[glm-grade=B] fix(notifications): repair UI/API contract drift — SMTP auth, event gate, test button (DC-092)

Three user-facing notification features were silently dead from contract
drift between the settings UI and the backend:

1. SMTP auth never applied: the UI sent email.user/email.pass while the
   manager read username/password. Route now normalizes aliases; legacy
   config files canonicalize at load.
2. Event toggles were cosmetic: UI sent camelCase keys (containerDown),
   the send() gate read kebab-case ('container-down'). EVENT_ALIASES now
   folds every known spelling (manager gate, route store, legacy files);
   UI sends and reads canonical keys.
3. Deploy/auto-restart notifications always dropped: deploy-success/
   deploy-failed/auto-restart were missing from DEFAULT events, and
   send('test') was itself gated -> the Test button was a no-op. Defaults
   added; 'test' bypasses the gate.

Also: strict boolean contract (string 'false' for secure/enabled rejected
— previously coerced truthy, silently forcing TLS), SMTP port bounds,
non-destructive credential merge (blank password no longer clobbers the
stored one), GET /config returns port/secure/to/username + hasPassword
(password never returned), full form prefill + keep-hint placeholder.

Verified live pre-fix: send('test')/'deploymentSuccess'/'auto-restart'
all returned 'not enabled'. Post-fix: +20 tests (route + manager),
full suite 2641/2641 (112 suites).

Judge: GLM-5.3 cold read via delegate_task (deleg_ad765d63), grade B,
ship, zero blockers; judge independently ran the DC-092 suites (38/38).
Polish #1 (canonical event for provider titles) folded in. Remaining
emitters with the same gate-miss class (recipeRemoved, workflow,
ssl-cert-expiry, dns-propagation, drift-detected, dependency-restart-*)
noted for a follow-up tick.

BACKLOG.md

@@ -400,3 +400,28 @@ Tickets DC-046 through DC-049 implement pluggable auth + email magic link. Sami
 - **prerequisite:** None.
 - **result:** Shipped codex-graded A. All 49 `console.*` sites in `src/managers/update-manager.js` now route through `log.info/log.warn/log.error` from `src/utils/logging` (tag = `'update'`). Mixed-content strings extracted into structured meta payloads (`containerName`, `schedule`, `imageName`, `error.message`, `digestPrefix`, `oldImageIdPrefix`, `httpStatus`, `maxAttempts`, `attempt`, `durationMs`, `scheduledTime`, etc.) so fields are queryable instead of inlined into the message. Errors now go through `log.error(ctx, errObj)` so they land in error.log with full stack trace + context, not just stderr. 1539/1539 Jest tests pass (78/78 update-manager tests still pass). ESLint: 14 pre-existing warnings in this file unchanged, zero new warnings introduced (verified with `git stash` baseline check).
 
+
+### DC-086: Service-status flicker fix — asymmetric hysteresis on the badge
+- **status:** in-progress
+- **owner:** hermes
+- **details:** Dashboard service badges perpetually flip between green and red for "a few seconds at a time, never stable" (Sami's report, 2026-08-20). Root cause: `src/monitoring/health-checker.js` `recordStatus()` emits `'status-check'` on EVERY probe (every 30s), and `src/websocket/dashboard-ws.js` forwards every probe as `'status-change'` to the browser with no diff. The frontend `live-events.js` then unconditionally calls `setBadge()` — which resets the icon + pill text on every event. A single transient 5xx (Caddy reload, container CPU steal, mid-flight TLS handshake, container restart during probe) flips the badge red and the next green probe flips it back. Fix: add asymmetric hysteresis in `_computeDisplayedStatus(serviceId, rawStatus)` — going DOWN requires 2 consecutive "down" probes (default `HEALTH_DOWN_THRESHOLD=2`), going UP requires only 1 (default `HEALTH_UP_THRESHOLD=1`). History + `consecutiveFailures` still record raw probe results (operators want full fidelity for postmortems); only the dashboard broadcast is filtered. `getCurrentStatus()` now returns the displayed status so a page reload shows the same badge as the live SSE stream. Both thresholds are env-var configurable so operators can tune. New tests in `__tests__/health-checker-hysteresis.test.js` cover: first probe emits; second probe same-status does NOT re-emit; one-down-then-up keeps green; two-down flips to red; one-up after down flips back to green; `getCurrentStatus` returns displayed not raw. Effort: ~30 min. Risk: low — pure behavior filter, no schema breaks, all 63 existing health-checker tests must stay green.
+- **impact:** Operators stop seeing perpetual red/green flicker on healthy services. Real outages still get flagged (2 consecutive 30s probes = ~60s before badge flips red, which is still faster than a human notices). Background probe history is unchanged so postmortem analysis still works.
+- **prerequisite:** None.
+- **result:** _pending — ship + codex round_
+
+### DC-085: Link-first invite — Discord-style "share it however you want"
+- **status:** in-progress
+- **owner:** hermes
+- **details:** Today `POST /api/v1/auth/admin/invites` defaults to sending the invite link via SMTP; if SMTP is not configured it spams the server console with `[DC-048-DEV-INVITE-LINK]` log lines. Sami wants Discord-style: the link is always returned in the response, and email is an opt-in checkbox. Operators should be free to copy the link and share it via iMessage / SMS / WhatsApp / Telegram / Signal / Discord / paste-in-email — whatever fits. (1) Flip default `sendEmail !== false` to `sendEmail === true` in `routes/auth/admin.js` so omitting the field means "no email, just hand me the link." (2) Stop logging the raw invite URL to error.log when SMTP is unconfigured — that path was only useful when there was no UI way to grab the link; now there is. (3) Add a `shareText` field to the response: `"Join my DashCaddy as <role> — <acceptUrl> — expires in Nh."` for one-tap paste into any messenger. (4) Frontend: `status/js/admin.js` `_renderInviteForm` flips the "Send email" checkbox default to **unchecked**, updates `_renderIssuedInviteBanner` to show both the raw link AND the shareText (with its own copy button + `navigator.share()` native share-sheet button where available). (5) New tests in `__tests__/admin-invites.test.js` covering: default sendEmail=false (no SMTP send attempted, no console log); `sendEmail: true` triggers SMTP send; `shareText` is present and well-formed; `acceptUrl` is always returned; expired sendEmail path doesn't leak token to logs. Effort: ~1 hr. Risk: low — pure behavior flip + UI additive change.
+- **impact:** Closes the friction between "host wants to add a friend" and "host has to configure SMTP first." Mirrors Discord/Slack/Linear invite flows where the link IS the deliverable. No new tier changes, no schema breaks.
+- **prerequisite:** DC-048 (invite store + admin route), DC-052 (Pro gate stays).
+- **result:** _pending — ship + codex round_
+
+### DC-084: Remove redundant active Caddy health check from `arch.sami` site — eliminate 6 syslog spam lines/min
+- **status:** done
+- **owner:** hermes
+- **details:** `/etc/caddy/sites/arch.sami` had an active Caddy health check (`health_uri /api/stats health_interval 10s`) probing `100.120.159.34:5000` every 10 seconds. The upstream Arch Linux server `100.120.159.34` has been permanently unreachable (100% packet loss on ping, ports 5000 + 8080 both time out). Result: 6 `level:info HTTP request failed` journal lines per minute, 360/hour, 8640/day — pure noise, no dashboard value, no incident resolution. The `src/monitoring/caddy-upstream-watcher.js` (the same module whose source comments explicitly call out this exact spam as "the noisy spam the dashboard currently sees for `100.120.159.34:5000`") ALREADY provides equivalent monitoring: 60s probe cadence (6x less frequent), 5-minute confirmation window before opening incidents, mute toggle, deduped snapshot, incident integration with the health-checker. The active Caddy check is redundant. Fix: edit `/etc/caddy/sites/arch.sami` to remove the `health_uri / health_interval` block, leaving only `reverse_proxy 100.120.159.34:5000`. Apply via `caddy-apply` (validates+reloads+commits atomically). Backup `.bak-DC-084-pre` created pre-edit; deleted after `caddy-apply` succeeded because the `.bak` file was being picked up by Caddy's `import sites/*` and causing an "ambiguous site definition" validation error.
+- **impact:** Eliminates 100% of recurring caddy journal spam from the dead Arch upstream. The dashboard's `caddy-upstream-watcher.js` continues to monitor the dead upstream correctly (now at `consecutiveFailures: 1905+`, `lastSuccessAt: null`, `status: down`, `dead: true`) — operators see the dead upstream in the dashboard, just without the journal noise. Future Caddyfile authors who add an active health check to a `*.sami` site will be unaware that they should not (since the dashboard handles monitoring), so a follow-up could add a CLAUDE.md note or a Caddyfile lint warning. Out of scope for this tick.
+- **prerequisite:** None. `caddy-upstream-watcher.js` already provides equivalent monitoring.
+- **result:** Shipped GLM-pending (Codex quota dead). Before/after on DNS2 (`journalctl -u caddy --since "5 minutes ago" | grep health_checker.active | wc -l`): **before = ~30 entries / 5min** (active probe every 10s, all failing); **after = 0 entries / 5min**. Live-verified: `caddy validate` succeeded (after removing `.bak` file that caused `ambiguous site definition`), Caddy reloaded via `caddy-apply`, route `arch.sami → 100.120.159.34:5000` still active in admin API (verified via `curl http://localhost:2019/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/routes` — `health_uri: None, health_interval: None` confirms the block is gone). Container `dashcaddy-api Up About an hour (healthy)` (no restart needed — only Caddyfile changed, not container). Live HTTP smoke all green: `https://status.sami=200`, `https://dashcaddy.net=200`, `https://ca.sami=200`, `https://status.sami/api/health=401` (auth-gated, expected). Watcher state for `100.120.159.34:5000`: `consecutiveFailures: 1905`, `lastError: "probe timeout"`, `status: down`, `dead: true` — correctly tracked in `/opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/caddy-upstreams.json`. Backup deleted (would have caused site-definition ambiguity on next Caddy reload). Git: change lives only in DNS2's `/etc/caddy/sites/arch.sami` (the `/etc/caddy` git repo `.gitignore` excludes `sites/` per design — only the main `Caddyfile` is tracked). The dashcaddy source repo (`/root/dashcaddy`) carries only this BACKLOG.md documentation update on branch `dc/DC-084-arch-sami-caddy-healthcheck-removal`.
+- **Tests:** No source code change; existing `__tests__/caddy-upstream-watcher.test.js` 26/26 pass (baseline preserved). 2465/2465 repo tests pass (4 pre-existing billing test suites fail with `Cannot find module pdfkit` — unrelated to this change).

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/admin-invites.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+/**
+ * Tests for DC-085: link-first invite (Discord-style "share it however you want").
+ *
+ *   - default sendEmail omission = no email sent, link returned, no token in logs
+ *   - sendEmail:true triggers SMTP send when configured
+ *   - sendEmail:true + SMTP unconfigured = deliveredVia:'failed', no token leaked
+ *   - shareText field present and well-formed in every response
+ *   - acceptUrl always present (regardless of sendEmail)
+ *   - role + ttl validation unchanged from DC-048
+ *
+ * Strategy: drive the route handler directly with mock req/res, mount the admin
+ * router against an isolated userStore + inviteStore + email-sender stub.
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const os = require('os');
+const express = require('express');
+
+function _tmpDir() {
+  return fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'dashcaddy-admin-invites-test-'));
+}
+function _cleanup(dir) {
+  try { fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+}
+
+// Stub email-sender so we can assert "was it called?" without an SMTP server.
+// NOTE: the variable name MUST start with `mock` so Jest's hoisted `jest.mock()`
+// call is allowed to reference it (Babel guard against out-of-scope access).
+const mockEmailSender = {
+  isConfigured: jest.fn(() => false),
+  sendEmail: jest.fn(async () => undefined),
+};
+jest.mock('../src/auth/providers/email-sender', () => mockEmailSender);
+
+describe('DC-085: link-first admin invites', () => {
+  let dir, app, request;
+  let logCalls; // captured { level, msg, meta } from our fake log
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    jest.clearAllMocks();
+    dir = _tmpDir();
+    logCalls = [];
+
+    // Set up email auth enable flag so userStore mounts.
+    process.env.NODE_ENV = 'test';
+
+    const { createUserStore } = require('../src/security/user-store');
+    const userStore = createUserStore({ dataDir: dir });
+
+    // Bootstrap the admin so we have a session-attributable user.
+    await userStore.login({ email: 'admin@sami-host.me' });
+
+    // Build a tiny Express app with the admin router mounted, but skip the
+    // global auth gate (we inject req.user directly).
+    const adminRouter = require('../routes/auth/admin')({
+      asyncHandler: (fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next),
+      errorResponse: (_res, code, msg) => ({ status: code, msg }),
+      log: {
+        info: (topic, msg, meta) => logCalls.push({ level: 'info', topic, msg, meta }),
+        warn: (topic, msg, meta) => logCalls.push({ level: 'warn', topic, msg, meta }),
+        error: (topic, msg, meta) => logCalls.push({ level: 'error', topic, msg, meta }),
+      },
+      session: { isSessionValid: () => true, create: () => {}, setCookie: () => {} },
+      dataDir: dir,
+    });
+
+    app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    // Inject req.user = admin so /admin/* passes the role gate.
+    app.use((req, _res, next) => {
+      req.user = { id: 'admin-id', email: 'admin@sami-host.me', role: 'admin' };
+      req.app.locals = req.app.locals || {};
+      req.app.locals.siteConfig = {}; // no publicBaseUrl — route uses req.headers
+      req.app.locals.emailConfig = null; // SMTP not configured by default
+      next();
+    });
+    app.use('/api/v1/auth', adminRouter);
+    // Error handler — last in chain.
+    app.use((err, _req, res, _next) => {
+      const code = (err && err.statusCode) || 500;
+      res.status(code).json({
+        success: false,
+        error: err && err.message,
+        code: err && err.code,
+      });
+    });
+
+    request = require('supertest');
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => _cleanup(dir));
+
+  test('default sendEmail (omitted) returns link and does NOT send email', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'friend@example.com', role: 'operator' });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.success).toBe(true);
+    expect(mockEmailSender.sendEmail).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(res.body.acceptUrl).toMatch(/\/api\/v1\/auth\/invites\/[^/]+\/accept$/);
+    expect(res.body.deliveredVia).toBe('manual');
+  });
+
+  test('default sendEmail does NOT log raw token to server log', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'friend@example.com', role: 'operator' });
+
+    const acceptUrl = res.body.acceptUrl;
+    // Extract the token from the URL and verify it does NOT appear in any log call.
+    const token = acceptUrl.match(/invites\/([^/]+)\/accept/)[1];
+    const tokenLeaked = logCalls.some(c =>
+      typeof c.msg === 'string' && c.msg.includes(token)
+    );
+    expect(tokenLeaked).toBe(false);
+
+    // Also assert no log entry mentions the URL verbatim (the old
+    // `[DC-048-DEV-INVITE-LINK] url=...` spam).
+    const oldSpam = logCalls.find(c =>
+      typeof c.msg === 'string' && c.msg.includes('[DC-048-DEV-INVITE-LINK]')
+    );
+    expect(oldSpam).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  test('shareText is present and well-formed in every response', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'friend@example.com', role: 'operator', ttlHours: 24 });
+
+    expect(res.body.shareText).toBeDefined();
+    expect(res.body.shareText).toContain('Join my DashCaddy');
+    expect(res.body.shareText).toContain('operator');
+    expect(res.body.shareText).toContain(res.body.acceptUrl);
+    expect(res.body.shareText).toContain('expires in 24h');
+  });
+
+  test('acceptUrl is always returned regardless of sendEmail', async () => {
+    const r1 = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'a@x.com', sendEmail: false });
+    const r2 = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'b@x.com' });
+    expect(r1.body.acceptUrl).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(r2.body.acceptUrl).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  test('sendEmail: true triggers SMTP send when configured', async () => {
+    // Build a SECOND app instance where emailConfig is a real-looking object,
+    // so isConfigured() returns true. The first app uses emailConfig=null.
+    mockEmailSender.isConfigured.mockReturnValueOnce(true);
+    mockEmailSender.sendEmail.mockResolvedValueOnce(undefined);
+    const app2 = express();
+    app2.use(express.json());
+    app2.use((req, _res, next) => {
+      req.user = { id: 'admin-id', email: 'admin@sami-host.me', role: 'admin' };
+      req.app.locals = req.app.locals || {};
+      req.app.locals.siteConfig = {};
+      req.app.locals.emailConfig = { host: 'smtp.test', from: 'noreply@test' };
+      next();
+    });
+    const { createUserStore } = require('../src/security/user-store');
+    const userStore2 = createUserStore({ dataDir: dir });
+    await userStore2.login({ email: 'admin@sami-host.me' });
+    const router2 = require('../routes/auth/admin')({
+      asyncHandler: (fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next),
+      errorResponse: (_res, code, msg) => ({ status: code, msg }),
+      log: { info() {}, warn: (t, m, meta) => logCalls.push({ level: 'warn', topic: t, msg: m, meta }), error() {} },
+      session: { isSessionValid: () => true, create: () => {}, setCookie: () => {} },
+      dataDir: dir,
+    });
+    app2.use('/api/v1/auth', router2);
+
+    const res = await request(app2)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'friend@example.com', role: 'viewer', sendEmail: true });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(mockEmailSender.sendEmail).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const [_cfg, to, subject, text, html] = mockEmailSender.sendEmail.mock.calls[0];
+    expect(to).toBe('friend@example.com');
+    expect(subject).toMatch(/invited/i);
+    expect(text).toContain(res.body.acceptUrl);
+    expect(html).toContain(res.body.acceptUrl);
+    expect(res.body.deliveredVia).toBe('email');
+  });
+
+  test('sendEmail: true + SMTP unconfigured returns deliveredVia:failed and does NOT leak token', async () => {
+    mockEmailSender.isConfigured.mockReturnValueOnce(false);
+
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'friend@example.com', role: 'operator', sendEmail: true });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(mockEmailSender.sendEmail).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(res.body.deliveredVia).toBe('failed');
+    // acceptUrl + shareText still present so the operator can share manually.
+    expect(res.body.acceptUrl).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(res.body.shareText).toBeTruthy();
+    // Token does NOT appear in any log call.
+    const token = res.body.acceptUrl.match(/invites\/([^/]+)\/accept/)[1];
+    const tokenLeaked = logCalls.some(c =>
+      typeof c.msg === 'string' && c.msg.includes(token)
+    );
+    expect(tokenLeaked).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  test('invalid role silently defaults to operator (DC-048 behavior preserved)', async () => {
+    // DC-048: the route's `(role && VALID_ROLES.has(role)) ? role : 'operator'`
+    // silently substitutes default rather than throwing. This test pins that
+    // behavior so a future "strict role validation" change is a deliberate
+    // decision, not a silent regression.
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'a@x.com', role: 'superuser' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.role).toBe('operator');
+    expect(mockEmailSender.sendEmail).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test('email validation: missing email still rejected', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ role: 'operator' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(mockEmailSender.sendEmail).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test('ttlHours: 1 still produces shareText with correct expiry wording', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'a@x.com', ttlHours: 1 });
+    expect(res.body.shareText).toContain('expires in 1h');
+  });
+
+  test('DC-089: SMTP-unconfigured warn log masks the invite email (no raw PII)', async () => {
+    mockEmailSender.isConfigured.mockReturnValueOnce(false);
+
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'friend@example.com', role: 'operator', sendEmail: true });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.deliveredVia).toBe('failed');
+    const warn = logCalls.find(c =>
+      c.level === 'warn' && c.topic === 'auth-invite-send'
+    );
+    expect(warn).toBeDefined();
+    // The raw address must not appear; the masked form must.
+    expect(JSON.stringify(warn.meta)).not.toContain('friend@example.com');
+    expect(warn.meta.email).toBe('fr****@example.com');
+  });
+
+  test('DC-089: invite-accepted info log masks the created user email (no raw PII)', async () => {
+    // Pre-authorize the email (POST /admin/users) so userStore.login doesn't
+    // reject with not_authorized — bootstrap already happened in beforeEach.
+    const preauth = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/users')
+      .send({ email: 'newfriend@example.com' });
+    expect(preauth.status).toBe(200);
+
+    const issue = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/auth/admin/invites')
+      .send({ email: 'newfriend@example.com', role: 'viewer' });
+    expect(issue.status).toBe(200);
+    const token = issue.body.acceptUrl.match(/invites\/([^/]+)\/accept/)[1];
+
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/api/v1/auth/invites/${token}/accept`)
+      .send({});
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const info = logCalls.find(c =>
+      c.level === 'info' && c.msg === 'invite accepted, user created'
+    );
+    expect(info).toBeDefined();
+    expect(JSON.stringify(info.meta)).not.toContain('newfriend@example.com');
+    expect(info.meta.email).toBe('ne****@example.com');
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/config-schema.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+'use strict';
+
+/**
+ * Regression tests for config-schema.js KNOWN_KEYS — DC-091.
+ *
+ * Bug: license-manager.js persists config.licenseBackup (activation
+ * restore-on-restart) and src/config/migrations.js stamps config._version,
+ * but neither key was in KNOWN_KEYS — so every startup logged
+ * `Unknown config key "licenseBackup" / "_version" — possible typo?`
+ * false positives (verified in live dashcaddy-api container logs,
+ * 2026-08-22T23:53:54Z restart).
+ *
+ * These tests pin: (1) the live production config key set validates with
+ * zero unknown-key warnings, (2) genuine typos still warn, (3) the schema
+ * stays in sync with the first-party writer keys.
+ */
+
+const { validateConfig } = require('../src/utilities/config-schema');
+
+describe('config-schema KNOWN_KEYS vs first-party writers (DC-091)', () => {
+  // Exact key set of the live production config.json (DNS2, verified
+  // 2026-08-23). If a new key appears here, teach KNOWN_KEYS about it —
+  // or fix the writer if it's a typo.
+  const LIVE_CONFIG_KEYS = [
+    '_version', 'configurationType', 'customFavicon', 'customLogo',
+    'dashboardHost', 'dashboardTitle', 'dns', 'dnsServers', 'language',
+    'license', 'licenseBackup', 'logoPosition', 'pylon', 'setupComplete',
+    'timestamp', 'tld', 'updatedAt'
+  ];
+
+  test('live production config key set produces zero unknown-key warnings', () => {
+    const config = {};
+    for (const key of LIVE_CONFIG_KEYS) {
+      // Minimal valid-ish values; validateConfig only cares about shape
+      // for these keys, and unknown-key detection is the target here.
+      config[key] = key === '_version' ? 2 : (key === 'dnsServers' ? {} : 'x');
+    }
+    const result = validateConfig(config);
+    const unknownWarnings = result.warnings.filter((w) => w.includes('Unknown config key'));
+    expect(unknownWarnings).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('licenseBackup and _version (first-party writer keys) do not warn', () => {
+    const result = validateConfig({ licenseBackup: { code: 'DC-...' }, _version: 2 });
+    expect(result.warnings).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('genuine typos still warn (guard against over-allowing)', () => {
+    const result = validateConfig({ dashboadTitle: 'typo' });
+    expect(result.warnings).toEqual([
+      'Unknown config key "dashboadTitle" — possible typo?'
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  test('KNOWN_KEYS stays in sync with license-manager writer keys', () => {
+    // license-manager writes config.licenseBackup and config.license — both
+    // must be recognized. We assert via validateConfig (public surface)
+    // rather than importing the private KNOWN_KEYS array.
+    const result = validateConfig({ license: { code: 'DC-...' }, licenseBackup: { code: 'DC-...' } });
+    expect(result.warnings.filter((w) => w.includes('Unknown config key'))).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('config-schema sync guard: migrations writer', () => {
+  test('_version is recognized at every migration version value', () => {
+    // migrations.js bumps _version 0→1→2; the key itself must never warn.
+    for (const v of [0, 1, 2, 99]) {
+      const result = validateConfig({ _version: v });
+      expect(result.warnings).toEqual([]);
+    }
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/health-checker-hysteresis.test.js

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+/**
+ * Tests for DC-086: asymmetric hysteresis on the dashboard service badge.
+ *
+ *   - First probe always emits (no prior state).
+ *   - Same-status probe does NOT re-emit (dedup against repeated green).
+ *   - One "down" then back to "up" keeps the badge green (no flicker).
+ *   - Two consecutive "down" probes flip the badge to red.
+ *   - One "up" after a down streak flips back to green (fast recovery).
+ *   - History retains every raw probe even when no emit happens.
+ *   - getCurrentStatus returns displayed status, not raw.
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const os = require('os');
+
+// Use an isolated data dir so test history doesn't pollute the real one.
+const tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'dashcaddy-hyst-'));
+process.env.HEALTH_DATA_DIR = tmpDir;
+process.env.HEALTH_CONFIG_FILE = path.join(tmpDir, 'health-config.json');
+process.env.HEALTH_HISTORY_FILE = path.join(tmpDir, 'health-history.json');
+
+// Module exports a singleton instance, not a class — see module.exports in
+// src/monitoring/health-checker.js. The test creates fresh state by replacing
+// the relevant maps on the singleton in beforeEach.
+const healthCheckerSingleton = require('../src/monitoring/health-checker');
+const originalDownThreshold = process.env.HEALTH_DOWN_THRESHOLD;
+const originalUpThreshold = process.env.HEALTH_UP_THRESHOLD;
+
+function restoreEnv(name, value) {
+  if (value === undefined) delete process.env[name];
+  else process.env[name] = value;
+}
+
+function makeUp(serviceId = 'svc1') {
+  return {
+    serviceId,
+    timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
+    status: 'up',
+    responseTime: 50,
+    statusCode: 200,
+    message: 'Service is healthy',
+    details: { headers: {}, bodyLength: 12 }
+  };
+}
+
+function makeDown(serviceId = 'svc1') {
+  return {
+    serviceId,
+    timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
+    status: 'down',
+    responseTime: 50,
+    statusCode: 500,
+    message: 'fail',
+    details: { headers: {}, bodyLength: 0 }
+  };
+}
+
+describe('DC-086: hysteresis on the dashboard badge', () => {
+  let hc;
+  let emitSpy;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    // Reset the singleton's per-test state so each case starts clean.
+    healthCheckerSingleton.displayedStatus = new Map();
+    healthCheckerSingleton.consecutiveSinceChange = new Map();
+    healthCheckerSingleton.currentStatus = new Map();
+    healthCheckerSingleton.history = {};
+    healthCheckerSingleton.removeAllListeners('status-check');
+    emitSpy = jest.fn();
+    healthCheckerSingleton.on('status-check', emitSpy);
+    hc = healthCheckerSingleton;
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    restoreEnv('HEALTH_DOWN_THRESHOLD', originalDownThreshold);
+    restoreEnv('HEALTH_UP_THRESHOLD', originalUpThreshold);
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    fs.rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  test('first probe (no prior state) emits', () => {
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(emitSpy.mock.calls[0][0].status).toBe('up');
+  });
+
+  test('second probe with same status does NOT re-emit', () => {
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  test('one "down" then "up" keeps the badge green (the flicker bug)', () => {
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());        // baseline: green, emit 1
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());      // one blip — keep green, no emit
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());        // recovered — still green, no emit
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(hc.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('up');
+  });
+
+  test('up, down, up, down, down resets the first streak before flipping', () => {
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    expect(hc.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('up');
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    expect(hc.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('down');
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
+
+  test('two consecutive "down" probes flip the badge to red', () => {
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());        // baseline: green
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());      // blip #1 — keep green (counter=1)
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());      // blip #2 — flip red (counter=2 >= DOWN_THRESHOLD)
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(emitSpy.mock.calls[1][0].status).toBe('down');
+    expect(hc.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('down');
+  });
+
+  test('one "up" after a down streak flips back to green (fast recovery)', () => {
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());      // now red
+    expect(hc.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('down');
+
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());        // first green — flip back
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3);
+    expect(emitSpy.mock.calls[2][0].status).toBe('up');
+    expect(hc.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('up');
+  });
+
+  test('history retains every raw probe even when no emit happens', () => {
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());      // blip, no emit
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());        // recovery, no emit
+    expect(hc.history['svc1'].length).toBe(3);
+    expect(hc.history['svc1'][0].status).toBe('up');
+    expect(hc.history['svc1'][1].status).toBe('down');
+    expect(hc.history['svc1'][2].status).toBe('up');
+  });
+
+  test('getCurrentStatus returns the displayed status, not the raw probe', () => {
+    const displayedUp = makeUp();
+    displayedUp.timestamp = '2026-08-22T09:59:00.000Z';
+    displayedUp.statusCode = 200;
+    displayedUp.message = 'healthy';
+    displayedUp.details = { source: 'accepted-up' };
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', displayedUp);
+    const latestRaw = makeDown();
+    latestRaw.timestamp = '2026-08-22T10:00:00.000Z';
+    latestRaw.responseTime = 987;
+    latestRaw.statusCode = 500;
+    latestRaw.message = 'failed probe';
+    latestRaw.error = 'upstream failure';
+    latestRaw.details = { source: 'suppressed-down' };
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', latestRaw);       // raw=down, displayed=up
+    const out = hc.getCurrentStatus();
+    expect(out['svc1'].status).toBe('up');    // shown to API consumers
+    expect(out['svc1'].timestamp).toBe(displayedUp.timestamp);
+    expect(out['svc1'].statusCode).toBe(200);
+    expect(out['svc1'].message).toBe('healthy');
+    expect(out['svc1'].error).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(out['svc1'].details).toEqual({ source: 'accepted-up' });
+    expect(hc.currentStatus.get('svc1')).toBe(latestRaw);
+  });
+
+  test('a long steady-green run produces exactly ONE emit (no per-probe spam)', () => {
+    for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  test('a long steady-green-then-steady-red transition: 1 emit (up), 1 emit (red)', () => {
+    for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());      // flips to red
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2); // no further broadcasts
+  });
+
+  test('DOWN_THRESHOLD env var is honored', () => {
+    process.env.HEALTH_DOWN_THRESHOLD = '3';
+    jest.resetModules();
+    const HC2Module = require('../src/monitoring/health-checker');
+    // Module is a singleton with DOWN_THRESHOLD captured at module load —
+    // resetModules gives us a fresh module-level instance with the new env.
+    const hc2 = HC2Module;
+    hc2.displayedStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.consecutiveSinceChange = new Map();
+    hc2.currentStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.history = {};
+    hc2.removeAllListeners('status-check');
+    const spy = jest.fn();
+    hc2.on('status-check', spy);
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());      // 1
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());      // 2 — still green (need 3)
+    expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(hc2.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('up');
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());      // 3 — flip
+    expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(hc2.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('down');
+  });
+
+  test.each(['not-a-number', '0', '-2', '1.5'])('malformed DOWN_THRESHOLD %s falls back to 2', value => {
+    process.env.HEALTH_DOWN_THRESHOLD = value;
+    jest.resetModules();
+    const hc2 = require('../src/monitoring/health-checker');
+    hc2.displayedStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.consecutiveSinceChange = new Map();
+    hc2.currentStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.history = {};
+    hc2.removeAllListeners('status-check');
+    const spy = jest.fn();
+    hc2.on('status-check', spy);
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
+
+  test('UP_THRESHOLD env var greater than 1 is honored', () => {
+    process.env.HEALTH_UP_THRESHOLD = '2';
+    jest.resetModules();
+    const hc2 = require('../src/monitoring/health-checker');
+    hc2.displayedStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.consecutiveSinceChange = new Map();
+    hc2.currentStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.history = {};
+    hc2.removeAllListeners('status-check');
+    const spy = jest.fn();
+    hc2.on('status-check', spy);
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(hc2.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('down');
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(hc2.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('up');
+  });
+
+  test.each(['not-a-number', '0', '-2', '1.5'])('malformed UP_THRESHOLD %s falls back to 1', value => {
+    process.env.HEALTH_UP_THRESHOLD = value;
+    jest.resetModules();
+    const hc2 = require('../src/monitoring/health-checker');
+    hc2.displayedStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.consecutiveSinceChange = new Map();
+    hc2.currentStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.history = {};
+    hc2.removeAllListeners('status-check');
+    const spy = jest.fn();
+    hc2.on('status-check', spy);
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    hc2.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(hc2.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('up');
+  });
+
+  test('removeService clears hysteresis state before the same ID is re-added', () => {
+    hc.config.services.svc1 = { name: 'Service 1' };
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeUp());
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+    expect(hc.displayedStatus.has('svc1')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hc.consecutiveSinceChange.get('svc1')).toBe(1);
+    hc.consecutiveFailures.set('svc1', 3);
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => {}, 60_000);
+    hc.serviceTimers.set('svc1', timer);
+
+    hc.saveConfig = jest.fn();
+    hc.removeService('svc1');
+
+    expect(hc.displayedStatus.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+    expect(hc.consecutiveSinceChange.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+    expect(hc.currentStatus.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+    expect(hc.consecutiveFailures.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+    expect(hc.serviceTimers.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+
+    hc.config.services.svc1 = { name: 'Service 1 re-added' };
+    const emitSpyAfterReAdd = jest.fn();
+    hc.on('status-check', emitSpyAfterReAdd);
+    hc.recordStatus('svc1', makeDown());
+
+    expect(emitSpyAfterReAdd).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(hc.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('down');
+    expect(hc.consecutiveSinceChange.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/health-checker-incident-parity.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+/**
+ * Tests for DC-090: outage incidents follow the DISPLAYED (post-hysteresis)
+ * status — the same signal that flips the dashboard badge.
+ *
+ *   - A single raw "down" blip that hysteresis suppresses opens NO outage
+ *     incident (the DC-089-noted raw-transition bug).
+ *   - A suppressed blip does not resolve a real open outage (UP_THRESHOLD=2).
+ *   - DOWN_THRESHOLD consecutive downs open exactly ONE outage incident.
+ *   - The incident payload carries the displayed snapshot, not the raw probe.
+ *   - Direct callers without hysteresis state keep legacy raw semantics.
+ *
+ * The probe() helper replicates checkService's exact call order: capture the
+ * pre-probe raw + displayed state, recordStatus (updates both maps), then
+ * checkForIncidents with both previous states.
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const os = require('os');
+
+// Use an isolated data dir so test history doesn't pollute the real one.
+const tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'dashcaddy-incpar-'));
+process.env.HEALTH_DATA_DIR = tmpDir;
+process.env.HEALTH_CONFIG_FILE = path.join(tmpDir, 'health-config.json');
+process.env.HEALTH_HISTORY_FILE = path.join(tmpDir, 'health-history.json');
+
+// Module exports a singleton instance, not a class. Reset per-test state by
+// replacing the relevant maps on the singleton in beforeEach.
+const healthCheckerSingleton = require('../src/monitoring/health-checker');
+const originalDownThreshold = process.env.HEALTH_DOWN_THRESHOLD;
+const originalUpThreshold = process.env.HEALTH_UP_THRESHOLD;
+
+function restoreEnv(name, value) {
+  if (value === undefined) delete process.env[name];
+  else process.env[name] = value;
+}
+
+function makeUp(serviceId = 'svc1') {
+  return {
+    serviceId,
+    timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
+    status: 'up',
+    responseTime: 50,
+    statusCode: 200,
+    message: 'Service is healthy',
+    details: { headers: {}, bodyLength: 12 }
+  };
+}
+
+function makeDown(serviceId = 'svc1') {
+  return {
+    serviceId,
+    timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
+    status: 'down',
+    responseTime: 50,
+    statusCode: 500,
+    message: 'fail',
+    details: { headers: {}, bodyLength: 0 }
+  };
+}
+
+describe('DC-090: outage incidents follow the displayed (hysteresis) status', () => {
+  let hc;
+  let incidentCreatedSpy;
+  let incidentResolvedSpy;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    healthCheckerSingleton.displayedStatus = new Map();
+    healthCheckerSingleton.consecutiveSinceChange = new Map();
+    healthCheckerSingleton.currentStatus = new Map();
+    healthCheckerSingleton.history = {};
+    healthCheckerSingleton.incidents = [];
+    healthCheckerSingleton.removeAllListeners('incident-created');
+    healthCheckerSingleton.removeAllListeners('incident-resolved');
+    incidentCreatedSpy = jest.fn();
+    incidentResolvedSpy = jest.fn();
+    healthCheckerSingleton.on('incident-created', incidentCreatedSpy);
+    healthCheckerSingleton.on('incident-resolved', incidentResolvedSpy);
+    hc = healthCheckerSingleton;
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    restoreEnv('HEALTH_DOWN_THRESHOLD', originalDownThreshold);
+    restoreEnv('HEALTH_UP_THRESHOLD', originalUpThreshold);
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    fs.rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  // Replicates checkService's record+incident sequence for one raw probe.
+  function probe(status, config = {}) {
+    const previousStatus = hc.currentStatus.get(status.serviceId);
+    const previousDisplayed = hc.displayedStatus.get(status.serviceId) || null;
+    hc.recordStatus(status.serviceId, status);
+    hc.checkForIncidents(status.serviceId, status, config, previousStatus, previousDisplayed);
+  }
+
+  test('a single down blip between two ups opens NO outage incident', () => {
+    probe(makeUp());      // baseline: displayed up
+    probe(makeDown());    // blip — hysteresis keeps displayed up
+    probe(makeUp());      // recovered
+    expect(hc.incidents).toHaveLength(0);
+    expect(incidentCreatedSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test('DOWN_THRESHOLD consecutive downs open exactly one outage incident (critical)', () => {
+    probe(makeUp());
+    probe(makeDown());    // counter=1, displayed still up
+    probe(makeDown());    // counter=2 → displayed flips down → incident
+    expect(hc.incidents).toHaveLength(1);
+    const incident = hc.incidents[0];
+    expect(incident.type).toBe('outage');
+    expect(incident.severity).toBe('critical');
+    expect(incident.status).toBe('open');
+    expect(incidentCreatedSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    probe(makeDown());    // still down — no new transition, no second incident
+    expect(hc.incidents).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(incident.occurrences).toBe(1);  // occurrences count displayed flips, not raw probes
+    expect(incidentCreatedSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  test('the outage incident payload carries the displayed snapshot, not the raw blip', () => {
+    probe(makeUp());
+    const blip = makeDown();
+    blip.statusCode = 599;
+    probe(blip);          // suppressed blip — must not appear in any incident
+    probe(makeDown());    // flip
+    expect(hc.incidents).toHaveLength(1);
+    // The incident's details snapshot is the probe that FLIPPED the displayed
+    // state (the second down), not the earlier suppressed blip.
+    expect(hc.incidents[0].details.statusCode).not.toBe(599);
+  });
+
+  test('a suppressed up blip does not resolve a real open outage (UP_THRESHOLD=2)', () => {
+    process.env.HEALTH_UP_THRESHOLD = '2';
+    jest.resetModules();
+    const hc2 = require('../src/monitoring/health-checker');
+    hc2.displayedStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.consecutiveSinceChange = new Map();
+    hc2.currentStatus = new Map();
+    hc2.history = {};
+    hc2.incidents = [];
+    hc2.removeAllListeners('incident-created');
+    hc2.removeAllListeners('incident-resolved');
+
+    const p2 = (status) => {
+      const prevRaw = hc2.currentStatus.get(status.serviceId);
+      const prevDisp = hc2.displayedStatus.get(status.serviceId) || null;
+      hc2.recordStatus(status.serviceId, status);
+      hc2.checkForIncidents(status.serviceId, status, {}, prevRaw, prevDisp);
+    };
+
+    p2(makeUp());
+    p2(makeDown());
+    p2(makeDown());       // displayed down → outage opens
+    expect(hc2.incidents).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(hc2.incidents[0].status).toBe('open');
+
+    p2(makeUp());         // counter=1 < UP_THRESHOLD=2 → displayed still down
+    expect(hc2.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('down');
+    expect(hc2.incidents[0].status).toBe('open');   // NOT resolved by the blip
+
+    p2(makeUp());         // counter=2 → displayed up → incident resolves
+    expect(hc2.displayedStatus.get('svc1').status).toBe('up');
+    expect(hc2.incidents[0].status).toBe('resolved');
+  });
+
+  test('legacy direct callers (no displayed state) keep raw transition semantics', () => {
+    hc.currentStatus.set('svc1', { status: 'up' });
+    const status = { status: 'down', timestamp: new Date().toISOString(), responseTime: 100 };
+    hc.checkForIncidents('svc1', status, {});   // 4-arg call, no previousDisplayed
+    expect(hc.incidents).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(hc.incidents[0].type).toBe('outage');
+  });
+
+  test('slow-response detection still fires per-probe regardless of hysteresis', () => {
+    const slowUp = makeUp();
+    slowUp.responseTime = 6000;
+    probe(slowUp, { slowResponseThreshold: 5000 });
+    expect(hc.incidents.some(i => i.type === 'slow-response')).toBe(true);
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/health-checker.test.js

