-SHOT claim: displayed exactly once in the browser,
`Cache-Control: no-store`, never rendered server-side, never logged, wiped agent-side the
moment it is claimed. Unclaimed R expires after **10 minutes** → the ceremony is VOID and a
re-run supersedes it (nothing is lost — the blob is already on the hub; the old R simply never
existed for it).
6. **Typed-back** — the customer re-types two random words of R (client-side check), ticks the
"felírtam" confirmation, finishes.
Then the existing **auto-confirm** flips `pending → escrowed` hands-free within one report cycle
(hash match in the ACK) and wipes the staged copy — same as ever.
**Supersede/void semantics:** every new ceremony's blob REPLACES the hub blob; the previous R keeps
opening only the previous blob (pre-existing offsite history). An unclaimed/void R requires nothing
but a re-run. An agent restart mid-ceremony or pre-claim loses R safely (in-memory by design) — the
wizard reports it honestly; re-run.
### F1 threat model (operator ruling 2026-07-13 — carried verbatim into the product)
R is displayed in the customer's browser, which means it transits the Cloudflare tunnel ONCE at
the reveal moment (TLS end-to-end, `no-store`, one-shot). **This is an accepted, documented risk**
— the same trust class as the claim code and the login password, which already ride the same
channel: an adversary positioned to read this leg already owns the dashboard session and the box.
The agent→controller leg (local API, pinned TLS) never leaves the box. A LAN-direct delivery
variant (à la plex.direct) is PARKED, not forgotten — revisit only if the trust class of the
tunnel changes.
## OPERATOR FALLBACK — the CLI (text mode, unchanged)
## The ceremony (ONE command, on the host, as the agent's operator context)
```bash
felhom-agent --selftest=escrow-create --upload
```
- `--storage <pbs-storage-id>` only if `escrow.pbs_storage_id` isn't configured (the PBS DR
apply-bridge seeds it automatically). No-PBS hosts: see the prerequisite warning above — the
ceremony refuses without a PBS key; identity-only mode does not exist yet.
- What it does, in order: generates a fresh **R** (EFF-wordlist passphrase; entropy printed) → seals K
(if present, via proxmox-backup-client re-key) and the IdentityBundle (age-under-R; the staged restic
password auto-injected; the live WG key auto-captured if present) → **self-verifies by recovering its
own blob** ("an escrow you haven't recovered isn't an escrow") → uploads the opaque blob +
`restic_pw_sha256` to the hub → **wipes the staged secret**.
- Output hygiene: the ONLY secret ever displayed is R. Nothing else in the output is sensitive; the
command is safe to run over a screen-share EXCEPT the R moment.
- On the host, over SSH, as before; output byte-identical to the historical text mode. R is
printed once inside the write-it-down banner.
- `--storage <pbs-storage-id>` only if `escrow.pbs_storage_id` isn't configured.
- **⚠ Staged-secret rule:** when offsite is configured, ensure the staged secret is present
(re-save the offsite config to re-push it) BEFORE a CLI run — a CLI ceremony without it uploads
a hash-less blob, which trips the Scenario-F stale warning and can never auto-confirm.
- `--output=json` exists for the wizard's job runner (machine mode: ONE JSON object with R on
stdout, humans to stderr). Never run json mode by hand into a terminal you are screen-sharing.
## Prerequisites (the wizard preflight checks these for you)
- **Agent ≥ v0.88.0** (wizard endpoints + `--output=json`); ≥ v0.79.0 for `restic_pw_sha256`.
- **⚠ No-PBS hosts: the ceremony CANNOT run — POLICY, not a gap.** Identity-only escrow is
formally PARKED (operator decision 2026-07-12, DR-tier-by-default decision 4); every install
ships the full DR plumbing (host-install ≥ v1.15.0), activation is the hub's per-customer
DR-tier flag (default ON), and offsite backup REQUIRES that flag. A box always reaches the
ceremony THROUGH the tier: WG peer → PBS-DR descriptor applied → ceremony.
- **Host packages:** `age` (installed by host-install since v1.15.0).
- **K gate (PBS hosts):** `escrow.pbs_storage_id` set and the key file present.
- **Sudo grant:** the `FELHOM_ESCROW` alias in `/etc/sudoers.d/felhom-agent` (ships with
host-install ≥ v1.16.0 via the canonical sudoers fetch; on older installs re-ship the sudoers
with the agent deploy).
- The customer is present: R is displayed ONCE and must land in their hands.
## R handling — the rules to say out loud to the customer
1. R is displayed **once**; the system keeps no copy anywhere. Write it down / password manager /
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`sha256(local repo password)` and flips `pending → escrowed` on its own, wiping the agent-staged copy.
