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LLeMbas/deploy/install.sh
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Homer d73a791c86 An installer that had only ever met Arch
`deploy/lxc-install.sh` had never been executed -- there was no Proxmox host
to run it on, and PLAN.md said so rather than letting it read as tested. It
was reviewed and `bash -n` checked, which is not the same claim. Running it
for the first time found two Arch-isms in `install.sh`, the script it wraps,
and only a Debian machine could have found either.

`python -m venv` is the one that mattered. On Arch `python` is Python 3, so
the bare name had worked on the only machine this had ever run on. Debian has
no `python` at all unless somebody installed `python-is-python3`, and the LXC
bootstrap installs `python3` -- so the install aborted at the virtualenv step,
with the service user, the bind mount and the clone already in place. It is
`python3` now, which is right on both.

`--shell /usr/bin/nologin` is the one that did not. That is where Arch keeps
nologin and not where Debian does, but nothing ever invoked it: `sudo -u`
execs the command directly and systemd's `User=` never reads a shell. The
account worked while pointing at a file that was not there. `/usr/sbin/nologin`
is correct on Debian and resolves on Arch too, whose `/usr/sbin` is a symlink
to `bin`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 19:42:28 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Install LLeMbas as a system service behind nginx with a self-signed cert.
#
# Creates a dedicated service user, a virtualenv, a systemd unit and an nginx
# vhost. Idempotent: safe to re-run. To deploy new code afterwards use
# update.sh, which is what a `git push` should be followed by.
#
# Everything is configurable from the environment:
#
# SITE_HOST=chat.example ./deploy/install.sh # vhost name
# APP_PORT=8080 # loopback port
# PREFIX=/srv/lembas # install root
# HOME_DIR=/home/lembas # service user's home
# REPO_URL=... # defaults to this checkout's origin
#
# PREFIX defaults to a bind mount of HOME_DIR rather than living directly under
# /srv, because on many machines the root filesystem is small and the venv plus
# database belong on the larger /home volume. Set PREFIX=HOME_DIR to skip that.
set -euo pipefail
HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
SITE_HOST="${SITE_HOST:-lembas.local}"
APP_PORT="${APP_PORT:-8080}"
SERVICE_USER="${SERVICE_USER:-lembas}"
HOME_DIR="${HOME_DIR:-/home/lembas}"
PREFIX="${PREFIX:-/srv/lembas}"
BRANCH="${LEMBAS_BRANCH:-main}"
# Which channel this host follows: `stable` (the newest release tag) or `edge`
# (the branch tip). Stable by default, because a branch tip is not a release --
# following one means deploying whatever was pushed five minutes ago, which is
# right for whoever builds this and wrong for whoever runs it.
# On a **re-run**, default to what this host already follows rather than to
# `stable`. The channel lives in two places -- `lembas.env`, which the page
# reads, and the systemd unit, which the button obeys -- and a re-run keeps the
# env file ("keeping it, and its secret key") while rewriting the unit. So a
# re-run to fix something unrelated silently moved one half and not the other,
# and left the host with a page naming one channel and a button deploying
# another. That mismatch has an alert of its own; an installer that *causes* it
# is the wrong end to be detecting it from.
#
# Parsed, not sourced -- `lembas.env` holds the secret key, and there is no
# reason for this to have it in a variable.
_installed_channel=""
if [[ -f "$PREFIX/lembas.env" ]]; then
_installed_channel=$(sed -n 's/^LEMBAS_UPDATE_CHANNEL=\([a-z]\{1,16\}\)$/\1/p' \
"$PREFIX/lembas.env" | tail -1)
fi
CHANNEL="${LEMBAS_CHANNEL:-${_installed_channel:-stable}}"
