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-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/daemon.py65
-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/platform.py103
-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_cli_dispatch.py1
-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_packaging_win.py141
4 files changed, 280 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/daemon.py b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/daemon.py
index 37a2472..b932c16 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/daemon.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/daemon.py
@@ -1649,7 +1649,7 @@ def main() -> None:
choices=["init", "reset", "status", "gek-init",
"gek", "operator", "member", "group", "file",
"video", "denylist", "stun", "reload",
- "restart-daemon", "autostart",
+ "restart-daemon", "autostart", "service",
"calibrate-argon2"],
help="init: provision config + keystore | reset: erase all "
"node state | status: node state and keys "
@@ -1661,16 +1661,21 @@ def main() -> None:
"| stun list|add|remove|reset "
"| reload: re-read node.toml (hot; systemd or the "
"loopback API) | restart-daemon: restart the node "
- "(systemd unit, or the Windows autostart launcher) "
+ "(systemd unit, the Windows autostart launcher, or the "
+ "service task, whichever applies) "
"| autostart install|remove|start|stop|status "
- "(Windows: run meshbay-node at each sign-in) "
+ "(Windows: run meshbay-node at each sign-in, no admin) "
+ "| service install|remove|start|stop|status "
+ "(Windows: run at boot, before sign-in, needs admin "
+ "once to install) "
"| calibrate-argon2: benchmark")
parser.add_argument("subcommand", nargs="?",
help="'pair' for operator; list|invite|revoke|unpin for "
"member; list|add|remove for group; init|rotate for gek; "
"list|rm for file; rematch for video; show|clear for "
"denylist; list|add|remove|reset for stun; "
- "install|remove|start|stop|status for autostart")
+ "install|remove|start|stop|status for autostart and "
+ "for service")
parser.add_argument("target", nargs="?",
help="username for member invite|revoke|unpin; group name "
"for group add; file id for file rm; identifier for "
@@ -1845,8 +1850,9 @@ def main() -> None:
print("Could not unlink from hub (daemon not reachable).")
if sys.platform == "win32":
- from meshbay_node.platform import autostart_remove
+ from meshbay_node.platform import autostart_remove, service_remove
autostart_remove()
+ service_remove() # no-op, silently, if not elevated or not installed
else:
_sp.run(["systemctl", "--user", "disable", "--now", "meshbay-node"],
capture_output=True)
@@ -2107,7 +2113,14 @@ def main() -> None:
if args.command == "restart-daemon":
if sys.platform == "win32":
- from meshbay_node.platform import autostart_end, autostart_run
+ from meshbay_node.platform import (
+ autostart_end, autostart_run, service_end, service_run, service_status,
+ )
+ if service_status()["installed"]:
+ service_end()
+ service_run()
+ print("restarted the node (service task)")
+ return
autostart_end() # kill whatever is running now
try:
autostart_run()
@@ -2162,6 +2175,46 @@ def main() -> None:
sys.exit(1)
return
+ if args.command == "service":
+ from meshbay_node import platform as _plat
+ if sys.platform != "win32":
+ print("service mode is Windows-only — elsewhere use "
+ "'systemctl --user enable --now meshbay-node'.")
+ sys.exit(1)
+ sub = args.subcommand or "status"
+ if sub == "install":
+ try:
+ _plat.service_install()
+ except RuntimeError as e:
+ print(f"Could not install: {e}")
+ if "denied" in str(e).lower():
+ print("Run this from an elevated (Administrator) prompt.")
+ sys.exit(1)
+ print(f"Registered the {_plat.TASK_NAME!r} scheduled task — it starts "
+ "meshbay-node at boot, as this user, whether or not you have "
+ "signed in yet (no password stored).")
+ print("Start it now with: meshbay-node service start")
+ elif sub == "remove":
+ _plat.service_remove()
+ print(f"Removed the {_plat.TASK_NAME!r} scheduled task.")
+ elif sub == "start":
+ _plat.service_run()
+ print("started")
+ elif sub == "stop":
+ _plat.service_end()
+ print("stopped")
+ elif sub == "status":
+ st = _plat.service_status()
+ if st["installed"]:
+ print(f"service installed — {st['state'] or 'unknown state'}")
+ else:
+ print("service not installed — meshbay-node service install "
+ "(needs an elevated prompt)")
+ else:
+ print("service: install | remove | start | stop | status")
+ sys.exit(1)
+ return
+
if args.command == "denylist":
cfg = load_config(args.config or DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH)
sub = args.subcommand or "show"
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/platform.py b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/platform.py
index 3c160a1..9b18618 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/platform.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/platform.py
@@ -199,9 +199,8 @@ def ffprobe_cmd() -> str:
# to create — and this must work for an ordinary user with no admin rights.
# So: a `.vbs` launcher in the per-user Startup folder. wscript runs it hidden
# (Run(..., 0, ...)) at every sign-in; no console window, no admin, no
-# third-party dependency.
