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-rw-r--r--docs/USERGUIDE.md37
2 files changed, 54 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 8e2eafa..76a7aa6 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -302,6 +302,30 @@ keypair bundle, or anything that looks like a user's public key.
reproduced the defect in one run. Model the environment, never the code under
test
+- **A refresh token that rotates must be stored, or it is spent once.** The hub
+ revokes the refresh token presented, returns a replacement, and treats a
+ revoked one presented again as theft — revoking the whole family. The SPA kept
+ only the access token out of that response, so renewal worked once and the
+ second attempt destroyed the session, which is why signing out and in was the
+ only cure. Nothing used the path at all: `hubFetch` reported 401 like any
+ other error, and watching a film is an hour in which the hub hears nothing,
+ because the video is WebRTC. Renew on a margin, on returning to the tab, and
+ on a 401 with a replay; coalesce concurrent renewals, or the second presents
+ what the first just spent and looks exactly like theft.
+ `tests/harness/session_harness.mjs` runs it against a hub that enforces
+ rotation — a lax stub would pass the broken client
+
+- **An effect keyed on a value that used to be constant.** The WebRTC dial
+ listed `token` among its dependencies. Harmless while a token only ever
+ expired; once the session renewed itself the string rotated, and the effect
+ tore the connection down and rebuilt it — worst at mount, where a stale token
+ is renewed exactly while ICE is negotiating, so the browser abandoned the
+ handshake and the node sat in `connecting` for ever. Depend on whether there
+ is a token, not which one, and read the live one where it is used. Before
+ making something vary that never varied before, grep the dependency arrays it
+ appears in — this and the hook-ordering fault above are the same shape: code
+ that is correct read on its own and wrong against the component lifecycle
+
- **A stylesheet does not tell you where anything lands.** The responsive tests
pinned numbers out of `style.css` and said in their own docstring that a
layout could not be measured because there was no browser in the suite. There
@@ -509,6 +533,8 @@ SFR residential Fedora 44 → meshbay.org OVH VPS:
| Seeking (node) | `webrtc_server.py` | `start` on `stream_req`; `-ss` **before** `-i` (index seek, not decode-and-discard), clamped away from the end, echoed in `stream_init` |
| Resume position | `static/app.js` | `readResumePosition` / `writeResumePosition` — localStorage, per file, per browser. No protocol, and nothing new learns what you watch |
| Layout, measured | `tests/harness/layout_probe.py` | Renders `style.css` in Chrome at any width and returns bounding boxes. Use it for layout, not `test_layout_responsive.py`, which only pins CSS values |
+| Session renewal (browser) | `static/app.js` | `refreshAccessToken` / `ensureFreshToken` — one writer (`setAuth`), one in-flight renewal, rotated refresh token stored. `hubFetch` renews on 401 and replays |
+| Token lifetimes (hub) | `meshbay_hub.config` | `[jwt] access_token_ttl` 4 h, `refresh_token_ttl` 30 days. **Production sets both in `~/.config/meshbay/hub.toml`** — changing the code default alone does nothing there |
## meshbay.org server (état cible)
diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md
index abfc404..7bd695b 100644
--- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md
+++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md
@@ -98,10 +98,10 @@ POST /v1/users/register
POST /v1/users/login
{"username": "yourname", "password": "yourpassword"}
→ {
- "access_token": "JWT (Ed25519, 1 hour validity)",
+ "access_token": "JWT (Ed25519, 4 hour validity)",
"refresh_token": "opaque 256-bit token (30 days)",
"token_type": "bearer",
- "expires_in": 3600,
+ "expires_in": 14400,
}
```
@@ -117,12 +117,20 @@ curl -s -X POST https://meshbay.org/v1/users/login \
### Token refresh
-Access tokens are valid for 1 hour. When one expires, use the refresh token to get a new one without re-entering your password:
+Access tokens are valid for 4 hours. **The web app does this for itself** — it
+renews ten minutes before expiry, on returning to the tab, and on any 401, then
+replays the request. Nobody should meet an expired token in the browser; what
+follows is for other clients.
+
+The endpoint **rotates**: it revokes the refresh token you present and returns a
+new one, so store the replacement. Presenting a revoked token is treated as
+theft and revokes the whole family, which is a full sign-out.
```
POST /v1/users/token/refresh
{"refresh_token": "your-refresh-token"}
-→ {"access_token": "new JWT", "token_type": "bearer", "expires_in": 3600}
+→ {"access_token": "new JWT", "refresh_token": "USE THIS NEXT TIME",
+ "token_type": "bearer", "expires_in": 14400}
```
```bash
@@ -131,7 +139,13 @@ curl -s -X POST https://meshbay.org/v1/users/token/refresh \
-d '{"refresh_token":"YOUR_REFRESH_TOKEN"}'
```
-Refresh tokens are valid for 30 days and can be immediately invalidated by the hub on account compromise. Revoking the refresh token means the next access token renewal will fail; any active access token expires within 1 hour at most.
+Refresh tokens are valid for 30 days — that is the session — and can be
+invalidated by the hub at once on account compromise. Revoking one means the
+next renewal fails; an access token already issued keeps working for up to 4
+hours. That window is not the whole story: the hub reloads the account on every
+request and refuses a suspended one immediately, and it pushes signed
+revocations to nodes, so suspending an account or revoking a membership takes
+effect at once regardless of the token's remaining life.
### Access token structure
@@ -146,7 +160,7 @@ The JWT payload contains:
| `groups` | The `group_id`s you are a member of, for node-side authorization |
| `scope` | `user` for a browser, `node` for a daemon |
| `iat` | Issued at (Unix timestamp) |
-| `exp` | Expires at (Unix timestamp, 1 hour from issue) |
+| `exp` | Expires at (Unix timestamp, 4 hours from issue — `[jwt] access_token_ttl`) |
The token carries **no public key of yours**. It used to carry `pk_user`, and a node
recorded that key as the uploader of a file — which meant the party issuing tokens
@@ -166,7 +180,7 @@ What deletion does:
- Releases the username — someone else may register it afterwards
- Clears the email and password hash, and drops the node linking key
- Removes group memberships, notifications and refresh tokens
-- Refuses any access token still in its hour of validity, immediately
+- Refuses any access token still within its validity, immediately
What deletion does **not** do:
@@ -867,7 +881,7 @@ Two layers:
- `jti` (UUID4) is mandatory in every token — prevents replay (Ed25519 signing is deterministic; without `jti`, two tokens issued in the same second are byte-for-byte identical) and enables individual revocation
- Nodes verify JWTs offline using the hub's cached public key — no hub roundtrip, no hub downtime dependency
-- Revocation: hub invalidates refresh token → next access token renewal fails → node access expires within 1 hour. For immediate revocation: hub adds `jti` to a denylist that nodes periodically fetch
+- Revocation: hub invalidates refresh token → next access token renewal fails → node access expires within the access token's life. For immediate revocation: hub adds `jti` to a denylist that nodes periodically fetch
### What node compromise exposes
@@ -961,7 +975,12 @@ These logs are not used for any purpose other than responding to legal requests.
**Symptom:** node returns 401, error says "expired" or "Token signature expired".
-**Fix:** your access token is over 1 hour old. Refresh it:
+In the web app this should not happen: it renews before expiry and retries once
+on a 401. If you see it there, the renewal path itself is broken — check the
+browser console rather than the token.
+
+**Fix (other clients):** your access token is over 4 hours old. Refresh it, and
+**keep the refresh token that comes back** — the one you sent is now revoked:
```bash
curl -s -X POST https://meshbay.org/v1/users/token/refresh \