# Whether to install the units that let the web interface update this host.
# Off, and off on a re-run that does not ask for it: it grants anybody who can
# administer the web UI the ability to deploy the branch, as root. See the
# "Updating from the web interface" section of deploy/README.md.
INSTALL_UPDATE_HELPER="${INSTALL_UPDATE_HELPER:-0}"
# Default to wherever this checkout came from, so a fork deploys itself.
REPO_URL="${REPO_URL:-$(git -C "$HERE" remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null || true)}"
APP="$PREFIX/app"
VENV="$PREFIX/venv"
ENV_FILE="$PREFIX/lembas.env"
if [[ -z "$REPO_URL" ]]; then
echo "Could not determine REPO_URL. Set it explicitly." >&2
exit 1
fi
# The deployment clones as the service user, which has no SSH key and should not
# have one: a credential that can push to the repository, sitting on a box, to
# do a read-only job. Whoever runs this usually has an ssh:// origin because
# *they* push over SSH, so the default inherited from their checkout is the one
# thing that cannot work here.
#
# The clone would fail loudly anyway. Saying so first turns "Permission denied
# (publickey)" from the service user into a sentence that names the fix.
if [[ "$REPO_URL" == ssh://* || "$REPO_URL" == git@* ]]; then
echo "== repository ==" >&2
echo " $REPO_URL is an SSH URL, and $SERVICE_USER has no key." >&2
echo " Set an https URL, which is what a deployment should fetch over:" >&2
echo " REPO_URL=https://host/owner/repo.git $0" >&2
echo " (Or give $SERVICE_USER a read-only deploy key and re-run.)" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "== plan =="
echo " host : https://$SITE_HOST -> 127.0.0.1:$APP_PORT"
echo " user : $SERVICE_USER ($HOME_DIR)"
echo " prefix : $PREFIX"
echo " repo : $REPO_URL ($BRANCH, $CHANNEL channel)"
if [[ "$INSTALL_UPDATE_HELPER" == "1" ]]; then
echo " updates : web interface may deploy $BRANCH as root (helper units)"
else
echo " updates : by hand only ($PREFIX/app/deploy/update.sh)"
fi
echo "== service user =="
# --system: no ageing, no mail spool. Home under /home, not /var/lib, so the
# venv and database sit on the larger volume.
#
# `/usr/sbin/nologin` is Debian's path and works on both: Arch keeps `nologin`
# in /usr/bin, but its /usr/sbin is a symlink to bin, so the Debian spelling
# resolves there while the Arch one does not resolve on Debian at all.
if ! getent passwd "$SERVICE_USER" >/dev/null; then
sudo useradd --system --create-home --home-dir "$HOME_DIR" \
--shell /usr/sbin/nologin --comment "LLeMbas" "$SERVICE_USER"
else
echo " user $SERVICE_USER already exists"
fi
sudo chmod 755 "$HOME_DIR"
if [[ "$PREFIX" != "$HOME_DIR" ]]; then
echo "== $PREFIX bind-mount onto $HOME_DIR =="
sudo mkdir -p "$PREFIX"
grep -q "^$HOME_DIR[[:space:]]" /etc/fstab \
|| echo "$HOME_DIR $PREFIX none bind 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab >/dev/null
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
mountpoint -q "$PREFIX" || sudo mount "$PREFIX"
fi
echo "== checkout =="
if [[ ! -d "$APP/.git" ]]; then
sudo -u "$SERVICE_USER" git clone --branch "$BRANCH" "$REPO_URL" "$APP"
else
echo " already cloned; use update.sh to pull"
fi
echo "== virtualenv =="
# `python3`, not `python`. On Arch -- the machine this was written on and the
# only one it had ever run on -- `python` is Python 3 and the bare name worked.
# On Debian it does not exist unless somebody installed `python-is-python3`, so
# the LXC bootstrap aborted here, after the service user, the bind mount and the
# clone were already in place. `python3` is correct on both.
if [[ ! -x "$VENV/bin/python" ]]; then
sudo -u "$SERVICE_USER" python3 -m venv "$VENV"