-
-TASK_NAME = "MeshBay Node" # the name the Electron client shows
+# third-party dependency. See the Service mode section below for the
+# boot-capable, admin-once alternative built on top of Task Scheduler instead.
def autostart_supported() -> bool:
@@ -277,3 +276,101 @@ def autostart_end() -> None:
if autostart_supported():
subprocess.run(["taskkill", "/IM", "meshbay-node.exe", "/F"],
capture_output=True)
+
+
+# ── Service mode (Windows, opt-in at install time) ───────────────────────────
+#
+# The Startup-folder .vbs above only ever runs after *this* user signs in. A
+# real Windows Service would run before anyone signs in, but under
+# LocalSystem/NetworkService — accounts with no normal user profile, so
+# %LOCALAPPDATA%\meshbay\ (config, keystore, data) would not exist for it.
+# Relocating storage to make that work is real surgery (Phase 2, deliberately
+# not this).
+#
+# The middle ground: a Scheduled Task, created once with admin rights, that
+# runs *as this user* at system boot without needing them to sign in first.
+# `schtasks /create ... /ru <user> /rp ""` with no `/it` registers an S4U
+# (Service For User) logon — no password stored anywhere, and unlike
+# LocalSystem it loads this account's own profile, so config_dir()/data_dir()
+# need no special-casing at all. The cost: S4U carries no *network* credential
+# (no reaching a domain share as this user), which the node never needed
+# anyway — everything it touches is local disk plus outbound internet.
+#
+# Creating the task needs admin (a boot-trigger touches system-wide scheduler
+# state, the same reason /sc onlogon did — see the autostart section above).
+# Querying, running and ending an *already-created* task, as the same user it
+# was registered for, does not — Task Scheduler grants the owner that much by
+# default, which is what lets the Node page drive it with no further prompts.
+
+TASK_NAME = "MeshBay Node" # the Scheduled Task's own name
+
+
+def service_supported() -> bool:
+ return sys.platform == "win32"
+
+
+def _current_user() -> str:
+ domain = os.environ.get("USERDOMAIN") or os.environ.get("COMPUTERNAME") or "."
+ user = os.environ.get("USERNAME") or ""
+ return f"{domain}\\{user}" if user else ""
+
+
+def _schtasks(*args: str) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess:
+ return subprocess.run(["schtasks", *args], capture_output=True, text=True)
+
+
+def service_status() -> dict:
+ """{'installed': bool, 'state': str}. 'state' is Task Scheduler's own word
+ ('Ready', 'Running', 'Disabled', ...), '' when not installed."""
+ if not service_supported():
+ return {"installed": False, "state": ""}
+ r = _schtasks("/query", "/tn", TASK_NAME, "/fo", "list")
+ if r.returncode != 0:
+ return {"installed": False, "state": ""}
+ state = ""
+ for line in r.stdout.splitlines():
+ if line.lower().startswith("status:"):
+ state = line.split(":", 1)[1].strip()
+ break
+ return {"installed": True, "state": state}
+
+
+def service_install(exe: str | None = None) -> None:
+ """
+ Register the boot-time Scheduled Task. Needs admin — raises RuntimeError
+ with schtasks' own message on failure, which is "Access is denied." when
+ not elevated.
+ """
+ if not service_supported():
+ raise RuntimeError("service mode is Windows-only")
+ exe = exe or _node_exe()
+ if not exe:
+ raise RuntimeError(
+ "cannot locate the meshbay-node launcher — pass its path, or run "
+ "this from where meshbay-node is on PATH")
+ user = _current_user()
+ if not user:
+ raise RuntimeError("could not determine the current user (USERNAME unset)")
+ r = _schtasks("/create", "/tn", TASK_NAME, "/tr", f'"{exe}"',
+ "/sc", "onstart", "/ru", user, "/rp", "", "/rl", "limited", "/f")
+ if r.returncode != 0:
+ raise RuntimeError(f"schtasks /create failed: {r.stderr.strip() or r.stdout.strip()}")
+
+
+def service_remove() -> None:
+ """Delete the Scheduled Task if present. Needs admin; silent otherwise
+ (mirrors autostart_remove — nothing to report if it was never installed)."""
+ if service_supported():
+ _schtasks("/delete", "/tn", TASK_NAME, "/f")
+
+
+def service_run() -> None:
+ """Start the task now. No admin needed for an already-registered task."""
+ if service_supported():
+ _schtasks("/run", "/tn", TASK_NAME)
+
+
+def service_end() -> None:
+ """Stop the running instance, if any. No admin needed."""
