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fix(deploy): Hash the Filestash password without htpasswd - #900
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`_bcrypt_password` shelled out to `htpasswd -nbBC 10`, and said why in its own docstring: "every CI runner that runs this code has apache2-utils installed". That stopped being true. The Forgejo runner's job image has no htpasswd — measured — so the Filestash render would die on a missing binary the first time a tenant enabled that stack. Same shape as #897, where the missing binary was rsync, and it would have surfaced the same way: as an error naming something other than the cause. `bcrypt` does the hashing now, and costs nothing to depend on: it was already installed everywhere as a dependency of paramiko. It is declared directly rather than used by accident — the lock grows by two lines. The version marker is the part worth knowing about, and it is measured rather than assumed. The library emits `$2b$`; Apache's crypt_blowfish, which produced every hash this function returned until now, emits `$2y$`. Holding the digest constant and changing only the marker: htpasswd verifies a python $2y$ hash: rc=0 Password for user x correct. htpasswd verifies a python $2a$ hash: rc=0 Password for user x correct. htpasswd verifies a python $2b$ hash: rc=3 password verification failed So the marker is load-bearing for at least one real verifier, and the function rewrites it to `$2y$`. Consumers see the format they saw before. (`2b` and `2y` differ only for passwords of 255 bytes or more; these are generated 24-character values.) The reverse direction was checked too: `bcrypt.checkpw` verifies a hash produced by the htpasswd binary. Four tests, replacing one that skipped whenever htpasswd was absent — which is exactly the machine that needed testing. They assert the properties rather than the string: the hash verifies and a near-miss password does not, the `$2y$` marker survives, each call salts afresh, and the whole thing works with an EMPTY PATH, so nothing can quietly be shelling out again. Three mutations, each caught by the intended test: leaving the marker at `$2b$`, going back to the htpasswd subprocess, and a fixed salt. Closes #898
Reviewer's GuideThe PR removes the deploy-time dependency on the htpasswd executable by using the existing bcrypt library directly, converts its Sequence diagram for binary-free Filestash password hashingsequenceDiagram
participant Render as FilestashRender
participant Hash as _bcrypt_password
participant Bcrypt as bcrypt
Render->>Hash: _bcrypt_password(plaintext)
Hash->>Bcrypt: gensalt(rounds=10, prefix=2b)
Bcrypt-->>Hash: $2b$ hash
Hash->>Hash: replace $2b$ with $2y$
Hash-->>Render: $2y$ bcrypt hash
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## Individual Comments
### Comment 1
<location path="src/nexus_deploy/service_env.py" line_range="193" />
<code_context>
- # htpasswd output: ``x:$2y$10$...``; we want everything after the ``x:``.
- line = proc.stdout.strip()
- return line.split(":", 1)[1]
+ hashed = bcrypt.hashpw(plaintext.encode(), bcrypt.gensalt(rounds=10, prefix=b"2b"))
+ _, _, remainder = hashed.decode().partition("$2b$")
+ return f"$2y${remainder}"
</code_context>
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**issue (bug_risk):** With bcrypt 5.0.0, `bcrypt.hashpw` raises `ValueError` when the UTF-8-encoded password exceeds 72 bytes, so enabling Filestash with a long configured password makes rendering fail instead of producing the hash that the previous `htpasswd` implementation produced.
**Triggers:** When `filestash_admin_password` is longer than bcrypt's 72-byte input limit.
**Suggested fix:** Validate and reject oversized passwords explicitly, or preserve the old truncation/compatibility behavior before calling `bcrypt.hashpw`.
```suggestion
password = plaintext.encode()
if len(password) > 72:
raise ValueError("password exceeds bcrypt's 72-byte limit")
hashed = bcrypt.hashpw(password, bcrypt.gensalt(rounds=10, prefix=b"2b"))
```
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### Comment 2
<location path="src/nexus_deploy/service_env.py" line_range="36" />
<code_context>
import json
import os
import re
-import subprocess
import tempfile
from collections.abc import Callable
</code_context>
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**nitpick:** The module header and `_render_filestash` docstring still state that Filestash hashing shells out to `htpasswd`, but the changed implementation no longer does so; these comments now describe the removed dependency and the old failure mode rather than the runtime behavior.
**Suggested fix:** Update the module and renderer documentation to say that hashing uses the imported `bcrypt` library and emits a `$2y$` hash.
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Needs a human reviewer. 1 finding to address first, and this changes how the Filestash admin credential is generated and relies on a rewritten bcrypt version marker being accepted by the consumer. If the format or dependency behavior is wrong, already-rendered configurations could lock administrators out or weaken password verification; reverting the code would not repair those configurations without regenerating and redeploying them.