fi
sudo -u "$SERVICE_USER" "$VENV/bin/pip" install --quiet --upgrade pip
# The extras a deployment gets. `search` because DuckDuckGo is the default web
# search provider and is meant to need no setup; `ssh` because agent chats reach
# their machine over it and a deployment without it offers the feature with an
# install hint instead. Listed here AND in update.sh -- an extra added to only
# one of them means existing deployments silently miss it.
LEMBAS_EXTRAS="${LEMBAS_EXTRAS:-search,ssh}"
sudo -u "$SERVICE_USER" "$VENV/bin/pip" install --quiet -e "$APP[$LEMBAS_EXTRAS]"
echo "== environment =="
# Generated once and never regenerated: rotating LEMBAS_SECRET_KEY signs every
# user out AND makes the stored upstream API keys unreadable.
if [[ ! -f "$ENV_FILE" ]]; then
KEY=$("$VENV/bin/python" -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(48))")
sudo tee "$ENV_FILE" >/dev/null <<EOF
# LLeMbas service environment. Generated by deploy/install.sh.
# LEMBAS_SECRET_KEY signs sessions and encrypts stored API keys.
# Changing it signs everyone out and makes stored API keys unreadable.
LEMBAS_SECRET_KEY=$KEY
LEMBAS_DATA_DIR=$PREFIX/data
# Loopback only: reachable through the nginx vhost, never directly.
LEMBAS_HOST=127.0.0.1
LEMBAS_PORT=$APP_PORT
LEMBAS_LOG_LEVEL=info
LEMBAS_ALLOW_SIGNUP=true
LEMBAS_DEFAULT_THEME=moria
# Which branch /admin/updates compares against. Deployment configuration, not
# an instance setting: it decides what code runs here, and a value a web
# administrator could edit would turn "you may deploy the branch" into "you may
# deploy anything".
LEMBAS_UPDATE_BRANCH=$BRANCH
# stable follows the newest release tag; edge follows the branch tip.
LEMBAS_UPDATE_CHANNEL=$CHANNEL
EOF
sudo chown "$SERVICE_USER:$SERVICE_USER" "$ENV_FILE"
sudo chmod 600 "$ENV_FILE"
echo " generated $ENV_FILE"
else
echo " $ENV_FILE exists, keeping it (and its secret key)"
fi
sudo install -d -o "$SERVICE_USER" -g "$SERVICE_USER" -m 750 "$PREFIX/data"
echo "== systemd unit =="
sed -e "s|__PREFIX__|$PREFIX|g" -e "s|__SERVICE_USER__|$SERVICE_USER|g" \
"$HERE/lembas.service" | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/lembas.service >/dev/null
# Which version of the template this host is running. update.sh compares
# against it and says so when the template moves on, because the installed
# unit usually grows host-specific lines and cannot simply be overwritten.
sha256sum "$HERE/lembas.service" | cut -d' ' -f1 | sudo tee "$PREFIX/.unit-applied" >/dev/null
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
echo "== update helper =="
# Two units and a marker. The marker is what the web interface reads to decide
# whether to offer the button at all -- a file rather than `systemctl
# is-enabled`, because that would be a subprocess on every page render to answer
# a question that changes once.
UPDATE_MARKER="$PREFIX/data/.update-helper"