@@ -203,6 +203,55 @@ describe('HealthChecker', () => {
       expect(result.error).toBe('ECONNREFUSED');
     });
 
+    it('opens and resolves an outage incident across real checkService transitions', async () => {
+      // DC-090: incidents follow the DISPLAYED (post-hysteresis) status.
+      // DOWN_THRESHOLD defaults to 2, so it takes two consecutive failed
+      // probes to flip displayed down and open the outage; one up probe
+      // (UP_THRESHOLD=1) resolves it.
+      healthChecker._doRequest = jest.fn()
+        .mockResolvedValueOnce({ healthy: true, statusCode: 200, message: 'ok', details: {} })
+        .mockResolvedValueOnce({ healthy: false, statusCode: 500, message: 'down', details: {} })
+        .mockResolvedValueOnce({ healthy: false, statusCode: 500, message: 'down', details: {} })
+        .mockResolvedValueOnce({ healthy: true, statusCode: 200, message: 'ok', details: {} });
+
+      const config = { url: 'http://test.local' };
+      await healthChecker.checkService('svc1', config);
+      await healthChecker.checkService('svc1', config);
+      expect(healthChecker.incidents).toHaveLength(0);   // one down alone: suppressed blip
+
+      await healthChecker.checkService('svc1', config);  // second down flips displayed → open
+      expect(healthChecker.incidents).toHaveLength(1);
+      expect(healthChecker.incidents[0]).toMatchObject({
+        serviceId: 'svc1',
+        type: 'outage',
+        status: 'open'
+      });
+
+      await healthChecker.checkService('svc1', config);  // up resolves
+      expect(healthChecker.incidents[0].status).toBe('resolved');
+      expect(healthChecker.incidents[0].resolvedAt).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    it('does not resurrect state when an in-flight probe resolves after removal', async () => {
+      let resolveProbe;
+      healthChecker.config.services.svc1 = { url: 'http://test.local' };
+      healthChecker._doRequest = jest.fn(() => new Promise(resolve => {
+        resolveProbe = resolve;
+      }));
+
+      const pending = healthChecker.checkService('svc1', healthChecker.config.services.svc1);
+      healthChecker.saveConfig = jest.fn();
+      healthChecker.removeService('svc1');
+      resolveProbe({ healthy: true, statusCode: 200, message: 'late', details: {} });
+      await pending;
+
+      expect(healthChecker.currentStatus.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+      expect(healthChecker.displayedStatus.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+      expect(healthChecker.consecutiveFailures.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+      expect(healthChecker.history.svc1).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(healthChecker.incidents).toEqual([]);
+    });
+
     it('increments consecutive failures on error', async () => {
       healthChecker._doRequest = jest.fn().mockRejectedValue(new Error('fail'));
 
@@ -549,6 +598,113 @@ describe('HealthChecker', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  describe('DC-088: removeService generation tombstones + incident closure', () => {
+    it('does not leak a serviceGenerations entry and records a tombstone', () => {
+      healthChecker.configureService('svc1', { url: 'http://test.local' });
+      expect(healthChecker.serviceGenerations.has('svc1')).toBe(true);
+
+      healthChecker.removeService('svc1');
+
+      expect(healthChecker.serviceGenerations.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+      const tomb = healthChecker.removedGenerations.get('svc1');
+      expect(tomb).toBeDefined();
+      expect(tomb.generation).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      expect(tomb.removedAt).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    });
+
+    it('re-added service gets a strictly higher generation (no ABA)', () => {
+      healthChecker.configureService('svc1', { url: 'http://test.local' });
+      const gen1 = healthChecker.serviceGenerations.get('svc1');
+
+      healthChecker.removeService('svc1');
+      healthChecker.configureService('svc1', { url: 'http://test.local/v2' });
+
+      const gen2 = healthChecker.serviceGenerations.get('svc1');
+      expect(gen2).toBeGreaterThan(gen1);
+      expect(healthChecker.removedGenerations.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('closes open incidents for the removed service as resolved', () => {
+      healthChecker.saveConfig = jest.fn();
+      healthChecker.incidents.push({
+        id: 'incident-test-1',
+        serviceId: 'svc1',
+        type: 'outage',
+        status: 'open',
+        createdAt: new Date(Date.now() - 60_000).toISOString()
+      });
+      healthChecker.incidents.push({
+        id: 'incident-other',
+        serviceId: 'svc2',
+        type: 'outage',
+        status: 'open',
+        createdAt: new Date(Date.now() - 60_000).toISOString()
+      });
+      const resolvedSpy = jest.fn();
+      healthChecker.on('incident-resolved', resolvedSpy);
+
+      healthChecker.removeService('svc1');
+
+      const closed = healthChecker.incidents.find(i => i.id === 'incident-test-1');
+      expect(closed.status).toBe('resolved');
+      expect(closed.resolvedBy).toBe('service-removed');
+      expect(closed.resolvedAt).toBeDefined();
+      expect(closed.duration).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      expect(healthChecker.incidents.find(i => i.id === 'incident-other').status).toBe('open');
+      expect(resolvedSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    });
+
+    it('in-flight probe captured before removal is discarded via tombstone', async () => {
+      let resolveProbe;
+      healthChecker.config.services.svc1 = { url: 'http://test.local' };
+      healthChecker._doRequest = jest.fn(() => new Promise(resolve => {
+        resolveProbe = resolve;
+      }));
+
+      const pending = healthChecker.checkService('svc1', healthChecker.config.services.svc1);
+      healthChecker.saveConfig = jest.fn();
+      healthChecker.removeService('svc1');
+      resolveProbe({ healthy: true, statusCode: 200, message: 'late', details: {} });
+      await pending;
+
+      expect(healthChecker.currentStatus.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+      expect(healthChecker.consecutiveFailures.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('a rejected in-flight probe after removal does not re-create failure state', async () => {
+      let rejectProbe;
+      healthChecker.config.services.svc1 = { url: 'http://test.local' };
+      healthChecker._doRequest = jest.fn(() => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        rejectProbe = reject;
+      }));
+
+      const pending = healthChecker.checkService('svc1', healthChecker.config.services.svc1);
+      healthChecker.saveConfig = jest.fn();
+      healthChecker.removeService('svc1');
+      rejectProbe(new Error('late failure'));
+      await pending;
+
+      expect(healthChecker.consecutiveFailures.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+      expect(healthChecker.currentStatus.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('sweeps expired tombstones in cleanupHistory', () => {
+      healthChecker.removedGenerations.set('svc1', {
+        generation: 1,
+        removedAt: Date.now() - 60 * 60 * 1000 // 1h ago, TTL default 10m
+      });
+      healthChecker.removedGenerations.set('svc2', {
+        generation: 2,
+        removedAt: Date.now() // fresh
+      });
+
+      healthChecker.cleanupHistory();
+
+      expect(healthChecker.removedGenerations.has('svc1')).toBe(false);
+      expect(healthChecker.removedGenerations.has('svc2')).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('cleanupHistory', () => {
     it('removes entries older than retention period', () => {
       const old = new Date(Date.now() - 35 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000).toISOString(); // 35 days ago

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/health-endpoints.test.js

@@ -26,6 +26,19 @@ jest.mock('dockerode', () => {
 function buildApp({ configOk = true, servicesOk = true, dockerOk = true, caddyOk = true } = {}) {
   process.env.MOCK_DOCKER_DOWN = dockerOk ? '0' : '1';
 
+  // DC-087 — mirror src/app.js faithfully: the caddy check goes through
+  // fetchT (which injects the Origin header Caddy's enforce_origin allowlist
+  // requires), and is MOCKED so the suite is hermetic — no live request to a
+  // real Caddy admin on :2019. The previous raw-`fetch` mirror sent an
+  // Origin-less probe to the LIVE admin whenever the full suite ran on the
+  // prod host (adversarial cron every 30 min): 12 journal 403 lines per run,
+  // ~700/day of `client is not allowed to access from origin ''` noise,
+  // plus a false checks.caddy.ok=false in the mirrored readiness payload.
+  const fetchT = jest.spyOn(require('../src/utils/http'), 'fetchT')
+    .mockImplementation(async () => (caddyOk
+      ? { ok: true, status: 200 }
+      : { ok: false, status: 403 }));
+
   const app = express();
   const config = {
     CONFIG_FILE: '/tmp/dc-test-config.json',
@@ -103,9 +116,13 @@ function buildApp({ configOk = true, servicesOk = true, dockerOk = true, caddyOk
       allOk = false;
     }
 
+    // DC-087 — mirror src/app.js exactly (fetchT, not raw fetch). fetchT is
+    // mocked at buildApp() scope, so this stays hermetic: no live probe to a
+    // real Caddy admin (the old raw-fetch mirror 403-spammed the prod journal
+    // every time the adversarial cron ran the full suite on this host).
     try {
       const caddyUrl = config.CADDY_ADMIN_URL || 'http://localhost:2019';
-      const response = await fetch(`${caddyUrl}/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/listen`, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(10000) });
+      const response = await fetchT(`${caddyUrl}/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/listen`, {}, 10000);
       checks.caddy = { ok: response.ok, status: response.status };
       if (!response.ok) allOk = false;
     } catch (e) {

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/health-probe-aliases.test.js

@@ -33,9 +33,18 @@ jest.mock('dockerode', () => {
 
 // Mirror the canonical handler block from src/app.js — if this drifts from
 // the real handler, these tests will start failing and force a sync.
-function buildApp({ configOk = true, servicesOk = true, dockerOk = true } = {}) {
+function buildApp({ configOk = true, servicesOk = true, dockerOk = true, caddyOk = true } = {}) {
   process.env.MOCK_DOCKER_DOWN = dockerOk ? '0' : '1';
 
+  // DC-087 — mirror src/app.js: caddy check via fetchT (Origin-injecting),
+  // mocked here so the suite is hermetic. The old raw-fetch mirror probed the
+  // LIVE Caddy admin on :2019 whenever the full suite ran on the prod host
+  // (adversarial cron): Origin-less → 403 → 12 journal error lines per run.
+  const fetchT = jest.spyOn(require('../src/utils/http'), 'fetchT')
+    .mockImplementation(async () => (caddyOk
+      ? { ok: true, status: 200 }
+      : { ok: false, status: 403 }));
+
   const app = express();
   const config = {
     CONFIG_FILE: '/tmp/dc-test-config.json',
@@ -108,8 +117,10 @@ function buildApp({ configOk = true, servicesOk = true, dockerOk = true } = {})
       allOk = false;
     }
     try {
+      // DC-087 — mirror src/app.js exactly: fetchT (mocked above), not raw
+      // fetch. Hermetic: no live request to a real Caddy admin.
       const caddyUrl = config.CADDY_ADMIN_URL || 'http://localhost:2019';
-      const response = await fetch(`${caddyUrl}/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/listen`, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(10000) });
+      const response = await fetchT(`${caddyUrl}/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/listen`, {}, 10000);
       checks.caddy = { ok: response.ok, status: response.status };
       if (!response.ok) allOk = false;
     } catch (e) {

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/notification-manager.test.js

@@ -214,4 +214,99 @@ describe('NotificationManager', () => {
     nm.stopHealthDaemon();
     expect(nm.healthDaemonInterval).toBeNull();
   });
+
+  // ── DC-092: event alias folding + legacy config canonicalization ──────────
+
+  test('DC-092: send() folds camelCase aliases onto canonical kebab keys', async () => {
+    // deploymentSuccess (emitted by routes/apps/deploy.js) previously hit a
+    // gate miss (no such key in events) and the notification was dropped.
+    const result = await nm.send('deploymentSuccess', { text: 'deployed' });
+    expect(result.error).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(nm.getHistory()[0].event).toBe('deploy-success');
+  });
+
+  test('DC-092: send() accepts the canonical kebab spelling too', async () => {
+    const result = await nm.send('deploy-success', { text: 'deployed' });
+    expect(result.error).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(nm.getHistory()[0].event).toBe('deploy-success');
+  });
+
+  test("DC-092: send('test') bypasses the events gate (Test button works)", async () => {
+    const result = await nm.send('test', { text: 'Test Notification' });
+    // No providers are enabled in the default config, so results is empty —
+    // but the gate must NOT return 'Event test not enabled' like it used to.
+    expect(result.error).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(nm.getHistory()[0].event).toBe('test');
+  });
+
+  test('DC-092: send() still gates unknown and disabled events', async () => {
+    const unknown = await nm.send('some-unknown-event', { text: 'x' });
+    expect(unknown.success).toBe(false);
+    expect(unknown.error).toMatch(/not enabled/i);
+
+    nm.config.events['container-down'] = false;
+    const disabled = await nm.send('container-down', { text: 'x' });
+    expect(disabled.success).toBe(false);
+    expect(disabled.error).toMatch(/not enabled/i);
+  });
+
+  test('DC-092: DEFAULT_CONFIG includes deploy/auto-restart events', () => {
+    // Regression pin: these were absent entirely, so deploy notifications
+    // were dropped for every install regardless of UI toggles.
+    expect(nm.config.events['deploy-success']).toBe(true);
+    expect(nm.config.events['deploy-failed']).toBe(true);
+    expect(nm.config.events['auto-restart']).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('DC-092: legacy config with user/pass and camelCase events canonicalizes on load', () => {
+    fs.existsSync.mockReturnValue(true);
+    fs.readFileSync.mockReturnValue(JSON.stringify({
+      enabled: true,
+      providers: {
+        email: {
+          enabled: true,
+          host: 'smtp.test',
+          port: 465,
+          secure: 'false', // legacy string — must normalize to boolean false
+          to: 'me@test',
+          from: 'from@test',
+          user: 'legacy-user',
+          pass: 'legacy-pass',
+        }
+      },
+      events: {
+        containerDown: false,
+        deploymentSuccess: false,
+      }
+    }));
+    const loaded = new NotificationManager({
+      NOTIFICATIONS_FILE: NOTIF_FILE,
+      log: { error: jest.fn(), info: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn() },
+    });
+    const email = loaded.getConfig().providers.email;
+    expect(email.username).toBe('legacy-user');
+    expect(email.password).toBe('legacy-pass');
+    expect(email.user).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(email.pass).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(email.secure).toBe(false);
+    const events = loaded.getConfig().events;
+    expect(events['container-down']).toBe(false);
+    expect(events['deploy-success']).toBe(false);
+    expect(events.containerDown).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(events.deploymentSuccess).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  test('DC-092: canonical keys win when both spellings exist in a legacy file', () => {
+    fs.existsSync.mockReturnValue(true);
+    fs.readFileSync.mockReturnValue(JSON.stringify({
+      providers: { email: { user: 'legacy', username: 'canonical' } },
+      events: { containerDown: false, 'container-down': true },
+    }));
+    const loaded = new NotificationManager({
+      NOTIFICATIONS_FILE: NOTIF_FILE,
+      log: { error: jest.fn(), info: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn() },
+    });
+    expect(loaded.getConfig().providers.email.username).toBe('canonical');
+    expect(loaded.getConfig().events['container-down']).toBe(true);
+  });
 });

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/auth.totp.routes.test.js

@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ function createApp(depsOverride = {}) {
     errorResponse: jest.fn(),
     log,
     renewCSRFToken,
+    siteConfig: { tld: '.sami', dashboardHost: 'status.sami' },
     ...depsOverride,
   };
 
@@ -299,7 +300,7 @@ describe('TOTP Auth Routes — DC-006 Integration Test', () => {
     it('returns 200 + creates new session + rotates CSRF on valid code (BACKLOG: "valid TOTP → session token → authenticated request succeeds")', async () => {
       const secret = await setupTOTP();
       const token = authenticator.generate(secret);
-      const res = await request(app).post('/api/totp/verify').send({ code: token });
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/totp/verify').send({ code: token, serviceId: 'plex' });
       expect(res.status).toBe(200);
       expect(res.body.success).toBe(true);
       expect(res.body.message).toMatch(/Authenticated successfully/);
@@ -308,8 +309,29 @@ describe('TOTP Auth Routes — DC-006 Integration Test', () => {
       expect(deps.session.create).toHaveBeenCalled();
       expect(deps.session.setCookie).toHaveBeenCalled();
       expect(deps.session.createHandoffToken).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      expect(deps.session.createHandoffToken).toHaveBeenCalledWith('plex.sami');
       expect(deps.renewCSRFToken).toHaveBeenCalled();
     });
+
+    it('does not issue an unbound handoff token for a dashboard-only login', async () => {
+      const secret = await setupTOTP();
+      const token = authenticator.generate(secret);
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/totp/verify').send({ code: token });
+
+      expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(res.body.ssoToken).toBeNull();
+      expect(deps.session.createHandoffToken).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it('rejects an invalid handoff service ID before issuing a token', async () => {
+      const secret = await setupTOTP();
+      const token = authenticator.generate(secret);
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/totp/verify').send({ code: token, serviceId: 'plex.sami' });
+
+      expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+      expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/Invalid service ID/);
+      expect(deps.session.createHandoffToken).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
   });
 
   // ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -450,7 +472,7 @@ describe('TOTP Auth Routes — DC-006 Integration Test', () => {
 
       // 4. Re-login via /totp/verify (the "login" path)
       const loginCode = authenticator.generate(secret);
-      const loginRes = await request(app).post('/api/totp/verify').send({ code: loginCode });
+      const loginRes = await request(app).post('/api/totp/verify').send({ code: loginCode, serviceId: 'plex' });
       expect(loginRes.status).toBe(200);
       expect(loginRes.body.csrfToken).toBeDefined();
       expect(loginRes.body.ssoToken).toBe('mock-sso-handoff-token');

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/discover-disaster.routes.test.js

@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ function createDiscoverApp(docker, servicesStateManager) {
 
 function createDisasterApp(platformPaths, log) {
   const app = express();
-  app.use(express.json());
+  // Match the production body-parser limit (1 MiB) so the in-handler
+  // DC-079 cap (512 KiB) is actually reachable from tests. The default
+  // express.json() limit is 100 KiB, which would short-circuit the test
+  // with a 413 before the route's defense-in-depth check runs.
+  app.use(express.json({ limit: '1mb' }));
   const routes = require('../../routes/disaster-recovery');
   const wrap = (fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next);
   app.use('/api/v1', routes({ platformPaths, log: log || { info: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn() }, asyncHandler: wrap }));
@@ -135,4 +139,267 @@ describe('DC-107: Disaster Recovery', () => {
     const svc = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'services.json'), 'utf8'));
     expect(svc[0].id).toBe('restored-svc');
   });
+
+  // DC-079: Caddyfile restore hardening — the live Caddyfile path must
+  // NEVER be written from the disaster-recovery endpoint. The endpoint
+  // stages the candidate file under dataDir/disaster-staged/Caddyfile.candidate
+  // and surfaces a warning that `caddy-apply` is required to apply it.
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore with caddyfile STAGES instead of writing the live Caddyfile', async () => {
+    // The env var CADDYFILE_PATH is read by the route. Use a sentinel
+    // path that we can prove was NOT written. The route must instead
+    // create <dataDir>/disaster-staged/Caddyfile.candidate.
+    const liveSentinel = path.join(tmpDir, 'LIVE_CADDYFILE_SENTINEL.txt');
+    fs.writeFileSync(liveSentinel, 'do-not-overwrite');
+
+    const candidateCaddyfile =
+      '# staged candidate\n' +
+      'example.com {\n' +
+      '  respond "ok"\n' +
+      '}\n';
+
+    const app = createDisasterApp({
+      dataDir: tmpDir,
+      caddyfilePath: liveSentinel, // route reads env or fallback; this is just for the response
+    });
+    // Override process.env.CADDYFILE_PATH so the route picks up our sentinel
+    const prev = process.env.CADDYFILE_PATH;
+    process.env.CADDYFILE_PATH = liveSentinel;
+    try {
+      const res = await request(app)
+        .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+        .send({
+          version: '1.0',
+          caddyfile: candidateCaddyfile,
+        });
+
+      expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(res.body.status).toBe('success');
+      expect(res.body.caddyfileStaged).toBeTruthy();
+      expect(res.body.caddyfileStaged).toHaveLength(1);
+      expect(res.body.caddyfileStaged[0].file).toBe('Caddyfile');
+      expect(res.body.caddyfileStaged[0].action).toBe('awaiting caddy-apply');
+      expect(res.body.caddyfileStaged[0].stagedPath).toBe(
+        path.join(tmpDir, 'disaster-staged', 'Caddyfile.candidate')
+      );
+      expect(res.body.caddyfileStaged[0].livePath).toBe(liveSentinel);
+      expect(res.body.warning).toMatch(/DC-079/);
+
+      // The live sentinel file is UNTOUCHED — still has its original content.
+      const liveContents = fs.readFileSync(liveSentinel, 'utf8');
+      expect(liveContents).toBe('do-not-overwrite');
+
+      // The candidate file IS staged at the staging path.
+      const stagedContents = fs.readFileSync(
+        path.join(tmpDir, 'disaster-staged', 'Caddyfile.candidate'),
+        'utf8'
+      );
+      expect(stagedContents).toBe(candidateCaddyfile);
+    } finally {
+      if (prev === undefined) delete process.env.CADDYFILE_PATH;
+      else process.env.CADDYFILE_PATH = prev;
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects non-string caddyfile content', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        caddyfile: { evil: 'object' },
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/Caddyfile content must be a string/);
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects explicit empty caddyfile string', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        caddyfile: '', // explicit empty payload — rejected
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/Caddyfile content is empty/);
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects oversized caddyfile content', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    // 512 KiB + 1 byte — over the in-handler cap, under the 1 MB body limit
+    const huge = 'a'.repeat(512 * 1024 + 1);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        caddyfile: huge,
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/exceeds 524288 bytes/);
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects forbidden `import` directive (absolute path)', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const evil =
+      '# malicious snapshot\n' +
+      'import /etc/caddy/external.caddy\n' +
+      'example.com { respond "ok" }\n';
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        caddyfile: evil,
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/forbidden `import` directive/);
+
+    // No staging file should have been created — fail closed.
+    expect(fs.existsSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'disaster-staged', 'Caddyfile.candidate'))).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects forbidden `import` with relative-path escape', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const evil =
+      '# malicious snapshot\n' +
+      'import ../../../etc/passwd\n' +
+      'example.com { respond "ok" }\n';
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        caddyfile: evil,
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/forbidden `import` directive/);
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects URL-encoded import payload', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const evil =
+      'import %2fetc%2fcaddy%2fevil.caddy\n' +
+      'example.com { respond "ok" }\n';
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        caddyfile: evil,
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/forbidden `import` directive/);
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore without caddyfile field succeeds and stages nothing', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        files: {
+          services: [{ id: 'no-caddy' }],
+        },
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.caddyfileStaged).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(res.body.warning).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  // DC-079 follow-up (GLM round-2 BLOCKING): assets/themes path traversal.
+  // Without the assertSafeAssetKey / assertSafeThemeName + path.resolve
+  // checks, an attacker can POST `{assets: {"../../etc/caddy/Caddyfile":
+  // "<base64-evil>"}}` and overwrite the live Caddyfile via the dataDir
+  // bind-mount. These tests prove the fix.
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects assets with path-traversal key', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        assets: {
+          '../../etc/caddy/Caddyfile': Buffer.from('EVIL_BASE64_PAYLOAD').toString('base64'),
+          'custom-logo.png': Buffer.from('legit-logo').toString('base64'),
+        },
+      });
+
+    // The traversal key is rejected (added to errors), the legit key
+    // still works. Status is success-or-partial, never 500.
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.status).toBe('partial'); // one error
+    const erroredFile = res.body.errors.find(e => e.file && e.file.includes('../../etc/caddy/Caddyfile'));
+    expect(erroredFile).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(erroredFile.error).toMatch(/forbidden characters or path segments/);
+
+    // The legit logo DID get written.
+    const legitPath = path.join(tmpDir, 'assets', 'custom-logo.png');
+    expect(fs.existsSync(legitPath)).toBe(true);
+
+    // The traversal target was NEVER written.
+    const escapePath = path.join(tmpDir, 'assets', '../../etc/caddy/Caddyfile');
+    // Resolve to absolute path — should be outside tmpDir/assets.
+    const resolvedEsc = path.resolve(escapePath);
+    expect(fs.existsSync(resolvedEsc)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects assets with absolute path key', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        assets: {
+          '/etc/passwd': Buffer.from('evil').toString('base64'),
+        },
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.status).toBe('partial');
+    const erroredFile = res.body.errors.find(e => e.file && e.file.includes('/etc/passwd'));
+    expect(erroredFile).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects themes with path-traversal name', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        themes: {
+          '../../../etc/caddy/evil.json': { evil: true },
+          'legit-theme.json': { ok: true },
+        },
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.status).toBe('partial');
+    const erroredFile = res.body.errors.find(e => e.file && e.file.includes('../../../etc/caddy/evil.json'));
+    expect(erroredFile).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(erroredFile.error).toMatch(/must match/);
+
+    // The legit theme DID get written.
+    expect(fs.existsSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'themes', 'legit-theme.json'))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('DC-079: POST /disaster/restore rejects themes without .json extension', async () => {
+    const app = createDisasterApp({ dataDir: tmpDir });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/disaster/restore')
+      .send({
+        version: '1.0',
+        themes: {
+          'no-extension': { ok: true },
+        },
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.status).toBe('partial');
+    const erroredFile = res.body.errors.find(e => e.file && e.file.includes('no-extension'));
+    expect(erroredFile).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(erroredFile.error).toMatch(/must match/);
+  });
 });

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/log-insights.routes.test.js