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🟡 Minor · Update the Filestash docstring. · service_env.py:2014-2015
src/nexus_deploy/service_env.py:2014-2015
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUpdate the Filestash docstring.
_render_filestashnow calls_bcrypt_password; it does not runhtpasswd. Update this text to describe in-process bcrypt hashing and the Compose dollar-sign escape.As per path instructions: “Keep documentation synchronized when behavior or documented assumptions change.”
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- Around line 2014-2015: Update the _render_filestash docstring to describe its
current use of _bcrypt_password for in-process bcrypt hashing instead of
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…asswd prose Address PR review comments on #900. [4052814866] sourcery-ai — Fixed. bcrypt takes at most 72 bytes and the library refuses a longer value; htpasswd truncated silently. Measured: a 100-character password gives `rc=0` and a hash from htpasswd, and `ValueError: password cannot be longer than 72 bytes` from bcrypt 5.0.0. So a value over the limit used to authenticate on its first 72 bytes. Refusing is the better half of that trade — silent truncation means a longer password is not the password anyone thinks it is — but only if the message says which field is at fault, and the raw ValueError names bcrypt. It now raises ServiceEnvError naming filestash_admin_password. Unreachable in practice: the value is `random_password.filestash_admin` at 24 characters. Test covers the boundary in BYTES rather than characters: 72 bytes still hashes, and 37 umlauts (74 bytes) are refused. [4052814868] sourcery-ai — Fixed. The module header still said the only subprocess shells out to htpasswd, and the _render_filestash docstring still described running it. Both now describe what the code does.
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🤖 I have created a release *beep* *boop* --- ## [0.83.0](v0.82.3...v0.83.0) (2026-09-25) ### 🚀 Features * **stacks:** Add Cube as the semantic layer over the warehouse ([#905](#905)) ([2dc7a6e](2dc7a6e)) ### 🐛 Bug Fixes * **ci:** Skip the coverage comment on pull requests from forks ([#901](#901)) ([90ef3b2](90ef3b2)) * **deploy:** Hash the Filestash password without htpasswd ([#900](#900)) ([b67f1c5](b67f1c5)) ### 🔧 Maintenance * **ci:** Remove the duplicate orphan-cleanup workflow, keep the tool ([#902](#902)) ([04d7885](04d7885)) --- This PR was generated with [Release Please](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please). See [documentation](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please#release-please). ## Summary by Sourcery Release version 0.83.0 with Cube integration, CI and deployment fixes, and workflow maintenance. New Features: - Add Cube as a semantic layer over the warehouse. Bug Fixes: - Skip coverage comments for pull requests originating from forks. - Hash Filestash passwords without relying on htpasswd. CI: - Remove the duplicate orphan-cleanup workflow while retaining the cleanup tool. Chores: - Release version 0.83.0 and update the changelog and release manifest. Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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Closes #898.
What broke
service_env._bcrypt_passwordshelled out tohtpasswd -nbBC 10, and its own docstring said why that was fine: "every CI runner that runs this code has apache2-utils installed". That stopped being true. Measured against the Forgejo runner's job image:So the Filestash render would die on a missing binary the first time a tenant enabled that stack — the same shape as #897, where the missing binary was rsync, and it would have surfaced the same way: as an error naming something other than the cause.
The dependency question, answered by looking
The issue framed this as a dependency decision. It turns out not to be one:
bcryptis already installed everywhere, as a dependency ofparamiko.So the change declares it directly rather than using it by accident. The lock grows by two lines; nothing new is downloaded.
The version marker is load-bearing
The library emits
$2b$. Apache's crypt_blowfish, which produced every hash this function returned until now, emits$2y$. Holding the digest constant and changing only the marker:So a real verifier reads the marker, and the function rewrites it to
$2y$. Consumers see exactly the format they saw before.2band2ydiffer only for passwords of 255 bytes or more; these are generated 24-character values.The reverse direction was checked too:
bcrypt.checkpwverifies a hash produced by the htpasswd binary, which is what makes the two interchangeable in the first place.Tests
Four, replacing one that skipped whenever htpasswd was absent — exactly the machine that needed testing. They assert properties rather than the string:
$2y$marker survives;PATH, so nothing can quietly be shelling out again.Three mutations, each caught by the intended test: leaving the marker at
$2b$, going back to the htpasswd subprocess, and a fixed salt.pytest tests/unit: 3676 passed. Pre-commit: all hooks pass.Local CodeRabbit round
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81dcfae5: 0 findings.Summary by Sourcery
Hash Filestash administrator passwords in-process with bcrypt while preserving compatibility and eliminating the htpasswd deployment dependency.
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Bug Fixes
htpasswdcommand.$2y$format and securely uses unique salts for repeated passwords.Reliability