pf_app
Paul Trowbridge
c2e6fc8e77
The server had no authentication: every /api route was open, CORS allowed any origin, and the identity written to the audit log came from the request body — the UI sent a hardcoded pf_user: 'admin', which any client could have set to anything it liked. Accounts live in pf.app_user with scrypt hashes from node's own crypto, so there is no native build step and the parameters travel with each hash. Sessions are express-session over connect-pg-simple in pf.session: a restart no longer signs everyone out, and a session can be revoked by deleting its row, which is how disable-user cuts off access immediately rather than at cookie expiry. Everything under /api except login/logout/me now requires a session, and the React app is mounted only once there is one — its load effects call the API on mount, so a logged-out mount would just fire a burst of 401s. A session that expires while the app is open lands back on the login screen: auth.jsx wraps fetch once rather than teaching every call site to check. Identity is now read from the session for pf_user, created_by and closed_by, and the body values are ignored. Hardened for an internet-facing deployment: trust proxy so req.ip and secure-cookie detection are right behind TLS termination, httpOnly + SameSite=Lax + Secure cookies, ten login failures per IP per fifteen minutes, one error message for unknown, wrong and disabled alike, and a fresh session id on success. CORS is off entirely unless CORS_ORIGIN names an origin — a wildcard alongside a session cookie would be CSRF by construction. The server refuses to boot without SESSION_SECRET rather than falling back to a guessable default. pf.sh grows add-user, passwd, list-users, disable-user and enable-user; passwords are read on stdin and hashed before they reach psql, so no plaintext in argv or shell history. install.sh generates the secret, applies 02_auth.sql, and creates the first account. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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| lib | ||
| public | ||
| routes | ||
| setup_sql | ||
| ui | ||
| .env.example | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| CLAUDE.md | ||
| install.sh | ||
| package-lock.json | ||
| package.json | ||
| PERSPECTIVE.md | ||
| pf_perspective_options.md | ||
| pf_spec.md | ||
| pf.sh | ||
| server.js | ||