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feat(portal): put Portal's own sign-in in front of the public address - #2065
Settings → Phone & devices → Portal gets a choice of who may open the public address: the access token or a paired device (the default, unchanged), a private link, an Ethereum wallet, or Google or company login (OpenID Connect), each with the names, wallets or accounts it lets in. Whoever Portal lets in is let in like a paired device that may drive, with no token asked, and Settings → Devices says who signed in. A private-link Portal offers Invite someone (a link for 1, 7, 30 or 90 days, shown once), and a browser that Portal let in can sign out from Settings → Devices.
A visitor let in this way leaves nothing standing behind. Only the link's expiry and Portal's list end its access, so the server answers owner_only when such a browser asks to pair a device, rename or revoke one, subscribe to push alerts (its alerts stay in the open tab) or start, stop or issue links from Portal's panel. Reading the device list and redeeming a code the owner handed over stay open.
It needs Portal v2.7.0, the first release with --auth oidc and --auth-identity-proof. The panel decides by the flags portal expose --help lists, not by version, and offers a sign-in only when all the flags it needs are there. An older Portal gets the panel it has today. I checked this against the released v2.7.0 binary: it lists all of them, so all three sign-ins are offered.
How the app believes who signed in: Portal sends X-Portal-User and X-Portal-Auth, and any other way to the app's port could send the same. So the app makes a secret at each launch of a Portal that has a sign-in, hands it to that Portal's environment (AUTH_IDENTITY_PROOF, never an argument) and believes the identity only on a request whose X-Portal-Proof matches (constant time). Without it the headers are ignored and the request meets the token rules like any other. The OIDC client secret is read from OVIS_PORTAL_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET and handed to Portal's environment alone: not typed in the panel, not in an argument, not in portal/state.json, not in an answer. The guide's "Who may open the address" section has the details.
Feature request:#2089. It is not agreed yet. This PR is the implementation that issue describes, and I will split or cut it as the maintainer decides there (the issue lists a three-part split: the proof with the private link, then the wallet and Google or company login, then Invite someone and sign-out).
Prior art. No coding-agent app offers a public address with a sign-in of its own. The nearest case is in this app: decideAccess already lets in the owner's Tailscale login that tailscale serve states (via: "tailscale"). This is the same idea for Portal's front door, with a proof added because Portal's headers can be sent by anything that reaches the port. Outside coding-agent apps, Cloudflare Access's allow rules (emails and email domains) and login methods are the model; this differs on purpose by offering one method at a time, chosen where Portal starts.
Stored format.portal/state.json gains auth (method, allow, issuer, client_id; never a secret). A file without it reads as the default, the token or a paired device. An older build ignores the field, starts the saved Portal with no sign-in, so the token gate applies, and drops auth on its next save: rolling back is safe and loses only the choice.
Source. No code is adapted from another project. The panel's checks of an entry (shared/portal.ts) restate Portal's own rules (gosuda/portal-tunnel, MIT) so it can refuse early; the server checks them again.
What needs what
The commits are in the order they depend on each other:
feat(portal): choose who may open the public address: the settings, their checks (shared/portal.ts) and the arguments for portal expose (server/portal.ts).
feat(access): let in what Portal's own sign-in vouches for: the portal way in (decideAccess), believed only with the proof Portal sends, and auth.portal in health.
feat(portal): issue private links from the app: POST /api/portal/invite.
feat(portal): choose who may open the address in the Portal panel: the panel, and the Korean, Japanese and Chinese entries.
docs(portal), 6. feat(access): let a visitor Portal signed in sign out, 7. docs(changelog).
fix(access): believe Portal's identity only with the proof it sends replaces the Host and loopback check of commit 2 with the proof. It is a separate commit so the history shows why: a Host header is no boundary. 9. docs(portal): names v2.7.0 now that it is out.
fix(portal): show a running login's redirect address, and make the panel's controls reachable, 11. fix(access): keep a visitor Portal let in from leaving access behind, 12. fix(access): end Portal's sign-in with the app's when a browser holds both, 13. docs(portal): what a visitor may not do, and where the guide's section sits.