+ if service_supported():
+ _schtasks("/end", "/tn", TASK_NAME)
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_cli_dispatch.py b/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_cli_dispatch.py
index 606e586..caf672d 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_cli_dispatch.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_cli_dispatch.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ VERBS = [
["reload"],
["restart-daemon"],
["autostart", "status"],
+ ["service", "status"],
]
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_packaging_win.py b/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_packaging_win.py
index 20a2505..6471446 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_packaging_win.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_packaging_win.py
@@ -182,50 +182,149 @@ def _macro_body(nsh: str, name: str) -> str:
return nsh.split(f"!macro {name}", 1)[1].split("!macroend", 1)[0]
-def test_the_installer_offers_one_elevated_firewall_step_instead_of_two_dialogs():
+def test_the_installer_offers_a_service_mode_choice_with_one_elevation():
"""
- Adding a firewall rule needs admin; the install itself never elevates
- (build.nsis allowElevation:false). So this must be opt-in (a Yes/No the
- user can decline) and skipped entirely in a silent install — an
- unattended `/S` install must never pop a UAC prompt on its own.
+ Adding a firewall rule or a boot-time Scheduled Task both need admin; the
+ install itself never elevates (build.nsis allowElevation:false). So this
+ must be opt-in (a Yes/No the user can decline) and skipped entirely in a
+ silent install — an unattended `/S` install must never pop a UAC prompt on
+ its own. Choosing service mode must fold the Scheduled Task AND the
+ firewall rules into ONE elevation (service-mode.ps1), never two.
"""
nsh = NSH.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
install = _macro_body(nsh, "customInstall")
assert "${IfNot} ${Silent}" in install, (
- "the firewall step is not guarded against silent installs")
- assert 'MessageBox MB_YESNO' in install
+ "the mode choice is not guarded against silent installs")
+ assert install.count("MessageBox MB_YESNO") == 2, (
+ "expected exactly two questions: service-mode-or-not, then (only in "
+ "the per-user branch) the firewall-only question")
assert 'ExecShellWait "runas"' in install
- assert 'firewall.ps1" add' in install
+ # Service mode: one elevated call for both jobs, not one each.
+ assert 'service-mode.ps1" -Action install' in install
+ assert 'firewall.ps1" add' not in install.split("mb_peruser_mode:", 1)[0], (
+ "service mode must not ALSO separately elevate for firewall.ps1 — "
+ "service-mode.ps1 already does that in the same elevation")
+ # Per-user mode (declined the service question) keeps today's separate,
+ # still-opt-in firewall step.
+ peruser_branch = install.split("mb_peruser_mode:", 1)[1]
+ assert 'firewall.ps1" add' in peruser_branch
-def test_reinstalling_with_the_rules_already_in_place_asks_nothing():
+def test_reinstalling_with_everything_already_in_place_asks_nothing():
"""
Get-NetFirewallRule needs no admin, only New/Remove do — so customInstall
- checks first, unelevated, and only reaches the MessageBox (and therefore
- the UAC prompt) when something is actually missing. Without this, running
- setup a second time — an upgrade, a repair install — would re-ask the
- question and re-trigger UAC even though nothing needs to change.
+ checks the firewall rules first, unelevated, and only reaches the mode
+ question (and therefore a possible UAC prompt) when something is actually
+ missing. Without this, running setup a second time — an upgrade, a repair
+ install — would re-ask the question (and, in service mode, re-trigger UAC)
+ even though nothing needs to change. Checking the firewall rules alone is
+ enough: service-mode.ps1 always sets up both together, so if the rules
+ are there, so is everything else that was chosen last time.
"""
nsh = NSH.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
install = _macro_body(nsh, "customInstall")
check_line = 'firewall.ps1" check'
assert check_line in install
- # The check must run, and be evaluated, before the MessageBox — not after.
- assert install.index(check_line) < install.index("MessageBox MB_YESNO")
- assert "Pop $0" in install and "${If} $0 != 0" in install
+ mode_question = "Run MeshBay Node as a background service?"
+ # The check must run, and be evaluated, before the mode question — not after.
+ assert install.index(check_line) < install.index(mode_question)
+ assert "Pop $0" in install and "${If} $0 == 0" in install
+ assert "Goto mb_mode_done" in install
-def test_the_uninstaller_offers_to_remove_the_firewall_rules_default_no():
- """Opt-in on the way out too, and defaulting to No: a stale allow-rule
- for a deleted exe is inert, so this should not nag."""
