Open what is shut, and never widen what is already open

setup-server queried --query-port, saw "not open", and blanket-opened 80,
443 and 81. On a machine reaching those ports through rich rules -- one CDN's
address sets, say -- neither appears in --list-ports, so the step read a
deliberate, narrow grant as "closed" and replaced it with a public one. It
did this during `panama update`, which asks nothing and runs unattended, so
there was no prompt and no diff for anyone to read. A production server lost
its firewall posture that way, port 81 and the proxy's admin portal included.

Each port is now checked for existing coverage first -- an open port, an
enabled service, or an accepting rich rule, ranges included -- and left alone
when it has some. The bias stays where it was: only a rule that positively
reads as a grant counts, and anything unrecognised still falls through to
opening the port, because a fresh server that is silently unreachable is the
worse failure. A rule that DROPS a port is not coverage either; reading a
block as a grant would leave the proxy unreachable on a machine nobody
thought to re-check.

A machine that manages its own firewall opts out once, with
`echo manual > ~/.local/state/panama/firewall`, and Panama never touches
firewalld on it again. A file rather than an environment variable, because
the run that needs to respect it is the unattended one.

tests/setup/server-firewall-contract pins all of it, and fails against the
previous code on exactly the cases that cost the posture.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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# Root bootstrap uses a temporary filesystem, PATH adapters, real public-key
# parsing, and a user namespace for the actual-root fixture guard.
hermetic tests/setup/root-server-bootstrap-contract
hermetic tests/setup/server-firewall-contract
hermetic tests/setup/skills-contract
hermetic tests/setup/test-runner-contract
hermetic tests/setup/update-command-contract
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# setup-server's firewall step: what it opens, and what it refuses to widen.
#
# The bug this pins cost a production VPS its firewall posture. That machine
# reached 80 and 443 only from one CDN's address sets, through rich rules;
# neither port appeared in --list-ports. The old step queried --query-port,
# saw "not open", and blanket-opened 80, 443 and 81 -- turning a narrow grant
# into a public one, and port 81 into a publicly reachable admin portal. It
# did it during `panama update`, which asks nothing and runs unattended, so
# there was no prompt and no diff for anyone to read.
#
# What is pinned here, and why each half matters:
#
# * A port already granted -- by an open port, an enabled service, or an
# accepting rich rule -- is left alone. Panama opens what is shut; it
# never widens what is already open.
# * A port granted by nothing is still opened. The opposite failure is a
# fresh server that is silently unreachable, which is worse: see the
# firewalld comment in setup/packages/server-packages.
# * A rich rule that DROPS a port is not coverage. Reading a block as a
# grant would leave the reverse proxy unreachable on a machine nobody
# thought to re-check.
# * `echo manual > $XDG_STATE_HOME/panama/firewall` stops Panama touching
# firewalld at all, and that opt-out is a file so it survives the next
# unattended update.
set -uo pipefail
repo_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../.." && pwd)"
stage="$repo_dir/setup/scripts/setup-server"
findings=()
note() { findings+=("$1"); }
work="$(mktemp -d)"
trap 'rm -rf "$work"' EXIT
# ── Stubs ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Everything setup-server reaches for outside the firewall block is answered
# "already done", so the only behaviour under test is which ports it decides
# to open. firewall-cmd is the one stub that reports: it appends each mutating
# call to $FW_LOG, and answers queries from the scenario in the environment.
bin="$work/bin"
mkdir -p "$bin"
cat >"$bin/firewall-cmd" <<'STUB'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
for arg in "$@"; do
case "$arg" in
--query-port=*)
want="${arg#--query-port=}"; want="${want%/tcp}"
for open in ${FW_OPEN:-}; do [[ "$open" == "$want" ]] && exit 0; done
exit 1 ;;
--add-port=*) printf 'add %s\n' "${arg#--add-port=}" >>"$FW_LOG"; exit 0 ;;
--reload) printf 'reload\n' >>"$FW_LOG"; exit 0 ;;
--list-services) printf '%s\n' "${FW_SERVICES:-}"; exit 0 ;;
--info-service=*)
name="${arg#--info-service=}"
for pair in ${FW_SERVICE_PORTS:-}; do
[[ "${pair%%:*}" == "$name" ]] && printf ' ports: %s\n' "${pair#*:}"
