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| author | tv <tv@krebsco.de> | 2026-11-07 22:35:21 +0100 |
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| committer | tv <tv@krebsco.de> | 2026-11-07 22:35:21 +0100 |
| commit | e696d2f40636a6613eddfb1a3afdf87aa7ffdedd (patch) | |
| tree | b2734381ef1d010d0efad209f116b12f625c0f40 /docs/access.md | |
| parent | 70ff0ec9e50bf506cc6d80b929a81e350289f6cc (diff) | |
auth: logging in by key
POST /auth/challenge and /auth/login/key: a node-signed challenge,
valid five minutes and taken once, signed with one of the user's SSH
keys (ssh-keygen -Y sign -n continuum-login), for a token.
Auth plan M7 (key login, M2b).
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diff --git a/docs/access.md b/docs/access.md index 20fa23d..a182266 100644 --- a/docs/access.md +++ b/docs/access.md @@ -106,6 +106,22 @@ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ct1.…" http://other-node:3000/store write anything as anyone ([`trust.md`](trust.md)). A token is a bearer's: whoever holds it is the user until it ends, so it goes over TLS only, as passwords do. +A user with keys in its entry (`keys`, The registry, above) logs in on any node without +a password: it asks for a challenge, signs it with one of its keys, and gets the same +token (`login: "key"`). + +```sh +c=$(curl -s -X POST localhost:3000/auth/challenge | jq -r .challenge) +printf %s "$c" | ssh-keygen -Y sign -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -n continuum-login > sig +jq -n --arg c "$c" --rawfile s sig '{user: "alice", challenge: $c, signature: $s}' | + curl -s -X POST localhost:3000/auth/login/key -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @- +``` + +A challenge is the node's, signed by it, valid for five minutes, and taken once; +the signature must be by one of the user's keys, as the registry the node holds then +says, and the user enabled (`401` if not, saying why). A swarm without a registry has +no keys (`409`). + `GET /auth/whoami` says who a request's user is, how it proved it, and what it may do. Pages of other origins, the dashboards of other members, may call a node with a token: |