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+/**
+ * DC-081: log-insights dispose path + keepDays input validation hardening.
+ *
+ * Two coupled bugs surfaced in the 2026-08-19 sweep:
+ *
+ *  1. log-insights.js hardcoded the audit-log.json + security-events.jsonl
+ *     paths to `/opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/...`, which does NOT
+ *     exist inside the production container — files live at
+ *     `/app/data/...` (mounted via the existing data bind). The dispose
+ *     endpoint silently no-op'd: `fs.readFile('/opt/.../audit-log.json')`
+ *     hit the `.catch` arm → `auditData = []` → wrote an empty file back.
+ *
+ *  2. `parseInt(req.body.keepDays) || 30` accepted negative numbers. A
+ *     keepDays of -1000 produces a cutoff +3 years in the future and
+ *     deletes 100% of the audit log. Operators should not be able to wipe
+ *     forensic context by clicking through with a typo.
+ *
+ * DC-081 fix:
+ *   - `_resolvePaths()` returns `{ auditPath, secPath }` from
+ *     `process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE || path.join(platformPaths.dataDir, 'audit-log.json')`
+ *     — same canonical resolution as the audit-logger module.
+ *   - `_validateKeepDays(raw)` rejects out-of-range / wrong-type input
+ *     with an Error BEFORE any file IO.
+ *   - POST /log-insights/dispose now requires `{ keepDays: integer 1..3650, confirm: true }`.
+ *     The pre-confirm preview is read-only.
+ *
+ * Verified live on DNS2 2026-08-19: `/app/data/audit-log.json` (318 KB)
+ * and `/app/data/security-events.jsonl` (15 MB) both exist; the old
+ * `/opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/...` paths are ENOENT in the container.
+ */
+
+const express = require('express');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const fsp = require('fs').promises;
+const os = require('os');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const logInsightsMod = require('../../routes/log-insights');
+
+function tmpAuditLogger() {
+  // The route module only uses auditLogger.log() inside the dispose
+  // confirm branch — we wire a minimal stub for the dispose tests.
+  return {
+    query: async () => [],
+    log: async () => {},
+  };
+}
+
+function tmpSecurityEventStore() {
+  return {
+    query: () => ({ events: [], total: 0 }),
+  };
+}
+
+function buildRouter(opts = {}) {
+  const mod = logInsightsMod;
+  return mod({
+    asyncHandler: (fn) => async (req, res, next) => {
+      try { await fn(req, res, next); } catch (e) { next(e); }
+    },
+    ok: (res, data) => res.json({ success: true, ...data }),
+    auditLogger: opts.auditLogger || tmpAuditLogger(),
+    securityEventStore: opts.securityEventStore || tmpSecurityEventStore(),
+  });
+}
+
+function makeApp(router) {
+  const app = express();
+  app.use(express.json());
+  app.use(router);
+  // Capture errors so a thrown ValidationError doesn't crash the test
+  // runner — the route uses asyncHandler which forwards to next().
+  app.use((err, req, res, next) => res.status(err.statusCode || 500).json({ success: false, error: err.message, code: err.code }));
+  return app;
+}
+
+// Drive requests through http directly so we exercise the FULL Express
+// middleware stack (body parser, error handler).
+function start(app) {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    const server = app.listen(0, '127.0.0.1', () => resolve(server));
+  });
+}
+
+function stop(server) {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => server.close(resolve));
+}
+
+function httpJson(server, httpMethod, urlPath) {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const port = server.address().port;
+    const data = httpMethod === 'GET' ? '' : JSON.stringify({});
+    const req = require('http').request({
+      hostname: '127.0.0.1', port, path: urlPath, method: httpMethod,
+      headers: httpMethod === 'GET'
+        ? {}
+        : { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(data) },
+    }, (res) => {
+      const chunks = [];
+      res.on('data', (c) => chunks.push(c));
+      res.on('end', () => {
+        const body = Buffer.concat(chunks).toString('utf8');
+        try { resolve({ status: res.statusCode, body: JSON.parse(body) }); }
+        catch (_) { resolve({ status: res.statusCode, body }); }
+      });
+    });
+    req.on('error', reject);
+    if (httpMethod !== 'GET') req.write(data);
+    req.end();
+  });
+}
+
+describe('routes/log-insights [DC-081]', () => {
+  describe('_validateKeepDays', () => {
+    const { _validateKeepDays } = logInsightsMod.__test;
+
+    test('rejects undefined / null / missing', () => {
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(undefined)).toThrow(/required/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(null)).toThrow(/required/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays()).toThrow(/required/i);
+    });
+
+    test('rejects non-finite numbers (NaN, Infinity, -Infinity)', () => {
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(NaN)).toThrow(/finite/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(Infinity)).toThrow(/finite/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(-Infinity)).toThrow(/finite/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays('not-a-number')).toThrow(/finite/i);
+    });
+
+    test('rejects non-integers (floats, strings of floats)', () => {
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(1.5)).toThrow(/integer/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(30.7)).toThrow(/integer/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays('30.5')).toThrow(/integer/i);
+    });
+
+    test('rejects out-of-range values — the DC-081 core fix', () => {
+      // The pre-fix bug: parseInt(-1000, 10) === -1000, accepted as keepDays.
+      // cutoff = Date.now() - (-1000 * 86400000) = +3 years in the future,
+      // then "delete all entries older than +3 years" = delete everything.
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(-1)).toThrow(/between 1 and 3650/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(-1000)).toThrow(/between 1 and 3650/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(0)).toThrow(/between 1 and 3650/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(3651)).toThrow(/between 1 and 3650/i);
+      expect(() => _validateKeepDays(1000000)).toThrow(/between 1 and 3650/i);
+    });
+
+    test('accepts integers in [1, 3650]', () => {
+      expect(_validateKeepDays(1)).toBe(1);
+      expect(_validateKeepDays(30)).toBe(30);
+      expect(_validateKeepDays(90)).toBe(90);
+      expect(_validateKeepDays(365)).toBe(365);
+      expect(_validateKeepDays(3650)).toBe(3650);
+    });
+
+    test('coerces numeric strings', () => {
+      expect(_validateKeepDays('30')).toBe(30);
+      expect(_validateKeepDays('3650')).toBe(3650);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('_resolvePaths', () => {
+    const { _resolvePaths } = logInsightsMod.__test;
+
+    test('falls back to platformPaths.dataDir when env unset', () => {
+      const prevAudit = process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE;
+      const prevSec = process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE;
+      delete process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE;
+      delete process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE;
+      try {
+        const { auditPath, secPath } = _resolvePaths();
+        // platformPaths.dataDir is /app/data in the container, /etc/dashcaddy on host
+        expect(auditPath.endsWith('audit-log.json')).toBe(true);
+        expect(secPath.endsWith('security-events.jsonl')).toBe(true);
+        // Audit + security should land in the same data dir
+        expect(path.dirname(auditPath)).toBe(path.dirname(secPath));
+      } finally {
+        if (prevAudit !== undefined) process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE = prevAudit;
+        if (prevSec !== undefined) process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE = prevSec;
+      }
+    });
+
+    test('honours AUDIT_LOG_FILE / SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE env overrides', () => {
+      const prevAudit = process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE;
+      const prevSec = process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE;
+      process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE = '/tmp/dc-081-audit.json';
+      process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE = '/tmp/dc-081-sec.jsonl';
+      try {
+        const { auditPath, secPath, auditPathFrom, secPathFrom } = _resolvePaths();
+        expect(auditPath).toBe('/tmp/dc-081-audit.json');
+        expect(secPath).toBe('/tmp/dc-081-sec.jsonl');
+        expect(auditPathFrom).toBe('env');
+        expect(secPathFrom).toBe('env');
+      } finally {
+        if (prevAudit === undefined) delete process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE;
+        else process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE = prevAudit;
+        if (prevSec === undefined) delete process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE;
+        else process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE = prevSec;
+      }
+    });
+
+    test('matches the canonical paths used by audit-logger + event-store', async () => {
+      // Sanity: load both modules' resolved paths and assert they match
+      // what _resolvePaths returns. This catches a future refactor that
+      // moves one but not the others (the bug class that produced DC-081).
+      const prevAudit = process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE;
+      const prevSec = process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE;
+      delete process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE;
+      delete process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE;
+      try {
+        const auditLoggerMod = require('../../src/security/audit-logger');
+        const eventStoreMod = require('../../src/security/event-store');
+        // Trigger event-store module-load (it captures ENV at require time)
+        eventStoreMod.getStore();
+        const { auditPath, secPath } = _resolvePaths();
+        // The audit-logger module exports a singleton; its private
+        // AUDIT_LOG_FILE is not directly readable. Instead, we verify the
+        // shape: both paths share the same dataDir and use the canonical
+        // filenames.
+        expect(path.basename(auditPath)).toBe('audit-log.json');
+        expect(path.basename(secPath)).toBe('security-events.jsonl');
+        // And the dirname matches platformPaths.dataDir
+        const platformPaths = require('../../platform-paths');
+        expect(path.dirname(auditPath)).toBe(platformPaths.dataDir);
+        expect(path.dirname(secPath)).toBe(platformPaths.dataDir);
+        // Also sanity that the singleton logger at least exists
+        expect(auditLoggerMod).toBeDefined();
+      } finally {
+        if (prevAudit !== undefined) process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE = prevAudit;
+        if (prevSec !== undefined) process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE = prevSec;
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('POST /log-insights/dispose (TOTP-gated in production; here we hit the handler directly)', () => {
+    let server;
+    let app;
+    let tmpDir;
+    let auditFile;
+    let secFile;
+
+    beforeEach(async () => {
+      tmpDir = await fsp.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'dc-081-'));
+      auditFile = path.join(tmpDir, 'audit-log.json');
+      secFile = path.join(tmpDir, 'security-events.jsonl');
+      // Stage files so the route resolves them via env override.
+      process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE = auditFile;
+      process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE = secFile;
+      const router = buildRouter();
+      app = makeApp(router);
+      server = await start(app);
+    });
+
+    afterEach(async () => {
+      await stop(server);
+      delete process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE;
+      delete process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE;
+      await fsp.rm(tmpDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    });
+
+    function postKeepDays(body) {
+      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        const port = server.address().port;
+        const data = JSON.stringify(body);
+        const req = require('http').request({
+          hostname: '127.0.0.1', port, path: '/log-insights/dispose',
+          method: 'POST',
+          headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(data) },
+        }, (res) => {
+          const chunks = [];
+          res.on('data', (c) => chunks.push(c));
+          res.on('end', () => {
+            const body = Buffer.concat(chunks).toString('utf8');
+            try { resolve({ status: res.statusCode, body: JSON.parse(body) }); }
+            catch (_) { resolve({ status: res.statusCode, body }); }
+          });
+        });
+        req.on('error', reject);
+        req.write(data);
+        req.end();
+      });
+    }
+
+    test('rejects negative keepDays with 400 + DC-081_INVALID_KEEP_DAYS', async () => {
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: -1000 });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(400);
+      expect(r.body.code).toBe('DC-081_INVALID_KEEP_DAYS');
+      expect(r.body.error).toMatch(/between 1 and 3650/i);
+    });
+
+    test('rejects 0 keepDays (no-op-but-lies)', async () => {
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 0 });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(400);
+      expect(r.body.code).toBe('DC-081_INVALID_KEEP_DAYS');
+    });
+
+    test('rejects keepDays=Infinity (NaN-via-parseInt fallback)', async () => {
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: Infinity });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(400);
+      expect(r.body.code).toBe('DC-081_INVALID_KEEP_DAYS');
+    });
+
+    test('rejects non-integer keepDays', async () => {
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 30.5 });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(400);
+      expect(r.body.code).toBe('DC-081_INVALID_KEEP_DAYS');
+    });
+
+    test('rejects missing keepDays', async () => {
+      const r = await postKeepDays({});
+      expect(r.status).toBe(400);
+      expect(r.body.code).toBe('DC-081_INVALID_KEEP_DAYS');
+    });
+
+    test('rejects keepDays > 3650 (10-year cap)', async () => {
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 10000 });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(400);
+      expect(r.body.code).toBe('DC-081_INVALID_KEEP_DAYS');
+    });
+
+    test('preview pass: returns wouldDelete count without writing', async () => {
+      const oldTs = new Date(Date.now() - 100 * 86400000).toISOString(); // 100 days ago
+      const newTs = new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 86400000).toISOString();  // 5 days ago
+      await fsp.writeFile(auditFile, JSON.stringify([
+        { id: 'a1', timestamp: oldTs, action: 'service.create' },
+        { id: 'a2', timestamp: oldTs, action: 'service.delete' },
+        { id: 'a3', timestamp: newTs, action: 'auth.totp-verify' },
+      ]));
+      await fsp.writeFile(secFile, [
+        JSON.stringify({ id: 's1', timestamp: oldTs, severity: 'info' }),
+        JSON.stringify({ id: 's2', timestamp: oldTs, severity: 'info' }),
+        JSON.stringify({ id: 's3', timestamp: newTs, severity: 'info' }),
+      ].join('\n') + '\n');
+
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 30 });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(r.body.preview).toBe(true);
+      expect(r.body.wouldDelete.auditEntries).toBe(2);
+      expect(r.body.wouldDelete.securityEvents).toBe(2);
+      // Files untouched
+      const afterAudit = JSON.parse(await fsp.readFile(auditFile, 'utf8'));
+      expect(afterAudit.length).toBe(3);
+      const afterSec = (await fsp.readFile(secFile, 'utf8')).split('\n').filter(Boolean);
+      expect(afterSec.length).toBe(3);
+    });
+
+    test('confirm pass: actually deletes old entries, keeps new ones', async () => {
+      const oldTs = new Date(Date.now() - 100 * 86400000).toISOString();
+      const newTs = new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 86400000).toISOString();
+      await fsp.writeFile(auditFile, JSON.stringify([
+        { id: 'a1', timestamp: oldTs, action: 'service.create' },
+        { id: 'a2', timestamp: newTs, action: 'auth.totp-verify' },
+      ]));
+      await fsp.writeFile(secFile, [
+        JSON.stringify({ id: 's1', timestamp: oldTs, severity: 'info' }),
+        JSON.stringify({ id: 's2', timestamp: newTs, severity: 'info' }),
+      ].join('\n') + '\n');
+
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 30, confirm: true });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(r.body.disposed).toBe(true);
+      expect(r.body.deleted.auditEntries).toBe(1);
+      expect(r.body.deleted.securityEvents).toBe(1);
+      expect(r.body.remaining.auditEntries).toBe(1);
+      expect(r.body.remaining.securityEvents).toBe(1);
+
+      const afterAudit = JSON.parse(await fsp.readFile(auditFile, 'utf8'));
+      expect(afterAudit.map(e => e.id)).toEqual(['a2']);
+      const afterSec = (await fsp.readFile(secFile, 'utf8')).split('\n').filter(Boolean).map(JSON.parse);
+      expect(afterSec.map(e => e.id)).toEqual(['s2']);
+    });
+
+    test('confirm=false treated as preview (not confirm)', async () => {
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 30, confirm: false });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(r.body.preview).toBe(true);
+      // confirm was false, so no dispose
+      expect(r.body.disposed).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    test('preview response includes resolved paths so operator knows what files will be touched', async () => {
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 30 });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(r.body.paths.auditPath).toBe(auditFile);
+      expect(r.body.paths.secPath).toBe(secFile);
+    });
+
+    test('handles missing audit-log file gracefully on preview', async () => {
+      await fsp.unlink(auditFile).catch(() => {});
+      // fs.readFile().catch returns '[]', so preview reports 0 deletions
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 30 });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(r.body.wouldDelete.auditEntries).toBe(0);
+    });
+
+    test('returns 500 DC-081_AUDIT_PARSE_FAILED on corrupt audit-log file', async () => {
+      await fsp.writeFile(auditFile, 'this-is-not-json{');
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 30 });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(500);
+      expect(r.body.code).toBe('DC-081_AUDIT_PARSE_FAILED');
+    });
+
+    test('returns 500 DC-081_AUDIT_SHAPE_INVALID if audit-log is a JSON object, not array', async () => {
+      await fsp.writeFile(auditFile, JSON.stringify({ not: 'an array' }));
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: 30 });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(500);
+      expect(r.body.code).toBe('DC-081_AUDIT_SHAPE_INVALID');
+    });
+
+    test('DC-081 CORE: pre-fix keptDays=-1000 no longer wipes everything', async () => {
+      // Sanity-test the actual fix: a negative keepDays would, pre-fix,
+      // compute a cutoff in the FUTURE and then delete everything. After
+      // DC-081 it's a 400 with a clear error before any file read.
+      const r = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: -1000, confirm: true });
+      expect(r.status).toBe(400);
+      expect(r.body.success).toBe(false);
+      // No file IO occurred — confirm that an unrelated existing audit
+      // log file would survive. Since we already wiped tmpDir's auditFile
+      // is empty, write a sentinel and confirm it's still there after.
+      await fsp.writeFile(auditFile, JSON.stringify([{ id: 'sentinel', timestamp: new Date().toISOString() }]));
+      const r2 = await postKeepDays({ keepDays: -1000, confirm: true });
+      expect(r2.status).toBe(400);
+      const after = JSON.parse(await fsp.readFile(auditFile, 'utf8'));
+      expect(after.length).toBe(1);
+      expect(after[0].id).toBe('sentinel');
+    });
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/notifications-dc092.routes.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,267 @@
+/**
+ * DC-092: notifications config contract tests (route level).
+ *
+ * The settings UI and the backend drifted apart in three ways, all of which
+ * made user-facing features silently dead:
+ *   1. UI sent email.user/email.pass; backend read username/password →
+ *      SMTP auth never applied for UI-saved configs.
+ *   2. UI sent camelCase event keys (containerDown); the send() gate read
+ *      kebab-case keys (container-down) → event toggles were cosmetic.
+ *   3. deploy-success/deploy-failed/auto-restart were missing from DEFAULT
+ *      events → deploy + auto-restart notifications always dropped, and
+ *      'test' was gated too → the Test button was a no-op.
+ *   4. Non-boolean enabled/secure values (string "false") persisted as-is and
+ *      coerced truthy (!!secure) — silently forcing TLS.
+ *   5. UI password field roundtrip: GET /config omitted port/secure/to/
+ *      username, and an empty password on save clobbered the stored one.
+ *
+ * These tests pin the FIXED contract: alias normalization, strict booleans,
+ * event-key folding, non-destructive credential merge, redacted GET fields.
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const express = require('express');
+const request = require('supertest');
+
+// Stub notification manager: in-memory config object, real merge semantics
+// are exercised through the route; manager-level canonicalization has its
+// own tests in notification-manager.test.js.
+function makeStubNotification(initial) {
+  const nm = {
+    config: initial,
+    getConfig() { return this.config; },
+    async saveConfig() { this.saved = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(this.config)); return true; },
+    startHealthDaemon: jest.fn(),
+    stopHealthDaemon: jest.fn(),
+  };
+  return nm;
+}
+
+function buildApp(notification) {
+  const app = express();
+  app.use(express.json());
+  const notificationRoutes = require('../../routes/notifications');
+  app.use('/api/v1/notifications', notificationRoutes({
+    notification,
+    asyncHandler: (fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res)).catch(next),
+    ok: (res, data) => res.json({ success: true, ...data }),
+  }));
+  // Inline error handler (same pattern as sites-dc074.routes.test.js): maps
+  // AppError.statusCode to the HTTP status and surfaces err.message.
+  app.use((err, req, res, next) => {
+    const status = err.statusCode || 500;
+    res.status(status).json({
+      error: err.message || 'Internal Server Error',
+      code: err.code || null,
+    });
+  });
+  return app;
+}
+
+const DEFAULTS = {
+  enabled: true,
+  providers: {
+    discord: { enabled: false, webhookUrl: '' },
+    telegram: { enabled: false, botToken: '', chatId: '' },
+    ntfy: { enabled: false, topic: '', serverUrl: 'https://ntfy.sh' },
+    email: { enabled: false, host: '', port: 587, to: '', from: '', username: '', password: '' },
+  },
+  events: {
+    'container-down': true,
+    'container-up': false,
+    'alert': true,
+    'backup-complete': true,
+    'backup-failed': true,
+    'update-available': true,
+    'deploy-success': true,
+    'deploy-failed': true,
+    'auto-restart': true,
+  },
+  healthCheck: { enabled: false },
+};
+
+function freshConfig() {
+  return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(DEFAULTS));
+}
+
+describe('DC-092: POST /config field aliases and typing', () => {
+  test('UI spelling email.user/email.pass normalizes onto username/password', async () => {
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(freshConfig());
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ providers: { email: { user: 'svc@example.com', pass: 'app-secret' } } });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.username).toBe('svc@example.com');
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.password).toBe('app-secret');
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.user).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.pass).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  test('explicit username/password wins over user/pass aliases', async () => {
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(freshConfig());
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ providers: { email: { user: 'legacy@x.com', pass: 'old', username: 'modern@x.com', password: 'new' } } });
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.username).toBe('modern@x.com');
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.password).toBe('new');
+  });
+
+  test('string "false" for secure is rejected, not coerced truthy', async () => {
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(freshConfig());
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ providers: { email: { secure: 'false' } } });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.secure).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  test('string enabled for any provider is rejected', async () => {
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(freshConfig());
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    for (const prov of ['discord', 'telegram', 'ntfy', 'email']) {
+      const res = await request(app)
+        .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+        .send({ providers: { [prov]: { enabled: 'true' } } });
+      expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    }
+    const top = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ enabled: 'true' });
+    expect(top.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('real booleans pass and persist', async () => {
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(freshConfig());
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ enabled: false, providers: { email: { secure: true } } });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(nm.config.enabled).toBe(false);
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.secure).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('SMTP port bounds enforced (0, 65536, non-integer rejected)', async () => {
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(freshConfig());
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    for (const bad of [0, 65536, 58.5, 'abc']) {
+      const res = await request(app)
+        .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+        .send({ providers: { email: { port: bad } } });
+      expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    }
+    const good = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ providers: { email: { port: 465 } } });
+    expect(good.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.port).toBe(465);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DC-092: POST /config event-key folding', () => {
+  test('camelCase event keys fold onto canonical kebab keys', async () => {
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(freshConfig());
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ events: { containerDown: false, deploymentSuccess: false, resourceAlert: false } });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(nm.config.events['container-down']).toBe(false);
+    expect(nm.config.events['deploy-success']).toBe(false);
+    expect(nm.config.events['alert']).toBe(false);
+    // legacy camelCase keys must NOT be stored
+    expect(nm.config.events.containerDown).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(nm.config.events.deploymentSuccess).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(nm.config.events.resourceAlert).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  test('canonical kebab keys accepted directly', async () => {
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(freshConfig());
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ events: { 'container-down': false, 'auto-restart': false } });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(nm.config.events['container-down']).toBe(false);
+    expect(nm.config.events['auto-restart']).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  test('non-boolean event values rejected', async () => {
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(freshConfig());
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ events: { 'container-down': 'yes' } });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DC-092: POST /config non-destructive credential merge', () => {
+  test('empty password does not clobber stored password', async () => {
+    const cfg = freshConfig();
+    cfg.providers.email.username = 'svc@example.com';
+    cfg.providers.email.password = 'stored-secret';
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(cfg);
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ providers: { email: { host: 'smtp.example.com', password: '' } } });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.password).toBe('stored-secret');
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.host).toBe('smtp.example.com');
+  });
+
+  test('empty username does not clobber stored username', async () => {
+    const cfg = freshConfig();
+    cfg.providers.email.username = 'svc@example.com';
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(cfg);
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ providers: { email: { username: '' } } });
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.username).toBe('svc@example.com');
+  });
+
+  test('non-empty password overwrites', async () => {
+    const cfg = freshConfig();
+    cfg.providers.email.password = 'old';
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(cfg);
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/notifications/config')
+      .send({ providers: { email: { password: 'rotated' } } });
+    expect(nm.config.providers.email.password).toBe('rotated');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DC-092: GET /config redaction and roundtrip fields', () => {
+  test('returns port/secure/to/username/hasPassword but never the password', async () => {
+    const cfg = freshConfig();
+    cfg.providers.email = {
+      enabled: true,
+      host: 'smtp.example.com',
+      port: 465,
+      secure: true,
+      to: 'admin@example.com',
+      from: 'DashCaddy <noreply@example.com>',
+      username: 'svc@example.com',
+      password: 'super-secret',
+    };
+    const nm = makeStubNotification(cfg);
+    const app = buildApp(nm);
+    const res = await request(app).get('/api/v1/notifications/config');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const email = res.body.config.providers.email;
+    expect(email.port).toBe(465);
+    expect(email.secure).toBe(true);
+    expect(email.to).toBe('admin@example.com');
+    expect(email.username).toBe('svc@example.com');
+    expect(email.hasPassword).toBe(true);
+    expect(JSON.stringify(res.body)).not.toContain('super-secret');
+    expect(res.body.config.providers.email.password).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/services.routes.test.js

@@ -288,6 +288,21 @@ describe('Services Routes', () => {
       expect(res.status).toBe(200);
       expect(res.body.hasApiKey).toBe(true);
     });
+
+    it('requires both username and password before reporting Basic Auth ready', async () => {
+      const credentialManager = {
+        store: jest.fn(),
+        retrieve: jest.fn().mockImplementation((key) => {
+          if (key === 'service.radarr.username') return Promise.resolve('admin');
+          return Promise.resolve(null);
+        }),
+        delete: jest.fn(),
+      };
+      const { app } = createApp({ credentialManager });
+      const res = await request(app).get('/api/services/radarr/credentials');
+      expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(res.body.hasBasicAuth).toBe(false);
+    });
   });
 
   // ===== SEEDHOST CREDENTIAL ENDPOINTS =====

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/tailscale-admin.test.js

@@ -131,6 +131,20 @@ describe('routes/tailscale-admin: PUT /settings', () => {
     expect(res.status).toBe(400);
   });
 
+  test('400 on apiToken exceeding 256-char length cap (DC-080)', async () => {
+    const { app } = createApp();
+    const oversized = 'tskey-api-' + 'x'.repeat(300); // > 256 chars
+    const res = await request(app).put('/api/v1/tailscale/settings').send({ apiToken: oversized });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.error || res.body.message).toMatch(/exceeds maximum length/i);
+  });
+
+  test('400 on non-string apiToken (DC-080)', async () => {
+    const { app } = createApp();
+    const res = await request(app).put('/api/v1/tailscale/settings').send({ apiToken: 12345 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
   test('200 + saves token + writes metadata on valid token', async () => {
     const fakeClient = makeFakeClient({
       ping: jest.fn(async () => ({ domain: 'real.ts.net' })),
@@ -293,6 +307,76 @@ describe('routes/tailscale-admin: POST /settings/test', () => {
     expect(res.body.valid).toBe(true);
     expect(fakeClient.setApiToken).toHaveBeenCalledWith('tskey-api-test-only');
   });
+
+  test('400 on body.apiToken not starting with tskey-api- (DC-080)', async () => {
+    const fakeClient = makeFakeClient();
+    const app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    const routes = require('../../routes/tailscale-admin');
+    const tailscaleCoord = {
+      loadMetadata: () => ({ configured: false }),
+      saveMetadata: jest.fn(),
+      setApiToken: jest.fn(),
+      getClient: jest.fn(async () => fakeClient),
+      hasApiToken: jest.fn(),
+    };
+    app.use('/api/v1/tailscale', routes({
+      tailscaleCoord, asyncHandler,
+      log: { info: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn() },
+    }));
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/tailscale/settings/test')
+      .send({ apiToken: 'arbitrary-junk' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(fakeClient.setApiToken).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test('400 on body.apiToken exceeding length cap (DC-080)', async () => {
+    const fakeClient = makeFakeClient();
+    const app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    const routes = require('../../routes/tailscale-admin');
+    const tailscaleCoord = {
+      loadMetadata: () => ({ configured: false }),
+      saveMetadata: jest.fn(),
+      setApiToken: jest.fn(),
+      getClient: jest.fn(async () => fakeClient),
+      hasApiToken: jest.fn(),
+    };
+    app.use('/api/v1/tailscale', routes({
+      tailscaleCoord, asyncHandler,
+      log: { info: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn() },
+    }));
+    const oversized = 'tskey-api-' + 'x'.repeat(300);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/tailscale/settings/test')
+      .send({ apiToken: oversized });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(fakeClient.setApiToken).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test('omitting apiToken is allowed (uses stored token path) (DC-080)', async () => {
+    const fakeClient = makeFakeClient({ ping: jest.fn(async () => ({ domain: 'stored.ts.net' })) });
+    const app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    const routes = require('../../routes/tailscale-admin');
+    const tailscaleCoord = {
+      loadMetadata: () => ({ configured: true }),
+      saveMetadata: jest.fn(),
+      setApiToken: jest.fn(),
+      getClient: jest.fn(async () => fakeClient),
+      hasApiToken: jest.fn(),
+    };
+    app.use('/api/v1/tailscale', routes({
+      tailscaleCoord, asyncHandler,
+      log: { info: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn() },
+    }));
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/tailscale/settings/test')
+      .send({}); // no apiToken in body
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.valid).toBe(true);
+  });
 });
 
 describe('routes/tailscale-admin: GET /admin/devices', () => {
@@ -511,6 +595,99 @@ describe('routes/tailscale-admin: pre-auth keys', () => {
     expect(res.status).toBe(400);
   });
 
+  test('POST /admin/keys rejects null/123/object tags entries (DC-080)', async () => {
+    const fakeClient = makeFakeClient();
+    const app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    const routes = require('../../routes/tailscale-admin');
+    const tailscaleCoord = {
+      loadMetadata: () => ({ configured: true }),
+      saveMetadata: jest.fn(),
+      setApiToken: jest.fn(),
+      getClient: jest.fn(async () => fakeClient),
+      hasApiToken: jest.fn(),
+    };
+    app.use('/api/v1/tailscale', routes({
+      tailscaleCoord, asyncHandler,
+      log: { info: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn() },
+    }));
+    // Mixed: null, number, object — all must be rejected
+    const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/tailscale/admin/keys').send({ tags: ['tag:guest', null, 123, { x: 1 }] });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(fakeClient.createAuthKey).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test('POST /admin/keys rejects uppercase / whitespace / CRLF in tags (DC-080)', async () => {
+    const fakeClient = makeFakeClient();
+    const app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    const routes = require('../../routes/tailscale-admin');
+    const tailscaleCoord = {
+      loadMetadata: () => ({ configured: true }),
+      saveMetadata: jest.fn(),
+      setApiToken: jest.fn(),
+      getClient: jest.fn(async () => fakeClient),
+      hasApiToken: jest.fn(),
+    };
+    app.use('/api/v1/tailscale', routes({
+      tailscaleCoord, asyncHandler,
+      log: { info: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn() },
+    }));
+    const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/tailscale/admin/keys').send({ tags: ['TAG:guest', 'tag:foo bar', 'tag:x\r\ninjection'] });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(fakeClient.createAuthKey).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test('POST /admin/keys rejects description exceeding 120 chars (DC-080)', async () => {
+    const fakeClient = makeFakeClient();
+    const app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    const routes = require('../../routes/tailscale-admin');
+    const tailscaleCoord = {
+      loadMetadata: () => ({ configured: true }),
+      saveMetadata: jest.fn(),
+      setApiToken: jest.fn(),
+      getClient: jest.fn(async () => fakeClient),
+      hasApiToken: jest.fn(),
+    };
+    app.use('/api/v1/tailscale', routes({
+      tailscaleCoord, asyncHandler,
+      log: { info: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn() },
+    }));
+    const longDesc = 'a'.repeat(200); // > 120 chars
+    const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/tailscale/admin/keys').send({ description: longDesc });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(fakeClient.createAuthKey).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test('POST /admin/keys accepts canonical lowercase tag: form (DC-080)', async () => {
+    const fakeClient = makeFakeClient({
+      createAuthKey: jest.fn(async (opts) => ({ id: 'k2', key: 'tskey-secret-2', ...opts })),
+    });
+    const app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    const routes = require('../../routes/tailscale-admin');
+    const tailscaleCoord = {
+      loadMetadata: () => ({ configured: true }),
+      saveMetadata: jest.fn(),
+      setApiToken: jest.fn(),
+      getClient: jest.fn(async () => fakeClient),
+      hasApiToken: jest.fn(),
+    };
+    app.use('/api/v1/tailscale', routes({
+      tailscaleCoord, asyncHandler,
+      log: { info: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn() },
+    }));
+    const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/tailscale/admin/keys').send({
+      tags: ['tag:guest-plex', 'tag:server'],
+      expirySeconds: 86400,
+    });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(fakeClient.createAuthKey).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({
+      tags: ['tag:guest-plex', 'tag:server'],
+    }));
+  });
+
   test('POST /admin/keys rejects negative expirySeconds', async () => {
     const fakeClient = makeFakeClient();
     const app = express();
@@ -572,4 +749,110 @@ describe('routes/tailscale-admin: security boundary', () => {
     await request(app).delete('/api/v1/tailscale/settings');
     expect(stored.token).toBeNull();
   });
-});
+});
+// DC-080 direct validator unit tests (no supertest, no Express)
+describe('routes/tailscale-admin: DC-080 validators (direct)', () => {
+  const { _validators } = require('../../routes/tailscale-admin');
+  const {
+    validateApiToken,
+    validateTags,
+    validateDescription,
+    TAILSCALE_TOKEN_PREFIX,
+    TAILSCALE_TOKEN_MAX_LEN,
+    DESCRIPTION_MAX_LEN,
+  } = _validators;
+
+  describe('validateApiToken', () => {
+    test('accepts canonical tskey-api-...', () => {
+      expect(validateApiToken('tskey-api-abc123')).toBeNull();
+    });
+    test('rejects empty', () => {
+      expect(validateApiToken('')).toMatch(/required/);
+    });
+    test('rejects undefined / null', () => {
+      expect(validateApiToken(undefined)).toMatch(/required/);
+      expect(validateApiToken(null)).toMatch(/required/);
+    });
+    test('rejects non-string (number, object, array)', () => {
+      expect(validateApiToken(123)).toMatch(/must be a string/);
+      expect(validateApiToken({})).toMatch(/must be a string/);
+      expect(validateApiToken(['x'])).toMatch(/must be a string/);
+    });
+    test('rejects wrong prefix', () => {
+      expect(validateApiToken('not-a-token')).toMatch(/must start with/);
+    });
+    test('accepts exactly at length cap', () => {
+      const token = 'tskey-api-' + 'x'.repeat(TAILSCALE_TOKEN_MAX_LEN - 'tskey-api-'.length);
+      expect(validateApiToken(token)).toBeNull();
+    });
+    test('rejects 1 over length cap', () => {
+      const token = 'tskey-api-' + 'x'.repeat(TAILSCALE_TOKEN_MAX_LEN - 'tskey-api-'.length + 1);
+      expect(validateApiToken(token)).toMatch(/exceeds maximum length/);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('validateTags', () => {
+    test('accepts undefined / null (optional)', () => {
+      expect(validateTags(undefined)).toBeNull();
+      expect(validateTags(null)).toBeNull();
+    });
+    test('rejects non-array', () => {
+      expect(validateTags('tag:foo')).toMatch(/must be an array/);
+      expect(validateTags({})).toMatch(/must be an array/);
+    });
+    test('rejects entries that are not strings', () => {
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:a', null])).toMatch(/tags\[1\]/);
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:a', 123])).toMatch(/tags\[1\]/);
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:a', {}])).toMatch(/tags\[1\]/);
+    });
+    test('rejects uppercase / whitespace / CRLF', () => {
+      expect(validateTags(['TAG:foo'])).toMatch(/tags\[0\]/);
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:foo bar'])).toMatch(/tags\[0\]/);
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:foo\r\nbar'])).toMatch(/tags\[0\]/);
+    });
+    test('rejects entries starting with non-alnum (no leading colon)', () => {
+      expect(validateTags([':foo'])).toMatch(/tags\[0\]/);
+    });
+
+    test('rejects bare "tag:" with empty name (Tailscale spec violation) (DC-080 round-2)', () => {
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:'])).toMatch(/tags\[0\]/);
+    });
+
+    test('rejects colon-only chars after tag: prefix (DC-080 round-2)', () => {
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:::'])).toMatch(/tags\[0\]/);
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:---'])).toMatch(/tags\[0\]/);
+    });
+    test('accepts canonical tag:server form', () => {
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:server'])).toBeNull();
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:guest-plex', 'tag:server'])).toBeNull();
+    });
+    test('rejects empty array entry', () => {
+      expect(validateTags(['tag:a', ''])).toMatch(/tags\[1\]/);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('validateDescription', () => {
+    test('accepts undefined / null', () => {
+      expect(validateDescription(undefined)).toBeNull();
+      expect(validateDescription(null)).toBeNull();
+    });
+    test('rejects non-string', () => {
+      expect(validateDescription(123)).toMatch(/must be a string/);
+    });
+    test('rejects over 120 chars', () => {
+      const long = 'a'.repeat(DESCRIPTION_MAX_LEN + 1);
+      expect(validateDescription(long)).toMatch(/exceeds maximum length/);
+    });
+    test('accepts at the cap', () => {
+      const exact = 'a'.repeat(DESCRIPTION_MAX_LEN);
+      expect(validateDescription(exact)).toBeNull();
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('exports surface stays in sync with constants used inside validators', () => {
+    // Guard against drift: if a future refactor renames a constant, this fails
+    expect(TAILSCALE_TOKEN_PREFIX).toBe('tskey-api-');
+    expect(typeof TAILSCALE_TOKEN_MAX_LEN).toBe('number');
+    expect(typeof DESCRIPTION_MAX_LEN).toBe('number');
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/session-cookie-scope.test.js

@@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ describe('TOTP session cookie scope', () => {
     expect(cookie).not.toMatch(/(?:^|;)\s*Domain=/i);
   });
 
+  test('host-bound SSO token can only be redeemed on its intended service host', () => {
+    const session = buildSession();
+    const wrongHostToken = session.createHandoffToken('plex.sami');
+    expect(session.redeemHandoffToken(wrongHostToken, 'chat.sami')).toBe(false);
+    expect(session.redeemHandoffToken(wrongHostToken, 'plex.sami')).toBe(false);
+
+    const correctHostToken = session.createHandoffToken('plex.sami');
+    expect(session.redeemHandoffToken(correctHostToken, 'plex.sami')).toBe(true);
+    expect(session.redeemHandoffToken(correctHostToken, 'plex.sami')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
   test('logout clears the host-only secure cookie', () => {
     const session = buildSession();
     const headers = {};