Validation
On a Mac, with Bun 1.4.2 (the pinned version):
bun run generate:types --check, bun run generate:themes --check, bun run typecheck and bun run build pass.
bun run test:unit: 7640 pass, 12 fail, 180 skip. The 12 failures are in 9 files unrelated to this change (claude-store, check, session-history, install-star, self-hosted-runner, remote-entry, ci-browser, composer-framing, bridge). I ran those files on main at 7eeb7d4 too and the same 12 fail there on this machine (no Rust PTY host, no herdr), so CI is the real answer for them.
The new behavior is covered in server/portal.test.ts (arguments, the secret and the proof staying out of arguments, state and answers, flag detection, invite), server/access.test.ts and server/open-access.test.ts (a real server: what is believed and what is not, with and without the proof; what a vouched visitor is refused), shared/portal.test.ts (the entry rules), and the panel, sign-out and Devices tests under src/. The watch-only list in server/device-access.contract.test.ts and the Portal API test in server/api.contract.test.ts gain portal/invite; they need herdr, which this Mac does not have, so CI runs them.
Not run: test:integration and test:ui (they need herdr and Chrome), and the panel in a browser against a live Portal relay.
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New Features
Configure Portal sign-in with private links, Ethereum wallets, or Google/company identity providers, including allowed identities and accounts.
Create private-link invitations for a selected or entered name, with 1-, 7-, 30-, or 90-day validity. The generated link is shown once.
Portal sign-ins appear in Devices with the signed-in identity and method; visitors can sign out from Settings.
Documentation
Updated Portal setup and access guidance, including sign-in options and requirements.
Portal gains configurable credential, Ethereum-wallet, and OIDC sign-in, plus private-link invitations. The server validates identity proofs before granting Portal access. The UI adds configuration, invitation, identity display, and Portal-specific sign-out flows.
Changes: Portal sign-in
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Shared authentication contracts and validation shared/access.ts, shared/portal.ts, shared/portal.test.ts, shared/protocol.ts
Shared types and validators define Portal authentication settings, sign-in methods, supported invitation durations, and status data. The protocol exports the new types and documents the start and invite APIs.
Portal configuration, lifecycle, and invitations server/portal.ts, server/portal.test.ts, server/api.contract.test.ts, scripts/portal-regression.ts, site/demo/transport.ts
The Portal service probes for supported sign-in flags, passes auth settings and environment values to Portal, and persists settings for resume and recovery. It verifies launch-specific proofs and issues credential invitations when the Portal is ready. Fixtures and tests cover these behaviors.
Access decisions accept a Portal identity only when its proof and identity data validate. Token and paired-device access retain precedence. Request handling includes Portal identity in authenticated health data; tests cover HTTP, WebSocket, and invite access.
The Portal panel configures supported methods and allow-lists, shows active settings, and exposes invitation creation for eligible credential sessions. The API and UI helpers carry settings and invitation requests. Localization and documentation describe the new options and requirements.
Devices displays the Portal user and sign-in method. Portal sessions use the Portal logout endpoint and reload after sign-out; other supported sessions keep the existing sign-out behavior. Settings and translations include Portal-specific confirmation text.
devswha/ovis#1700 — Both changes use the shared PortalStatus contract.
devswha/ovis#1931 — This PR persists Portal authentication settings, which relate to the state-directory migration and Portal-data handling in this PR.
Suggested reviewers:devswha
Merge Risk: Low · previous review e1088
Portal sign-in works as described. Two small rough edges remain: a browser with both a paired-device/token session and a Portal session needs a second sign-out click, and the private-link field has no visible keyboard focus ring. Neither blocks the feature, and both are quick to fix.
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Review comments at @src/components/PortalPanel.css:
- Around line 188-190: Update the .portal-link:focus rule used by the read-only
link in PortalInvite to preserve the browser outline or provide an equally
visible focus style using existing theme tokens; do not leave keyboard focus
without a visible indicator.
