pf_app/server.js
Paul Trowbridge c2e6fc8e77 Put the app behind a login
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>
2026-09-14 22:20:25 -04:00

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require('dotenv').config();
const express = require('express');
const cors = require('cors');
const session = require('express-session');
const PgSession = require('connect-pg-simple')(session);
const { Pool, types } = require('pg');
const { requireAuth } = require('./lib/auth');
// Return bigint (oid 20) and numeric (oid 1700) as JS numbers instead of strings,
// so apache-arrow's tableFromJSON infers Int/Float64 rather than Dictionary<Utf8>.
types.setTypeParser(20, v => v === null ? null : Number(v));
types.setTypeParser(1700, v => v === null ? null : Number(v));
const app = express();
// Sessions ride on a cookie, so a wildcard CORS origin would let any site make
// credentialed calls on behalf of a logged-in user. The UI is served from this
// same origin and needs no CORS at all; set CORS_ORIGIN only for a separate
// front-end host, and it is then allowed by name, never by wildcard.
if (process.env.CORS_ORIGIN) {
app.use(cors({ origin: process.env.CORS_ORIGIN.split(',').map(o => o.trim()), credentials: true }));
}
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.static('public/app'));
const pool = new Pool({
host: process.env.DB_HOST,
port: parseInt(process.env.DB_PORT) || 5432,
database: process.env.DB_NAME,
user: process.env.DB_USER,
password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
ssl: false
});
pool.on('error', (err) => {
console.error('pg pool error', err);
});
// ── Authentication ────────────────────────────────────────────
// Refuse to boot without a secret rather than fall back to a default one:
// a predictable secret means forgeable session cookies.
const sessionSecret = process.env.SESSION_SECRET;
if (!sessionSecret) {
console.error('SESSION_SECRET is not set. Run: ./pf.sh config');
process.exit(1);
}
// TLS terminates at the reverse proxy, so express has to trust its headers for
// req.ip (the login throttle) and for secure-cookie detection to be right.
app.set('trust proxy', process.env.TRUST_PROXY || 1);
const cookieSecure = process.env.COOKIE_SECURE !== 'false';
if (!cookieSecure) {
console.warn('COOKIE_SECURE=false — session cookie will be sent over plain HTTP.');
}
app.use(session({
name: 'pf.sid',
store: new PgSession({ pool, schemaName: 'pf', tableName: 'session', createTableIfMissing: false }),
secret: sessionSecret,
resave: false,
saveUninitialized: false,
rolling: true,
cookie: {
httpOnly: true,
sameSite: 'lax',
secure: cookieSecure,
maxAge: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 12,
},
}));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/auth')(pool));
// Everything below this line requires a session.
app.use('/api', requireAuth);
app.use('/api', require('./routes/tables')(pool));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/sources')(pool));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/versions')(pool));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/operations')(pool));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/log')(pool));
const port = process.env.PORT || 3010;
app.listen(port, '0.0.0.0', () => console.log(`pf_app started on port ${port}`));