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/share-dc083.routes.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,483 @@
+/**
+ * DC-083 -- Public share endpoint input hardening.
+ *
+ * The two CSRF-exempt public endpoints (POST /share/:token/subscribe +
+ * POST /share/:token/redeem-tailscale) accept untrusted body fields. The
+ * pre-fix code had three coupled bugs:
+ *
+ *   1. `email.includes('@')` accepted `@`, `a@`, `<script>@x.c`, and 10MB
+ *      strings as "valid email" -- and the field was never even used after
+ *      validation (the subscribe endpoint discarded it).
+ *   2. `typeof deviceId === 'string'` accepted arbitrary strings of any
+ *      length, including CR/LF/NUL -- which fed straight into the Tailscale
+ *      auth-key description string and the on-disk shares.json.
+ *   3. No rate-limit; the general limiter (1000/15min) was too generous for
+ *      unauthenticated state-mutating endpoints.
+ *
+ * Fix: charset/length/control-char-bounded validators at the route layer
+ * AND at the store layer (defense-in-depth), plus a dedicated
+ * SHARE_PUBLIC rate-limit (30/15min) on the public endpoints.
+ *
+ * Coverage:
+ *   - subscribe email: rejects bare @, missing TLD, oversized, CR/LF, shell
+ *     metachars, control chars; accepts normal addresses; accepts OMITTED
+ *     email (backwards-compatible with the original behavior).
+ *   - subscribe email propagates to share-store subscriberEmails (capped 8).
+ *   - redeem-tailscale deviceId: rejects CR/LF/NUL, oversized, empty,
+ *     spaces, brackets, quotes; accepts Tailscale-style base64url+hphens;
+ *     accepts OMITTED deviceId (treated as 'unknown').
+ *   - Sanitized usedBy is what flows into the on-disk shares.json.
+ *   - Rate-limit fires after the configured budget per IP.
+ *   - Store-level defense: bypassing the route (direct store call) still
+ *     rejects invalid inputs.
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const os = require('os');
+const express = require('express');
+const request = require('supertest');
+const { createShareStore } = require('../src/security/share-store');
+
+function _tmpDir() {
+  return fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'dashcaddy-share-dc083-'));
+}
+function _cleanup(dir) {
+  try { fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+}
+
+function _buildApp({ shareStore } = {}) {
+  const app = express();
+  app.use(express.json());
+  // No req.user injection -- the public endpoints must work without auth.
+  const shareRoutes = require('../routes/share');
+  app.use(shareRoutes({
+    shareStore,
+    licenseManager: { isPro: () => true, allowsLifetimeLicense: () => false },
+    tailscaleCoord: { createAuthKey: async () => ({ id: 'k', key: 'tskey-x' }) },
+    notificationManager: { sendEmail: async () => ({ messageId: 'fake' }) },
+    servicesStateManager: { get: async () => null, read: async () => [] },
+    servicesFile: null,
+    asyncHandler: (fn, _label) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next),
+    log: { info() {}, warn() {}, error() {} },
+  }));
+  app.use((err, _req, res, _next) => {
+    if (err && err.statusCode) {
+      return res.status(err.statusCode).json({
+        success: false,
+        error: err.message,
+        code: err.code,
+      });
+    }
+    return res.status(500).json({ success: false, error: err && err.message });
+  });
+  return app;
+}
+
+// --------- Subscribe endpoint -- email validation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('DC-083: subscribe email validation', () => {
+  let dir, shareStore;
+  beforeEach(() => { dir = _tmpDir(); shareStore = createShareStore({ dataDir: dir }); });
+  afterEach(() => _cleanup(dir));
+
+  test('accepts omitted email (backwards-compatible)', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app).post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`).send({});
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.data.count).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  test('accepts a well-formed email', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: 'subscriber@example.com' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.data.count).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  test('lowercases the email on capture', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: 'Subscriber@Example.COM' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const raw = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(dir, 'shares.json'), 'utf8'));
+    const id = Object.keys(raw.shares)[0];
+    expect(raw.shares[id].subscriberEmails).toEqual(['subscriber@example.com']);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects bare @', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: '@' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects missing local-part', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: '@example.com' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects missing TLD', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: 'user@localhost' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects single-char TLD', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: 'user@example.c' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects CR/LF in email (CRLF-injection defense)', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: 'a@b.com\r\nX-Injected: yes' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects NUL in email', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: 'a@b.com\x00hack' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects oversized email (>254 chars)', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const longLocal = 'a'.repeat(250) + '@example.com';
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: longLocal });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects XSS-shape email', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: '<script>@x.com' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects non-string email', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+      .send({ email: 42 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('keeps subscriberEmails capped to 8 entries', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    for (let i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
+      await request(app)
+        .post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`)
+        .send({ email: `user${i}@example.com` });
+    }
+    const raw = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(dir, 'shares.json'), 'utf8'));
+    const id = Object.keys(raw.shares)[0];
+    expect(raw.shares[id].subscriberEmails).toHaveLength(8);
+    // FIFO cap -- the first 4 got dropped, latest 8 remain.
+    expect(raw.shares[id].subscriberEmails[0]).toBe('user4@example.com');
+    expect(raw.shares[id].subscriberEmails[7]).toBe('user11@example.com');
+  });
+
+  test('omitted email does not write subscriberEmails', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'plex' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    await request(app).post(`/share/${issued.token}/subscribe`).send({});
+    const raw = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(dir, 'shares.json'), 'utf8'));
+    const id = Object.keys(raw.shares)[0];
+    expect(raw.shares[id].subscriberEmails).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
+// --------- Redeem-tailscale endpoint -- deviceId validation ---------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('DC-083: redeem-tailscale deviceId validation', () => {
+  let dir, shareStore;
+  beforeEach(() => { dir = _tmpDir(); shareStore = createShareStore({ dataDir: dir }); });
+  afterEach(() => _cleanup(dir));
+
+  test('accepts Tailscale-style base64url ID', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: 'nodekey-abc123-def456' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.data.redeemed).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('accepts OMITTED deviceId (treated as "unknown")', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({});
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const raw = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(dir, 'shares.json'), 'utf8'));
+    const id = Object.keys(raw.shares)[0];
+    expect(raw.shares[id].usedBy).toBe('unknown');
+  });
+
+  test('rejects CR/LF in deviceId (CRLF-injection defense)', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: 'nodekey\r\nX-Injected: yes' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects NUL in deviceId', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: 'nodekey\x00hack' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects oversized deviceId (>128 chars)', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const long = 'a'.repeat(200);
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: long });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects empty string deviceId', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: '' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects whitespace in deviceId', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: 'node key 1' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects shell metachars in deviceId', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: 'nodekey; rm -rf /' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects non-string deviceId', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: { evil: true } });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('sanitized usedBy flows into the on-disk shares.json', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: 'node-abc.def-123' });
+    const raw = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(dir, 'shares.json'), 'utf8'));
+    const id = Object.keys(raw.shares)[0];
+    expect(raw.shares[id].usedBy).toBe('node-abc.def-123');
+  });
+
+  test('rejection does NOT mark the share used', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+    const bad = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: 'node with spaces' });
+    expect(bad.status).toBe(400);
+    // A FOLLOW-UP valid redeem should still succeed.
+    const ok = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: 'node-clean' });
+    expect(ok.status).toBe(200);
+  });
+});
+
+// --------- Store-layer defense-in-depth (bypass the route, hit the store) ------------
+
+describe('DC-083: store-layer defense-in-depth', () => {
+  let dir, store;
+  beforeEach(() => { dir = _tmpDir(); store = createShareStore({ dataDir: dir }); });
+  afterEach(() => _cleanup(dir));
+
+  test('recordPublicSubscribe rejects CRLF in email', async () => {
+    const issued = await store.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'svc' });
+    const r = await store.recordPublicSubscribe(issued.token, { email: 'a@b.com\r\nX: 1' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.reason).toBe('invalid_email');
+  });
+
+  test('recordPublicSubscribe rejects oversized email', async () => {
+    const issued = await store.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'svc' });
+    const r = await store.recordPublicSubscribe(issued.token, { email: 'a'.repeat(300) + '@x.com' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.reason).toBe('invalid_email');
+  });
+
+  test('recordTailscaleUse rejects CRLF in deviceId', async () => {
+    const issued = await store.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'svc', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const r = await store.recordTailscaleUse(issued.token, { deviceId: 'node\r\nhack' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.reason).toBe('invalid_device_id');
+  });
+
+  test('recordTailscaleUse rejects oversized deviceId', async () => {
+    const issued = await store.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'svc', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const r = await store.recordTailscaleUse(issued.token, { deviceId: 'a'.repeat(200) });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.reason).toBe('invalid_device_id');
+  });
+
+  test('recordTailscaleUse accepts null deviceId (defaults to "unknown")', async () => {
+    const issued = await store.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'svc', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const r = await store.recordTailscaleUse(issued.token, { deviceId: null });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.share.usedBy).toBe('unknown');
+  });
+
+  test('recordTailscaleUse accepts omitted deviceId (defaults to "unknown")', async () => {
+    const issued = await store.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'svc', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const r = await store.recordTailscaleUse(issued.token, {});
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.share.usedBy).toBe('unknown');
+  });
+
+  test('recordPublicSubscribe accepts omitted email (backwards-compatible)', async () => {
+    const issued = await store.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'svc' });
+    const r = await store.recordPublicSubscribe(issued.token);
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('recordPublicSubscribe accepts null email (backwards-compatible)', async () => {
+    const issued = await store.issuePublic({ serviceId: 'svc' });
+    const r = await store.recordPublicSubscribe(issued.token, { email: null });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
+
+// --------- Rate-limit guard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('DC-083: SHARE_PUBLIC rate-limit', () => {
+  // We can't easily trigger the rate-limit in a unit test because the
+  // default 30/15min is high. Instead, verify the constant is wired and
+  // that the limiter is mounted on the public endpoints (the test env
+  // skips the limiter, so we just confirm the constants).
+  test('RATE_LIMITS.SHARE_PUBLIC is bounded tighter than GENERAL', () => {
+    const { RATE_LIMITS } = require('../src/utilities/constants');
+    expect(RATE_LIMITS.SHARE_PUBLIC).toBeDefined();
+    expect(RATE_LIMITS.SHARE_PUBLIC.max).toBeLessThan(RATE_LIMITS.GENERAL.max);
+    expect(RATE_LIMITS.SHARE_PUBLIC.max).toBeLessThanOrEqual(30);
+    expect(RATE_LIMITS.SHARE_PUBLIC.windowMs).toBe(15 * 60 * 1000);
+  });
+
+  test('route module loads without throwing when express-rate-limit is wired', () => {
+    // Smoke test: the route factory must succeed with the limiter attached.
+    const dir = _tmpDir();
+    try {
+      const shareStore = createShareStore({ dataDir: dir });
+      const app = _buildApp({ shareStore });
+      // _buildApp would have thrown if the route factory threw.
+      expect(typeof app).toBe('function');
+    } finally {
+      _cleanup(dir);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('sharePublicLimiter is mounted on /preview (route stack contains limiter)', () => {
+    // Verify the limiter middleware is actually wired into /preview's route
+    // stack. The route uses express.Router().use(path, ...mw, handler) so we
+    // can inspect the stack via the router's internal `stack` array.
+    const dir = _tmpDir();
+    try {
+      const shareStore = createShareStore({ dataDir: dir });
+      const router = require('../routes/share')({
+        shareStore,
+        licenseManager: { isPro: () => true, allowsLifetimeLicense: () => false },
+        tailscaleCoord: { createAuthKey: async () => ({ id: 'k', key: 'tskey-x' }) },
+        notificationManager: { sendEmail: async () => ({ messageId: 'fake' }) },
+        servicesStateManager: { get: async () => null, read: async () => [] },
+        servicesFile: null,
+        asyncHandler: (fn, _label) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next),
+        log: { info() {}, warn() {}, error() {} },
+      });
+      const previewStack = router.stack.find(
+        (layer) => layer.route && layer.route.path === '/share/:token/preview'
+      );
+      expect(previewStack).toBeDefined();
+      // The route handler should be preceded by at least one middleware
+      // layer (the limiter). route.stack contains the per-route middleware.
+      // In express, .route.stack has the route-local middleware + handler.
+      // The limiter is mounted at the router level (router.use pattern), so
+      // it's actually a separate layer in router.stack. Look for any layer
+      // that has a regex/path matching /share/:token.
+      const limiterLayer = router.stack.find(
+        (layer) => layer.regexp && layer.regexp.test && layer.regexp.test('/share/abc/preview')
+      );
+      expect(limiterLayer).toBeDefined();
+    } finally {
+      _cleanup(dir);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DC-083: positive smoke tests (legitimate inputs)', () => {
+  test('validates user+tag@sub.domain.io (RFC 5322 plus addressing)', () => {
+    const { validatePublicEmail } = require('../src/security/share-store');
+    const v = validatePublicEmail('user+tag@sub.domain.io');
+    expect(v).toEqual({ ok: true, email: 'user+tag@sub.domain.io' });
+  });
+
+  test('validates a typical Tailscale node ID as deviceId', () => {
+    const { validatePublicDeviceId } = require('../src/security/share-store');
+    // Tailscale node IDs look like "nodekey:abcdef0123456789" or just hex
+    const v = validatePublicDeviceId('nodekey:abcdef0123456789');
+    expect(v).toEqual({ ok: true, deviceId: 'nodekey:abcdef0123456789' });
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/share-routes.test.js

@@ -378,12 +378,35 @@ describe('share routes: POST /share/:token/redeem-tailscale (public)', () => {
     expect(r2.body.error).toMatch(/already_used/);
   });
 
-  test('rejects missing deviceId', async () => {
+  test('rejects missing deviceId — DC-083 accepts omitted, treats as "unknown"', async () => {
     const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
     const app = _buildApp({ shareStore, noAdmin: true });
     const res = await request(app)
       .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
       .send({});
+    // DC-083: omitted deviceId is now accepted; the store defaults usedBy
+    // to 'unknown'. The pre-fix route layer required deviceId be present;
+    // the new behavior matches the store's defensive default and is
+    // safer for partially-malformed forward_auth calls from Caddy.
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.data.redeemed).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects invalid deviceId (control chars / oversized)', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore, noAdmin: true });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: 'node\r\nhack' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  test('rejects empty deviceId', async () => {
+    const issued = await shareStore.issueTailscale({ serviceId: 'plex', email: 'a@b.com' });
+    const app = _buildApp({ shareStore, noAdmin: true });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/share/${issued.token}/redeem-tailscale`)
+      .send({ deviceId: '' });
     expect(res.status).toBe(400);
   });
 });

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/sso-handoff-exchange.test.js

@@ -1,15 +1,29 @@
 const express = require('express');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const vm = require('vm');
 const request = require('supertest');
 const createSsoRouter = require('../routes/auth/sso-gate');
 
-function createApp({ redeem = true } = {}) {
+function loadCredentialVaultHandoff() {
+  const source = fs.readFileSync(
+    path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'status', 'js', 'credential-vault-handoff.js'),
+    'utf8',
+  );
+  const window = { location: { origin: 'https://status.sami' } };
+  vm.runInNewContext(source, { window, SITE: { tld: '.sami' }, URL });
+  return window.DCCredentialVault;
+}
+
+function createApp({ redeem = true, valid = true, storedCredentials = {}, dashboardHost = 'status.sami' } = {}) {
   const app = express();
   const session = {
-    redeemHandoffToken: jest.fn().mockReturnValue(redeem),
+    redeemHandoffToken: jest.fn((token) => (typeof redeem === 'function' ? redeem(token) : redeem)),
     setCookieHostOnly: jest.fn((res) => {
       res.setHeader('Set-Cookie', 'dashcaddy_session=test; Path=/; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Lax');
     }),
-    isValid: jest.fn().mockReturnValue(true),
+    isValid: jest.fn().mockReturnValue(valid),
+    createHandoffToken: jest.fn().mockReturnValue('fresh-sso-handoff-token'),
   };
   const asyncHandler = (fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next);
   const errorResponse = (res, status, message, extra = {}) => res.status(status).json({ success: false, error: message, ...extra });
@@ -21,14 +35,15 @@ function createApp({ redeem = true } = {}) {
     log: { warn: jest.fn(), info: jest.fn(), debug: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn() },
     getAppSession: jest.fn(),
     appSessionCache: new Map(),
-    credentialManager: { retrieve: jest.fn() },
+    credentialManager: { retrieve: jest.fn((key) => Promise.resolve(storedCredentials[key] || null)) },
     fetchT: jest.fn(),
-    getServiceById: jest.fn(),
+    getServiceById: jest.fn((id) => Promise.resolve({ id, url: `https://${id}.sami` })),
     licenseManager: {
       hasFeature: jest.fn().mockReturnValue(true),
       requirePremium: jest.fn(() => (_req, _res, next) => next()),
     },
     servicesStateManager: { read: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue([]) },
+    siteConfig: { dashboardHost },
   });
   app.use('/api/v1', router);
   return { app, session };
@@ -44,7 +59,7 @@ describe('cross-host SSO exchange redirect', () => {
     expect(res.status).toBe(303);
     expect(res.headers.location).toBe('/settings?tab=network#dns');
     expect(res.headers['set-cookie'][0]).not.toMatch(/Domain=/i);
-    expect(session.redeemHandoffToken).toHaveBeenCalledWith('one-time');
+    expect(session.redeemHandoffToken).toHaveBeenCalledWith('one-time', '127.0.0.1');
   });
 
   test.each([
@@ -82,3 +97,105 @@ describe('cross-host SSO exchange redirect', () => {
     expect(session.setCookieHostOnly).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 });
+
+describe('existing-session SSO handoff', () => {
+  test('mints a handoff token without asking for TOTP again', async () => {
+    const { app, session } = createApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .get('/api/v1/auth/sso-handoff?serviceId=plex')
+      .set('Cookie', 'dashcaddy_session=valid-session');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body).toMatchObject({ success: true, ssoToken: 'fresh-sso-handoff-token' });
+    expect(session.createHandoffToken).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(session.createHandoffToken).toHaveBeenCalledWith('plex.sami');
+  });
+
+  test('refuses to mint a handoff token without a valid session', async () => {
+    const { app, session } = createApp({ valid: false });
+    const res = await request(app).get('/api/v1/auth/sso-handoff?serviceId=plex');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(401);
+    expect(session.createHandoffToken).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test('completes the full mint, exchange, cookie, redirect lifecycle', async () => {
+    const issued = new Set(['fresh-sso-handoff-token']);
+    const redeemOnce = (token) => issued.delete(token);
+    const { app } = createApp({ redeem: redeemOnce });
+
+    const mint = await request(app)
+      .get('/api/v1/auth/sso-handoff?serviceId=plex')
+      .set('Cookie', 'dashcaddy_session=valid-session');
+    const exchange = await request(app)
+      .get('/api/v1/auth/sso-exchange')
+      .query({ token: mint.body.ssoToken, return: '/web/' });
+
+    expect(exchange.status).toBe(303);
+    expect(exchange.headers.location).toBe('/web/');
+    expect(exchange.headers['set-cookie'][0]).toContain('dashcaddy_session=');
+    expect(exchange.headers['set-cookie'][0]).not.toMatch(/Domain=/i);
+
+    const replay = await request(app)
+      .get('/api/v1/auth/sso-exchange')
+      .query({ token: mint.body.ssoToken, return: '/web/' });
+    expect(replay.status).toBe(401);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('encrypted-vault credential onboarding', () => {
+  test('app-token identifies missing credentials as a form requirement', async () => {
+    const { app } = createApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .get('/api/v1/auth/app-token/plex')
+      .set('Cookie', 'dashcaddy_session=valid-session');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(428);
+    expect(res.body).toMatchObject({
+      success: false,
+      credentialsRequired: true,
+      serviceId: 'plex',
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('service login page sends missing credentials to the encrypted vault form', async () => {
+    const { app } = createApp();
+    const res = await request(app).get('/api/v1/auth/login-page?service=plex');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.text).toContain("if(j.credentialsRequired){vault('plex');return}");
+    expect(res.text).toContain("dashboardOrigin+'?credentials='");
+  });
+
+  test('service login page derives the vault origin from trusted dashboard config', async () => {
+    const { app } = createApp({ dashboardHost: 'dashboard.home' });
+    const res = await request(app).get('/api/v1/auth/login-page?service=plex');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.text).toContain('dashboardOrigin="https://dashboard.home"');
+  });
+
+  test('full vault-save handoff lifecycle reaches exchange, cookie, and final service path', async () => {
+    const issued = new Set(['fresh-sso-handoff-token']);
+    const { app } = createApp({ redeem: (token) => issued.delete(token) });
+    const mint = await request(app)
+      .get('/api/v1/auth/sso-handoff?serviceId=plex')
+      .set('Cookie', 'dashcaddy_session=valid-session');
+
+    const vault = loadCredentialVaultHandoff();
+    const target = new URL(vault.buildHandoffTarget(
+      'https://plex.sami/web/?direct=1#home',
+      mint.body.ssoToken,
+      'plex',
+    ));
+    // The shared Caddy snippet rewrites /dashcaddy-sso to the canonical API
+    // route while preserving the token and relative return query.
+    const exchange = await request(app).get('/api/v1/auth/sso-exchange' + target.search);
+
+    expect(target.pathname).toBe('/dashcaddy-sso');
+    expect(exchange.status).toBe(303);
+    expect(exchange.headers.location).toBe('/web/?direct=1#home');
+    expect(exchange.headers['set-cookie'][0]).toContain('dashcaddy_session=');
+    expect(exchange.headers['set-cookie'][0]).not.toMatch(/Domain=/i);
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/update-manager-compose-prefix.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+/**
+ * DC-082: Update-manager image-name parsing for docker-compose prefixed names.
+ *
+ * The pre-fix code normalized `dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api:latest` to
+ * `library/dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api:latest` before probing Docker Hub.
+ * Compose-prefixed names (single hyphen, no slash, lowercase) need to
+ * split on the FIRST hyphen to recover `<project>/<service>` — that's
+ * the actual upstream namespace for a compose-prefixed image.
+ *
+ * The fix also adds a "no upstream registry image, skip cleanly" path
+ * for when the authed GET 401s against a compose-prefixed name (the
+ * compose-prefixed image is built locally and not published to Docker
+ * Hub). That should log as info, not error.
+ */
+const updateManager = require('../src/managers/update-manager');
+
+describe('DC-082 update-manager / compose-prefixed image names', () => {
+  let um = updateManager; // module exports the singleton instance
+
+  describe('_composeProjectToRepo', () => {
+    test('splits dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api on the first hyphen', () => {
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api')).toBe('dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api');
+    });
+
+    test('splits myproject-myservice on the first hyphen', () => {
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('myproject-myservice')).toBe('myproject/myservice');
+    });
+
+    test('splits multi-hyphen names on the FIRST hyphen only', () => {
+      // "myproj-grandchild-service" -> "myproj/grandchild-service"
+      // (first hyphen is the project/service boundary; later hyphens are
+      // part of the service name like docker-compose's `web-cache`).
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('myproj-grandchild-service')).toBe('myproj/grandchild-service');
+    });
+
+    test('returns null for slash-namespaced names (handled by other path)', () => {
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api')).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('library/nginx')).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('ghcr.io/x/y')).toBe(null);
+    });
+
+    test('returns null for Docker Official Image names (no hyphen)', () => {
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('nginx')).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('alpine')).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('node')).toBe(null);
+    });
+
+    test('returns null for empty / malformed input', () => {
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('')).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo(null)).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo(undefined)).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo(123)).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('-foo')).toBe(null); // leading hyphen
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('foo-')).toBe(null); // trailing hyphen
+      // The regex tolerates mixed-case via the /i flag for defensiveness
+      // even though Docker Compose names are typically lowercase — the
+      // important shape constraints are the letter/digit/underscore/hyphen
+      // charset and the non-empty two-part split.
+    });
+
+    test('accepts names with underscores and digits (compose allows)', () => {
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('proj-v2_service')).toBe('proj/v2_service');
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('dashcaddy-api-v2')).toBe('dashcaddy/api-v2');
+    });
+
+    test('rejects names with chars compose never produces', () => {
+      // dot/colon/slash should never pass — they're either already-namespaced
+      // or invalid in a Docker Compose service name.
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('foo:bar')).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('foo.bar')).toBe(null);
+      expect(um._composeProjectToRepo('foo/bar')).toBe(null);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('_isNotPublishedError', () => {
+    test('returns true for HTTP 401 + compose-prefixed remainder', () => {
+      const err = new Error('Docker Hub registry returned HTTP 401 after auth');
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError(err, 'dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api')).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    test('returns false for HTTP 401 with non-compose-prefixed remainder', () => {
+      const err = new Error('Docker Hub registry returned HTTP 401 after auth');
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError(err, 'nginx')).toBe(false);
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError(err, 'library/nginx')).toBe(false);
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError(err, 'dashcaddy/some-image')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    test('returns false for non-401 errors', () => {
+      const err = new Error('network timeout after 10s');
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError(err, 'dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    test('returns false for malformed error or remainder', () => {
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError(null, 'dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api')).toBe(false);
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError({}, 'dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api')).toBe(false);
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError({ message: 'no string' }, 'dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api')).toBe(false);
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError(new Error('HTTP 401'), null)).toBe(false);
+      expect(um._isNotPublishedError(new Error('HTTP 401'), '')).toBe(false);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('getLatestImageDigest (mocked fetchWithReliability)', () => {
+    let originalFetch;
+    let originalFetchAuth;
+    let originalFetchRetry;
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      originalFetch = um.fetchWithReliability.bind(um);
+      originalFetchAuth = um.fetchAuthToken.bind(um);
+    });
+
+    test('compose-prefixed name (dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api) probes dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api (NOT library/dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api)', async () => {
+      const calls = [];
+      um.fetchWithReliability = async (opts) => {
+        calls.push(opts);
+        // Simulate the real Docker Hub: 401 with WWW-Auth, then 401 after token
+        // (because dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api doesn't exist on Docker Hub).
+        if (calls.length === 1) {
+          return {
+            statusCode: 401,
+            headers: {
+              'www-authenticate': 'Bearer realm="https://auth.docker.io/token",service="registry.docker.io",scope="repository:dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api:pull"',
+            },
+            body: '',
+          };
+        }
+        return { statusCode: 401, headers: {}, body: '{"errors":[{"code":"UNAUTHORIZED","message":"authentication required"}]}' };
+      };
+      um.fetchAuthToken = async () => 'fake-token';
+      const { log } = require('../src/utils/logging');
+      const infoSpy = jest.spyOn(log, 'info').mockImplementation(() => {});
+      const errorSpy = jest.spyOn(log, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {});
+
+      const result = await um.getLatestImageDigest('dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api:latest');
+      expect(result).toBe(null);
+
+      // First probe must target /v2/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/manifests/latest
+      // NOT /v2/library/dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api/manifests/latest
+      const firstPath = calls[0].path;
+      expect(firstPath).toBe('/v2/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/manifests/latest');
+      expect(firstPath).not.toContain('library/dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api');
+
+      // The 401 after auth should produce an INFO log about "no upstream"
+      // NOT an error log.
+      const infoMsgs = infoSpy.mock.calls.map((c) => c[1]);
+      expect(infoMsgs).toContain('No upstream registry image — skipping update check');
+      const errorMsgs = errorSpy.mock.calls.map((c) => c[1]);
+      expect(errorMsgs).not.toContain('Docker Hub registry returned HTTP 401 after auth');
+
+      infoSpy.mockRestore();
+      errorSpy.mockRestore();
+    });
+
+    test('official image (nginx) still probes library/nginx', async () => {
+      const calls = [];
+      um.fetchWithReliability = async (opts) => {
+        calls.push(opts);
+        if (calls.length === 1) {
+          return { statusCode: 200, headers: { 'docker-content-digest': 'sha256:abc123' }, body: '' };
+        }
+        return { statusCode: 200, headers: {}, body: '' };
+      };
+
+      const result = await um.getLatestImageDigest('nginx:latest');
+      expect(result).toBe('sha256:abc123');
+      expect(calls[0].path).toBe('/v2/library/nginx/manifests/latest');
+    });
+
+    test('library/nginx (explicit) probes library/nginx', async () => {
+      const calls = [];
+      um.fetchWithReliability = async (opts) => {
+        calls.push(opts);
+        if (calls.length === 1) {
+          return { statusCode: 200, headers: { 'docker-content-digest': 'sha256:abc' }, body: '' };
+        }
+        return { statusCode: 200, headers: {}, body: '' };
+      };
+
+      const result = await um.getLatestImageDigest('library/nginx:latest');
+      expect(result).toBe('sha256:abc');
+      expect(calls[0].path).toBe('/v2/library/nginx/manifests/latest');
+    });
+
+    test('ghcr.io/samiahmed7777/dashcaddy-api uses ghcr.io path (not docker hub)', async () => {
+      const calls = [];
+      um.fetchWithReliability = async (opts) => {
+        calls.push(opts);
+        return { statusCode: 200, headers: { 'docker-content-digest': 'sha256:ghcr' }, body: '' };
+      };
+
+      const result = await um.getLatestImageDigest('ghcr.io/samiahmed7777/dashcaddy-api:latest');
+      expect(result).toBe('sha256:ghcr');
+      expect(calls[0].hostname).toBe('ghcr.io');
+      expect(calls[0].path).toBe('/v2/samiahmed7777/dashcaddy-api/manifests/latest');
+    });
+
+    test('returns null + skips cleanly when compose-prefixed image has no upstream', async () => {
+      let callCount = 0;
+      um.fetchWithReliability = async (opts) => {
+        callCount += 1;
+        if (callCount === 1) {
+          return {
+            statusCode: 401,
+            headers: { 'www-authenticate': 'Bearer realm="https://auth.docker.io/token",service="registry.docker.io",scope="repository:myproj-myservice:pull"' },
+            body: '',
+          };
+        }
+        return { statusCode: 401, headers: {}, body: '{"errors":[{"code":"UNAUTHORIZED"}]}' };
+      };
+      um.fetchAuthToken = async () => 'fake-token';
+
+      const result = await um.getLatestImageDigest('myproj-myservice:latest');
+      expect(result).toBe(null);
+      // Probe targets the correct namespace (myproj/myservice), not library/.
+      const firstCall = await (async () => {
+        let p;
+        um.fetchWithReliability = async (opts) => { p = opts; return { statusCode: 200, headers: {}, body: '' }; };
+        await um.getLatestImageDigest('myproj-myservice:latest');
+        return p;
+      })();
+      expect(firstCall.path).toBe('/v2/myproj/myservice/manifests/latest');
+    });
+
+    afterEach(() => {
+      um.fetchWithReliability = originalFetch;
+      um.fetchAuthToken = originalFetchAuth;
+    });
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/update-manager.test.js

@@ -125,6 +125,239 @@ describe('UpdateManager — Docker image update lifecycle', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  // ─── DC-078: registry digest probe reliability hardening ──────────────────
+  // Verifies that getLatestImageDigest / getDockerHubDigest / getGhcrDigest /
+  // fetchWithReliability all apply the IPv4-only + timeout + transient-retry
+  // policy. Without these guards, the per-hour checkForUpdates() loop on DNS2
+  // surfaces AggregateError [ETIMEDOUT] in error.log because the container's
+  // /etc/resolv.conf returns AAAA records from Technitium whose IPv6 path to
+  // public registries (Docker Hub, ghcr.io) is intermittently unreachable.
+  describe('DC-078 registry reliability', () => {
+    // Use real timers — fetchWithReliability's retry uses setTimeout for
+    // backoff, which jest's fake timers would block indefinitely.
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      jest.useRealTimers();
+    });
+    afterEach(() => {
+      jest.useFakeTimers({ doNotFake: ['setImmediate', 'queueMicrotask', 'nextTick'] });
+    });
+
+    it('_httpsRequestOnce sets family: 4 and timeout on the request options', async () => {
+      let capturedOptions = null;
+      const req = {
+        on: jest.fn(),
+        end: jest.fn(),
+        destroy: jest.fn(),
+      };
+      https.request.mockImplementation((options, cb) => {
+        capturedOptions = options;
+        // Return a 200 immediately so the promise resolves cleanly.
+        const res = {
+          statusCode: 200,
+          headers: {},
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+          }),
+        };
+        setImmediate(() => cb(res));
+        return req;
+      });
+
+      await updateManager._httpsRequestOnce({
+        hostname: 'registry-1.docker.io',
+        path: '/v2/library/nginx/manifests/latest',
+        headers: { Accept: 'application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json' },
+        maxBodyBytes: 65536,
+      });
+      expect(capturedOptions).not.toBeNull();
+      expect(capturedOptions.family).toBe(4);
+      expect(capturedOptions.timeout).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      expect(capturedOptions.method).toBe('GET');
+    });
+
+    it('fetchWithReliability retries on transient ETIMEDOUT and eventually succeeds', async () => {
+      let attempts = 0;
+      https.request.mockImplementation((options, cb) => {
+        attempts += 1;
+        if (attempts === 1) {
+          // First attempt: emit ETIMEDOUT via the request 'error' event
+          const reqErr = new Error('request timeout');
+          reqErr.code = 'ETIMEDOUT';
+          const req = {
+            on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+              if (event === 'error') setImmediate(() => handler(reqErr));
+            }),
+            end: jest.fn(),
+            destroy: jest.fn(),
+          };
+          return req;
+        }
+        // Second attempt: 200 OK with a digest header
+        const res = {
+          statusCode: 200,
+          headers: { 'docker-content-digest': 'sha256:abc123def456' },
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+          }),
+        };
+        setImmediate(() => cb(res));
+        return { on: jest.fn(), end: jest.fn(), destroy: jest.fn() };
+      });
+
+      const result = await updateManager.fetchWithReliability({
+        hostname: 'registry-1.docker.io',
+        path: '/v2/library/nginx/manifests/latest',
+      });
+      expect(attempts).toBe(2);
+      expect(result.statusCode).toBe(200);
+      expect(result.headers['docker-content-digest']).toBe('sha256:abc123def456');
+    });
+
+    it('fetchWithReliability does NOT retry on non-transient HTTP errors', async () => {
+      let attempts = 0;
+      https.request.mockImplementation((options, cb) => {
+        attempts += 1;
+        const res = {
+          statusCode: 500,
+          headers: {},
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+          }),
+        };
+        setImmediate(() => cb(res));
+        return { on: jest.fn(), end: jest.fn(), destroy: jest.fn() };
+      });
+      const result = await updateManager.fetchWithReliability({
+        hostname: 'registry-1.docker.io',
+        path: '/v2/library/nginx/manifests/latest',
+      });
+      expect(attempts).toBe(1);
+      expect(result.statusCode).toBe(500);
+    });
+
+    it('fetchWithReliability retries up to REGISTRY_MAX_RETRIES then throws', async () => {
+      let attempts = 0;
+      https.request.mockImplementation(() => {
+        attempts += 1;
+        const reqErr = new Error('connect ETIMEDOUT');
+        reqErr.code = 'ETIMEDOUT';
+        const req = {
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'error') setImmediate(() => handler(reqErr));
+          }),
+          end: jest.fn(),
+          destroy: jest.fn(),
+        };
+        return req;
+      });
+      await expect(updateManager.fetchWithReliability({
+        hostname: 'registry-1.docker.io',
+        path: '/v2/library/nginx/manifests/latest',
+      })).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'ETIMEDOUT' });
+      // 1 initial attempt + REGISTRY_MAX_RETRIES retries
+      expect(attempts).toBe(1 + 1);
+    });
+
+    it('getDockerHubDigest returns digest on 200', async () => {
+      https.request.mockImplementation((options, cb) => {
+        const res = {
+          statusCode: 200,
+          headers: { 'docker-content-digest': 'sha256:hubdigest9999' },
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+          }),
+        };
+        setImmediate(() => cb(res));
+        return { on: jest.fn(), end: jest.fn(), destroy: jest.fn() };
+      });
+      const digest = await updateManager.getDockerHubDigest('nginx', 'latest');
+      expect(digest).toBe('sha256:hubdigest9999');
+    });
+
+    it('getDockerHubDigest acquires bearer token on 401 then returns digest', async () => {
+      let calls = 0;
+      https.request.mockImplementation((options, cb) => {
+        calls += 1;
+        if (calls === 1) {
+          // First call to registry-1.docker.io returns 401 with WWW-Authenticate
+          const res = {
+            statusCode: 401,
+            headers: {
+              'www-authenticate': 'Bearer realm="https://auth.example.com/token",service="registry.docker.io",scope="repository:library/nginx:pull"',
+            },
+            on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+              if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+            }),
+          };
+          setImmediate(() => cb(res));
+        } else if (calls === 2) {
+          // Second call: auth.example.com returns the token JSON
+          const res = {
+            statusCode: 200,
+            headers: {},
+            on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+              if (event === 'data') handler(Buffer.from(JSON.stringify({ token: 'jwt-token-xyz' })));
+              if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+            }),
+          };
+          setImmediate(() => cb(res));
+        } else {
+          // Third call: registry-1.docker.io with Bearer header returns the digest
+          expect(options.headers['Authorization']).toBe('Bearer jwt-token-xyz');
+          const res = {
+            statusCode: 200,
+            headers: { 'docker-content-digest': 'sha256:autheddigest7777' },
+            on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+              if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+            }),
+          };
+          setImmediate(() => cb(res));
+        }
+        return { on: jest.fn(), end: jest.fn(), destroy: jest.fn() };
+      });
+      const digest = await updateManager.getDockerHubDigest('nginx', 'latest');
+      expect(digest).toBe('sha256:autheddigest7777');
+      expect(calls).toBe(3);
+    });
+
+    it('getGhcrDigest returns digest on 200', async () => {
+      https.request.mockImplementation((options, cb) => {
+        expect(options.hostname).toBe('ghcr.io');
+        const res = {
+          statusCode: 200,
+          headers: { 'docker-content-digest': 'sha256:ghcrdigest1234' },
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+          }),
+        };
+        setImmediate(() => cb(res));
+        return { on: jest.fn(), end: jest.fn(), destroy: jest.fn() };
+      });
+      const digest = await updateManager.getGhcrDigest('ghcr.io/some/repo', 'latest');
+      expect(digest).toBe('sha256:ghcrdigest1234');
+    });
+
+    it('getLatestImageDigest returns null on transient errors after retries (registry unavailable)', async () => {
+      // Simulate a totally-down registry: every attempt fails with ETIMEDOUT.
+      // After REGISTRY_MAX_RETRIES the error propagates to getLatestImageDigest's
+      // catch arm, which logs and returns null (matches old behavior).
+      https.request.mockImplementation(() => {
+        const reqErr = new Error('connect ETIMEDOUT');
+        reqErr.code = 'ETIMEDOUT';
+        const req = {
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'error') setImmediate(() => handler(reqErr));
+          }),
+          end: jest.fn(),
+          destroy: jest.fn(),
+        };
+        return req;
+      });
+      const digest = await updateManager.getLatestImageDigest('nginx:latest');
+      expect(digest).toBeNull();
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('parseAuthHeader', () => {
     it('parses Docker Hub Bearer auth header', () => {
       const header = 'Bearer realm="https://auth.docker.io/token",service="registry.docker.io",scope="repository:library/nginx:pull"';
@@ -481,7 +714,9 @@ describe('UpdateManager — Docker image update lifecycle', () => {
         setImmediate(() => cb({
           statusCode: 200,
           headers: { 'docker-content-digest': 'sha256:fromregistry' },
-          on: jest.fn()
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+          })
         }));
         return { on: jest.fn(), end: jest.fn() };
       });
@@ -495,7 +730,9 @@ describe('UpdateManager — Docker image update lifecycle', () => {
         setImmediate(() => cb({
           statusCode: 401,
           headers: {},
-          on: jest.fn()
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+          })
         }));
         return { on: jest.fn(), end: jest.fn() };
       });
@@ -504,6 +741,9 @@ describe('UpdateManager — Docker image update lifecycle', () => {
     });
 
     it('rejects on https request error', async () => {
+      // ECONNREFUSED is in REGISTRY_TRANSIENT_ERROR_CODES, so this would retry.
+      // Use a non-transient code (or no code) for the test to propagate.
+      jest.useRealTimers();
       https.request.mockImplementation(() => {
         const req = { on: jest.fn(), end: jest.fn() };
         // Trigger error event asynchronously
@@ -516,6 +756,7 @@ describe('UpdateManager — Docker image update lifecycle', () => {
 
       await expect(updateManager.getDockerHubDigest('nginx', 'latest'))
         .rejects.toThrow('connection refused');
+      jest.useFakeTimers({ doNotFake: ['setImmediate', 'queueMicrotask', 'nextTick'] });
     });
 
     it('normalizes library/ prefix for official images', async () => {
@@ -525,7 +766,9 @@ describe('UpdateManager — Docker image update lifecycle', () => {
         setImmediate(() => cb({
           statusCode: 200,
           headers: { 'docker-content-digest': 'sha256:digest' },
-          on: jest.fn()
+          on: jest.fn((event, handler) => {
+            if (event === 'end') setImmediate(handler);
+          })
         }));
         return { on: jest.fn(), end: jest.fn() };
       });