Review comments at @src/lib/signOut.ts:
- Around line 25-26: Update the sign-out flow around signOut() to refresh health
after app sign-out and invoke the existing Portal sign-out mechanism only when
the refreshed auth reports via: "portal"; do not call the Portal logout route
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DESIGN.md
changelog.d/portal-sign-in.md
docs/guide.md
scripts/portal-regression.ts
server/access.test.ts
server/access.ts
server/api.contract.test.ts
server/index.ts
server/open-access.test.ts
server/portal.test.ts
server/portal.ts
shared/access.ts
shared/portal.test.ts
shared/portal.ts
shared/protocol.ts
site/demo/transport.ts
src/App.tsx
src/components/DevicesPanel.css
src/components/DevicesPanel.test.ts
src/components/DevicesPanel.tsx
src/components/PortalAuth.test.ts
src/components/PortalAuth.tsx
src/components/PortalInvite.test.ts
src/components/PortalInvite.tsx
src/components/PortalPanel.css
src/components/PortalPanel.tsx
src/components/SettingsDialog.tsx
src/components/SignOutRow.test.ts
src/components/SignOutRow.tsx
src/lib/api-request-id.test.ts
src/lib/api.ts
src/lib/i18n.test.ts
src/lib/i18n/devices.ja.ts
src/lib/i18n/devices.ko.ts
src/lib/i18n/devices.zh.ts
src/lib/i18n/settings.ja.ts
src/lib/i18n/settings.ko.ts
src/lib/i18n/settings.zh.ts
src/lib/portal.ts
src/lib/portalAuth.test.ts
src/lib/portalAuth.ts
src/lib/signOut.test.ts
src/lib/signOut.ts
src/lib/useAccess.ts
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Keep a visible focus indicator on the private-link field.
When a keyboard user tabs to the read-only link in PortalInvite, this rule removes its outline without providing another focus indicator. Keep the browser outline or replace it with a visible focus style using the existing theme tokens.
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Review comment at @src/components/PortalPanel.css around lines 188 - 190:
Update the .portal-link:focus rule used by the read-only link in PortalInvite to
preserve the browser outline or provide an equally visible focus style using
existing theme tokens; do not leave keyboard focus without a visible indicator.
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set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- client logout implementations ---'
sed -n '445,480p' src/lib/api.ts
printf'%s\n''--- server request dispatch around auth and fallback ---'
sed -n '400,475p' server/index.ts
printf'%s\n''--- server auth DELETE implementation ---'
sed -n '90,155p' server/auth.ts
sed -n '205,245p' server/auth.test.ts
printf'%s\n''--- Portal route and logout contract references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx' -e 'pathname === "/_portal' -e 'pathname.startsWith("/_portal' -e 'auth/logout' -e 'logout requires a same-origin POST' -e 'Portal.*logout' server src shared
Repository: devswha/ovis
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set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- server dispatch tail and static fallback ---'
sed -n '475,620p' server/index.ts
printf'%s\n''--- sign-out tests and nearby App flow ---'
sed -n '1,120p' src/lib/signOut.test.ts
sed -n '210,285p' src/App.tsx
printf'%s\n''--- route/static helpers relevant to unknown paths ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'serveStatic' -e 'static' -e 'not found' -e '404' server/index.ts server/*.ts
Repository: devswha/ovis
Length of output: 41018
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sed -n '220,285p' server/static.ts
Repository: devswha/ovis
Length of output: 2717
Handle the refreshed Portal session before completing sign-out.
When both sessions exist, the first sign-out clears only the app cookies. The health refresh can then report via: "portal", so the browser remains signed in. A second click can complete sign-out through endSignIn("portal"), which makes this a recoverable minor issue.
Do not call /_portal/auth/logout unconditionally. The app server does not own that route. A direct request falls through to the static shell and can return 200 without clearing a Portal cookie. After app sign-out, refresh health and call the Portal logout only when the refreshed auth reports via: "portal". Cover the dual-session flow with a test.
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Review comment at @src/lib/signOut.ts around lines 25 - 26:
Update the sign-out flow around signOut() to refresh health after app sign-out
and invoke the existing Portal sign-out mechanism only when the refreshed auth
reports via: "portal"; do not call the Portal logout route unconditionally. Add
a test covering the dual-session flow and verifying Portal sign-out occurs only
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Portal's panel can now start the tunnel with Portal's own sign-in in front
of it: a private link (--auth credential), an Ethereum wallet (siwe) or an
OIDC account (oidc). Unset stays the app's own token or a paired device,
and starts exactly as before.