done
exit 0 ;;
--list-rich-rules) printf '%s\n' "${FW_RICH:-}"; exit 0 ;;
esac
done
exit 0
STUB
# Forwards firewall-cmd so the stub above sees the call; swallows everything
# else, stdin included, so `printf | sudo tee` cannot die of SIGPIPE here.
cat >"$bin/sudo" <<'STUB'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
case "${1:-}" in
firewall-cmd) shift; exec firewall-cmd "$@" ;;
*) cat >/dev/null 2>&1; exit 0 ;;
esac
STUB
cat >"$bin/systemctl" <<'STUB'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
[[ "$*" == "is-active firewalld" ]] && exit "${FW_INACTIVE:-0}"
exit 0
STUB
cat >"$bin/loginctl" <<'STUB'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
printf 'Linger=yes\n'
STUB
cat >"$bin/podman" <<'STUB'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
exit 0
STUB
chmod +x "$bin"/*
# Runs the stage in a scenario and prints the firewall actions it took, in
# order, as a single space-separated line so a whole run compares in one go.
run_stage() {
local log="$work/fw.log" home="$work/home" state="$work/state"
rm -rf "$home" "$state"; mkdir -p "$home" "$state/panama"
: >"$log"
[[ -n "${DECISION:-}" ]] && printf '%s\n' "$DECISION" >"$state/panama/firewall"
env PATH="$bin:$PATH" HOME="$home" XDG_STATE_HOME="$state" \
PANAMA_PATH="$repo_dir" FW_LOG="$log" \
FW_OPEN="${FW_OPEN:-}" FW_SERVICES="${FW_SERVICES:-}" \
FW_SERVICE_PORTS="${FW_SERVICE_PORTS:-}" FW_RICH="${FW_RICH:-}" \
FW_INACTIVE="${FW_INACTIVE:-0}" \
bash "$stage" </dev/null >"$work/out" 2>&1
tr '\n' ' ' <"$log" | sed 's/ *$//'
}
# Each scenario is one call: clear the environment it reads, set what it needs.
scenario() { unset FW_OPEN FW_SERVICES FW_SERVICE_PORTS FW_RICH FW_INACTIVE DECISION; }
cloudflare_rules='rule family="ipv4" source ipset="cloudflare4" port port="80" protocol="tcp" accept
rule family="ipv4" source ipset="cloudflare4" port port="443" protocol="tcp" accept'
# ── A machine with nothing granted gets all three ────────────────────────────
scenario
got="$(run_stage)"
[[ "$got" == "add 80/tcp add 443/tcp add 81/tcp reload" ]] \
|| note "a bare machine did not get all three ports opened; got: $got"
# ── Rich rules granting 80/443 are not widened ───────────────────────────────
scenario; FW_RICH="$cloudflare_rules"
got="$(run_stage)"
[[ "$got" == "add 81/tcp reload" ]] \
|| note "a CDN-only rich rule on 80/443 was widened to a public port; got: $got"
# ── An enabled service granting 80/443 is not widened ────────────────────────
scenario; FW_SERVICES="http https"; FW_SERVICE_PORTS="http:80/tcp https:443/tcp"
got="$(run_stage)"
[[ "$got" == "add 81/tcp reload" ]] \
|| note "ports granted by an enabled service were opened again; got: $got"
# ── Already-open ports are left alone, and nothing reloads ───────────────────
scenario; FW_OPEN="80 443 81"
got="$(run_stage)"
[[ -z "$got" ]] \
|| note "a fully configured firewall was touched anyway; got: $got"
# ── A drop rule is not a grant ───────────────────────────────────────────────
scenario; FW_RICH='rule family="ipv4" port port="80" protocol="tcp" drop'
got="$(run_stage)"
[[ "$got" == "add 80/tcp add 443/tcp add 81/tcp reload" ]] \
|| note "a rich rule DROPPING 80 was read as granting it; got: $got"
# ── A port range grants every port inside it ─────────────────────────────────
scenario; FW_RICH='rule family="ipv4" port port="79-82" protocol="tcp" accept'
got="$(run_stage)"
[[ "$got" == "add 443/tcp reload" ]] \
|| note "a rich rule granting 79-82 did not cover 80 and 81; got: $got"
# ── A udp grant is not a tcp grant ───────────────────────────────────────────
scenario; FW_RICH='rule family="ipv4" port port="80" protocol="udp" accept'
got="$(run_stage)"
[[ "$got" == "add 80/tcp add 443/tcp add 81/tcp reload" ]] \
|| note "a udp rich rule was read as granting tcp 80; got: $got"
# ── The opt-out ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
scenario; DECISION=manual
got="$(run_stage)"
[[ -z "$got" ]] \
|| note "the manual opt-out did not stop Panama touching firewalld; got: $got"
grep -q 'Firewall left to this machine' "$work/out" \
|| note 'the manual opt-out does not say why it skipped the firewall'
# ── An inactive firewalld is not an error ────────────────────────────────────
scenario; FW_INACTIVE=1
got="$(run_stage)"
[[ -z "$got" ]] \
|| note "firewalld reported inactive but ports were still touched; got: $got"
# ── Report ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if (( ${#findings[@]} > 0 )); then
printf 'setup-server firewall contract FAILED:\n' >&2
printf ' - %s\n' "${findings[@]}" >&2
exit 1
fi
printf 'setup-server firewall contract passed\n'