ReadOrGenerateConfig reads the profile config and falls back to the defaults in
memory when there is no file. "Generate" reads as "produces and stores", which
is the opposite of the property the rename it came from was meant to advertise:
the read is pure, writes nothing and mints no identity.
ReadConfigOrDefault says the same without the side effect, and pairs with
GetExistingConfig, which fails where this one falls back. Its doc comment now
states the absence of a write rather than only the fallback.
Pure rename; the two remaining mentions of the pre-branch name ReadConfig in
the tests go with it.
Reported by pappz in review.
ReadConfig and GetConfig differed in one thing — what happens when the file is
absent — and neither name said which was which:
- ReadConfig -> ReadOrGenerateConfig (reads it, or generates one in memory)
- GetConfig -> GetExistingConfig (reads it, or fails)
Three comments went with them:
- GetConfig's said "return with Config and if it was created. Errors out if it
does not exist", which described a bool it does not return and a creation it
never performs.
- ReadConfig's explained that it does not write, which is what a reader is
supposed to do anyway.
- Server.getConfig's said it "errors out if it does not exist", which it does
not — it resolves a default config, and now provisions the identity too.
The update-settings kill switch (--disable-update-settings /
NB_DISABLE_UPDATE_SETTINGS / the MDM DisableUpdateSettings key) forbids
changing settings, but it decided what a "change" was by looking at
whether a field was present in the request. The CLI fills the whole
config surface of SetConfigRequest and LoginRequest from its flags and
environment on every `netbird up` (setupSetConfigReq in cmd/up.go), so a
client configured by environment restates its own configuration on every
start and tripped the gate every time.
SetConfig only warned about that, but Login carries the same fields and
was gated the same way, and Login runs inside the CLI's backoff loop: the
daemon answered every attempt with codes.Unavailable, `netbird up` never
completed, and a container with NB_DISABLE_UPDATE_SETTINGS plus any
config env var (NB_MANAGEMENT_URL, for one) could not come up at all.
Both gates now compare values. Config.WouldChange is the dry-run half of
UpdateConfig: it runs the very same diff logic (Config.apply) against a
copy of the stored config, so the gate cannot drift from what an actual
update would do, nor go stale when a field is added. A request that
restates what the profile already holds changes nothing and is allowed; a
request that diverges is refused exactly as before, and a dry run that
cannot be evaluated fails closed. A profile with no config on disk yet is
judged against the config the daemon would create for it.
For Login, the compared input comes from loginOverridesInput, which
persistLoginOverrides also uses to perform the write, so the gate judges
precisely the two fields a login can persist (management URL, pre-shared
key) and no field it ignores.
Two adjacent defects surfaced while making the comparison exact:
- Config.apply compared URLs as raw strings, so the same endpoint spelled
without its default port ("https://api.netbird.io" vs
"https://api.netbird.io:443") counted as a new value and rewrote the
config. It now compares the parsed forms.
- UpdateConfig did not collapse the redacted pre-shared key, unlike
UpdateOrCreateConfig and DirectUpdateConfig, so a UI round-trip of the
mask replaced the stored key with asterisks.
The CLI warning for a refused SetConfig said the method was not available
in the daemon, which sent people looking for a version mismatch that was
not there; it now reports the refusal.
* Migrate to profile ids
* Migrate android profile manager
* Clean up
* Fix review
* Add ID type
* Fix test and runes in ShortID()
* Fix profile switch on up and android comments
* Revert android profile to string id
* Fix feedback
* Fix UI feedback
* Fix id assignment
* Add renaming of profiles
* Fix review
* Remove ui binary
* Fix getProfileConfigPath not validating id
* Change resolve handle order and fix server merge problems
* Fix mdm test
riccardom