- shared/portal.ts holds the settings and the checks that mirror Portal's
rules for each kind of --auth-allow entry, the OIDC issuer and client ID.
Names and ids are printable ASCII only: a visitor's name reaches the
server in an HTTP header. Ethereum with no wallet is refused, since any
wallet would reach every terminal.
- server/portal.ts builds the extra arguments from the checked settings.
With a sign-in it passes --auth-identity-headers; without one it strips
X-Portal-User and X-Portal-Auth, so a visitor's copy never reaches the
app. The OIDC client secret is OVIS_PORTAL_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET, handed to
Portal's environment as AUTH_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET and nowhere else: not an
argument, not portal/state.json, not an answer.
- The choice is saved in portal/state.json with the rest, so a boot's
resume starts the same sign-in, and a relaunch after Portal ended on its
own goes ahead only while the saved choice is the one it served with.
- The sign-ins offered are read from the flags the installed portal's
`expose --help` lists, not from its version (a build from source has a flag before any release does);
a start asks again and refuses one that is not listed.
A visitor Portal signed in (private link, wallet, OIDC account) is let in
like a paired device that may drive, with no token asked: `portal` is a new
AccessVia, decided in decideAccess before the token gate. Health says who
signed in (`auth.portal`) and the Devices page says how.
Portal sets X-Portal-User and X-Portal-Auth from the sign-in it verified,
but any other way to this port passes a visitor's copy on, so they count
only when this server started its Portal with a sign-in and that Portal is
up, the request names its public host, comes from loopback, states no
Tailscale login and is not Funnel, and both values are shaped as Portal
makes them (an address for a wallet, an email or sub:<id> for OIDC).
Otherwise they are ignored. A process on this PC that names the host can
still claim the identity, as it can a proxy's token header; the comment on
portalLogin says so.
POST /api/portal/invite runs `portal auth issue` for the app's own identity
file and address and returns the redeem URL once. It takes a name (the
same rules as an allow-list entry) and a validity of 1, 7, 30 or 90 days,
and answers only while Portal runs with the private-link sign-in and its
address is known. With a list of link names, a name off the list is
refused, since Portal would turn that link away.
The link is a bearer secret: it is read from the process's output, handed
back with no-store, and kept, logged or repeated nowhere, an error
included. A visitor Portal signed in cannot issue links (403 owner_only):
a link's holder could otherwise issue a fresh one before it expires and
never lose access.
Settings → Phone & devices → Portal gets a choice before Start: token or
paired device only (as before, chosen first), private link, Ethereum
wallet, or Google or company login. A choice the installed portal does not
list is disabled and says "This Portal does not support it yet."
- Link names, wallets and OIDC accounts are added as chips, each checked by
the rules the server applies (shared/portal.ts), with the same words.
- Google or company login takes an issuer (Google, or any https address) and
a client ID, shows the redirect address to register (copyable), says the
client secret is read from OVIS_PORTAL_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET on the server's
PC rather than typed, and warns while that variable is not set.
- While Portal runs, the choice is a read-only summary (changing who may
open an address means stopping it), and a private-link Portal offers
Invite someone: a name (or one of the listed names), 1, 7, 30 or 90 days,
and the link shown once in a bearer-secret warning with Copy. A browser
that is in through Portal's own sign-in is not offered it.
- Devices says who Portal signed in: "Signed in as <name> with <method>."
Korean, Japanese and Chinese entries come with it. The secret variable's
name moves to shared/portal.ts so the panel and the server name one thing.
The guide's Portal section gains "Who may open the address": the four
choices, the empty-list warning for private links, the redirect address and
OVIS_PORTAL_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET for Google or company login, that OIDC needs
a Portal build that lists its flags, and exactly when the app believes
X-Portal-User and X-Portal-Auth. Access and safety counts Portal's sign-in
as a fourth way in, and the configuration table lists the secret's variable.
Settings → Devices offered Sign out to a browser that got in with the token
or as a paired device, never to one Portal's own sign-in let in. It now
does: the browser POSTs to Portal's /_portal/auth/logout, which only
Portal's gateway answers (a same-origin POST that clears its session
cookie), and reloads, since Portal answers every request without its
session with its own sign-in page. The row and its confirmation say the
way back in is Portal's sign-in, not a token or a pairing code.
canSignOut moves out of App into src/lib/signOut.ts with the new case, and
the row into SignOutRow.tsx; the other ways in sign out as before.