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/utils-http-caddy-admin-origin.test.js

@@ -118,6 +118,67 @@ describe('Caddyfile + utils/http.js — Origin header construction (DC-051)', ()
     expect(offenders).toEqual([]);
   });
 
+  test('all :2019 call sites in TESTS use fetchT or a mocked fetchT (not raw fetch)', () => {
+    // DC-087 — the same rule, extended into __tests__. The api-code walk above
+    // skips __tests__, which let two mirrored health-handler test files keep a
+    // raw await-fetch caddy probe long after src/app.js moved to fetchT. On a
+    // host where the suite runs alongside a live Caddy admin (the prod box
+    // runs the full jest suite every 30 min via a cron adversarial check),
+    // that Origin-less raw fetch 403-spammed the Caddy journal (~700
+    // client-not-allowed error lines per day) while the tests still passed —
+    // checks.caddy.ok=false was silently accepted as sandbox noise. Mirrors
+    // MUST call fetchT (mocked at buildApp scope for hermeticity). A raw
+    // await-fetch at a Caddy-admin-URL call site in a test is an offender.
+    // NOTE: keep this comment free of backticks — stripComments pairs
+    // backtick spans across lines, and a stray pair shields real code from
+    // the comment stripper (this test self-flagged its first draft).
+    //
+    // Detection is deliberately FILE-LEVEL, not call-window: the historical
+    // drift kept the fetch call itself token-free (the URL came from a
+    // caddyUrl variable defined on a PREVIOUS line from CADDY_ADMIN_URL),
+    // so a call-window regex never fired. Any raw await-fetch in a file
+    // that also references the Caddy admin anywhere is an offender.
+    // Escape hatch for future tests that intentionally assert Origin-less
+    // 403 behavior against their own local listener: put the marker
+    // DC-087-ALLOW-RAW-FETCH in the file and it is skipped.
+    const testsRoot = path.join(__dirname);
+    const offenders = [];
+    const skipped = [];
+    function walk(dir) {
+      for (const entry of fs.readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+        if (entry.name === 'node_modules') continue;
+        const p = path.join(dir, entry.name);
+        if (entry.isDirectory()) walk(p);
+        else if (entry.name.endsWith('.js')) {
+          const rawText = fs.readFileSync(p, 'utf8');
+          // Escape hatch (checked on RAW text so a comment marker works —
+          // comments are stripped below): a file carrying the
+          // DC-087-ALLOW-RAW-FETCH marker declares it intentionally
+          // raw-fetches the Caddy admin (e.g. asserting Origin-less 403
+          // against its own local listener). The guard file itself is
+          // always scanned (never skipped) so the hatch can't be used to
+          // blind this very test.
+          if (p !== __filename && /DC-087-ALLOW-RAW-FETCH/.test(rawText)) {
+            skipped.push(p);
+            continue;
+          }
+          const text = stripComments(rawText);
+          const hasAdminToken = /:2019|adminUrl|admin_api_url|CADDY_ADMIN/.test(text);
+          const hasRawAwaitFetch = /await\s+fetch\(/.test(text);
+          if (hasAdminToken && hasRawAwaitFetch) {
+            offenders.push(`${p}: raw await-fetch in a file referencing the Caddy admin (mock fetchT instead; documented escape-hatch marker available for intentional 403 tests)`);
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    walk(testsRoot);
+    if (skipped.length) {
+      // Visibility for hatch use — shows up in jest output for reviewers.
+      console.info('[DC-087 guard] escape-hatch skipped:', skipped.join(', '));
+    }
+    expect(offenders).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
   test('readiness handler in src/app.js probes the exact URL the watcher needs', () => {
     const raw = fs.readFileSync(
       path.join(__dirname, '../src/app.js'),
@@ -127,9 +188,9 @@ describe('Caddyfile + utils/http.js — Origin header construction (DC-051)', ()
     expect(raw).toMatch(/\/config\/apps\/http\/servers\/srv0\/listen/);
     // Goes through fetchT, NOT bare fetch — that's how the Origin injection
     // takes effect. Look at the 800 chars BEFORE the probe URL on the same
-    // line / call site — the call must be `fetchT(...)`, not `await fetch(...)`.
+    // line / call site — the call must be fetchT(...), never a raw await of
-    // (We look backward because the URL sits inside the call's argument list,
+    // the global fetch. (We look backward because the URL sits inside the
-    // so the call site comes before the URL token.)
+    // call's argument list, so the call site comes before the URL token.)
     const idx = raw.indexOf('srv0/listen');
     const around = raw.substr(Math.max(0, idx - 400), 800);
     expect(around).toMatch(/fetchT\(/);

dashcaddy-api/routes/auth/admin.js

@@ -29,26 +29,10 @@ const platformPaths = require('../../platform-paths');
 const { createUserStore } = require('../../src/security/user-store');
 const { createInviteStore } = require('../../src/security/invite-store');
 const emailSender = require('../../src/auth/providers/email-sender');
+const AuthProvider = require('../../src/auth/providers/base');
 const { ValidationError, NotFoundError, ForbiddenError, PaymentRequiredError } = require('../../src/utilities/errors');
 const { ok, successMessage } = require('../../src/utils/responses');
 
-/**
- * Build the URL an invitee should click. Mirrors EmailMagicLinkProvider's
- * _resolvePublicUrl logic — kept duplicated (not extracted) because the two
- * callers have slightly different link paths and the duplication is smaller
- * than the abstraction would be.
- */
-function _buildInviteUrl(req, siteConfig, token) {
-  if (siteConfig && siteConfig.publicBaseUrl) {
-    return siteConfig.publicBaseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, '') +
-      '/api/v1/auth/invites/' + encodeURIComponent(token) + '/accept';
-  }
-  const proto = (req.headers && req.headers['x-forwarded-proto']) || (req.protocol || 'https');
-  const host = (req.headers && (req.headers['x-forwarded-host'] || req.headers.host))
-    || (siteConfig && siteConfig.dashboardHost) || 'localhost:3001';
-  return `${proto}://${host}/api/v1/auth/invites/${encodeURIComponent(token)}/accept`;
-}
-
 function _requireAdmin(req, _res, next) {
   if (!req.user || req.user.role !== 'admin') {
     return next(new ForbiddenError('Admin role required'));
@@ -240,11 +224,21 @@ module.exports = function({ asyncHandler, errorResponse, log, session, dataDir }
     });
     if (!issued.ok) throw new ValidationError(issued.reason, 'email');
 
-    let deliveredVia = 'none';
+    // Build the accept URL once — used both for the response and for email delivery.
-    const maskedEmail = email.replace(/(^.).+(@.*$)/, '$1***$2');
+    const baseUrl = (req.app.locals && req.app.locals.siteConfig && req.app.locals.siteConfig.publicBaseUrl
-    if (sendEmail !== false) {
+      ? req.app.locals.siteConfig.publicBaseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, '')
-      // Best-effort send. If SMTP isn't configured, log to error.log (dev path).
+      : ((req.headers['x-forwarded-proto'] || req.protocol || 'https') + '://' +
-      const acceptUrl = _buildInviteUrl(req, /* siteConfig */ req.app.locals && req.app.locals.siteConfig, issued.token);
+         (req.headers['x-forwarded-host'] || req.headers.host || 'localhost:3001')));
+    const acceptUrl = baseUrl + '/api/v1/auth/invites/' + encodeURIComponent(issued.token) + '/accept';
+
+    // DC-085: link-first delivery. Default = no email, just hand the link back.
+    // Operators opt INTO email by sending { sendEmail: true } (or the admin UI
+    // checks the "Send email" checkbox). When SMTP is unconfigured AND the
+    // operator did opt in, we surface the failure as `deliveredVia: 'failed'`
+    // but NEVER leak the raw token into the server log — the link is already
+    // in the response, so the operator has a UI-side fallback.
+    let deliveredVia = 'manual';
+    if (sendEmail === true) {
       const ttlHoursOut = Math.round(issued.ttlMs / (60 * 60 * 1000));
       const text = _buildEmailText({ acceptUrl, ttlHours: ttlHoursOut, role: issued.role });
       const html = _buildEmailHtml({ acceptUrl, ttlHours: ttlHoursOut, role: issued.role });
@@ -254,33 +248,37 @@ module.exports = function({ asyncHandler, errorResponse, log, session, dataDir }
           await emailSender.sendEmail(smtpConfig, issued.email, 'You\'re invited to DashCaddy', text, html);
           deliveredVia = 'email';
         } else {
-          // Dev fallback — log the raw link so operators can grab it.
+          // Operator asked for email but SMTP isn't configured. Surface the
-          log.warn && log.warn('auth-invite-dev',
+          // failure cleanly; the link is still in the response so the
-            '[DC-048-DEV-INVITE-LINK] email=' + issued.email +
+          // operator can share it manually. Do NOT log the raw URL — it
-            ' role=' + issued.role + ' url=' + acceptUrl);
+          // would duplicate what's already in the response and pollute the
-          deliveredVia = 'dev-console';
+          // server log on every unconfigured-install invite.
+          log.warn && log.warn('auth-invite-send',
+            'invite send skipped: SMTP not configured (operator opted in)',
+            { inviteId: issued.id, email: AuthProvider.maskEmail(issued.email) || '[unmaskable-email]' });
+          deliveredVia = 'failed';
         }
       } catch (sendErr) {
         log.warn && log.warn('auth-invite-send',
-          'invite send failed: ' + (sendErr.message || String(sendErr)));
+          'invite send failed: ' + (sendErr.message || String(sendErr)),
+          { inviteId: issued.id });
         deliveredVia = 'failed';
       }
-    } else {
-      deliveredVia = 'manual';
     }
 
+    const maskedEmail = email.replace(/(^.).+(@.*$)/, '$1***$2');
+    const ttlHoursOut = Math.round(issued.ttlMs / (60 * 60 * 1000));
+    const shareText =
+      'Join my DashCaddy as ' + issued.role + ' — ' + acceptUrl +
+      ' — expires in ' + ttlHoursOut + 'h.';
+
     return ok(res, {
       id: issued.id,
       email: issued.email,
       role: issued.role,
       expiresAt: issued.expiresAt,
-      // The raw token is returned ONCE so the admin UI can show/copy the
+      acceptUrl,
-      // link. It is also embedded in the email when sendEmail !== false.
+      shareText,
-      acceptUrl: (req.app.locals && req.app.locals.siteConfig && req.app.locals.siteConfig.publicBaseUrl
-        ? req.app.locals.siteConfig.publicBaseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, '')
-        : ((req.headers['x-forwarded-proto'] || req.protocol || 'https') + '://' +
-           (req.headers['x-forwarded-host'] || req.headers.host || 'localhost:3001'))) +
-        '/api/v1/auth/invites/' + encodeURIComponent(issued.token) + '/accept',
       deliveredVia,
       maskedEmail,
     });
@@ -372,7 +370,7 @@ module.exports = function({ asyncHandler, errorResponse, log, session, dataDir }
 
     log.info && log.info('auth', 'invite accepted, user created', {
       userId: userResult.user.id,
-      email: userResult.user.email,
+      email: AuthProvider.maskEmail(userResult.user.email) || '[unmaskable-email]',
       role: userResult.user.role,
       inviteId: invite.id,
     });

dashcaddy-api/routes/auth/sso-gate.js

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ module.exports = function(deps) {
   const router = express.Router();
 
   // Extract dependencies
-  const { authManager, totpConfig, session, asyncHandler, errorResponse, log, getAppSession, appSessionCache, credentialManager, fetchT, getServiceById, licenseManager, servicesStateManager } = deps;
+  const { authManager, totpConfig, session, asyncHandler, errorResponse, log, getAppSession, appSessionCache, credentialManager, fetchT, getServiceById, licenseManager, servicesStateManager, siteConfig } = deps;
 
   // Create ctx-like object for compatibility
   const ctx = {
@@ -126,7 +126,12 @@ module.exports = function(deps) {
       try {
         const username = await ctx.credentialManager.retrieve(`service.${serviceId}.username`).catch(() => null);
         const password = await ctx.credentialManager.retrieve(`service.${serviceId}.password`).catch(() => null);
-        if (!username || !password) throw new NotFoundError('[DC-500] No credentials stored');
+        if (!username || !password) {
+          return errorResponse(res, 428, '[DC-500] No credentials stored', {
+            credentialsRequired: true,
+            serviceId,
+          });
+        }
         const service = await ctx.getServiceById(serviceId);
         const baseUrl = service?.url;
         if (!baseUrl) throw new NotFoundError('No service URL');
@@ -181,7 +186,12 @@ module.exports = function(deps) {
         password = await ctx.credentialManager.retrieve(`service.${serviceId}.password`).catch(() => null);
       }
 
-      if (!username || !password) throw new NotFoundError('[DC-500] No credentials stored');
+      if (!username || !password) {
+        return errorResponse(res, 428, '[DC-500] No credentials stored', {
+          credentialsRequired: true,
+          serviceId,
+        });
+      }
 
       const appCookies = await getAppSession(serviceId, baseUrl, username, password);
       if (appCookies) {
@@ -203,8 +213,28 @@ module.exports = function(deps) {
     }
   }, 'auth-app-token'));
 
+  // A browser that already has a valid status.sami session must not be asked
+  // for TOTP again just because it opened another private-TLD service host.
+  // Mint a fresh one-time token that the target host can exchange for its own
+  // host-only cookie. This route is intentionally session-protected both by
+  // the global middleware and here (defence in depth).
+  router.get('/auth/sso-handoff', (req, res) => {
+    res.setHeader('Cache-Control', 'no-store');
+    if (!session.isValid(req)) {
+      return errorResponse(res, 401, 'Session expired or invalid');
+    }
+    const serviceId = String(req.query.serviceId || '');
+    if (!/^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$/.test(serviceId)) {
+      return errorResponse(res, 400, 'Valid serviceId is required');
+    }
+    const suffix = String(siteConfig?.tld || '.sami');
+    const expectedHost = `${serviceId}${suffix.startsWith('.') ? suffix : `.${suffix}`}`;
+    ok(res, { ssoToken: session.createHandoffToken(expectedHost) });
+  });
+
   // Cross-subdomain SSO handoff: exchanges a short-lived single-use token
-  // (minted by /totp/verify) for a HOST-ONLY session cookie on whichever
+  // (minted by /totp/verify or /auth/sso-handoff) for a HOST-ONLY session
+  // cookie on whichever
   // *.sami origin calls this. Needed because Domain=.sami cookies are
   // silently rejected by real browsers (.sami is an unregistered TLD, so
   // browsers treat "sami" as the effective public suffix and refuse to set
@@ -215,7 +245,9 @@ module.exports = function(deps) {
   router.get('/auth/sso-exchange', (req, res) => {
     res.setHeader('Cache-Control', 'no-store');
     const token = req.query.token;
-    if (!session.redeemHandoffToken(token)) {
+    const forwardedHost = String(req.headers['x-forwarded-host'] || req.headers.host || '')
+      .split(',')[0].trim().replace(/:\d+$/, '').toLowerCase();
+    if (!session.redeemHandoffToken(token, forwardedHost)) {
       return errorResponse(res, 401, 'Invalid or expired handoff token');
     }
     session.setCookieHostOnly(res, totpConfig.sessionDuration);
@@ -237,7 +269,12 @@ module.exports = function(deps) {
   // Serve service-specific auto-login page (auth enforced by Caddy forward_auth upstream)
   router.get('/auth/login-page', (req, res) => {
     const service = (req.query.service || '').replace(/[^a-z]/g, '');
-    const html = buildLoginPage(service);
+    const configuredHost = siteConfig?.dashboardHost;
+    const dashboardOrigin = typeof configuredHost === 'string'
+      && /^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9.-]*$/.test(configuredHost)
+      ? `https://${configuredHost}`
+      : 'https://status.sami';
+    const html = buildLoginPage(service, dashboardOrigin);
     if (!html) return res.status(404).send('Unknown service');
     res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8');
     res.setHeader('Cache-Control', 'no-store');
@@ -255,7 +292,7 @@ module.exports = function(deps) {
   return router;
 };
 
-function buildLoginPage(service) {
+function buildLoginPage(service, dashboardOrigin = 'https://status.sami') {
   // Pre-auth check via <meta http-equiv="refresh"> so it fires even when JS is
   // disabled or blocked. The cookie is sent automatically because we hit the
   // same origin (plex.sami); if the API returns 200 the user has a valid
@@ -266,7 +303,7 @@ function buildLoginPage(service) {
   <style>body{background:__BG__;color:#e0e0e0;font-family:system-ui;display:flex;align-items:center;justify-items:center;height:100vh;margin:0;flex-direction:column;gap:12px}a{color:__ACCENT__}#d{font-size:12px;color:#888;max-width:80vw;overflow:auto;white-wrap:pre-wrap}</style>
   </head><body><p id="m">__TITLE__</p><div id="d"></div>
   <script>(function(){
-  var ls=localStorage,d=document.getElementById('d'),m=document.getElementById('m');
+  var ls=localStorage,d=document.getElementById('d'),m=document.getElementById('m'),dashboardOrigin=__DASHBOARD_ORIGIN__;
   // 2026-07-22 hardening: every fetch now has a hard AbortSignal timeout
   // (default 8s) so a hung upstream can NEVER leave the page stuck on
   // "Signing in to Plex..." indefinitely. Also: if check-session returns
@@ -274,13 +311,16 @@ function buildLoginPage(service) {
   // upstream timeout, etc.), we now ALWAYS redirect to /web/?direct=1 if a
   // stale token exists in localStorage, instead of failing silently.
   function go(u){setTimeout(function(){location.replace(u)},300)}
+  function authUrl(){return dashboardOrigin+'?auth=required&return='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)}
+  function authLink(label){return '<a href="'+authUrl()+'">'+label+'</a>'}
+  function vault(svc){go(dashboardOrigin+'?credentials='+encodeURIComponent(svc)+'&return='+encodeURIComponent(location.href))}
   function fail(msg,info){try{m.innerHTML=msg;d.textContent=info||''}catch(_){}}
   function withTimeout(ms){var c=new AbortController();setTimeout(function(){c.abort()},ms);return c.signal}
   function ft(svc){return fetch('/dashcaddy-api/api/auth/app-token/'+svc,{credentials:'include',signal:withTimeout(8000)})}
   function merge(ck,j,name){try{var c=JSON.parse(ls.getItem(ck)||'{}');if(c.Servers&&c.Servers.length){var s=c.Servers[0];s.AccessToken=j.token;s.UserId=j.userId||s.UserId||'';s.DateLastAccessed=Date.now();ls.setItem(ck,JSON.stringify(c));return}}catch(e){}ls.setItem(ck,JSON.stringify({Servers:[{Id:j.serverId||'',Name:j.serverName||name,UserId:j.userId||'',AccessToken:j.token,ManualAddress:location.origin,LastConnectionMode:2,DateLastAccessed:Date.now()}]}))}
   // Belt-and-suspenders hard timeout: if nothing in this script succeeds
   // within 15s, force-redirect to status.sami so the user can re-auth.
-  var overallTimer=setTimeout(function(){go('https://status.sami?auth=required&return='+encodeURIComponent(location.href))},15000);
+  var overallTimer=setTimeout(function(){go(authUrl())},15000);
   // Cross-subdomain SSO handoff: status.sami can't share its session cookie
   // with this origin (Domain=.sami cookies are silently rejected by real
   // browsers - .sami isn't a registered TLD, so browsers treat "sami" as the
@@ -305,18 +345,17 @@ function buildLoginPage(service) {
   preExchange.then(function(){
   return fetch('/dashcaddy-api/api/auth/totp/check-session',{credentials:'include',cache:'no-store',signal:withTimeout(5000)})
   }).then(function(r){return r.json()}).then(function(st){
-    if(!st||!st.success||!st.authenticated){go('https://status.sami?auth=required&return='+encodeURIComponent(location.href));return}
+    if(!st||!st.success||!st.authenticated){go(authUrl());return}
   ${body}
-  }).catch(function(e){fail('Could not reach DashCaddy. <a href="https://status.sami?auth=required&return='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'">Sign in at DashCaddy</a>','Auth check error: '+(e&&e.message||'unknown'))})
+  }).catch(function(e){fail('Could not reach DashCaddy. '+authLink('Sign in at DashCaddy'),'Auth check error: '+(e&&e.message||'unknown'))})
   })()</script></body></html>`;
 
   const pages = {
     chat: {
       title: 'Signing in...', bg: '#0a0a0a', accent: '#60a5fa',
-      body: `if(ls.getItem('token')){go('/?direct=1');return}
+      body: `d.textContent='Fetching token from DashCaddy...';
-d.textContent='Fetching token from DashCaddy...';
 ft('chat').then(function(r){return r.text()}).then(function(t){
-  try{var j=JSON.parse(t);if(j.token){ls.setItem('token',j.token);go('/?direct=1');return}
+  try{var j=JSON.parse(t);if(j.credentialsRequired){vault('chat');return}if(j.token){ls.setItem('token',j.token);go('/?direct=1');return}
   // No token but chat is reachable — fall through to manual UI link below
   fail('Auto-login unavailable. <a href="/?direct=1">Open Chat manually</a>','No token field: '+t.substring(0,200))}
   catch(e){fail('Auto-login parse error. <a href="/?direct=1">Open Chat manually</a>','Error: '+e.message+' / body: '+t.substring(0,200))}
@@ -324,30 +363,29 @@ ft('chat').then(function(r){return r.text()}).then(function(t){
     },
     plex: {
       title: 'Signing in to Plex...', bg: '#1f1f1f', accent: '#e5a00d',
-      body: `if(ls.getItem('myPlexAccessToken')){go('/web/?direct=1');return}
+      body: `ft('plex').then(function(r){return r.json()}).then(function(j){
-ft('plex').then(function(r){return r.json()}).then(function(j){
+  if(j.credentialsRequired){vault('plex');return}if(j.token){ls.setItem('myPlexAccessToken',j.token);d.textContent='Token stored, redirecting...';go('/web/?direct=1');return}
-  if(j.token){ls.setItem('myPlexAccessToken',j.token);d.textContent='Token stored, redirecting...';go('/web/?direct=1');return}
   // No token returned. Three fallbacks in priority order:
   // 1. Stale token in localStorage — Plex may still accept it.
   if(ls.getItem('myPlexAccessToken')){go('/web/?direct=1');return}
   // 2. Manual link so the user is never trapped on this page.
-  fail('Auto-login unavailable. <a href="/web/?direct=1">Open Plex manually</a> or <a href="https://status.sami?auth=required&return='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'">re-authenticate at DashCaddy</a>','API: '+JSON.stringify(j))
+  fail('Auto-login unavailable. <a href="/web/?direct=1">Open Plex manually</a> or '+authLink('re-authenticate at DashCaddy'),'API: '+JSON.stringify(j))
 }).catch(function(e){fail('Could not reach DashCaddy. <a href="/web/?direct=1">Open Plex manually</a>','Error: '+(e&&e.message||'unknown'))})`
     },
     jellyfin: {
       title: 'Signing in to Jellyfin...', bg: '#101014', accent: '#00a4dc',
       body: `ft('jellyfin').then(function(r){return r.json()}).then(function(j){
-  if(j.token){merge('jellyfin_credentials',j,'Jellyfin');merge('_jellyfin_credentials',j,'Jellyfin');d.textContent='Token stored, redirecting...';go('/web/');return}
+  if(j.credentialsRequired){vault('jellyfin');return}if(j.token){merge('jellyfin_credentials',j,'Jellyfin');merge('_jellyfin_credentials',j,'Jellyfin');d.textContent='Token stored, redirecting...';go('/web/');return}
   if(ls.getItem('jellyfin_credentials')||ls.getItem('_jellyfin_credentials')){go('/web/');return}
-  fail('Auto-login unavailable. <a href="/web/">Open Jellyfin manually</a> or <a href="https://status.sami?auth=required&return='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'">re-authenticate at DashCaddy</a>','API: '+JSON.stringify(j))
+  fail('Auto-login unavailable. <a href="/web/">Open Jellyfin manually</a> or '+authLink('re-authenticate at DashCaddy'),'API: '+JSON.stringify(j))
 }).catch(function(e){fail('Could not reach DashCaddy. <a href="/web/">Open Jellyfin manually</a>','Error: '+(e&&e.message||'unknown'))})`
     },
     emby: {
       title: 'Signing in to Emby...', bg: '#101014', accent: '#52b54b',
       body: `ft('emby').then(function(r){return r.json()}).then(function(j){
-  if(j.token){merge('emby_credentials',j,'Emby');merge('_emby_credentials',j,'Emby');d.textContent='Token stored, redirecting...';go('/web/');return}
+  if(j.credentialsRequired){vault('emby');return}if(j.token){merge('emby_credentials',j,'Emby');merge('_emby_credentials',j,'Emby');d.textContent='Token stored, redirecting...';go('/web/');return}
   if(ls.getItem('emby_credentials')||ls.getItem('_emby_credentials')){go('/web/');return}
-  fail('Auto-login unavailable. <a href="/web/">Open Emby manually</a> or <a href="https://status.sami?auth=required&return='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'">re-authenticate at DashCaddy</a>','API: '+JSON.stringify(j))
+  fail('Auto-login unavailable. <a href="/web/">Open Emby manually</a> or '+authLink('re-authenticate at DashCaddy'),'API: '+JSON.stringify(j))
 }).catch(function(e){fail('Could not reach DashCaddy. <a href="/web/">Open Emby manually</a>','Error: '+(e&&e.message||'unknown'))})`
     },
   };
@@ -357,5 +395,6 @@ ft('plex').then(function(r){return r.json()}).then(function(j){
   return SHELL(cfg.body)
     .replace(/__TITLE__/g, cfg.title)
     .replace('__BG__', cfg.bg)
-    .replace('__ACCENT__', cfg.accent);
+    .replace('__ACCENT__', cfg.accent)
+    .replace('__DASHBOARD_ORIGIN__', JSON.stringify(dashboardOrigin));
 }

dashcaddy-api/routes/auth/totp.js

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const { ok, successMessage } = require('../../src/utils/responses');
  * @param {Object} deps.log - Logger instance
  * @returns {express.Router}
  */
-module.exports = function({ authManager, credentialManager, totpConfig, saveTotpConfig, session, asyncHandler, errorResponse, log, renewCSRFToken }) {
+module.exports = function({ authManager, credentialManager, totpConfig, saveTotpConfig, session, asyncHandler, errorResponse, log, renewCSRFToken, siteConfig }) {
   const router = express.Router();
   
   // Ctx shim for backward compatibility
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ module.exports = function({ authManager, credentialManager, totpConfig, saveTotp
     credentialManager,
     totpConfig,
     saveTotpConfig,
-    session
+    session,
+    siteConfig
   };
 
   // Get current TOTP config (public route)
@@ -193,11 +194,14 @@ const SETUP_WINDOW_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000;
   // Login: verify TOTP code and set session cookie
   router.post('/totp/verify', asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
     const { authenticator } = require('otplib');
-    const { code } = req.body;
+    const { code, serviceId } = req.body;
 
     if (!code || !/^\d{6}$/.test(code)) {
       throw new ValidationError('Invalid code format', 'code');
     }
+    if (serviceId != null && !/^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$/.test(String(serviceId))) {
+      throw new ValidationError('Invalid service ID', 'serviceId');
+    }
 
     if (!ctx.totpConfig.enabled || !ctx.totpConfig.isSetUp) {
       throw new ValidationError('TOTP is not enabled');
@@ -227,7 +231,12 @@ const SETUP_WINDOW_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000;
     // URL when bouncing the user back to a gated service. That service's
     // login page exchanges it via /auth/sso-exchange for its own host-only
     // session cookie. Single-use, 60s TTL — see ctx.session.createHandoffToken.
-    const ssoToken = ctx.session.createHandoffToken();
+    let ssoToken = null;
+    if (serviceId) {
+      const suffix = String(ctx.siteConfig?.tld || '.sami');
+      const expectedHost = `${serviceId}${suffix.startsWith('.') ? suffix : `.${suffix}`}`;
+      ssoToken = ctx.session.createHandoffToken(expectedHost);
+    }
 
     log.debug('auth', 'Session created', { sessions: ctx.session.ipSessions.size });
     ok(res, { message: 'Authenticated successfully', sessionDuration: ctx.totpConfig.sessionDuration, csrfToken: newCsrfToken, ssoToken });

dashcaddy-api/routes/disaster-recovery.js

@@ -37,6 +37,81 @@ const BACKUP_FILES = [
 
 const ASSET_FILES = ['custom-logo.png', 'custom-favicon.png', 'custom-logo.svg'];
 
+// DC-079: Restrict restored assets to the hardcoded ASSET_FILES allowlist.
+// The asset KEYS in the snapshot are user-controlled JSON, so iterating
+// `Object.entries(snapshot.assets)` and writing each name verbatim into
+// `path.join(assetsDir, name)` lets an attacker POST `{assets: {"../../etc/caddy/Caddyfile":
+// "<base64-evil>"}}` and overwrite the live Caddyfile via the bind-mount
+// (path.join('/app/data/assets', '../../etc/caddy/Caddyfile') resolves
+// to /etc/caddy/Caddyfile). This bypasses the caddyfile-staging gate
+// above because the dataDir bind-mount can write to /etc/caddy on the host.
+const ASSET_KEY_RE = /^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$/;
+const ASSET_PATH_TRAVERSAL_RE = /(^|\/)\.\.($|\/)|^\//;
+
+// DC-079: Caddyfile content safety limits for disaster-recovery restore.
+// The live Caddyfile on DNS2 is ~17 KB and grows linearly with vhost count.
+// Express's default JSON body parser limit (1 MB) is the outer gate; this
+// in-handler cap is defense-in-depth against either a future body-limit
+// raise or a custom body parser. Cap well below the body-parser ceiling.
+const MAX_CADDYFILE_BYTES = 512 * 1024; // 512 KiB — 30x the live file, far below 1 MB body limit
+
+// DC-079: theme filenames must match this pattern. No slashes (no path
+// traversal), no `..`, must end in `.json`, and only filename-safe chars.
+// Themes are written to <dataDir>/themes/<name>; we also defense-in-depth
+// check the resolved path stays inside that dir.
+const THEME_NAME_RE = /^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.json$/;
+
+function assertSafeAssetKey(key) {
+  if (typeof key !== 'string' || key.length === 0 || key.length > 128) {
+    throw new Error(`asset key must be a non-empty string up to 128 chars`);
+  }
+  if (ASSET_PATH_TRAVERSAL_RE.test(key) || !ASSET_KEY_RE.test(key)) {
+    throw new Error(`asset key contains forbidden characters or path segments`);
+  }
+}
+
+function assertSafeThemeName(name) {
+  if (typeof name !== 'string' || name.length === 0 || name.length > 128) {
+    throw new Error(`theme name must be a non-empty string up to 128 chars`);
+  }
+  if (!THEME_NAME_RE.test(name)) {
+    throw new Error(`theme name must match ${THEME_NAME_RE} (alphanum / dot / dash / underscore, ending in .json)`);
+  }
+}
+
+// Reject Caddyfile content that smuggles in arbitrary `import` directives.
+// caddy-apply expects the single top-level Caddyfile; any `import` to an
+// absolute path means "load another file from disk at Caddy reload time" —
+// that's a classic injection vector (an attacker can craft a snapshot whose
+// `import /etc/caddy/external.caddy` reads any file Caddy can read).
+// We allow the relative-style `import <snippet>` form ONLY if the snippet
+// name matches a small allowlist of well-known Caddy snippet names (none
+// today; add explicit names if a future snippet module is needed).
+const FORBIDDEN_IMPORT_RE = /^\s*import\s+(["']|\/|\.\.|~\/|%[A-F0-9]{2})/im;
+
+function validateCaddyfileContent(content) {
+  if (typeof content !== 'string') {
+    return { ok: false, error: 'Caddyfile content must be a string' };
+  }
+  if (content.length === 0) {
+    return { ok: false, error: 'Caddyfile content is empty' };
+  }
+  if (Buffer.byteLength(content, 'utf8') > MAX_CADDYFILE_BYTES) {
+    return { ok: false, error: `Caddyfile content exceeds ${MAX_CADDYFILE_BYTES} bytes` };
+  }
+  if (FORBIDDEN_IMPORT_RE.test(content)) {
+    // Allow the canonical single-quoted snippet import form ONLY if the
+    // snippet name is on the explicit allowlist (currently empty). This
+    // catches absolute paths, ../, ~/, and URL-encoded payloads while
+    // leaving room for future snippet additions without touching this gate.
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      error: 'Caddyfile contains forbidden `import` directive (absolute path, encoded, or non-allowlisted snippet)'
+    };
+  }
+  return { ok: true };
+}
+
 module.exports = function({ servicesStateManager, platformPaths, log, asyncHandler }) {
   const wrap = asyncHandler || ((fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next));
   const router = express.Router();
@@ -44,6 +119,15 @@ module.exports = function({ servicesStateManager, platformPaths, log, asyncHandl
   let lastBackupStatus = { timestamp: null, status: null, size: null };
   let lastRestoreStatus = { timestamp: null, status: null };
 
+  // DC-079: Staging dir for the candidate Caddyfile. The disaster-recovery
+  // restore endpoint stages here instead of writing directly to the live
+  // Caddyfile path. The operator must run `caddy-apply` (or its equivalent)
+  // to validate + reload + git-commit the staged file. This keeps the live
+  // Caddyfile under the same atomic-commit guard as every other edit.
+  function getStagedCaddyfileDir(dataDir) {
+    return path.join(dataDir, 'disaster-staged');
+  }
+
   /**
    * POST /api/v1/disaster/backup
    * Creates a complete system snapshot as a downloadable JSON file.
@@ -175,13 +259,64 @@ module.exports = function({ servicesStateManager, platformPaths, log, asyncHandl
       }
     }
 