+def test_the_uninstaller_offers_to_remove_everything_privileged_default_no():
+ """
+ Opt-in on the way out too, and defaulting to No: a stale allow-rule or
+ Scheduled Task is inert, so this should not nag. One elevation removes
+ both, unconditionally — service-mode.ps1's own remove actions are each
+ no-ops when there is nothing to remove, so this is safe to run whether or
+ not service mode was ever chosen.
+ """
nsh = NSH.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
uninstall = _macro_body(nsh, "customUnInstall")
assert "${IfNot} ${Silent}" in uninstall
- assert "/SD IDNO" in uninstall, "the uninstall firewall prompt should default to No"
- assert 'firewall.ps1" remove' in uninstall
+ assert "/SD IDNO" in uninstall, "the uninstall prompt should default to No"
+ assert 'service-mode.ps1" -Action remove' in uninstall
+ assert 'ExecShellWait "runas"' in uninstall
+
+
+# ── service mode itself (packaging/win/service.ps1, service-mode.ps1) ──────
+
+def test_service_ps1_and_service_mode_ps1_are_extraresources():
+ for name in ("service.ps1", "service-mode.ps1"):
+ entry = next(
+ (e for e in _pkg()["build"]["win"]["extraResources"] if e.get("to") == name),
+ None)
+ assert entry, f"no extraResources entry mapping to {name}"
+ assert entry["from"].endswith(f"packaging/win/{name}")
+ assert (WIN / name).exists()
+
+
+def test_service_install_uses_s4u_not_a_stored_password():
+ """
+ schtasks /create ... /ru <user> /rp "" with no /it registers an S4U logon:
+ no password stored anywhere, and — unlike LocalSystem/NetworkService — it
+ loads this account's own profile, so %LOCALAPPDATA%\\meshbay\\ needs no
+ relocation. Losing the empty /rp "" (e.g. "fixing" it into a real prompt
+ for a password) would either store a secret or silently stop working.
+ """
+ src = (WIN / "service.ps1").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+ # The prose above the actual command is allowed to say "/it" while
+ # explaining why it is absent (the same "read the comment, not the
+ # directive" trap CLAUDE.md already tracks) -- so check the real
+ # invocation line, not the whole file.
+ create_line = next(
+ (line for line in src.splitlines() if line.strip().startswith("& schtasks")
+ and "/create" in line), None)
+ assert create_line, "no schtasks /create invocation found"
+ tokens = create_line.split()
+ assert "/sc" in tokens and tokens[tokens.index("/sc") + 1] == "onstart", (
+ "must trigger at boot, not at sign-in (/sc onlogon)")
+ assert "/ru" in tokens
+ assert "/rp" in tokens and tokens[tokens.index("/rp") + 1] == '""', (
+ "must pass an empty run-as password (S4U)")
+ assert "/it" not in tokens, "an interactive-token task would need the user signed in"
+ assert "Get-Credential" not in src, "no password should ever be prompted for"
+
+
+def test_service_task_name_is_the_same_everywhere():
+ """One name, three places: meshbay_node.platform.TASK_NAME (the CLI),
+ service.ps1 (the installer), and main.js's WIN_SERVICE_TASK (the client
+ driving Start/Stop/Restart). A mismatch means the client manages a task
+ that does not exist, or vice versa."""
+ from meshbay_node import platform as plat
+
+ service_ps1 = (WIN / "service.ps1").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+ main_js = (CLIENT / "src" / "main.js").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+ assert f'$TASK_NAME = "{plat.TASK_NAME}"' in service_ps1
+ assert f"WIN_SERVICE_TASK = '{plat.TASK_NAME}'" in main_js
+
+
+def test_service_status_reports_state_without_admin():
+ """status/run/end must not need elevation once the task exists (only
+ install/remove do) — that is what lets the Node page drive it with no
+ further UAC prompts. Nothing in those branches should invoke as an
+ elevated call; only the two macros in installer.nsh use "runas"."""
+ src = (WIN / "service.ps1").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+ assert "runas" not in src.lower(), (
+ "service.ps1 itself must never self-elevate — installer.nsh already "
+ "runs the whole script elevated for install/remove, and the client "
+ "calls status/run/end directly, unelevated")
+
+
+def test_main_js_drives_the_service_task_for_all_three_actions():
+ """The hard requirement: Start/Stop/Restart from the Node page must
+ control the Scheduled Task when service mode is active, not just spawn a
+ detached process that has nothing to do with it."""
+ main_js = (CLIENT / "src" / "main.js").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+ for handler in ("node:service-stop", "node:service-restart", "node:start"):
+ body = main_js.split(f"ipcMain.handle('{handler}'", 1)[1]
+ body = body[:body.index("ipcMain.handle(")]
+ assert "winServiceTaskStatus" in body, f"{handler} never checks for the service task"
def test_firewall_ps1_targets_both_executables_and_is_idempotent():