The fragment CONTRIBUTING asks of a change users notice: the choice of who
may open Portal's address, Invite someone, the client secret's variable,
and Sign out for a visitor Portal let in.
The identity headers were believed from a loopback request that named the
Portal's public host. That is no boundary: any other way to the app's
port (a tagged `tailscale serve`, nginx, Caddy, another user's process)
lets a visitor choose Host and X-Portal-*, and the host is public. Even
a listener of its own for Portal would leave a local process that finds
the port to claim any identity and skip OVIS_TOKEN.
Portal now sends X-Portal-Proof beside the identity it vouches for
(--auth-identity-proof, from the environment) and drops a visitor's copy.
The app makes a proof per launch of a Portal with a sign-in (32 random
bytes, hex), gives it to that Portal's environment alone, and keeps it in
memory: it is in no argument, state file, log or answer. A request's
identity counts only when its proof matches (constant time; a different
length is no match), and the headers are otherwise ignored, so the
request meets the token rules like any other. The proof goes when its
Portal stops, ends or cannot be spawned, and a relaunch makes a new one.
It is as private as OVIS_TOKEN.
A sign-in is offered only when `portal expose --help` lists
--auth-identity-proof with the other sign-in flags: a Portal that signs
visitors in without the proof gets none, never an unsafe fallback. No
release lists it yet, so the guide and the changelog fragment say a sign-in
needs a build that does. The Host, loopback, Tailscale-login
and Funnel conditions of the earlier check are gone, and with them the
residual risk the code and the guide had to admit.
…nel's controls reachable
The redirect address a Google or company login must be registered with
exists only once Portal runs, but it was drawn in the choice shown before
Start, so it never appeared and its Copy button could not be reached. The
running summary now carries it, copyable, and the choice before Start says
it shows once Portal has started.
An allow-list chip's remove button kept its 20px look but gave a mouse
less than the 24px hit area DESIGN.md asks for, and a finger far less than
44px. It now reaches 24px through an invisible expander under a mouse and
the chip is 44px tall under a finger. The invite's names are chosen in a
SettingsSelect like every other select, and the private link keeps the
global focus ring and the phone's input size.
A visitor Portal's own sign-in lets in drives like a paired device, but
only the link's expiry and Portal's list end that access, and the app was
told nothing of either. Such a browser could still pair a device of its
own, rename or revoke the owner's, subscribe to push alerts that would go
on after its link expired (the subscription was kept as the owner's), and
start, stop or issue links from Portal's panel. The guard stood on
POST /api/portal/invite alone.
One gate in index.ts, beside the one for a watching device, now answers
403 owner_only to a vouched visitor on every change under /api/devices/
(redeeming a code the owner handed over at /api/devices/pair stays open),
POST /api/push/subscribe and every POST under /api/portal/. Reading the
list and Portal's status stay open. handlePortalRequest loses the
invite-only flag the gate replaces.
Devices shows such a browser the list under a sentence that says what is
for the token or a paired device, with no Pair, Rename, Revoke or Revoke
all; the Portal panel is read-only for it, as for a watching device. A
real server answers each refusal in server/open-access.test.ts, and the
watch-only and Portal API contract tests gain portal/invite.
… both
A browser can hold a device or token sign-in of the app and a Portal
session at once. Sign out ended the app's, health then reported the Portal
session, and the browser stayed in until a second click. After the app's
sign-in goes, endSignIn now reads health and, if Portal's is what is left,
ends that too in the same click and reloads to Portal's own sign-in page.
…where the sign-in section sits
The guide's section on who may open the address was a #### heading in the
middle of "Behind a reverse proxy", so the paragraphs after it (Portal's
startup check, Sign out, the device registry, "Nothing is typed without
you") read as its own. It now closes the chapter, where it swallows
nothing. The guide, the Access paragraph of shared/protocol.ts (it said
only a token or a paired device got in past a token), SECURITY.md, DESIGN.md
and the changelog fragment now say what the previous commits do: a vouched
visitor is a way in, and it cannot pair, revoke, subscribe to push alerts
or control Portal. The fragment is wrapped at 100 columns again.