-    // Restore Caddyfile
+    // DC-079: Stage the Caddyfile to a staging path inside dataDir
-    if (snapshot.caddyfile) {
+    // instead of writing directly to caddyfilePath (which is the LIVE
+    // /etc/caddy/Caddyfile bind-mounted into the container as /caddyfile).
+    //
+    // Threat model (defense-in-depth, mirrors DC-070 / DC-074 / DC-076):
+    // the endpoint is TOTP-gated, but a compromised operator / phished
+    // session / pivot path could POST a snapshot with `caddyfile: <evil>`
+    // and the pre-fix code would call `fsp.writeFile(caddyfilePath, ...)`
+    // which writes the attacker-controlled string straight to the live
+    // Caddyfile. Caddy then reads that file on the next reload (which can
+    // be triggered by ACME renewals, health probes, or any admin API
+    // touch), executing whatever directives the attacker embedded:
+    //   - `admin off` + arbitrary config write
+    //   - `import /etc/caddy/<anything-caddy-can-read>` for content theft
+    //   - `reverse_proxy` to attacker-controlled upstreams
+    //   - `acme_ca` override to attacker CA
+    //   - `log` directives to attacker-writable paths
+    //
+    // The Caddyfile is managed by the `caddy-apply` wrapper (validates +
+    // reloads + git-commits atomically — see CLAUDE.md hard rule). This
+    // endpoint previously bypassed that wrapper. The fix stages the
+    // candidate file under dataDir/disaster-staged/Caddyfile.candidate and
+    // returns the path so the operator can apply it via the normal flow.
+    const caddyfileStaged = [];
+    // DC-079: handle three cases for the caddyfile field:
+    //   - absent/null/undefined: back-compat — no Caddyfile in snapshot
+    //   - empty string "": explicit empty payload is suspicious — reject
+    //   - non-string (object/array/number): type confusion attempt — reject
+    //   - valid string: stage to dataDir/disaster-staged/Caddyfile.candidate
+    if (snapshot.caddyfile !== undefined && snapshot.caddyfile !== null) {
+      const validation = validateCaddyfileContent(snapshot.caddyfile);
+      if (!validation.ok) {
+        return errorResponse(res, 400, `Invalid Caddyfile in snapshot: ${validation.error}`, {
+          code: ErrorCodes.BACKUP.INVALID_CONFIG,
+        });
+      }
+
+      const stagedDir = getStagedCaddyfileDir(dataDir);
       try {
-        await fsp.writeFile(caddyfilePath, snapshot.caddyfile);
+        await fsp.mkdir(stagedDir, { recursive: true });
-        restored.push('Caddyfile');
+        const stagedPath = path.join(stagedDir, 'Caddyfile.candidate');
+        // Atomic write: write to .candidate.tmp then rename. The live
+        // Caddyfile is NEVER touched from this endpoint.
+        const tmpPath = stagedPath + '.tmp';
+        await fsp.writeFile(tmpPath, snapshot.caddyfile, { mode: 0o644 });
+        await fsp.rename(tmpPath, stagedPath);
+        caddyfileStaged.push({
+          file: 'Caddyfile',
+          stagedPath,
+          action: 'awaiting caddy-apply',
+          livePath: caddyfilePath,
+        });
+        if (log) log.info('disaster-recovery', 'Caddyfile staged (not applied)', {
+          stagedPath,
+          size: Buffer.byteLength(snapshot.caddyfile, 'utf8'),
+        });
       } catch (err) {
-        errors.push({ file: 'Caddyfile', error: err.message });
+        errors.push({ file: 'Caddyfile (staging)', error: err.message });
       }
     }
 
@@ -189,8 +324,20 @@ module.exports = function({ servicesStateManager, platformPaths, log, asyncHandl
     const assetsDir = platformPaths?.resolveAssetsPath?.() || path.join(dataDir, 'assets');
     for (const [name, base64] of Object.entries(snapshot.assets || {})) {
       try {
+        // DC-079: assets directory is the first attack surface that
+        // bypasses the Caddyfile-staging gate. `name` is a user-supplied
+        // JSON key; without validation, `path.join(assetsDir, name)` lets
+        // an attacker escape to /etc/caddy via path traversal.
+        assertSafeAssetKey(name);
+        const resolved = path.resolve(assetsDir, name);
+        // Defense-in-depth: even after charset checks, the resolved path
+        // MUST stay inside assetsDir. If it doesn't, refuse the write.
+        if (!resolved.startsWith(path.resolve(assetsDir) + path.sep) &&
+            resolved !== path.resolve(assetsDir)) {
+          throw new Error(`asset path resolves outside assets directory`);
+        }
         await fsp.mkdir(assetsDir, { recursive: true });
-        await fsp.writeFile(path.join(assetsDir, name), Buffer.from(base64, 'base64'));
+        await fsp.writeFile(resolved, Buffer.from(base64, 'base64'));
         restored.push(`assets/${name}`);
       } catch (err) {
         errors.push({ file: `assets/${name}`, error: err.message });
@@ -203,8 +350,21 @@ module.exports = function({ servicesStateManager, platformPaths, log, asyncHandl
       try {
         await fsp.mkdir(themesDir, { recursive: true });
         for (const [name, content] of Object.entries(snapshot.themes)) {
-          await fsp.writeFile(path.join(themesDir, name), JSON.stringify(content, null, 2));
+          // DC-079: same path-traversal vector as assets — keys are
-          restored.push(`themes/${name}`);
+          // user-controlled JSON. Validate the name AND confirm the
+          // resolved path stays inside themesDir.
+          try {
+            assertSafeThemeName(name);
+            const resolved = path.resolve(themesDir, name);
+            if (!resolved.startsWith(path.resolve(themesDir) + path.sep) &&
+                resolved !== path.resolve(themesDir)) {
+              throw new Error(`theme path resolves outside themes directory`);
+            }
+            await fsp.writeFile(resolved, JSON.stringify(content, null, 2));
+            restored.push(`themes/${name}`);
+          } catch (err) {
+            errors.push({ file: `themes/${name}`, error: err.message });
+          }
         }
       } catch (err) {
         errors.push({ file: 'themes', error: err.message });
@@ -215,19 +375,33 @@ module.exports = function({ servicesStateManager, platformPaths, log, asyncHandl
       timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
       status: errors.length === 0 ? 'success' : 'partial',
       restored: restored.length,
+      staged: caddyfileStaged.length,
       errors: errors.length,
     };
 
     if (log) log.info('disaster-recovery', 'Restore completed', lastRestoreStatus);
 
-    ok(res, {
+    // DC-079: Surface the staged-Caddyfile warning in the response body so
+    // the UI / operator can see that the Caddyfile is NOT yet live. The
+    // restore endpoint stages under dataDir/disaster-staged/Caddyfile.candidate
+    // and the operator must run `caddy-apply` (or its equivalent) to
+    // validate + reload + git-commit the staged file. The live Caddyfile
+    // is owned by the caddy-apply wrapper per CLAUDE.md hard rule.
+    const responseBody = {
       status: errors.length === 0 ? 'success' : 'partial',
       restored,
       errors,
       message: errors.length === 0
-        ? `Successfully restored ${restored.length} files. Restart DashCaddy to apply.`
+        ? `Successfully restored ${restored.length} files${caddyfileStaged.length > 0 ? ` (Caddyfile staged — ${caddyfileStaged[0].stagedPath}; run caddy-apply to apply)` : ''}. Restart DashCaddy to apply.`
         : `Restored ${restored.length} files with ${errors.length} errors. Check error details.`,
-    });
+    };
+
+    if (caddyfileStaged.length > 0) {
+      responseBody.caddyfileStaged = caddyfileStaged;
+      responseBody.warning = '[DC-079] Caddyfile is STAGED, not applied. Live /etc/caddy/Caddyfile was NOT modified by this restore. Run `caddy-apply <reason>` (or equivalent) to validate + reload + git-commit the staged candidate.';
+    }
+
+    ok(res, responseBody);
   }));
 
   /**

dashcaddy-api/routes/log-insights.js

@@ -1,8 +1,103 @@
+/**
+ * DC-081: Plain-English log insights + dispose endpoint
+ *
+ * GET /api/v1/log-insights — Plain English summary of who's doing what
+ * POST /api/v1/log-insights/dispose — Preview then confirm cleanup
+ *
+ * DC-081 hardening (paired with the deploy path fix):
+ *   - AUDIT_LOG_FILE / SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE were HARDCODED to
+ *     `/opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/...` which DOES NOT EXIST in the
+ *     production container — files live at `/app/data/...`. The dispose
+ *     endpoint silently no-op'd (read empty arrays, wrote empty arrays
+ *     back) and the GET endpoint dropped the storage-size block. Both
+ *     paths now use the same canonical resolution as the audit-logger
+ *     itself: `process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE || path.join(platformPaths.dataDir, 'audit-log.json')`.
+ *   - keepDays was unbounded — `parseInt(req.body.keepDays) || 30` accepted
+ *     negative numbers (e.g. -1000 → cutoff = +3 years in the future,
+ *     deleting 100% of forensic context) and non-integers (Infinity,
+ *     floats). Now validated to an integer in [1, 3650] (1 day .. 10 years)
+ *     before any file read.
+ *   - confirm gate added: must send { confirm: true, keepDays: N } — the
+ *     preview pass is read-only, the confirm pass writes. Matches the
+ *     audit-logs/DELETE confirm=CLEAR pattern.
+ *   - The dispose handler now uses a single shared `_resolvePaths()` helper
+ *     to keep GET and POST in lockstep (and so a future path-config change
+ *     touches one site, not four).
+ *
+ * Pre-DC-081 verification: from inside the running container, both
+ * `/app/data/audit-log.json` (318 KB) and `/app/data/security-events.jsonl`
+ * (15 MB) exist, but the old hardcoded `/opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/...`
+ * paths resolve to ENOENT. The dispose endpoint therefore did nothing;
+ * this fix wires it back to the actual files.
+ */
+
 const express = require('express');
+const path = require('path');
 const fs = require('fs').promises;
+const platformPaths = require('../platform-paths');
+
+/**
+ * Resolve the canonical paths for the audit log + security event log.
+ *
+ * Both store the file path in their own module-level constants, so any
+ * environment override (e.g. AUDIT_LOG_FILE=...) is honoured here too —
+ * exactly the same behaviour as src/security/audit-logger.js and
+ * src/security/event-store.js. Without this, a container with
+ * AUDIT_LOG_FILE set would see the dispose handler read from one file
+ * and the audit-logger write to a different one.
+ *
+ * @returns {{auditPath: string, secPath: string, auditPathFrom: string, secPathFrom: string}}
+ *   paths + the source ("env" or "default") so tests can verify.
+ */
+function _resolvePaths() {
+  const auditPath = process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE
+    || path.join(platformPaths.dataDir, 'audit-log.json');
+  const secPath = process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE
+    || path.join(platformPaths.dataDir, 'security-events.jsonl');
+  return {
+    auditPath,
+    secPath,
+    auditPathFrom: process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE ? 'env' : 'default',
+    secPathFrom: process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE ? 'env' : 'default',
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Validate the keepDays input. Coerces + bounds-checks BEFORE any file
+ * read so a malicious or mistyped client can't:
+ *   - pass a negative number (cutoff = far future → wipe 100%)
+ *   - pass Infinity (parseInt(Infinity, 10) === NaN, currently falls
+ *     through `|| 30` — fixed to fail-fast instead)
+ *   - pass a non-integer (e.g. 1.5 → cutoff mid-day, off-by-half-day)
+ *   - pass 0 (no-op-but-lies) or 10000 (way past retention policy)
+ *
+ * @param {unknown} raw - value from req.body.keepDays
+ * @returns {number} validated integer in [1, 3650]
+ * @throws {Error} when out of range / wrong type
+ */
+function _validateKeepDays(raw) {
+  if (raw === undefined || raw === null) {
+    throw new Error('keepDays is required (integer in [1, 3650])');
+  }
+  const n = Number(raw);
+  if (!Number.isFinite(n)) {
+    throw new Error(`keepDays must be a finite number (received ${JSON.stringify(raw)})`);
+  }
+  if (!Number.isInteger(n)) {
+    throw new Error(`keepDays must be an integer (received ${raw})`);
+  }
+  if (n < 1 || n > 3650) {
+    throw new Error(`keepDays must be between 1 and 3650 (received ${n})`);
+  }
+  return n;
+}
 
 module.exports = function({ asyncHandler, ok, auditLogger, securityEventStore }) {
   const router = express.Router();
+  // Resolve once at module init so GET + POST both use the same files.
+  // If the env vars change at runtime (rare — start.sh wires them at
+  // container start), operators re-deploy rather than mutate env mid-flight.
+  const { auditPath, secPath } = _resolvePaths();
 
   // GET /api/v1/log-insights — Plain English summary of who's doing what
   router.get('/log-insights', asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
@@ -74,16 +169,18 @@ module.exports = function({ asyncHandler, ok, auditLogger, securityEventStore })
     }
 
     // --- Storage info ---
-    const auditPath = process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE || '/opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/audit-log.json';
+    // DC-081: read from the canonical resolved paths (NOT the hardcoded
-    const secPath = process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE || '/opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/security-events.jsonl';
+    // /opt/... paths that don't exist in the container). Empty-object
+    // fallback on ENOENT — the file may legitimately be absent on a
+    // fresh install where the audit-logger hasn't written yet.
     let storage = {};
     try {
       const a = await fs.stat(auditPath);
-      storage.auditLog = { sizeMB: +(a.size / 1048576).toFixed(2), entries: auditEntries.length };
+      storage.auditLog = { sizeMB: +(a.size / 1048576).toFixed(2), entries: auditEntries.length, path: auditPath };
     } catch {}
     try {
       const s = await fs.stat(secPath);
-      storage.securityEvents = { sizeMB: +(s.size / 1048576).toFixed(2), entries: securityEvents.length };
+      storage.securityEvents = { sizeMB: +(s.size / 1048576).toFixed(2), entries: securityEvents.length, path: secPath };
     } catch {}
 
     ok(res, {
@@ -108,16 +205,44 @@ module.exports = function({ asyncHandler, ok, auditLogger, securityEventStore })
   }));
 
   // POST /api/v1/log-insights/dispose — Preview then confirm cleanup
+  //
+  // Two-call pattern:
+  //   1. { keepDays: 30 }                  → preview, no writes
+  //   2. { keepDays: 30, confirm: true }   → actually delete
+  //
+  // DC-081 hardening:
+  //   - keepDays is validated to integer [1, 3650] BEFORE any file read.
+  //     A negative keepDays (e.g. -1000) would previously compute a
+  //     cutoff +3 years in the future, then delete every entry older
+  //     than that — i.e. 100% of the audit log. Now rejected at the gate.
+  //   - auditPath / secPath come from the canonical _resolvePaths() helper
+  //     so the container's actual /app/data files are read (the pre-fix
+  //     hardcoded /opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/... paths resolved to
+  //     ENOENT inside the container, so the endpoint silently did nothing).
   router.post('/log-insights/dispose', asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
-    const keepDays = parseInt(req.body.keepDays) || 30;
+    // Validate keepDays first — fail-fast before any file IO so a bad
+    // client never touches disk.
+    let keepDays;
+    try {
+      keepDays = _validateKeepDays(req.body?.keepDays);
+    } catch (e) {
+      return res.status(400).json({ success: false, error: e.message, code: 'DC-081_INVALID_KEEP_DAYS' });
+    }
     const confirm = req.body.confirm === true;
     const cutoff = new Date(Date.now() - keepDays * 86400000).toISOString();
 
-    const auditPath = process.env.AUDIT_LOG_FILE || '/opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/audit-log.json';
+    // Read both files via the canonical resolved paths (NOT the hardcoded
-    const secPath = process.env.SECURITY_EVENT_LOG_FILE || '/opt/dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api/data/security-events.jsonl';
+    // /opt/... paths from before — those don't exist in the container).
-
     const auditRaw = await fs.readFile(auditPath, 'utf8').catch(function () { return '[]'; });
-    const auditData = JSON.parse(auditRaw);
+    let auditData;
+    try {
+      auditData = JSON.parse(auditRaw);
+    } catch (e) {
+      return res.status(500).json({ success: false, error: `audit-log file is corrupt (${auditPath}): ${e.message}`, code: 'DC-081_AUDIT_PARSE_FAILED' });
+    }
+    if (!Array.isArray(auditData)) {
+      return res.status(500).json({ success: false, error: `audit-log file is not an array (${auditPath})`, code: 'DC-081_AUDIT_SHAPE_INVALID' });
+    }
     const oldAudit = auditData.filter(function (e) { return e.timestamp < cutoff; });
 
     const secRaw = await fs.readFile(secPath, 'utf8').catch(function () { return ''; });
@@ -127,16 +252,40 @@ module.exports = function({ asyncHandler, ok, auditLogger, securityEventStore })
     if (!confirm) {
       ok(res, {
         preview: true,
-        message: 'This will delete ' + oldAudit.length + ' audit entries and ' + oldSec.length + ' security events older than ' + keepDays + ' days. Send {confirm: true} to proceed.',
+        message: 'This will delete ' + oldAudit.length + ' audit entries and ' + oldSec.length + ' security events older than ' + keepDays + ' days. Send {confirm: true, keepDays: ' + keepDays + '} to proceed.',
         wouldDelete: { auditEntries: oldAudit.length, securityEvents: oldSec.length },
-        cutoffDate: cutoff
+        cutoffDate: cutoff,
+        paths: { auditPath, secPath },
       });
       return;
     }
 
-    // Execute cleanup
+    // Execute cleanup. Audit the wipe FIRST via the audit-logger so the
+    // fact that a delete happened is itself preserved (matches the
+    // audit-logs/DELETE + error-logs/DELETE pattern).
+    try {
+      if (auditLogger && typeof auditLogger.log === 'function') {
+        await auditLogger.log({
+          action: 'log-insights.dispose',
+          resource: 'audit-log,security-events',
+          outcome: 'success',
+          details: {
+            keepDays,
+            cutoff,
+            deleted: { auditEntries: oldAudit.length, securityEvents: oldSec.length },
+          },
+        });
+      }
+    } catch { /* don't fail the dispose on audit-side errors */ }
+
+    // Rewrite audit-log.json atomically — write to tmp + rename so a
+    // crash mid-write can't leave the file half-empty (the file is read
+    // by state-manager on every container start; a corrupt file would
+    // block the whole API).
     const keptAudit = auditData.filter(function (e) { return e.timestamp >= cutoff; });
-    await fs.writeFile(auditPath, JSON.stringify(keptAudit, null, 2));
+    const tmpAudit = auditPath + '.tmp';
+    await fs.writeFile(tmpAudit, JSON.stringify(keptAudit, null, 2));
+    await fs.rename(tmpAudit, auditPath);
 
     const keptSec = secLines.filter(function (l) { try { return JSON.parse(l).timestamp >= cutoff; } catch (e) { return false; } });
     await fs.writeFile(secPath, keptSec.join('\n') + '\n');
@@ -145,9 +294,16 @@ module.exports = function({ asyncHandler, ok, auditLogger, securityEventStore })
       disposed: true,
       deleted: { auditEntries: oldAudit.length, securityEvents: oldSec.length },
       remaining: { auditEntries: keptAudit.length, securityEvents: keptSec.length },
-      cutoffDate: cutoff
+      cutoffDate: cutoff,
     });
   }));
 
   return router;
 };
+
+// DC-081: export helpers for direct unit testing (the route handlers are
+// otherwise unreachable from outside the factory closure).
+module.exports.__test = {
+  _resolvePaths,
+  _validateKeepDays,
+};

dashcaddy-api/routes/notifications.js

@@ -40,7 +40,15 @@ module.exports = function({ notification, asyncHandler, ok }) {
             enabled: notificationConfig.providers.email?.enabled || false,
             configured: !!(notificationConfig.providers.email?.host && notificationConfig.providers.email?.to),
             host: notificationConfig.providers.email?.host || '',
-            from: notificationConfig.providers.email?.from || ''
+            from: notificationConfig.providers.email?.from || '',
+            // DC-092: the settings UI needs these to roundtrip the form.
+            // Password is NEVER returned; hasPassword lets the UI show a
+            // "leave blank to keep" hint instead of an empty-looking field.
+            port: notificationConfig.providers.email?.port || 587,
+            secure: notificationConfig.providers.email?.secure === true,
+            to: notificationConfig.providers.email?.to || '',
+            username: notificationConfig.providers.email?.username || '',
+            hasPassword: !!notificationConfig.providers.email?.password
           }
         },
         events: notificationConfig.events,
@@ -54,6 +62,39 @@ module.exports = function({ notification, asyncHandler, ok }) {
       const { enabled, providers, events, healthCheck } = req.body;
       const notificationConfig = notification.getConfig();
 
+      // DC-092: clients have historically sent at least three field spellings:
+      // the settings UI sends email.user/email.pass (its input ids are
+      // email-user/email-pass) while the manager/route read username/password.
+      // Normalize aliases onto the canonical keys BEFORE the merge so SMTP auth
+      // actually applies for UI-saved configs.
+      if (providers?.email) {
+        if (providers.email.user !== undefined && providers.email.username === undefined) {
+          providers.email.username = providers.email.user;
+        }
+        if (providers.email.pass !== undefined && providers.email.password === undefined) {
+          providers.email.password = providers.email.pass;
+        }
+        delete providers.email.user;
+        delete providers.email.pass;
+      }
+
+      // DC-092 strict boolean contract: enabled/secure must be actual
+      // booleans. `"false"` (string) is truthy — !!"false" === true — and
+      // previously persisted as-is, silently forcing TLS on the next send.
+      // Reject instead of coercing.
+      const boolOrThrow = (val, label) => {
+        if (val === undefined) return;
+        if (typeof val !== 'boolean') {
+          throw new ValidationError(`${label} must be a boolean (got ${typeof val})`);
+        }
+      };
+      boolOrThrow(enabled, 'enabled');
+      boolOrThrow(providers?.discord?.enabled, 'providers.discord.enabled');
+      boolOrThrow(providers?.telegram?.enabled, 'providers.telegram.enabled');
+      boolOrThrow(providers?.ntfy?.enabled, 'providers.ntfy.enabled');
+      boolOrThrow(providers?.email?.enabled, 'providers.email.enabled');
+      boolOrThrow(providers?.email?.secure, 'providers.email.secure');
+
       // Validate provider webhook URLs and tokens
       if (providers) {
         if (providers.discord?.webhookUrl) {
@@ -96,6 +137,12 @@ module.exports = function({ notification, asyncHandler, ok }) {
             throw new ValidationError('Invalid SMTP host');
           }
         }
+        if (providers.email?.port !== undefined) {
+          const p = Number(providers.email.port);
+          if (!Number.isInteger(p) || p < 1 || p > 65535) {
+            throw new ValidationError('SMTP port must be an integer 1-65535');
+          }
+        }
       }
 
       // Update enabled state
@@ -124,16 +171,50 @@ module.exports = function({ notification, asyncHandler, ok }) {
           };
         }
         if (providers.email) {
+          // Non-destructive merge: an empty-string username/password from the
+          // UI (password field is intentionally left blank to keep stored
+          // credentials) must NOT clobber the stored credential.
+          const stored = notificationConfig.providers.email;
+          const incoming = { ...providers.email };
+          if (incoming.password === '') delete incoming.password;
+          if (incoming.username === '') delete incoming.username;
           notificationConfig.providers.email = {
-            ...notificationConfig.providers.email,
+            ...stored,
-            ...providers.email
+            ...incoming
           };
         }
       }
 
-      // Update events
+      // Update events. DC-092: the UI sends camelCase keys (containerDown);
+      // the canonical store/gate keys are kebab-case (container-down). Fold
+      // before merging so UI toggles actually reach the keys the send() gate
+      // reads. Values must be booleans; unknown keys pass through unchanged
+      // (canonicalized if known alias) and merge over defaults.
       if (events) {
-        notificationConfig.events = { ...notificationConfig.events, ...events };
+        const EVENT_KEY_ALIASES = {
+          containerDown: 'container-down',
+          containerUp: 'container-up',
+          deploymentSuccess: 'deploy-success',
+          deploymentFailed: 'deploy-failed',
+          deploySuccess: 'deploy-success',
+          deployFailed: 'deploy-failed',
+          resourceAlert: 'alert',
+          updateAvailable: 'update-available',
+          backupComplete: 'backup-complete',
+          backupFailed: 'backup-failed',
+          autoRestart: 'auto-restart',
+        };
+        const folded = {};
+        for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(events)) {
+          const canonicalKey = EVENT_KEY_ALIASES[k] || k;
+          folded[canonicalKey] = v;
+        }
+        for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(folded)) {
+          if (typeof v !== 'boolean') {
+            throw new ValidationError(`events.${k} must be a boolean (got ${typeof v})`);
+          }
+        }
+        notificationConfig.events = { ...notificationConfig.events, ...folded };
       }
 
       // Update health check settings

dashcaddy-api/routes/services.js

@@ -263,9 +263,10 @@ module.exports = function({
       const arrKey = await credentialManager.retrieve(`arr.${serviceId}.apikey`).catch(() => null);
       const svcKey = await credentialManager.retrieve(`service.${serviceId}.apikey`).catch(() => null);
       const username = await credentialManager.retrieve(`service.${serviceId}.username`).catch(() => null);
+      const password = await credentialManager.retrieve(`service.${serviceId}.password`).catch(() => null);
       success(res, {
         hasApiKey: !!(arrKey || svcKey),
-        hasBasicAuth: !!username,
+        hasBasicAuth: !!username && !!password,
         username: username || null
       });
   }, 'service-creds'));

dashcaddy-api/routes/share.js

@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
 const { ValidationError, NotFoundError } = require('../src/utilities/errors');
 const { PaymentRequiredError } = require('../src/utilities/errors');
 const { ok, created, badRequest, notFound } = require('../src/utils/responses');
+// DC-083: route-layer validators for the public CSRF-exempt endpoints. These
+// are imported from share-store so the route and store stay in lockstep
+// (drift risk if one set is updated and the other is forgotten).
+const { validatePublicEmail, validatePublicDeviceId } = require('../src/security/share-store');
 
 const PUBLIC_TTL_OPTIONS = new Set([
   60 * 60 * 1000,
@@ -293,7 +297,35 @@ module.exports = function shareRoutesFactory({
 
   // ─── Public endpoints (no auth, no Pro gate) ──────────────────────────────
 
-  router.get('/share/:token/preview', asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
+  // DC-083: rate-limit the two CSRF-exempt public endpoints. The general
+  // limiter (1000/15min) is mounted globally in app.js and is too generous
+  // for unauthenticated state-mutating endpoints. 30/15min per IP is
+  // enough for a legitimate user clicking "subscribe" once or twice; anything
+  // beyond is abuse. Skipped in test envs via the standard isTest guard.
+  // Lazy-loaded so test environments without the dep installed don't blow up;
+  // a missing-dep in production logs a warning and falls back to no-op (still
+  // safe — the route+store validators are the primary defense).
+  const { RATE_LIMITS } = require('../src/utilities/constants');
+  const isTest = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'test';
+  let _sharePublicLimiter = (req, _res, next) => next(); // no-op default
+  try {
+    const rateLimit = require('express-rate-limit'); // eslint-disable-line global-require
+    _sharePublicLimiter = rateLimit({
+      ...RATE_LIMITS.SHARE_PUBLIC,
+      standardHeaders: true,
+      legacyHeaders: false,
+      skip: () => isTest,
+      message: { success: false, error: 'Too many share requests, please try again later' },
+    });
+  } catch (e) {
+    // Don't crash on missing dep in a bare-bones env — but log so it's not
+    // invisible if production misconfigured.
+    if (log && typeof log.warn === 'function') {
+      log.warn({ ctx: 'share-routes', err: e.message }, 'express-rate-limit unavailable; share public endpoints have NO rate limit');
+    }
+  }
+
+  router.get('/share/:token/preview', _sharePublicLimiter, asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
     const meta = await shareStore.peek(req.params.token);
     if (!meta) {
       return res.status(404).json({ success: false, error: '[DC-553] share not found or expired' });
@@ -310,12 +342,21 @@ module.exports = function shareRoutesFactory({
     });
   }, 'share-preview'));
 
-  router.post('/share/:token/subscribe', asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
+  router.post('/share/:token/subscribe', _sharePublicLimiter, asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
+    // DC-083: replace the primitive `email.includes('@')` check with a
+    // charset/length/control-char-bounded validator. The pre-fix code
+    // accepted `@`, `a@`, `<script>@x.c`, and 10MB strings as "valid email".
+    // The subscribe body's `email` is now also captured to the share record
+    // (capped to last 8 entries, see share-store recordPublicSubscribe) so
+    // the operator can see who subscribed.
     const { email } = req.body || {};
-    if (!email || typeof email !== 'string' || !email.includes('@')) {
+    let normalizedEmail = null;
-      throw new ValidationError('valid email required', 'email');
+    if (email !== undefined && email !== null) {
+      const v = validatePublicEmail(email);
+      if (!v.ok) throw new ValidationError(v.reason, 'email');
+      normalizedEmail = v.email;
     }
-    const result = await shareStore.recordPublicSubscribe(req.params.token);
+    const result = await shareStore.recordPublicSubscribe(req.params.token, { email: normalizedEmail });
     if (!result.ok) {
       if (result.reason === 'not_found') throw new NotFoundError('share not found');
       throw new ValidationError(result.reason, 'share');
@@ -323,12 +364,23 @@ module.exports = function shareRoutesFactory({
     res.json({ success: true, data: { count: result.count, cap: result.cap } });
   }, 'share-subscribe'));
 
-  router.post('/share/:token/redeem-tailscale', asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
+  router.post('/share/:token/redeem-tailscale', _sharePublicLimiter, asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
+    // DC-083: replace the bare `typeof deviceId === 'string'` check with a
+    // charset/length/control-char-bounded validator. The pre-fix code
+    // accepted arbitrary strings of any length — including CR/LF/NUL,
+    // which flow into the Tailscale auth-key description string in
+    // POST /share/tailscale (routes/share.js:213 in the issue path).
+    // The redeem-tailscale path receives the deviceId from Caddy's
+    // forward_auth (a Tailscale machine ID), which is base64url +
+    // hyphens — well within the validator's charset.
     const { deviceId } = req.body || {};
-    if (!deviceId || typeof deviceId !== 'string') {
+    let normalizedDeviceId = null;
-      throw new ValidationError('deviceId required', 'deviceId');
+    if (deviceId !== undefined && deviceId !== null) {
+      const v = validatePublicDeviceId(deviceId);
+      if (!v.ok) throw new ValidationError(v.reason, 'deviceId');
+      normalizedDeviceId = v.deviceId;
     }
-    const result = await shareStore.recordTailscaleUse(req.params.token, { deviceId });
+    const result = await shareStore.recordTailscaleUse(req.params.token, { deviceId: normalizedDeviceId });
     if (!result.ok) {
       if (result.reason === 'not_found') throw new NotFoundError('share not found');
       throw new ValidationError(result.reason, 'share');

dashcaddy-api/routes/tailscale-admin.js

@@ -41,12 +41,124 @@
  *
  *   DELETE /api/v1/tailscale/admin/devices/:id
  *     Revokes a device from the tailnet.
+ *
+ * # DC-080 input validation
+ *
+ * Three coupled gaps in the route layer pre-fix:
+ *
+ *   (a) PUT /settings validated `apiToken.startsWith('tskey-api-')` but had
+ *       no length cap — body-parser limit was the only ceiling. A 1 MB
+ *       string starting with `tskey-api-` would be `.trim()`-ed, sent to
+ *       Tailscale's /devices endpoint, and waste server-side CPU on a
+ *       request that will always 401.
+ *   (b) POST /settings/test accepted `apiToken` from the body with NO
+ *       validation at all. The PUT route's prefix check is bypassed on
+ *       the test path — an operator could submit any string and have the
+ *       container ping Tailscale's API with it (low impact, but inconsistent
+ *       with PUT and surfaces fingerprinting via the 401 timing).
+ *   (c) POST /admin/keys validated `tags` as Array but NOT per-element
+ *       type — `tags: ['tag:guest', null, 123, {injection: true}]` would be
+ *       forwarded to Tailscale verbatim. Tailscale's API is JSON-strict
+ *       and would 400 the request, but the bad shape reached the wire.
+ *       Similarly `description` had no length cap (Tailscale caps at 120
+ *       chars per their docs).
+ *
+ * All three are gated by TOTP — this is a logged-in-operator / phished-
+ * session threat surface, not anonymous-unauth. The fix is defense-in-
+ * depth: a bug in the auth path (TOTP bypass, session theft, future
+ * route handler trust-boundary drift) should not turn these endpoints
+ * into a "submit anything and forward to Tailscale" relay.
  */
 
 const express = require('express');
 const { ok, errorResponse } = require('../src/utils/responses');
 const { TailscaleCoordError } = require('../src/managers/tailscale-coord');
 
+// DC-080: shared validation helpers for the Tailscale admin surface.
+// Tailscale API tokens follow the form `tskey-<kind>-<opaque>` where
+// `<kind>` is one of a small set of values (`api`, `auth`, `partner`,
+// `cli`). Real tokens observed in the wild are 40..80 chars; we cap at
+// 256 to leave headroom for future Tailscale key formats without giving
+// an unbounded buffer to validate+forward.
+const TAILSCALE_TOKEN_PREFIX = 'tskey-api-';
+const TAILSCALE_TOKEN_MAX_LEN = 256;
+const TAG_KEY_MAX_LEN = 64;
+const TAGS_MAX_LEN = 32;
+const DESCRIPTION_MAX_LEN = 120;
+
+// Tailscale tags are lowercased identifiers with optional colons
+// (e.g. `tag:server`, `tag:guest-plex`). Reject whitespace, CR/LF,
+// control chars, JSON metacharacters, and any character that could
+// enable header-injection through the Tailscale coord client.
+//
+// DC-080 round-2 polish: Tailscale's tag spec requires `tag:` followed by
+// ≥1 identifier char — bare `tag:` (empty name) is rejected by their API.
+// We split the pattern in two so the error message names which form failed
+// instead of dumping a generic regex.
+const TAG_KEY_RE = /^tag:[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]{0,62}$/;
+
+function _validateApiToken(token, fieldName = 'apiToken') {
+  if (typeof token !== 'string' || !token) {
+    return `${fieldName} is required and must be a string`;
+  }
+  if (!token.startsWith(TAILSCALE_TOKEN_PREFIX)) {
+    return `${fieldName} must start with ${TAILSCALE_TOKEN_PREFIX}`;
+  }
+  if (token.length > TAILSCALE_TOKEN_MAX_LEN) {
+    return `${fieldName} exceeds maximum length of ${TAILSCALE_TOKEN_MAX_LEN} characters`;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+function _validateTags(tags) {
+  if (tags === undefined || tags === null) return null;
+  if (!Array.isArray(tags)) {
+    return 'tags must be an array of strings';
+  }
+  if (tags.length > TAGS_MAX_LEN) {
+    return `tags exceeds maximum length of ${TAGS_MAX_LEN} entries`;
+  }
+  for (let i = 0; i < tags.length; i += 1) {
+    const t = tags[i];
+    if (typeof t !== 'string' || !t) {
+      return `tags[${i}] must be a non-empty string`;
+    }
+    if (t.length > TAG_KEY_MAX_LEN) {
+      return `tags[${i}] exceeds maximum length of ${TAG_KEY_MAX_LEN} characters`;
+    }
+    if (!TAG_KEY_RE.test(t)) {
+      return `tags[${i}] must match ${TAG_KEY_RE} (lowercase alnum + :_-)`;
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+function _validateDescription(description) {
+  if (description === undefined || description === null) return null;
+  if (typeof description !== 'string') {
+    return 'description must be a string';
+  }
+  if (description.length > DESCRIPTION_MAX_LEN) {
+    return `description exceeds maximum length of ${DESCRIPTION_MAX_LEN} characters`;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+// Exported for direct unit testing in __tests__/routes/tailscale-admin.test.js
+// (the validator functions are otherwise unreachable from outside the factory
+// closure; direct tests assert edge cases without supertest overhead).
+const _validators = {
+  validateApiToken: _validateApiToken,
+  validateTags: _validateTags,
+  validateDescription: _validateDescription,
+  TAILSCALE_TOKEN_PREFIX,
+  TAILSCALE_TOKEN_MAX_LEN,
+  TAG_KEY_MAX_LEN,
+  TAGS_MAX_LEN,
+  DESCRIPTION_MAX_LEN,
+  TAG_KEY_RE,
+};
+
 module.exports = function({
   tailscaleCoord,
   asyncHandler,
@@ -75,9 +187,12 @@ module.exports = function({
 
   router.put('/settings', asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
     const token = req.body && req.body.apiToken;
-    if (!token || typeof token !== 'string' || !token.startsWith('tskey-api-')) {
+    // DC-080: validate prefix + length cap. The pre-fix code only checked
-      return errorResponse(res, 400, 'Invalid API token (must start with tskey-api-)');
+    // the prefix — a 1 MB string starting with `tskey-api-` would have been
-    }
+    // sent to Tailscale's /devices endpoint and wasted server-side CPU
+    // before the inevitable 401.
+    const tokenErr = _validateApiToken(token);
+    if (tokenErr) return errorResponse(res, 400, tokenErr);
 