**Verify remotely:** the customer page / report shows `escrow_state: "escrowed"` with zero manual clicks;
the next scheduled offsite run proceeds and snapshots appear. Hash-mismatch warning instead → the blob
does not cover the CURRENT password (stale blob) → re-run the ceremony; do NOT manual-confirm around it.
(The manual confirm endpoint exists solely as a deprecated fallback for pre-hash legacy blobs.)
does not cover the CURRENT password (stale blob) → re-run the ceremony (wizard); do NOT manual-confirm
around it. (The manual confirm ENDPOINT exists solely as a deprecated fallback for pre-hash legacy
blobs; its button is gone from the card since v0.127.0.)
## Recovery (the other half — operator-assisted, sketch)
Total loss → the customer's R + the hub blob:
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password opened the production repo).
## Do NOT
- Run a ceremony unattended or pipe its output to a log (R would land in it).
- Pipe the CLI ceremony's output to a log or run it unattended (R would land in it). The wizard's
machine mode is exempt BY DESIGN: its pipe terminates in the agent's in-memory one-shot holder,
nowhere else.
- Manual-confirm a hash-mismatch; skip the self-verify; retain or transmit R on Felhom systems.
- Treat the SFTP credential as escrow-worthy (it's regenerable access; only the ENCRYPTION secrets ride R).
- Run a CLI ceremony on an offsite-configured box without the staged secret (hash-less blob →
stale warning; the wizard's re-stage-first makes this impossible from the UI).
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# Felhom Hub — Changelog
## (unreleased) hostInstallVersion 1.16.0 (2026-07-13)
Display-const bump only, keeping `scripts/hostinstall_gates.py` green with the installer's
v1.16.0 (FELHOM_ESCROW via the canonical sudoers fetch — see scripts/CHANGELOG.md). No behavior
change; rides the next hub image train (no deploy for this).
## v0.53.0 — closing bundle: F-14 gated auto-Reissue + dead-host roll-up honesty + bearer out of git (2026-07-13)
The last engineering items on the pre-tester board. Two operator rulings in force (CONTEXT.md):
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// only ever emits flags this version parses. Display-only (the Option-1 command downloads the served
// script, which is always current); bump when the generator's flag surface follows a new script.
// Drift is now gated: scripts/hostinstall_gates.py asserts this const == SCRIPT_VERSION (drill F-1).
const hostInstallVersion = "1.15.0"
const hostInstallVersion = "1.16.0"
// validSemver matches a bare X.Y.Z controller version (the floor format). Empty is also accepted by
// the floor handlers (clears the override).
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# Felhom scripts — Changelog
## felhom-host-install v1.16.0 — FELHOM_ESCROW rides the canonical sudoers (2026-07-13)
Companion to agent v0.88.0 + controller v0.127.0 (the controller-driven escrow ceremony wizard).
No new installer STEP: the `FELHOM_ESCROW` sudoers alias (the wizard's fixed-argv sudo
self-invocation grant) ships via the existing canonical-sudoers fetch
(`configs/felhom-agent.sudoers` from the agent repo, `visudo -cf`-gated before install) — the
bump documents that every ≥1.16.0 install/update carries it. Hub `hostInstallVersion` bumped in
the same commit (hostinstall_gates.py asserts equality); the hub deploy rides the next hub train
(display-only lag, accepted). EXISTING hosts get the refreshed sudoers with the agent-0.88.0
deploy (ship-configs step), not from this script.
## manifest_bearer_gate.py — new gate: no bearer-shaped literals in manifests/ (2026-07-13)
Part of the hub v0.53.0 bearer de-git. Greps every `manifests/*.yaml` for 64-hex literals
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set -euo pipefail
SCRIPT_VERSION="1.15.0" # the SINGLE version source (F-1): -h, the run banners, and the hub
SCRIPT_VERSION="1.16.0" # the SINGLE version source (F-1): -h, the run banners, and the hub
# Setup-tab copy (hub internal/web/configs.go hostInstallVersion —
# scripts/hostinstall_gates.py asserts the two stay equal) all follow it.
# 1.16.0: the FELHOM_ESCROW sudoers alias (controller-driven escrow
# ceremony, agent v0.88.0) ships on every install/update — it rides the
# CANONICAL sudoers fetch below (configs/felhom-agent.sudoers from the
# agent repo, visudo-gated), no separate installer step.
# Operator signing keys pinned at day-0 (GL-4; doc 04 §3 two-key model). EMPTY by default — the pin
# CEREMONY is an operator step: generate the real keypairs OFFLINE, then fill these four constants