Ending the app's sign-in re-reads who the browser still is to decide
whether Portal's session has to go too. That read used the full health
check, which answers 502 when herdr is unreachable, so endSignIn threw
before Portal's logout and a browser holding both sign-ins stayed signed
in through Portal. Read the bridge's health instead: it answers without
herdr, as signing out must.
Main moved the request handler into server/dispatch.ts (devswha#2403): the
portal identity passed to decideAccess, the owner_only refusal of a
Portal visitor's standing access and auth.portal in health move there
unchanged.
…nds them too
Portal checks its sign-in on each request, but a WebSocket or the PCs'
event stream is one request: a page opened through a private link kept
driving every terminal after the link expired or the visitor signed out
of Portal (reproduced through a v2.7.0 relay: a 30 s link, pong over the
open socket at 45 s while HTTP with the same cookie was sent to Portal's
login). The app cannot read Portal's session expiry, so it closes a
Portal visitor's socket (code 1000) and event stream every 5 minutes
(PortalService.recheckMs); the page reconnects as after any other close,
and Portal lets it in again only while the sign-in still holds.
Review found the claim that a Portal visitor leaves nothing standing
behind untrue: driving a terminal is a shell as the server's user, which
can read OVIS_TOKEN, the proof and Portal's identity file. The owner_only
refusals keep the app's own controls from handing out more; the guide,
changelog, SECURITY.md, comments and the refusal message now say that,
and that only people one would give the token belong on the list.
Thank you, @rabbitson87, for this careful work and for the issue that laid out the design first. The owner asked for it to be considered for 0.4.21, so I brought the branch up to date and tested it against a real Portal relay. Below is what I added on top of your commits (no force-push; your 14 commits are untouched).
What changed on the branch
Merge of current main (0f07e02c). Main moved the request handler out of server/index.ts into server/dispatch.ts (refactor(server): route requests through a server context and type core sockets #2403), so your three hunks moved there unchanged: the portal input to decideAccess, the owner_only refusal, and auth.portal in health. The other conflicts were imports (App.tsx, DevicesPanel.tsx, SettingsDialog.tsx) and the i18n file lists.
fix(access): end a Portal visitor's open streams so an expired link ends them too (d1cd7a54). Portal checks its sign-in on each request, but the terminal's WebSocket and the PCs' event stream are a single request each. Through a real v2.7.0 relay, a page opened with a 30-second link still got pong over its open socket at 45 s, while an HTTP request with the same cookie was sent to Portal's login. The app cannot read Portal's session expiry, so it now closes a Portal visitor's socket (code 1000) and event stream every 5 minutes (PortalService.recheckMs). The page reconnects as after any other close, and Portal lets it back in only while the sign-in still holds. There is a new test in server/open-access.test.ts; both of its halves failed before the fix.
docs(portal): say a visitor who drives has a shell as this PC's user (8ac86cd9). Review found the claim that a Portal visitor "leaves nothing standing behind" untrue. Driving a terminal is a shell as the server's user, and that shell can read OVIS_TOKEN, the proof and Portal's identity file. The owner_only refusals still keep the app's own controls from handing out more. The guide, changelog, SECURITY.md, comments and the refusal message now say that, and that the list should hold only people one would give the access token.
The changelog fragment says that a visitor's open page loses access within 5 minutes.
Validation
All of this ran on an isolated server: 127.0.0.1, a fresh OVIS_STATE_DIR, and its own herdr session. Portal v2.7.0 (portal-linux-amd64, sha256 matches checksums.txt) ran against the public relay https://gosunuts.xyz, and every tunnel was stopped afterwards.
Default mode is unchanged. Through the public address, no token gives 401. Forged X-Portal-User/X-Portal-Auth/X-Portal-Proof give 401. The token gets in.
Private link.
Invite someone returns a redeem URL with the credential only in the #fragment. Redeeming it gives via: "portal" with user: alice.
A forged X-Portal-User: bob sent with it is ignored.
Expiry: a 40 s link is sent to Portal's login afterwards (303), and redeeming it again gives 401.
Revoke: restarting with the name off the list gives 303 and a 401 on redeem.