     // Validate before storing
     const client = new (require('../src/managers/tailscale-coord').TailscaleCoordClient)({ apiToken: token });
@@ -130,6 +245,17 @@ module.exports = function({
 
   router.post('/settings/test', asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
     const token = (req.body && req.body.apiToken) || null;
+    // DC-080: validate any caller-provided token before it reaches the
+    // Tailscale API. Pre-fix the test endpoint accepted any string — the
+    // PUT route's prefix check did NOT extend to this path. An operator
+    // could submit arbitrary junk and the container would still call
+    // /devices on the Tailscale API with it (DoS-reflection + fingerprint
+    // timing for a future attacker probing whether this API token format
+    // is accepted at all).
+    if (token !== null && token !== undefined) {
+      const tokenErr = _validateApiToken(token);
+      if (tokenErr) return errorResponse(res, 400, tokenErr);
+    }
     const client = await tailscaleCoord.getClient();
     if (token) {
       // Caller provided a fresh token to test — don't save it
@@ -214,10 +340,16 @@ module.exports = function({
       return errorResponse(res, 503, 'Tailscale API token not configured');
     }
     const opts = req.body || {};
-    // Reject obviously-bad input early
+    // Reject obviously-bad input early.
-    if (opts.tags && !Array.isArray(opts.tags)) {
+    // DC-080: pre-fix the route only checked `Array.isArray(opts.tags)`.
-      return errorResponse(res, 400, 'tags must be an array of strings');
+    // A `tags: ['tag:guest', null, 123, {injection: true}]` payload would
-    }
+    // be forwarded to Tailscale verbatim — Tailscale's API is JSON-strict
+    // and would 400 the request, but the bad shape reached the wire and
+    // would silently pass through the dashboard's JSON.stringify() flow.
+    const tagsErr = _validateTags(opts.tags);
+    if (tagsErr) return errorResponse(res, 400, tagsErr);
+    const descErr = _validateDescription(opts.description);
+    if (descErr) return errorResponse(res, 400, descErr);
     if (opts.expirySeconds !== undefined && (!Number.isInteger(opts.expirySeconds) || opts.expirySeconds <= 0)) {
       return errorResponse(res, 400, 'expirySeconds must be a positive integer');
     }
@@ -254,4 +386,10 @@ module.exports = function({
   }));
 
   return router;
-};
+};
+
+// DC-080: validators exported for direct unit testing in
+// __tests__/routes/tailscale-admin.test.js — the route factory closes
+// over the same functions, so the validators are exercised end-to-end via
+// supertest AND in isolation here.
+module.exports._validators = _validators;

dashcaddy-api/src/managers/notification-manager.js

@@ -7,6 +7,28 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const path = require('path');
 const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
 
+// Canonical event names are kebab-case ('container-down'). Emitters and the
+// settings UI historically send camelCase ('containerDown', 'deploymentSuccess')
+// and the alias map below folds every known spelling onto the canonical key.
+// DC-092: before this map, the events gate looked up the RAW event name, so
+// 'deploymentSuccess' (routes/apps/deploy.js, routes/recipes/deploy.js) and
+// 'auto-restart' (resource-monitor.js) were absent from DEFAULT events and
+// silently dropped, and UI camelCase toggles never reached the kebab keys the
+// gate reads — the toggles were cosmetic.
+const EVENT_ALIASES = {
+  containerDown: 'container-down',
+  containerUp: 'container-up',
+  deploymentSuccess: 'deploy-success',
+  deploymentFailed: 'deploy-failed',
+  deploySuccess: 'deploy-success',
+  deployFailed: 'deploy-failed',
+  resourceAlert: 'alert',
+  updateAvailable: 'update-available',
+  backupComplete: 'backup-complete',
+  backupFailed: 'backup-failed',
+  autoRestart: 'auto-restart',
+};
+
 const DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
   enabled: true,
   providers: {
@@ -21,7 +43,13 @@ const DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
     'alert': true,
     'backup-complete': true,
     'backup-failed': true,
-    'update-available': true
+    'update-available': true,
+    // DC-092: emitters (apps/recipes deploy routes) fire these; they were
+    // missing from defaults entirely, so every deploy notification was
+    // silently dropped before this fix.
+    'deploy-success': true,
+    'deploy-failed': true,
+    'auto-restart': true
   }
 };
 
@@ -48,6 +76,7 @@ class NotificationManager extends EventEmitter {
     try {
       if (fs.existsSync(this.NOTIFICATIONS_FILE)) {
         const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(this.NOTIFICATIONS_FILE, 'utf8'));
+        this._canonicalizeLegacyKeys(data);
         this.config = this._mergeConfig(DEFAULT_CONFIG, data);
       }
     } catch (error) {
@@ -55,6 +84,40 @@ class NotificationManager extends EventEmitter {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * DC-092: configs saved by older clients may contain the legacy spellings
+   * the old POST /config merged verbatim — email.user/email.pass instead of
+   * username/password, and camelCase event keys instead of kebab-case. Fold
+   * them onto the canonical keys BEFORE the defaults merge (after the merge
+   * the canonical keys always exist from defaults, so the alias guards would
+   * never fire) so a config file written before this fix keeps working: SMTP
+   * auth applies and event toggles gate correctly.
+   */
+  _canonicalizeLegacyKeys(data) {
+    // Email credentials: user/pass → username/password (only when the
+    // canonical key is absent in the raw data; canonical wins on conflict).
+    const email = data?.providers?.email;
+    if (email && typeof email === 'object') {
+      if (email.user !== undefined && email.username === undefined) email.username = email.user;
+      if (email.pass !== undefined && email.password === undefined) email.password = email.pass;
+      delete email.user;
+      delete email.pass;
+      // secure must be a real boolean: legacy string values (e.g. "false"
+      // from hand-edited JSON) are truthy under !! and would force TLS.
+      if (email.secure !== undefined) email.secure = email.secure === true;
+    }
+    // Event keys: camelCase → kebab-case canonical.
+    if (data?.events && typeof data.events === 'object') {
+      for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(data.events)) {
+        const canonicalKey = EVENT_ALIASES[k];
+        if (canonicalKey) {
+          if (data.events[canonicalKey] === undefined) data.events[canonicalKey] = v;
+          delete data.events[k];
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Merge loaded config with defaults
    */
@@ -130,9 +193,15 @@ class NotificationManager extends EventEmitter {
       return { success: false, error: 'Notifications disabled' };
     }
 
-    // Check if event is enabled
+    // Fold legacy/camelCase spellings onto canonical kebab-case keys (DC-092).
-    if (event && this.config.events && !this.config.events[event]) {
+    const canonical = EVENT_ALIASES[event] || event;
-      return { success: false, error: `Event ${event} not enabled` };
+
+    // Check if event is enabled. 'test' bypasses the gate: it is the settings
+    // UI "Send Test" flow and is not an operator-togglable event (there is no
+    // 'test' key in events; gating on it made the Test button a no-op).
+    const gated = canonical !== 'test';
+    if (gated && this.config.events && this.config.events[canonical] !== true) {
+      return { success: false, error: `Event ${canonical} not enabled` };
     }
 
     const results = [];
@@ -141,7 +210,7 @@ class NotificationManager extends EventEmitter {
     // Discord
     if (providers.discord?.enabled && providers.discord?.webhookUrl) {
       try {
-        const result = await this.sendDiscord(this._formatText(data, event), this._formatEmbed(data, event, type));
+        const result = await this.sendDiscord(this._formatText(data, canonical), this._formatEmbed(data, canonical, type));
         results.push({ provider: 'discord', ...result });
       } catch (error) {
         results.push({ provider: 'discord', success: false, error: error.message });
@@ -151,7 +220,7 @@ class NotificationManager extends EventEmitter {
     // Telegram
     if (providers.telegram?.enabled && providers.telegram?.botToken && providers.telegram?.chatId) {
       try {
-        const result = await this.sendTelegram(this._formatText(data, event));
+        const result = await this.sendTelegram(this._formatText(data, canonical));
         results.push({ provider: 'telegram', ...result });
       } catch (error) {
         results.push({ provider: 'telegram', success: false, error: error.message });
@@ -161,7 +230,7 @@ class NotificationManager extends EventEmitter {
     // ntfy
     if (providers.ntfy?.enabled && providers.ntfy?.topic) {
       try {
-        const result = await this.sendNtfy(this._formatText(data, event), this._formatTitle(event));
+        const result = await this.sendNtfy(this._formatText(data, canonical), this._formatTitle(canonical));
         results.push({ provider: 'ntfy', ...result });
       } catch (error) {
         results.push({ provider: 'ntfy', success: false, error: error.message });
@@ -172,8 +241,8 @@ class NotificationManager extends EventEmitter {
     if (providers.email?.enabled && providers.email?.host && providers.email?.to) {
       try {
         const result = await this.sendEmail(
-          this._formatTitle(event),
+          this._formatTitle(canonical),
-          this._formatText(data, event)
+          this._formatText(data, canonical)
         );
         results.push({ provider: 'email', ...result });
       } catch (error) {
@@ -183,9 +252,9 @@ class NotificationManager extends EventEmitter {
 
     const allSucceeded = results.every(r => r.success);
     this._addToHistory({
-      title: this._formatTitle(event),
+      title: this._formatTitle(canonical),
       type,
-      event,
+      event: canonical,
       results
     });
 
@@ -290,7 +359,7 @@ class NotificationManager extends EventEmitter {
     const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
       host,
       port: parseInt(port) || 587,
-      secure: !!secure,
+      secure: secure === true,
       auth: username ? {
         user: username,
         pass: password

dashcaddy-api/src/managers/update-manager.js

@@ -18,6 +18,30 @@ const UPDATE_CONFIG_FILE = process.env.UPDATE_CONFIG_FILE || path.join(platformP
 const UPDATE_HISTORY_FILE = process.env.UPDATE_HISTORY_FILE || path.join(platformPaths.dataDir, 'update-history.json');
 const CHECK_INTERVAL = parseInt(process.env.UPDATE_CHECK_INTERVAL || '3600000', 10); // 1 hour
 
+// DC-078: registry probe reliability knobs. The container's /etc/resolv.conf points
+// at Technitium (100.121.150.22) which sometimes returns a mix of A and AAAA
+// records even when the host's IPv6 path to public registries (Docker Hub,
+// ghcr.io) is broken or slow. Without `family: 4` Node defaults to dual-stack,
+// every `https.request` to a registry races dual-stack DNS and stalls 30+ seconds
+// per ENETUNREACH on the unreachable family. Without an explicit request timeout
+// the entire `checkForUpdates()` loop (5+ containers) blocks for minutes per
+// tick — visible in error.log as AggregateError [ETIMEDOUT] with a stack like
+// `at internalConnectMultiple (node:net:1114:18)`.
+//
+// TUNABLES — keep conservative; the digest check is a background poll, not
+// user-facing. Worst-case latency per query:
+//   1st attempt:  REGISTRY_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS   (10s)
+//   1st retry  :  REGISTRY_RETRY_BACKOFF_MS + REGISTRY_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS (10.5s)
+//   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+//   per-container ceiling: 20.5s   (REGISTRY_MAX_RETRIES=1)
+const REGISTRY_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS = 10000;     // hard per-request socket timeout
+const REGISTRY_MAX_RETRIES = 1;               // extra attempts after first failure
+const REGISTRY_RETRY_BACKOFF_MS = 500;        // delay before retry (transient blips)
+const REGISTRY_TRANSIENT_ERROR_CODES = new Set([
+  'ETIMEDOUT', 'ENOTFOUND', 'ENETUNREACH', 'ECONNRESET', 'EAI_AGAIN',
+  'EPIPE', 'ECONNREFUSED', 'EHOSTUNREACH',
+]);
+
 class UpdateManager extends EventEmitter {
   constructor() {
     super();
@@ -144,12 +168,39 @@ class UpdateManager extends EventEmitter {
 
   /**
    * Get latest image digest from registry
+   *
+   * DC-082: when the image name is a docker-compose prefixed name like
+   * `dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api:latest` (single hyphen-separated, no slash),
+   * the existing code normalized it to `library/dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api`
+   * before probing Docker Hub. The actual upstream namespace for a
+   * compose-prefixed image is `<project>/<service>` (with slash) — Docker
+   * Compose hyphenates the project name and service name when tagging
+   * locally. The pre-fix code probed the wrong repo, Docker Hub returned
+   * HTTP 401 (the repo doesn't exist), and the error log showed
+   * `Docker Hub registry returned HTTP 401 after auth` on every restart
+   * for the local dashcaddy-api image. The fix: split on the FIRST hyphen
+   * for compose-prefixed names so the lookup targets the correct
+   * namespace.
+   *
+   * Compose-prefixed shape: `^[a-z0-9]+-[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*$` (no slash,
+   * lowercase, both halves non-empty). Examples:
+   *   dashcaddy-dashcaddy-api   -> dashcaddy/dashcaddy-api
+   *   myproject-myservice       -> myproject/myservice
+   *   nginx                     -> library/nginx      (official, unchanged)
+   *   library/nginx             -> library/nginx      (official, unchanged)
+   *   dashcaddy/some-image      -> dashcaddy/some-image (already has slash)
+   *   ghcr.io/x/y               -> ghcr.io/x/y        (handled below)
    */
   async getLatestImageDigest(imageName) {
+    // DC-082: declare `remainder` at the function scope so the catch block
+    // can classify the error against the image-name shape (compose-prefixed
+    // local images produce a steady-state 401 that should log as info, not
+    // error).
+    let remainder = imageName;
     try {
       // Parse image name — strip any leading registry host first
       let imageTag = 'latest';
-      let remainder = imageName;
+      remainder = imageName;
       const lastColon = imageName.lastIndexOf(':');
       // Only treat as tag if the colon is AFTER the last slash (avoids `ghcr.io:443/...`)
       const lastSlash = imageName.lastIndexOf('/');
@@ -163,8 +214,19 @@ class UpdateManager extends EventEmitter {
         return await this.getGhcrDigest(remainder, imageTag);
       }
 
-      // Docker Hub images (library/nginx OR org/image with single slash)
+      // Docker Hub images (library/nginx OR org/image with single slash).
-      if (!remainder.includes('/') || remainder.split('/').length === 2) {
+      // Special-case docker-compose prefixed names (single hyphen, no slash,
+      // lowercase) — split on the FIRST hyphen to recover the original
+      // `<project>/<service>` namespace. See DC-082.
+      if (!remainder.includes('/')) {
+        const composeRepo = this._composeProjectToRepo(remainder);
+        if (composeRepo) {
+          return await this.getDockerHubDigest(composeRepo, imageTag);
+        }
+        // Not a compose-prefixed name — fall through to the library/ default
+        return await this.getDockerHubDigest(remainder, imageTag);
+      }
+      if (remainder.split('/').length === 2) {
         return await this.getDockerHubDigest(remainder, imageTag);
       }
 
@@ -172,96 +234,278 @@ class UpdateManager extends EventEmitter {
       log.warn('update', 'Custom registry not yet supported', { remainder });
       return null;
     } catch (error) {
+      // DC-082: a "registry returned HTTP 401 after auth" against a
+      // compose-prefixed local image is the steady-state when the image
+      // is built locally and the upstream namespace on Docker Hub
+      // doesn't exist (or is private). The token endpoint returns 200
+      // with an empty-access JWT, and the authed manifest GET 401s.
+      // Log these as a clean info not-found line instead of an error
+      // so dashboards and PagerDuty don't fire on every restart.
+      if (this._isNotPublishedError(error, remainder)) {
+        log.info('update', 'No upstream registry image — skipping update check', { imageName, remainder });
+        return null;
+      }
       log.error('update', error, null, { imageName });
       return null;
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * DC-082: split a docker-compose prefixed image name on the FIRST hyphen
+   * to recover the original `<project>/<service>` namespace. Returns null
+   * for names that don't match the compose-prefixed shape — callers fall
+   * through to the standard library/-prefixed official-image path.
+   *
+   * Compose-prefixed shape:
+   *   - Contains exactly one or more hyphens
+   *   - No slash
+   *   - Lowercase letters / digits / hyphens / underscores only
+   *   - Both halves (before first hyphen, after first hyphen) are non-empty
+   *   - First char is a letter or digit (not a hyphen)
+   */
+  _composeProjectToRepo(remainder) {
+    if (typeof remainder !== 'string' || remainder.length === 0) return null;
+    if (remainder.includes('/')) return null; // already namespaced
+    if (!/^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*-[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*$/i.test(remainder)) {
+      // Not a compose-prefixed name — let the library/ path handle it
+      // (this is the official-image path: e.g. `nginx`, `alpine`).
+      return null;
+    }
+    const firstHyphen = remainder.indexOf('-');
+    // Defensive: indexOf must find a hyphen (regex requires it), but guard
+    // against any future regex drift.
+    if (firstHyphen <= 0 || firstHyphen === remainder.length - 1) return null;
+    const project = remainder.substring(0, firstHyphen);
+    const service = remainder.substring(firstHyphen + 1);
+    if (!project || !service) return null;
+    return `${project}/${service}`;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * DC-082: detect the "registry returned 401 after auth" pattern that
+   * signals "this image has no public upstream on Docker Hub" (as opposed
+   * to a genuine auth failure or transient network error). Steady-state
+   * for compose-prefixed local images that aren't published.
+   */
+  _isNotPublishedError(error, remainder) {
+    if (!error || typeof error.message !== 'string') return false;
+    if (!error.message.includes('HTTP 401')) return false;
+    // Constrain to the compose-prefixed path — a real auth failure on a
+    // legitimate `library/foo` or `namespace/foo` probe should still log
+    // as an error (it never auto-heals).
+    if (typeof remainder !== 'string' || remainder.includes('/')) return false;
+    if (!/^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*-[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*$/i.test(remainder)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Get image digest from GitHub Container Registry (ghcr.io)
    * Public images are tokenless via the registry-1.docker.io-style bearer flow,
    * but using ghcr.io's own auth endpoint.
+   *
+   * DC-078: hardened — `family: 4` to avoid the dual-stack DNS race when the
+   * host's IPv6 path is unreachable (was producing AggregateError [ETIMEDOUT] in
+   * error.log every check cycle). Hard request timeout caps each attempt.
    */
   async getGhcrDigest(repository, tag) {
     // ghcr.io uses the same OCI distribution spec as Docker Hub
     const imageRepo = repository.replace(/^ghcr\.io\//, '');
+    const res = await this.fetchWithReliability({
+      hostname: 'ghcr.io',
+      path: `/v2/${imageRepo}/manifests/${tag}`,
+      headers: {
+        'Accept': 'application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json,application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.list.v2+json,application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json,application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json'
+      },
+    });
+    return res.headers['docker-content-digest'] || null;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Get image digest from Docker Hub
+   *
+   * DC-078: hardened — see getGhcrDigest comment. Resolves a 401 → token via
+   * `fetchAuthToken`, which itself is wrapped in the same retry + IPv4-only +
+   * timeout policy via `fetchWithReliability`.
+   */
+  async getDockerHubDigest(repository, tag) {
+    // Normalize repository name
+    const repo = repository.includes('/') ? repository : `library/${repository}`;
+    const firstAttempt = await this.fetchWithReliability({
+      hostname: 'registry-1.docker.io',
+      path: `/v2/${repo}/manifests/${tag}`,
+      headers: {
+        'Accept': 'application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json'
+      },
+    });
+    if (firstAttempt.statusCode !== 401) {
+      if (firstAttempt.statusCode < 200 || firstAttempt.statusCode >= 300) {
+        throw new Error(`Docker Hub registry returned HTTP ${firstAttempt.statusCode}`);
+      }
+      return firstAttempt.headers['docker-content-digest'] || null;
+    }
+    // 401 → acquire a Bearer token via the WWW-Authenticate realm, then retry once.
+    const authHeader = firstAttempt.headers['www-authenticate'];
+    const authUrl = this.parseAuthHeader(authHeader);
+    if (!authUrl) {
+      throw new Error('Authentication required but no auth URL found');
+    }
+    const token = await this.fetchAuthToken(authUrl);
+    const authed = await this.fetchWithReliability({
+      hostname: 'registry-1.docker.io',
+      path: `/v2/${repo}/manifests/${tag}`,
+      headers: {
+        'Accept': 'application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json',
+        'Authorization': `Bearer ${token}`,
+      },
+    });
+    if (authed.statusCode < 200 || authed.statusCode >= 300) {
+      throw new Error(`Docker Hub registry returned HTTP ${authed.statusCode} after auth`);
+    }
+    return authed.headers['docker-content-digest'] || null;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Single hardened HTTPS probe — DC-078.
+   *
+   * Reliability properties:
+   *   1. `family: 4` — IPv4-only DNS lookup. Avoids dual-stack races where a
+   *      single unreachable IPv6 destination consumes the default 30-second
+   *      connect timeout before the IPv4 fallback succeeds (manifested in
+   *      error.log as AggregateError [ETIMEDOUT] with `at internalConnectMultiple`).
+   *   2. Hard per-request timeout (REGISTRY_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS) — caps total
+   *      latency for any single probe attempt.
+   *   3. Retry on transient network errors (REGISTRY_TRANSIENT_ERROR_CODES)
+   *      with REGISTRY_RETRY_BACKOFF_MS delay between attempts. Does NOT
+   *      retry on HTTP 4xx/5xx — those are real responses we should surface.
+   *
+   * Returns {statusCode, headers, body} so callers can read whichever response
+   * header or body bytes they need. For digest probes the body is drained and
+   * discarded; for auth-token fetches the JSON body is parsed.
+   *
+   * @param {object} opts
+   * @param {string} opts.hostname
+   * @param {string} opts.path
+   * @param {object} [opts.headers]
+   * @param {number} [opts.maxBodyBytes=65536] — protect against runaway bodies
+   */
+  async fetchWithReliability(opts) {
+    const maxBodyBytes = opts.maxBodyBytes || 65536;
+    let attempt = 0;
+    while (attempt <= REGISTRY_MAX_RETRIES) {
+      try {
+        const result = await this._httpsRequestOnce({
+          hostname: opts.hostname,
+          path: opts.path,
+          headers: opts.headers || {},
+          maxBodyBytes,
+        });
+        return result;
+      } catch (error) {
+        // Drain retryable transient errors; non-transient (HTTP status) errors
+        // and code-less errors are surfaced directly to the caller.
+        if (!REGISTRY_TRANSIENT_ERROR_CODES.has(error && error.code)) {
+          throw error;
+        }
+        if (attempt >= REGISTRY_MAX_RETRIES) {
+          throw error;
+        }
+        attempt += 1;
+        // Brief backoff before retry to let transient blips settle.
+        await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, REGISTRY_RETRY_BACKOFF_MS));
+      }
+    }
+    // Defensive — should not reach here because the loop either throws or returns.
+    throw new Error('fetchWithReliability exhausted retries');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * One-shot HTTPS request helper for fetchWithReliability — DC-078.
+   * Returns {statusCode, headers, body} on 2xx and most non-2xx responses
+   * (the caller decides what to do with non-2xx). Throws on transient
+   * network errors so the retry policy catches them.
+   */
+  _httpsRequestOnce({ hostname, path: urlPath, headers, maxBodyBytes }) {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       const options = {
-        hostname: 'ghcr.io',
+        hostname,
-        path: `/v2/${imageRepo}/manifests/${tag}`,
+        path: urlPath,
         method: 'GET',
-        headers: {
+        family: 4,                              // DC-078: IPv4-only — see top-of-file comment
-          'Accept': 'application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json,application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.list.v2+json,application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json,application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json'
+        headers,
-        }
+        timeout: REGISTRY_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS,   // DC-078: hard per-request cap
       };
-
       const req = https.request(options, (res) => {
-        if (res.statusCode === 401) {
+        let body = '';
-          const authHeader = res.headers['www-authenticate'];
+        let size = 0;
-          const authUrl = this.parseAuthHeader(authHeader);
+        let aborted = false;
-          if (authUrl) {
+        res.on('data', (chunk) => {
-            // ghcr.io auth endpoint accepts scope=repository:owner/name:pull
+          if (aborted) return;
-            this.authenticateAndGetDigest(authUrl, options).then(resolve).catch(reject);
+          size += chunk.length;
-          } else {
+          if (size > maxBodyBytes) {
-            reject(new Error('Authentication required but no auth URL found'));
+            aborted = true;
+            res.destroy();
+            const err = new Error(`response from ${hostname}${urlPath} exceeded ${maxBodyBytes} bytes`);
+            err.code = 'ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_LARGE';
+            reject(err);
+            return;
           }
-          return;
+          body += chunk;
-        }
+        });
-
+        res.on('end', () => {
-        if (res.statusCode !== 200) {
+          if (aborted) return;
-          // Drain body to avoid socket leak
+          resolve({
-          res.resume();
+            statusCode: res.statusCode,
-          reject(new Error(`ghcr.io returned HTTP ${res.statusCode}`));
+            headers: res.headers,
-          return;
+            body,
-        }
+          });
-
+        });
-        const digest = res.headers['docker-content-digest'];
+      });
-        resolve(digest || null);
+      // Node 22 emits 'timeout' on the request, not the socket, when socket.setTimeout
+      // is hit — make it an explicit error so fetchWithReliability's retry policy catches it.
+      req.on('timeout', () => {
+        req.destroy(new Error('request timeout'));
+        const err = new Error(`registry request to ${hostname}${urlPath} timed out after ${REGISTRY_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS}ms`);
+        err.code = 'ETIMEDOUT';
+        reject(err);
+      });
+      req.on('error', (err) => {
+        // Tag errors missing .code so the retry policy recognizes transient ones.
+        if (!err.code && /timeout/i.test(err.message)) err.code = 'ETIMEDOUT';
+        reject(err);
       });
-
-      req.on('error', reject);
       req.end();
     });
   }
 
   /**
-   * Get image digest from Docker Hub
+   * Fetch an auth token from a registry's WWW-Authenticate realm URL — DC-078.
+   * Uses fetchWithReliability for IPv4-only + timeout + retry. Parses the
+   * JSON body and returns the `token` or `access_token` field.
    */
-  async getDockerHubDigest(repository, tag) {
+  async fetchAuthToken(authUrl) {
-    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const url = new URL(authUrl);
-      // Normalize repository name
+    const result = await this.fetchWithReliability({
-      const repo = repository.includes('/') ? repository : `library/${repository}`;
+      hostname: url.hostname,
-      
+      path: url.pathname + url.search,
-      const options = {
+      maxBodyBytes: 16384,  // auth tokens are <2 KB; cap to a small bound
-        hostname: 'registry-1.docker.io',
-        path: `/v2/${repo}/manifests/${tag}`,
-        method: 'GET',
-        headers: {
-          'Accept': 'application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json'
-        }
-      };
-
-      const req = https.request(options, (res) => {
-        if (res.statusCode === 401) {
-          // Need to authenticate
-          const authHeader = res.headers['www-authenticate'];
-          const authUrl = this.parseAuthHeader(authHeader);
-          
-          if (authUrl) {
-            this.authenticateAndGetDigest(authUrl, options).then(resolve).catch(reject);
-          } else {
-            reject(new Error('Authentication required but no auth URL found'));
-          }
-          return;
-        }
-
-        const digest = res.headers['docker-content-digest'];
-        resolve(digest || null);
-      });
-
-      req.on('error', reject);
-      req.end();
     });
+    if (result.statusCode !== 200) {
+      throw new Error(`auth token endpoint ${authUrl} returned HTTP ${result.statusCode}`);
+    }
+    let auth;
+    try {
+      auth = JSON.parse(result.body);
+    } catch (parseErr) {
+      // Surface a clean error — otherwise a malformed token response throws
+      // SyntaxError with the raw body snippet, which is hard to diagnose
+      // against the offending realm URL in a log line.
+      throw new Error(`auth token response from ${authUrl} was not valid JSON: ${parseErr.message}`);
+    }
+    const token = auth.token || auth.access_token;
+    if (!token) throw new Error(`No token in auth response from ${authUrl}`);
+    return token;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -283,48 +527,6 @@ class UpdateManager extends EventEmitter {
     return url.toString();
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Authenticate and get digest
-   */
-  async authenticateAndGetDigest(authUrl, originalOptions) {
-    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-      https.get(authUrl, (res) => {
-        let data = '';
-        res.on('data', chunk => data += chunk);
-        res.on('end', () => {
-          try {
-            const auth = JSON.parse(data);
-            const token = auth.token || auth.access_token;
-            
-            if (!token) {
-              reject(new Error('No token in auth response'));
-              return;
-            }
-
-            // Retry original request with token
-            const options = {
-              ...originalOptions,
-              headers: {
-                ...originalOptions.headers,
-                'Authorization': `Bearer ${token}`
-              }
-            };
-
-            const req = https.request(options, (res) => {
-              const digest = res.headers['docker-content-digest'];
-              resolve(digest || null);
-            });
-
-            req.on('error', reject);
-            req.end();
-          } catch (error) {
-            reject(error);
-          }
-        });
-      }).on('error', reject);
-    });
-  }
-
   /**
    * Extract tag from image name
    */

dashcaddy-api/src/monitoring/health-checker.js

@@ -32,6 +32,30 @@ const CHECK_INTERVAL = parseInt(process.env.HEALTH_CHECK_INTERVAL || '30000', 10
 const MAX_CHECK_INTERVAL = parseInt(process.env.HEALTH_CHECK_MAX_INTERVAL || '300000', 10); // 5 minutes max backoff
 const MAX_ENTRIES_PER_SERVICE = parseInt(process.env.HEALTH_MAX_ENTRIES || '500', 10); // Cap to prevent disk explosion
 const HISTORY_RETENTION_DAYS = parseInt(process.env.HEALTH_HISTORY_RETENTION || '30', 10);
+// DC-088: how long a removal tombstone outlives the removal itself. Only needs
+// to cover the max in-flight probe lifetime (timeout + scheduling headroom);
+// swept by cleanupHistory so removed services cannot accumulate map entries.
+const REMOVED_GENERATION_TTL_MS = parseInt(process.env.HEALTH_REMOVED_GEN_TTL || '600000', 10);
+
+// DC-086: hysteresis thresholds for badge display.
+// The raw probe result can flap on a single transient blip (Caddy reload,
+// container CPU steal, network hiccup, mid-flight TLS handshake). Showing
+// every probe result as-is to the dashboard creates the "perpetual flicker"
+// UX. Asymmetric thresholds: going red is slow (don't false-alarm), going
+// green is fast (don't keep showing red after recovery).
+//   - DOWN_THRESHOLD = N consecutive "down" probes before the badge flips to red
+//   - UP_THRESHOLD   = N consecutive "up" probes before the badge flips back to green
+// Single probe flips to green on purpose — false-positive-green is much less
+// painful than perpetual-red (operators notice red, ignore green).
+function readPositiveIntEnv(name, fallback) {
+  const raw = process.env[name];
+  if (raw === undefined || raw === '') return fallback;
+  const value = Number(raw);
+  return Number.isSafeInteger(value) && value >= 1 ? value : fallback;
+}
+
+const DOWN_THRESHOLD = readPositiveIntEnv('HEALTH_DOWN_THRESHOLD', 2);
+const UP_THRESHOLD = readPositiveIntEnv('HEALTH_UP_THRESHOLD', 1);
 
 class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
   constructor() {
@@ -39,11 +63,27 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
     this.config = this.loadConfig();
     this.history = this.loadHistory();
     this.currentStatus = new Map();
+    // DC-086: the status the dashboard SHOULD display (post-hysteresis).
+    // Distinct from currentStatus, which is the latest raw probe result.
+    this.displayedStatus = new Map();
+    // DC-086: counter of consecutive healthy/unhealthy probes since the
+    // last displayed-status change. Reset to 0 whenever displayed status flips.
+    this.consecutiveSinceChange = new Map();
     this.incidents = [];
     this.checking = false;
     this.checkInterval = null;
     this.consecutiveFailures = new Map(); // serviceId -> failure count
     this.serviceTimers = new Map(); // serviceId -> timer for per-service backoff
+    // Invalidate probe completions that race with removal/reconfiguration.
+    this.serviceGenerations = new Map(); // serviceId -> configuration generation
+    // DC-088: monotonically increasing sequence so generation numbers can never
+    // repeat across remove -> re-add cycles (prevents ABA on the stale check).
+    this.generationSeq = 0;
+    // DC-088: serviceId -> { generation, removedAt } tombstones. A live entry in
+    // serviceGenerations means the service is (re)configured; a tombstone with a
+    // HIGHER generation than the captured one marks the capture as stale. Entry
+    // is deleted when the service is removed, so the live map cannot leak.
+    this.removedGenerations = new Map();
   }
 
   /**
@@ -111,11 +151,27 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
     this.cleanupHistory();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * DC-088: true when a probe's captured generation no longer matches the
+   * service's current configuration state. A live serviceGenerations entry
+   * must match exactly. With no live entry the service was never configured
+   * in this process (disk-loaded / direct callers) — stale only if a removal
+   * tombstone with a HIGHER generation exists.
+   */
+  _isStaleCapture(serviceId, generation) {
+    if (this.serviceGenerations.has(serviceId)) {
+      return this.serviceGenerations.get(serviceId) !== generation;
+    }
+    const tomb = this.removedGenerations.get(serviceId);
+    return Boolean(tomb && tomb.generation > generation);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Check a single service
    */
   async checkService(serviceId, config) {
     const startTime = Date.now();
+    const generation = this.serviceGenerations.get(serviceId) || 0;
 
     try {
       const result = await this.performHealthCheck(config);
@@ -131,6 +187,10 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
         details: result.details
       };
 
+      if (this._isStaleCapture(serviceId, generation)) {
+        return status;
+      }
+
       // Track consecutive failures for exponential backoff
       if (result.healthy) {
         this.consecutiveFailures.delete(serviceId);
@@ -138,16 +198,15 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
         this.consecutiveFailures.set(serviceId, (this.consecutiveFailures.get(serviceId) || 0) + 1);
       }
 
+      const previousStatus = this.currentStatus.get(serviceId);
+      const previousDisplayed = this.displayedStatus.get(serviceId);
       this.recordStatus(serviceId, status);
-      this.checkForIncidents(serviceId, status, config);
+      this.checkForIncidents(serviceId, status, config, previousStatus, previousDisplayed);
 
       return status;
     } catch (error) {
       const responseTime = Date.now() - startTime;
 
-      // Increment failure count for backoff
-      this.consecutiveFailures.set(serviceId, (this.consecutiveFailures.get(serviceId) || 0) + 1);
-
       const status = {
         serviceId,
         timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
@@ -156,8 +215,18 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
         error: error.message
       };
 
+      if (this._isStaleCapture(serviceId, generation)) {
+        return status;
+      }
+
+      // Increment failure count for backoff — only after the result is known
+      // to be non-stale, so a removed service cannot re-create map entries.
+      this.consecutiveFailures.set(serviceId, (this.consecutiveFailures.get(serviceId) || 0) + 1);
+
+      const previousStatus = this.currentStatus.get(serviceId);
+      const previousDisplayed = this.displayedStatus.get(serviceId);
       this.recordStatus(serviceId, status);
-      this.checkForIncidents(serviceId, status, config);
+      this.checkForIncidents(serviceId, status, config, previousStatus, previousDisplayed);
 
       return status;
     }
@@ -273,27 +342,109 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
     return true;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Compute the displayed status for a service given the latest raw probe
+   * result. Applies asymmetric hysteresis:
+   *   - Going DOWN: requires DOWN_THRESHOLD (default 2) consecutive "down"
+   *     probes since the last display-state change. A single blip keeps the
+   *     badge green.
+   *   - Going UP: requires UP_THRESHOLD (default 1) consecutive "up" probes.
+   *     Any single "up" after a down streak flips back to green so the badge
+   *     doesn't linger red after the service has recovered.
+   *
+   * Returns the displayed status object (same shape as the raw status) so
+   * recordStatus can use it both for the displayed map and as the broadcast
+   * payload when the displayed status actually changes.
+   */
+  _computeDisplayedStatus(serviceId, rawStatus) {
+    const currentDisplayed = this.displayedStatus.get(serviceId);
+    const previousStatus = currentDisplayed ? currentDisplayed.status : null;
+
+    // If no prior state, accept the raw probe as-is (first-check bootstrap).
+    if (!previousStatus) {
+      return rawStatus;
+    }
+
+    // Probe agrees with current displayed → no change, reset the counter so
+    // a brief blip doesn't accumulate against the displayed state.
+    if (rawStatus.status === previousStatus) {
+      this.consecutiveSinceChange.set(serviceId, 0);
+      return rawStatus;
+    }
+
+    // Probe disagrees with displayed. Bump the streak counter — this counts
+    // CONSECUTIVE probes that disagree with what's shown, regardless of
+    // whether the raw value itself changed between probes. That's what
+    // makes "down, down" flip after threshold but "down, up, down" not flip.
+    const prev = this.consecutiveSinceChange.get(serviceId) || 0;
+    const next = prev + 1;
+
+    if (rawStatus.status === 'down') {
+      // Going DOWN: need DOWN_THRESHOLD consecutive probes that disagree
+      // with the displayed "up" state.
+      if (previousStatus === 'up' && next < DOWN_THRESHOLD) {
+        this.consecutiveSinceChange.set(serviceId, next);
+        // Keep the last internally-consistent displayed snapshot. Mixing the
+        // raw failure metadata with status="up" would expose contradictory
+        // API data (for example statusCode=500 on an "up" service).
+        return currentDisplayed;
+      }
+      // Threshold met (or already down) — flip to red.
+      this.consecutiveSinceChange.set(serviceId, 0);
+      return rawStatus;
+    }
+
+    // rawStatus.status === 'up' (must be — the equal-to-displayed case above
+    // already returned). Going UP after a down streak: need UP_THRESHOLD.
+    if (previousStatus === 'down' && next < UP_THRESHOLD) {
+      this.consecutiveSinceChange.set(serviceId, next);
+      return currentDisplayed;
+    }
+    this.consecutiveSinceChange.set(serviceId, 0);
+    return rawStatus;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Record service status
+   *
+   * DC-086: history + consecutiveFailures are updated for EVERY probe
+   * (operators want full probe history for postmortems). The dashboard's
+   * `status-check` event is only emitted when the DISPLAYED status changes,
+   * so the badge stops re-rendering on every probe.
    */
   recordStatus(serviceId, status) {
-    // Update current status
+    // Update current (raw) status — used by checkForIncidents and history.
     this.currentStatus.set(serviceId, status);
 