# Where root's copy of the update script lives, and why it is a copy.
#
# The unit runs as root. Pointing its ExecStart at `$PREFIX/app/deploy/update.sh`
# meant root executing a file owned by the **unprivileged service account** --
# so anything able to write as that account could rewrite the script, create the
# request file it also owns, and be root. That is the whole privilege boundary
# the helper exists to keep, defeated by a `chown`.
#
# The second path is worse because it needs no compromise at all: an update
# pulls new code *as the service user*, and root then runs whatever
# `deploy/update.sh` that pull contained. Control of the branch would have been
# control of root.
#
# So root runs a copy it owns, installed here, by an administrator, deliberately.
# The cost is that improving `update.sh` needs `install.sh` re-run -- which is
# the correct trade: root should not execute a script that arrived over the
# network a moment ago.
UPDATE_HELPER_DIR="/usr/local/lib/lembas"
UPDATE_HELPER="$UPDATE_HELPER_DIR/update.sh"
if [[ "$INSTALL_UPDATE_HELPER" == "1" ]]; then
sudo mkdir -p "$UPDATE_HELPER_DIR"
sudo install -o root -g root -m 755 "$HERE/update.sh" "$UPDATE_HELPER"
for unit in lembas-update.path lembas-update.service; do
sed -e "s|__PREFIX__|$PREFIX|g" \
-e "s|__SERVICE_USER__|$SERVICE_USER|g" \
-e "s|__UPDATE_BRANCH__|$BRANCH|g" \
-e "s|__UPDATE_CHANNEL__|$CHANNEL|g" \
-e "s|__UPDATE_HELPER__|$UPDATE_HELPER|g" \
"$HERE/$unit" | sudo tee "/etc/systemd/system/$unit" >/dev/null
done
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now lembas-update.path
# The channel goes *into* the marker, not just its existence. It is declared
# in two places -- the unit above and lembas.env -- and this is what lets the
# Updates page notice when somebody has edited one and not the other.
echo "$CHANNEL" | sudo tee "$UPDATE_MARKER" >/dev/null
sudo chown "$SERVICE_USER:$SERVICE_USER" "$UPDATE_MARKER"
echo " installed. The web interface can now deploy the $CHANNEL channel and restart."
else
# Removed rather than left, so turning it off is re-running without the flag
# rather than remembering three commands. The button then says so and prints
# the manual one, which is the honest degradation.
sudo systemctl disable --now lembas-update.path 2>/dev/null || true
sudo rm -f /etc/systemd/system/lembas-update.path \
/etc/systemd/system/lembas-update.service "$UPDATE_MARKER" \
"$UPDATE_HELPER"
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
echo " not installed (INSTALL_UPDATE_HELPER=1 to allow updating from the web UI)"
fi
echo "== self-signed cert for $SITE_HOST =="
sudo mkdir -p /etc/nginx/ssl
if [[ ! -f "/etc/nginx/ssl/$SITE_HOST.crt" ]]; then
sudo openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes \
-keyout "/etc/nginx/ssl/$SITE_HOST.key" -out "/etc/nginx/ssl/$SITE_HOST.crt" \
-days 3650 -subj "/CN=$SITE_HOST" -addext "subjectAltName=DNS:$SITE_HOST"
sudo chmod 600 "/etc/nginx/ssl/$SITE_HOST.key"
sudo chmod 644 "/etc/nginx/ssl/$SITE_HOST.crt"
fi
echo "== nginx vhost =="
sed -e "s|__SITE_HOST__|$SITE_HOST|g" -e "s|__APP_PORT__|$APP_PORT|g" \
"$HERE/nginx-vhost.conf" | sudo tee "/etc/nginx/conf.d/$SITE_HOST.conf" >/dev/null
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx
# What this host was installed with, so update.sh can name the vhost it should
# be comparing against and print a command that actually runs. Without it the
# drift check below could only say "something changed somewhere".
printf 'SITE_HOST=%s\nAPP_PORT=%s\n' "$SITE_HOST" "$APP_PORT" \
| sudo tee "$PREFIX/.deploy-env" >/dev/null
sha256sum "$HERE/nginx-vhost.conf" | cut -d' ' -f1 \
| sudo tee "$PREFIX/.vhost-applied" >/dev/null
echo "== local name resolution =="
# Only useful when the LAN's DNS does not already answer for this name.
if ! getent hosts "$SITE_HOST" >/dev/null; then
printf '127.0.0.1\t%s\n::1\t\t%s\n' "$SITE_HOST" "$SITE_HOST" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts >/dev/null
echo " added $SITE_HOST to /etc/hosts"
else
echo " $SITE_HOST already resolves"
fi
echo "== enable service =="
sudo systemctl enable --now lembas
sleep 2
sudo systemctl --no-pager --lines=0 status lembas || true
echo
echo "LLeMbas is up at https://$SITE_HOST (self-signed cert; accept the warning)"
echo "Create the first account -- it becomes the administrator."