Portal sign-out gives 204, then 303.
An invite for a name not on the list gives 400 invite_name_not_listed.
owner_only (403) for a visitor:pair/start, revoke-all, PATCH and DELETE on a device, push/subscribe, portal/invite, portal/start. GET /api/devices and POST /api/devices/pair (redeeming a code) stay open.
Secrets.
Portal's argv has no proof or secret. Its environment holds only NO_COLOR PATH HOME TMPDIR AUTH_IDENTITY_PROOF, plus AUTH_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET for OIDC.
A grep of the state dir, server log, request log, telemetry file and herdr state for the proof, the OIDC secret, pcred_ and the token found nothing.
OIDC: live as far as Google's authorize redirect. That covers PKCE S256 and the /_portal/auth/callback redirect address, with the client secret only in Portal's environment. The full Google round trip was not done: it needs a registered Google OAuth client.
Wallet: Portal's SIWE gate is live, and an empty wallet list is refused (400). The signature flow is covered at unit and contract level only.
Older Portal (v2.6.1, sha256 verified):auth_methods: [], which is today's panel. A sign-in start is refused with a clear message, and a plain start still works.
5-minute recheck, live through the relay: a 2-minute link's socket was closed at 300 s with 1000 Portal sign-in check. HTTP then got 303 and the reconnect was refused.
Windows/macOS paths: reviewed. processArgv (wmic table, ps -ww), portalEnv (USERPROFILE, SystemRoot), Bun.which("portal") and the expose --help flag parsing are platform-neutral. They were not run on Windows or macOS here.
Two adversarial reviewers looked at the change: omo-native-code-reviewer, and Codex (gpt-6.1-terra, xhigh).
HIGH (Codex) / MEDIUM (omo): fixed by 8ac86cd9, as described above. A visitor who drives can read the token from a terminal, so the "leaves nothing behind" claim was wrong. The fix is honest documentation. Making it a real boundary would need OS-level isolation of the visitor's shell, which this design does not have.
MEDIUM (Codex): declined. The finding is that a file download (/api/fs/file) started before expiry can finish after it. A response requested while signed in delivers only that one file and gives no new reads or input, and the visitor could have read the same file before expiry.
LOW (omo), left as notes:
All Portal visitors share the usage-login owner portal:. The sign-in cookie still binds each login to its browser.
Push status, test and delete treat a Portal visitor as the owner when it knows a subscription's endpoint (and keys).
The relay socket (/ws?machine_id=) shares the recheck code path but has no test of its own.
The page reconnects every 5 minutes, so a message mid-send then returns to its draft.
The merge pass will do the final review, and the owner decides the merge.
Main sends every client call through one transport (devswha#2433): the Portal
start call keeps its auth field over apiFetch, and the invite and
Portal sign-out calls this branch adds go through apiFetch too.
One more merge of main (2a3ad265): #2433 landed minutes after the first one and sends every client call through one transport. The Portal start call keeps its auth field over apiFetch, and the invite and Portal sign-out calls this branch adds now go through apiFetch as well. bun run check fast passes on 2a3ad265 (9230 pass, 0 fail), and scripts/portal-regression.ts passes (5 PASS).
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Change
Settings → Phone & devices → Portal gets a choice of who may open the public address: the access token or a paired device (the default, unchanged), a private link, an Ethereum wallet, or Google or company login (OpenID Connect), each with the names, wallets or accounts it lets in. Whoever Portal lets in is let in like a paired device that may drive, with no token asked, and Settings → Devices says who signed in. A private-link Portal offers Invite someone (a link for 1, 7, 30 or 90 days, shown once), and a browser that Portal let in can sign out from Settings → Devices.
A visitor let in this way leaves nothing standing behind. Only the link's expiry and Portal's list end its access, so the server answers
owner_onlywhen such a browser asks to pair a device, rename or revoke one, subscribe to push alerts (its alerts stay in the open tab) or start, stop or issue links from Portal's panel. Reading the device list and redeeming a code the owner handed over stay open.It needs Portal v2.7.0, the first release with
--auth oidcand--auth-identity-proof. The panel decides by the flagsportal expose --helplists, not by version, and offers a sign-in only when all the flags it needs are there. An older Portal gets the panel it has today. I checked this against the released v2.7.0 binary: it lists all of them, so all three sign-ins are offered.How the app believes who signed in: Portal sends
X-Portal-UserandX-Portal-Auth, and any other way to the app's port could send the same. So the app makes a secret at each launch of a Portal that has a sign-in, hands it to that Portal's environment (AUTH_IDENTITY_PROOF, never an argument) and believes the identity only on a request whoseX-Portal-Proofmatches (constant time). Without it the headers are ignored and the request meets the token rules like any other. The OIDC client secret is read fromOVIS_PORTAL_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRETand handed to Portal's environment alone: not typed in the panel, not in an argument, not inportal/state.json, not in an answer. The guide's "Who may open the address" section has the details.Feature request: #2089. It is not agreed yet. This PR is the implementation that issue describes, and I will split or cut it as the maintainer decides there (the issue lists a three-part split: the proof with the private link, then the wallet and Google or company login, then Invite someone and sign-out).
Prior art. No coding-agent app offers a public address with a sign-in of its own. The nearest case is in this app:
decideAccessalready lets in the owner's Tailscale login thattailscale servestates (via: "tailscale"). This is the same idea for Portal's front door, with a proof added because Portal's headers can be sent by anything that reaches the port. Outside coding-agent apps, Cloudflare Access's allow rules (emails and email domains) and login methods are the model; this differs on purpose by offering one method at a time, chosen where Portal starts.Stored format.
portal/state.jsongainsauth(method,allow,issuer,client_id; never a secret). A file without it reads as the default, the token or a paired device. An older build ignores the field, starts the saved Portal with no sign-in, so the token gate applies, and dropsauthon its next save: rolling back is safe and loses only the choice.Source. No code is adapted from another project. The panel's checks of an entry (
shared/portal.ts) restate Portal's own rules (gosuda/portal-tunnel, MIT) so it can refuse early; the server checks them again.What needs what
The commits are in the order they depend on each other:
feat(portal): choose who may open the public address: the settings, their checks (shared/portal.ts) and the arguments forportal expose(server/portal.ts).feat(access): let in what Portal's own sign-in vouches for: theportalway in (decideAccess), believed only with the proof Portal sends, andauth.portalin health.feat(portal): issue private links from the app:POST /api/portal/invite.feat(portal): choose who may open the address in the Portal panel: the panel, and the Korean, Japanese and Chinese entries.docs(portal), 6.feat(access): let a visitor Portal signed in sign out, 7.docs(changelog).fix(access): believe Portal's identity only with the proof it sendsreplaces the Host and loopback check of commit 2 with the proof. It is a separate commit so the history shows why: a Host header is no boundary. 9.docs(portal): names v2.7.0 now that it is out.fix(portal): show a running login's redirect address, and make the panel's controls reachable, 11.fix(access): keep a visitor Portal let in from leaving access behind, 12.fix(access): end Portal's sign-in with the app's when a browser holds both, 13.docs(portal): what a visitor may not do, and where the guide's section sits.Validation
On a Mac, with Bun 1.4.2 (the pinned version):
bun run generate:types --check,bun run generate:themes --check,bun run typecheckandbun run buildpass.bun run test:unit: 7640 pass, 12 fail, 180 skip. The 12 failures are in 9 files unrelated to this change (claude-store,check,session-history,install-star,self-hosted-runner,remote-entry,ci-browser,composer-framing,bridge). I ran those files onmainat 7eeb7d4 too and the same 12 fail there on this machine (no Rust PTY host, no herdr), so CI is the real answer for them.server/portal.test.ts(arguments, the secret and the proof staying out of arguments, state and answers, flag detection, invite),server/access.test.tsandserver/open-access.test.ts(a real server: what is believed and what is not, with and without the proof; what a vouched visitor is refused),shared/portal.test.ts(the entry rules), and the panel, sign-out and Devices tests undersrc/. The watch-only list inserver/device-access.contract.test.tsand the Portal API test inserver/api.contract.test.tsgainportal/invite; they need herdr, which this Mac does not have, so CI runs them.test:integrationandtest:ui(they need herdr and Chrome), and the panel in a browser against a live Portal relay.