-    // Add to history
+    // Add raw probe to history (full fidelity — operators rely on this).
     if (!this.history[serviceId]) {
       this.history[serviceId] = [];
     }
 
     this.history[serviceId].push(status);
-    
+
     // Cap entries to prevent unbounded growth (disk explosion fix)
     if (this.history[serviceId].length > MAX_ENTRIES_PER_SERVICE) {
       this.history[serviceId] = this.history[serviceId].slice(-MAX_ENTRIES_PER_SERVICE);
     }
 
-    // Emit status event
+    // Compute the post-hysteresis displayed status; only emit when it changes.
-    this.emit('status-check', status);
+    // _computeDisplayedStatus compares the raw probe against the DISPLAYED
+    // status (not the previous raw status), so the "consecutive since
+    // change" counter doesn't depend on the order of writes here.
+    const displayed = this._computeDisplayedStatus(serviceId, status);
+    const previousDisplayed = this.displayedStatus.get(serviceId);
+    const displayChanged =
+      !previousDisplayed || previousDisplayed.status !== displayed.status;
+
+    this.displayedStatus.set(serviceId, displayed);
+
+    if (displayChanged) {
+      // Emit with the displayed status so the dashboard renders the same
+      // state the hysteresis just decided. The raw probe result is still
+      // in `history` and `currentStatus` for anyone who wants it.
+      this.emit('status-check', displayed);
+    }
 
     // Save history periodically
     if (Math.random() < 0.05) { // 5% chance (every ~20 checks)
@@ -304,11 +455,27 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
   /**
    * Check for incidents (downtime, slow response, etc.)
    */
-  checkForIncidents(serviceId, status, config) {
+  checkForIncidents(serviceId, status, config, previous = this.currentStatus.get(serviceId), previousDisplayed = null) {
-    const previous = this.currentStatus.get(serviceId);
     
-    // Check for status change (up -> down or down -> up)
+    // DC-090: outage incidents follow the DISPLAYED (post-hysteresis) status —
-    if (previous && previous.status !== status.status) {
+    // the same signal that flips the dashboard badge. A single raw "down"
+    // blip that hysteresis suppresses must not open a critical outage
+    // incident (and a suppressed blip must not resolve a real one). When the
+    // caller supplies the pre-probe displayed state (checkService always
+    // does), transitions are evaluated displayed-vs-displayed using the
+    // post-recordStatus state in this.displayedStatus. Direct callers with
+    // no hysteresis state (previousDisplayed === null) keep the legacy
+    // raw-probe transition semantics.
+    if (previousDisplayed) {
+      const displayed = this.displayedStatus.get(serviceId);
+      if (displayed && displayed.status !== previousDisplayed.status) {
+        if (displayed.status === 'down') {
+          this.createIncident(serviceId, 'outage', 'Service is down', displayed);
+        } else if (displayed.status === 'up') {
+          this.resolveIncident(serviceId, 'outage', displayed);
+        }
+      }
+    } else if (previous && previous.status !== status.status) {
       if (status.status === 'down') {
         this.createIncident(serviceId, 'outage', 'Service is down', status);
       } else if (status.status === 'up') {
@@ -445,19 +612,29 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Get current status for all services
+   * Get current status for all services.
+   *
+   * DC-086: returns the DISPLAYED status (post-hysteresis), not the latest
+   * raw probe. A page reload should show the same badge state the live
+   * SSE stream is currently showing — otherwise an operator who reloads
+   * the page after a single blip sees red even though the hysteresis kept
+   * the badge green for them.
    */
   getCurrentStatus() {
     const result = {};
-    
+
-    for (const [serviceId, status] of this.currentStatus.entries()) {
+    for (const [serviceId, rawStatus] of this.currentStatus.entries()) {
       const config = this.config.services[serviceId];
       const uptime24h = this.calculateUptime(serviceId, 24);
       const uptime7d = this.calculateUptime(serviceId, 168);
       const avgResponseTime = this.calculateAverageResponseTime(serviceId, 24);
-      
+
+      // Prefer the displayed status if we've already computed one; fall back
+      // to the raw probe on the very first call (before recordStatus has run).
+      const displayed = this.displayedStatus.get(serviceId) || rawStatus;
+
       result[serviceId] = {
-        ...status,
+        ...displayed,
         name: config?.name || serviceId,
         uptime: {
           '24h': uptime24h,
@@ -467,7 +644,7 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
         sla: config?.sla
       };
     }
-    
+
     return result;
   }
 
@@ -530,6 +707,13 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
       this.config.services = {};
     }
 
+    // DC-088: monotonic instance-wide sequence — a re-added service can never
+    // recycle a previous generation number, and any older in-flight capture is
+    // invalidated by definition.
+    this.generationSeq += 1;
+    this.serviceGenerations.set(serviceId, this.generationSeq);
+    // Re-configuration supersedes any prior removal tombstone.
+    this.removedGenerations.delete(serviceId);
     this.config.services[serviceId] = {
       enabled: config.enabled !== false,
       name: config.name || serviceId,
@@ -552,12 +736,42 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
    * Remove service configuration
    */
   removeService(serviceId) {
+    // DC-088: tombstone the captured generation instead of leaking an entry.
+    // The live map entry is deleted; an in-flight probe captured BEFORE this
+    // point sees no live entry but a higher tombstone generation, so it is
+    // discarded. configureService clears the tombstone on re-add.
+    this.generationSeq += 1;
+    this.serviceGenerations.delete(serviceId);
+    this.removedGenerations.set(serviceId, {
+      generation: this.generationSeq,
+      removedAt: Date.now()
+    });
     if (this.config.services) {
       delete this.config.services[serviceId];
       this.saveConfig();
     }
 
+    // DC-088: open incidents for a removed service must not linger forever.
+    // Close them through the same resolve path a recovery would, annotated so
+    // history shows why (dashboard renders resolved incidents green + duration).
+    for (const incident of this.incidents) {
+      if (incident.serviceId === serviceId && incident.status === 'open') {
+        incident.status = 'resolved';
+        incident.resolvedAt = new Date().toISOString();
+        incident.duration = new Date(incident.resolvedAt) - new Date(incident.createdAt);
+        incident.resolvedBy = 'service-removed';
+        this.emit('incident-resolved', incident);
+        this.emit('log', 'info', `Incident closed by service removal: ${incident.id}`);
+      }
+    }
+
     this.currentStatus.delete(serviceId);
+    this.displayedStatus.delete(serviceId);
+    this.consecutiveSinceChange.delete(serviceId);
+    this.consecutiveFailures.delete(serviceId);
+    const timer = this.serviceTimers.get(serviceId);
+    if (timer) clearTimeout(timer);
+    this.serviceTimers.delete(serviceId);
     delete this.history[serviceId];
   }
 
@@ -576,6 +790,18 @@ class HealthChecker extends EventEmitter {
         this.history[serviceId] = this.history[serviceId].slice(-MAX_ENTRIES_PER_SERVICE);
       }
     }
+
+    // DC-088: sweep expired removal tombstones. After the TTL no probe that
+    // captured a pre-removal generation can still be in flight (timeout is
+    // bounded by performHealthCheck), so the tombstone has done its job.
+    if (this.removedGenerations.size > 0) {
+      const now = Date.now();
+      for (const [serviceId, tomb] of this.removedGenerations) {
+        if (now - tomb.removedAt > REMOVED_GENERATION_TTL_MS) {
+          this.removedGenerations.delete(serviceId);
+        }
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   /**

dashcaddy-api/src/security/share-store.js

@@ -47,6 +47,53 @@ const ALLOWED_PUBLIC_TTLS = new Set([60 * 60 * 1000, 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, 7 * 24
 const TAILSCALE_MAX_USES = 1;
 const PUBLIC_DEFAULT_SUBSCRIBE_CAP = 1000;             // bound on subscribe events per link
 
+// DC-083: Public share endpoint input bounds. The two CSRF-exempt public
+// endpoints accept untrusted body fields — bound shape, length, charset so
+// an attacker can't bloat data/shares.json, inject CRLF into fields that
+// flow into Tailscale auth-key descriptions, or smuggle control chars into
+// the on-disk store. See routes/share.js for the route-layer validation;
+// these helpers are the defense-in-depth belt under the route's suspenders.
+const PUBLIC_EMAIL_REGEX = /^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$/;
+const PUBLIC_EMAIL_MAX_LENGTH = 254; // RFC 5321 §4.5.3.1.3
+const PUBLIC_DEVICE_ID_REGEX = /^[a-zA-Z0-9._:-]+$/;
+const PUBLIC_DEVICE_ID_MIN_LENGTH = 1;
+const PUBLIC_DEVICE_ID_MAX_LENGTH = 128;
+
+function validatePublicEmail(raw) {
+  if (typeof raw !== 'string') return { ok: false, reason: 'invalid_email' };
+  // Reject control chars / NUL / CR / LF before they can corrupt the on-disk
+  // JSON or be embedded in subsequent log lines. RFC 5321 forbids these in
+  // SMTP addresses; we mirror that at the API layer.
+  if (raw.length === 0 || raw.length > PUBLIC_EMAIL_MAX_LENGTH) {
+    return { ok: false, reason: 'invalid_email' };
+  }
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-control-regex
+  if (/[\x00-\x1f\x7f]/.test(raw)) return { ok: false, reason: 'invalid_email' };
+  // The local-part can technically contain `+`, `.`, `_`, `%`, `-`; the
+  // domain part must have at least one dot and a 2+ letter TLD. Reject
+  // quote-bracket forms (RFC 5321 obs-quote-text) — we don't accept them.
+  if (!PUBLIC_EMAIL_REGEX.test(raw)) return { ok: false, reason: 'invalid_email' };
+  // Block obvious shell-attachment characters that the regex doesn't catch.
+  if (/[<>{}|\\^`\s]/.test(raw)) return { ok: false, reason: 'invalid_email' };
+  return { ok: true, email: raw.toLowerCase() };
+}
+
+function validatePublicDeviceId(raw) {
+  if (typeof raw !== 'string') return { ok: false, reason: 'invalid_device_id' };
+  if (raw.length < PUBLIC_DEVICE_ID_MIN_LENGTH || raw.length > PUBLIC_DEVICE_ID_MAX_LENGTH) {
+    return { ok: false, reason: 'invalid_device_id' };
+  }
+  // Tailscale machine IDs are base64url-with-hyphens; we accept a slightly
+  // broader charset (`._:-`) to also accommodate hostname-style IDs and
+  // Caddy's `forward_auth` device headers. Reject CR/LF/NUL/TAB explicitly
+  // so a smuggled control char can't break out of the Tailscale auth-key
+  // description string in routes/share.js:213.
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-control-regex
+  if (/[\x00-\x1f\x7f]/.test(raw)) return { ok: false, reason: 'invalid_device_id' };
+  if (!PUBLIC_DEVICE_ID_REGEX.test(raw)) return { ok: false, reason: 'invalid_device_id' };
+  return { ok: true, deviceId: raw };
+}
+
 function _nowMs() { return Date.now(); }
 function _nowIso() { return new Date().toISOString(); }
 
@@ -327,8 +374,18 @@ function createShareStore(opts = {}) {
     });
   }
 
-  function recordPublicSubscribe(token) {
+  function recordPublicSubscribe(token, { email } = {}) {
     return _enqueue(() => {
+      // DC-083: validate the optional subscriber email at the store layer too.
+      // The route layer validates first; this is the defense-in-depth catch
+      // for direct callers (cron sweepers, internal jobs, future endpoints).
+      // `email` is OPT-IN — callers omitting it get the original behavior.
+      let normalizedEmail = null;
+      if (email !== undefined && email !== null) {
+        const v = validatePublicEmail(email);
+        if (!v.ok) return { ok: false, reason: v.reason };
+        normalizedEmail = v.email;
+      }
       const data = _load();
       const hash = _sha256(token);
       const s = _findByHash(data, hash);
@@ -341,6 +398,16 @@ function createShareStore(opts = {}) {
       const cap = s.subscribeCap || PUBLIC_DEFAULT_SUBSCRIBE_CAP;
       if (s.subscribeCount >= cap) return { ok: false, reason: 'cap_reached' };
       s.subscribeCount += 1;
+      // DC-083: record the last submitting email (capped to 8 entries to
+      // bound the on-disk size). PII minimization — we keep only the hash
+      // + last 8 emails; full email log would grow unbounded.
+      if (normalizedEmail) {
+        if (!Array.isArray(s.subscriberEmails)) s.subscriberEmails = [];
+        s.subscriberEmails.push(normalizedEmail);
+        if (s.subscriberEmails.length > 8) {
+          s.subscriberEmails.splice(0, s.subscriberEmails.length - 8);
+        }
+      }
       _save(data);
       return { ok: true, count: s.subscribeCount, cap };
     });
@@ -348,6 +415,18 @@ function createShareStore(opts = {}) {
 
   function recordTailscaleUse(token, { deviceId } = {}) {
     return _enqueue(() => {
+      // DC-083: validate deviceId at the store layer. The pre-fix code
+      // accepted ANY string of any length, including control chars and
+      // CR/LF — which would flow into the Tailscale auth-key description
+      // (routes/share.js:213) and into the on-disk shares.json. Reject
+      // early so an attacker can't bloat the store or smuggle characters
+      // out of the Tailscale description field.
+      let normalizedDeviceId = 'unknown';
+      if (deviceId !== undefined && deviceId !== null) {
+        const v = validatePublicDeviceId(deviceId);
+        if (!v.ok) return { ok: false, reason: v.reason };
+        normalizedDeviceId = v.deviceId;
+      }
       const data = _load();
       const hash = _sha256(token);
       const s = _findByHash(data, hash);
@@ -359,7 +438,7 @@ function createShareStore(opts = {}) {
         return { ok: false, reason: 'expired' };
       }
       s.usedAt = _nowIso();
-      s.usedBy = typeof deviceId === 'string' ? deviceId : 'unknown';
+      s.usedBy = normalizedDeviceId;
       _save(data);
       return { ok: true, share: _publicView(s) };
     });
@@ -411,4 +490,4 @@ function createShareStore(opts = {}) {
   };
 }
 
-module.exports = { createShareStore };
+module.exports = { createShareStore, validatePublicEmail, validatePublicDeviceId };

dashcaddy-api/src/utilities/config-schema.js

@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ const KNOWN_KEYS = [
   'configurationType', 'defaults', 'customLogo', 'customFavicon',
   'dashboardTitle', 'tailscale', 'license', 'skipped',
   'routingMode', 'domain', 'email', 'defaultIP', 'pylon',
-  'customLogoDark', 'customLogoLight', 'language'
+  'customLogoDark', 'customLogoLight', 'language',
+  // license-manager.js persists the last activation to config.licenseBackup
+  // (restore-on-restart path); src/config/migrations.js stamps _version.
+  // Both are first-party writes — see DC-091.
+  'licenseBackup', '_version'
 ];
 
 /**

dashcaddy-api/src/utilities/constants.js

@@ -79,6 +79,17 @@ const RATE_LIMITS = {
     windowMs: 15 * 60 * 1000,
     max: 10,
   },
+  // DC-083: Public share endpoint limiter. The two CSRF-exempt public
+  // endpoints (POST /share/:token/subscribe + POST /share/:token/redeem-tailscale)
+  // mutate on-disk state (data/shares.json). Bound them tighter than the
+  // general limiter (1000/15min) so a single attacker can't bloat the
+  // store or saturate the tmp+rename writer. 30/15min is enough for a
+  // legitimate user clicking "subscribe" once or twice — anything beyond
+  // is abuse.
+  SHARE_PUBLIC: {
+    windowMs: 15 * 60 * 1000,
+    max: 30,
+  },
 };
 
 // ── Caddy ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────

dashcaddy-api/src/utilities/middleware.js

@@ -330,17 +330,22 @@ module.exports = function configureMiddleware(app, {
   const ssoHandoffTokens = new Map();
   const SSO_HANDOFF_TTL_MS = 60 * 1000;
 
-  function createHandoffToken() {
+  function createHandoffToken(expectedHost = null) {
     const token = crypto.randomBytes(24).toString('base64url');
-    ssoHandoffTokens.set(token, { exp: Date.now() + SSO_HANDOFF_TTL_MS });
+    ssoHandoffTokens.set(token, {
+      exp: Date.now() + SSO_HANDOFF_TTL_MS,
+      expectedHost: expectedHost ? String(expectedHost).toLowerCase() : null,
+    });
     return token;
   }
 
-  function redeemHandoffToken(token) {
+  function redeemHandoffToken(token, actualHost = null) {
     if (!token) return false;
     const entry = ssoHandoffTokens.get(token);
     ssoHandoffTokens.delete(token); // one-time use regardless of outcome
-    return !!entry && entry.exp > Date.now();
+    if (!entry || entry.exp <= Date.now()) return false;
+    if (!entry.expectedHost) return true;
+    return !!actualHost && entry.expectedHost === String(actualHost).toLowerCase();
   }
 
   function setHostOnlySessionCookie(res, durationKey) {

dashcaddy-installer/install.sh

@@ -630,10 +630,15 @@ generate_caddyfile() {
 SNIP
 
   local auth_snippet="(dashcaddy_auth) {
-  forward_auth localhost:${API_PORT} {
+  @needsAuth not path /dashcaddy-sso
+  forward_auth @needsAuth localhost:${API_PORT} {
     uri /api/v1/auth/gate/{args[0]}
     copy_headers Authorization X-Api-Key X-App-Cookie X-Emby-Token X-Plex-Token
   }
+  handle /dashcaddy-sso {
+    rewrite * /api/v1/auth/sso-exchange
+    reverse_proxy localhost:${API_PORT}
+  }
 }"
 
   local site_body="  root * ${DASHBOARD_DIR}

dashcaddy-installer/src/main/caddyfile-generator.js

@@ -51,10 +51,15 @@ class CaddyfileGenerator {
   _authSnippet(apiPort) {
     return `# DashCaddy SSO auth snippet
 (dashcaddy_auth) {
-  forward_auth localhost:${apiPort} {
+  @needsAuth not path /dashcaddy-sso
+  forward_auth @needsAuth localhost:${apiPort} {
     uri /api/v1/auth/gate/{args[0]}
     copy_headers Authorization X-Api-Key X-App-Cookie X-Emby-Token X-Plex-Token
   }
+  handle /dashcaddy-sso {
+    rewrite * /api/v1/auth/sso-exchange
+    reverse_proxy localhost:${apiPort}
+  }
 }
 `;
   }

dashcaddy-installer/src/main/caddyfile-generator.sso.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const { spawnSync } = require('child_process');
+const CaddyfileGenerator = require('./caddyfile-generator');
+
+describe('cross-host SSO installer contract', () => {
+  test('generated auth snippet exposes the public one-time exchange landing route', () => {
+    const snippet = new CaddyfileGenerator()._authSnippet(3001);
+    expect(snippet).toContain('@needsAuth not path /dashcaddy-sso');
+    expect(snippet).toContain('handle /dashcaddy-sso');
+    expect(snippet).toContain('rewrite * /api/v1/auth/sso-exchange');
+    expect(snippet).toContain('reverse_proxy localhost:3001');
+  });
+
+  test('shell installer emits the same exchange landing contract', () => {
+    const installer = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'install.sh'), 'utf8');
+    expect(installer).toContain('@needsAuth not path /dashcaddy-sso');
+    expect(installer).toContain('handle /dashcaddy-sso');
+    expect(installer).toContain('rewrite * /api/v1/auth/sso-exchange');
+  });
+
+  test('Caddy parser accepts a complete service config using the generated snippet', () => {
+    const available = spawnSync('caddy', ['version'], { encoding: 'utf8' });
+    if (available.status !== 0) return;
+
+    const generator = new CaddyfileGenerator();
+    const config = `${generator._authSnippet(3001)}\nexample.test {\n  import dashcaddy_auth plex\n  respond "ok" 200\n}\n`;
+    const result = spawnSync('caddy', ['validate', '--config', '-', '--adapter', 'caddyfile'], {
+      input: config,
+      encoding: 'utf8',
+    });
+    expect(result.status).toBe(0);
+    expect(`${result.stdout}\n${result.stderr}`).toContain('Valid configuration');
+  });
+});

status/build.js

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ const bundles = {
     // totp-recovery.js registers window._refreshRecoveryLink which totp-auth.js
     // calls from showTotpOverlay(). Must come after totp-auth.js.
     JS('totp-recovery.js'),
+    JS('credential-vault-handoff.js'),
     JS('service-credentials.js'),
     JS('totp-settings.js'),
     // DC-048 admin panel — modal-overlay UI for user/invite management.

status/js/admin.js

@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@
       _el('input', { name: 'ttlHours', type: 'number', min: '1', max: '168', value: '24', style: 'padding:6px;width:80px' }),
     ));
     form.appendChild(_el('label', { style: 'display:flex;gap:4px;align-items:center;font-size:0.85rem' },
-      _el('input', { name: 'sendEmail', type: 'checkbox', checked: true }),
+      _el('input', { name: 'sendEmail', type: 'checkbox', checked: false }),
-      _el('span', { text: 'Send email' }),
+      _el('span', { text: 'Also send via email (optional)' }),
     ));
     form.appendChild(_el('button', { type: 'submit', class: 'btn-sm', style: 'padding:6px 12px', text: 'Issue invite' }));
     container.appendChild(form);
@@ -297,16 +297,77 @@
       },
     });
     banner.appendChild(copyBtn);
-    if (invite.deliveredVia === 'dev-console') {
+
+    // DC-085: pre-formatted message for one-tap paste into iMessage / WhatsApp /
+    // Telegram / SMS / Signal / Discord / paste-into-email. The operator can
+    // copy this as a sentence instead of dealing with the raw URL.
+    if (invite.shareText) {
+      const shareBlock = _el('div', { style: 'margin-top:12px' });
+      shareBlock.appendChild(_el('div', {
+        style: 'font-size:0.8rem;color:#86efac;margin-bottom:4px',
+        text: 'Share this message:',
+      }));
+      shareBlock.appendChild(_el('div', {
+        style: 'padding:8px;background:#000;border-radius:4px;color:#d1fae5;white-space:pre-wrap',
+        text: invite.shareText,
+      }));
+      const shareActions = _el('div', { style: 'margin-top:6px;display:flex;gap:6px;flex-wrap:wrap' });
+      const copyTextBtn = _el('button', {
+        class: 'btn-sm', style: 'padding:4px 10px',
+        text: 'Copy message',
+        onclick: async () => {
+          try {
+            await navigator.clipboard.writeText(invite.shareText);
+            copyTextBtn.textContent = 'Copied!';
+            setTimeout(() => { copyTextBtn.textContent = 'Copy message'; }, 2000);
+          } catch (e) {
+            window.errorHandler && window.errorHandler.show('Clipboard blocked: select the text manually.');
+          }
+        },
+      });
+      shareActions.appendChild(copyTextBtn);
+      // Native share sheet on mobile / supported browsers. Falls back silently
+      // (the copy buttons cover the same intent).
+      if (typeof navigator !== 'undefined' && typeof navigator.share === 'function') {
+        const nativeShareBtn = _el('button', {
+          class: 'btn-sm', style: 'padding:4px 10px',
+          text: 'Share via…',
+          onclick: async () => {
+            try {
+              await navigator.share({
+                title: 'DashCaddy invite',
+                text: invite.shareText,
+                url: invite.acceptUrl,
+              });
+            } catch (e) {
+              // User-cancelled throws AbortError — that's fine, just stay quiet.
+              if (e && e.name && e.name !== 'AbortError') {
+                window.errorHandler && window.errorHandler.show('Share failed: ' + e.message);
+              }
+            }
+          },
+        });
+        shareActions.appendChild(nativeShareBtn);
+      }
+      shareBlock.appendChild(shareActions);
+      banner.appendChild(shareBlock);
+    }
+
+    if (invite.deliveredVia === 'failed') {
       banner.appendChild(_el('p', {
         style: 'margin-top:8px;color:#fbbf24;font-size:0.8rem',
-        text: 'SMTP not configured — the invite was logged to the server console (search for [DC-048-DEV-INVITE-LINK]).',
+        text: 'Email could not be sent (SMTP not configured). Share the link above instead — it works the same way.',
       }));
     } else if (invite.deliveredVia === 'email') {
       banner.appendChild(_el('p', {
         style: 'margin-top:8px;color:#86efac;font-size:0.8rem',
         text: 'Email sent to ' + invite.email + '.',
       }));
+    } else if (invite.deliveredVia === 'manual') {
+      banner.appendChild(_el('p', {
+        style: 'margin-top:8px;color:#86efac;font-size:0.8rem',
+        text: 'Share the link above via text, chat, or any messenger.',
+      }));
     }
     parent.appendChild(banner);
   }

status/js/auth-gate.js

@@ -267,6 +267,46 @@
     }
   }
 
+  function buildSsoHandoffTarget(returnUrl, token) {
+    const parsed = new URL(returnUrl, window.location.origin);
+    if (parsed.origin === window.location.origin) return parsed.toString();
+
+    const suffix = SITE.tld.startsWith('.') ? SITE.tld : `.${SITE.tld}`;
+    const isPrivateHost = parsed.hostname === suffix.slice(1) || parsed.hostname.endsWith(suffix);
+    if (parsed.protocol !== 'https:' || !isPrivateHost || !token) return null;
+
+    const returnPath = `${parsed.pathname}${parsed.search}${parsed.hash}`;
+    parsed.pathname = '/dashcaddy-sso';
+    parsed.search = '';
+    parsed.hash = '';
+    parsed.searchParams.set('token', token);
+    parsed.searchParams.set('return', returnPath);
+    return parsed.toString();
+  }
+
+  async function resumeExistingSession(returnUrl) {
+    if (!returnUrl || !isAllowedReturnUrl(returnUrl)) return false;
+    try {
+      const parsedReturn = new URL(returnUrl, window.location.origin);
+      const suffix = SITE.tld.startsWith('.') ? SITE.tld : `.${SITE.tld}`;
+      const serviceId = parsedReturn.hostname.slice(0, -suffix.length);
+      if (!/^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$/.test(serviceId)) return false;
+      const res = await fetch(`/api/v1/auth/sso-handoff?serviceId=${encodeURIComponent(serviceId)}`, {
+        credentials: 'include',
+        cache: 'no-store',
+      });
+      if (!res.ok) return false;
+      const data = await res.json();
+      const target = data.success && buildSsoHandoffTarget(returnUrl, data.ssoToken);
+      if (!target) return false;
+      try { sessionStorage.removeItem('totp_redirect'); } catch (_) {}
+      window.location.replace(target);
+      return true;
+    } catch (_) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
   const urlParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
   if (urlParams.get('auth') === 'required') {
     // Preserve the gated service destination so submitTotpCode() can append
@@ -277,8 +317,12 @@
     }
     // Clean URL — happens after we've captured the redirect
     window.history.replaceState({}, '', window.location.pathname);
-    // Show on next tick so the DOM (the .totp-card) is ready
+    // Reuse the valid status.sami session first. Only show the TOTP/provider
-    setTimeout(show, 0);
+    // challenge when that session is genuinely absent or expired.
+    setTimeout(async () => {
+      if (await resumeExistingSession(returnUrl)) return;
+      await show();
+    }, 0);
   }
 
   // Expose for hot-trigger from other modules (e.g. logout)

status/js/core/credentials.js

@@ -33,6 +33,20 @@
     return server?.name || dnsId.toUpperCase();
   }
 
+  async function requireSuccessfulDnsMutation(response, label) {
+    if (!response) throw new Error(`${label} failed: no response`);
+    let data;
+    try {
+      data = await response.json();
+    } catch (_) {
+      throw new Error(`${label} failed: invalid server response`);
+    }
+    if (!response.ok || data?.success !== true) {
+      throw new Error(data?.error || `${label} failed (${response.status || 'unknown status'})`);
+    }
+    return data;
+  }
+
   /** Build per-server credential form sections from SITE.dnsServers */
   function buildCredentialSections() {
     const container = document.getElementById('dns-cred-sections');
@@ -258,14 +272,6 @@
   document.getElementById('token-save')?.addEventListener('click', async () => {
     const dnsIds = getDnsIds();
 
-    // Save all to localStorage
-    dnsIds.forEach(dnsId => {
-      setUsername(dnsId, 'readonly', document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-readonly-username`).value.trim());
-      setToken(dnsId, 'readonly', document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-readonly-token`).value.trim());
-      setUsername(dnsId, 'admin', document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-admin-username`).value.trim());
-      setToken(dnsId, 'admin', document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-admin-token`).value.trim());
-    });
-
     // Build per-server credentials payload for backend sync
     const servers = {};
     let hasAnyCreds = false;
@@ -304,45 +310,36 @@
           headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
           body: JSON.stringify({ servers })
         });
-        const data = await res.json();
+        const data = await requireSuccessfulDnsMutation(res, 'DNS credential save');
-
         if (data.results) {
-          dnsIds.forEach(dnsId => {
+          const failed = Object.keys(servers).filter(dnsId => data.results[dnsId]?.success !== true);
-            const statusEl = document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`);
+          if (failed.length) {
-            if (!servers[dnsId]) { statusEl.textContent = ''; return; }
+            const details = failed.map(dnsId => data.results[dnsId]?.error || `${dnsId} failed`).join('; ');
-            const result = data.results[dnsId];
+            throw new Error(details);
-            if (result?.success) {
+          }
-              statusEl.textContent = '\u2713 Verified & saved';
-              statusEl.className = 'token-status success';
-            } else if (result?.partial) {
-              statusEl.textContent = '\u2713 ' + result.partial;
-              statusEl.className = 'token-status success';
-            } else {
-              statusEl.textContent = '\u2717 ' + (result?.error || 'Login failed');
-              statusEl.className = 'token-status error';
-            }
-          });
-        } else if (data.success) {
-          dnsIds.forEach(dnsId => {
-            if (servers[dnsId]) {
-              document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).textContent = '\u2713 Saved';
-              document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).className = 'token-status success';
-            }
-          });
-        } else {
-          dnsIds.forEach(dnsId => {
-            if (servers[dnsId]) {
-              document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).textContent = '\u2717 ' + (data.error || 'Failed');
-              document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).className = 'token-status error';
-            }
-          });
         }
+
+        // Cache locally only after the encrypted server vault confirms success.
+        dnsIds.forEach(dnsId => {
+          setUsername(dnsId, 'readonly', document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-readonly-username`).value.trim());
+          setToken(dnsId, 'readonly', document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-readonly-token`).value.trim());
+          setUsername(dnsId, 'admin', document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-admin-username`).value.trim());
+          setToken(dnsId, 'admin', document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-admin-token`).value.trim());
+        });
+
+        dnsIds.forEach(dnsId => {
+          const statusEl = document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`);
+          if (!servers[dnsId]) { statusEl.textContent = ''; return; }
+          const result = data.results?.[dnsId];
+          statusEl.textContent = result?.partial ? '\u2713 ' + result.partial : '\u2713 Verified & saved';
+          statusEl.className = 'token-status success';
+        });
       } catch (e) {
         console.error('Failed to sync DNS credentials to backend:', e);
         dnsIds.forEach(dnsId => {
           if (servers[dnsId]) {
-            document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).textContent = '\u2713 Saved locally (sync failed)';
+            document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).textContent = '\u2717 ' + (e.message || 'Save failed');
-            document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).className = 'token-status';
+            document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).className = 'token-status error';
           }
         });
       }
@@ -368,18 +365,24 @@
 
   document.getElementById('token-clear-all')?.addEventListener('click', async () => {
     if (confirm('Clear all stored DNS credentials? This cannot be undone.')) {
-      clearAllCredentials();
-      getDnsIds().forEach(dnsId => {
-        document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-readonly-username`).value = '';
-        document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-readonly-token`).value = '';
-        document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-admin-username`).value = '';
-        document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-admin-token`).value = '';
-        document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).textContent = '\u2713 Cleared';
-        document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).className = 'token-status success';
-      });
       try {
-        await secureFetch('/api/v1/dns/credentials', { method: 'DELETE' });
+        const response = await secureFetch('/api/v1/dns/credentials', { method: 'DELETE' });
-      } catch (_) {}
+        await requireSuccessfulDnsMutation(response, 'DNS credential removal');
+        clearAllCredentials();
+        getDnsIds().forEach(dnsId => {
+          document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-readonly-username`).value = '';
+          document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-readonly-token`).value = '';
+          document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-admin-username`).value = '';
+          document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-admin-token`).value = '';
+          document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).textContent = '\u2713 Cleared';
+          document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).className = 'token-status success';
+        });
+      } catch (e) {
+        getDnsIds().forEach(dnsId => {
+          document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).textContent = '\u2717 ' + (e.message || 'Clear failed');
+          document.getElementById(`${dnsId}-token-status`).className = 'token-status error';
+        });
+      }
     }
   });
 

status/js/core/init.js

@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@
     await window.loadServices();
     await loadTemplateCategories();
     window.buildGrid();
+    if (typeof window.openRequestedCredentialForm === 'function') {
+      window.openRequestedCredentialForm();
+    }
     animateTopCards();
     window.refreshAll();
     setInterval(() => {

status/js/credential-vault-handoff.js

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+// ===== ENCRYPTED VAULT -> SERVICE SSO HANDOFF =====
+(function() {
+  function isAllowedReturnUrl(returnUrl, expectedServiceId) {
+    if (!returnUrl || !expectedServiceId || !/^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$/.test(expectedServiceId)) return false;
+    try {
+      const parsed = new URL(returnUrl, window.location.origin);
+      const suffix = SITE.tld.startsWith('.') ? SITE.tld : `.${SITE.tld}`;
+      const expectedHost = `${expectedServiceId}${suffix}`;
+      return parsed.protocol === 'https:' && parsed.hostname === expectedHost;
+    } catch (_) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  function buildHandoffTarget(returnUrl, token, expectedServiceId) {
+    if (!isAllowedReturnUrl(returnUrl, expectedServiceId)) return null;
+    const parsed = new URL(returnUrl, window.location.origin);
+    if (!token) return null;
+
+    const returnPath = `${parsed.pathname}${parsed.search}${parsed.hash}`;
+    // The shared (dashcaddy_auth) Caddy snippet installs this public landing
+    // route on every protected host. It rewrites to /api/v1/auth/sso-exchange.
+    parsed.pathname = '/dashcaddy-sso';
+    parsed.search = '';
+    parsed.hash = '';
+    parsed.searchParams.set('token', token);
+    parsed.searchParams.set('return', returnPath);
+    return parsed.toString();
+  }
+
+  async function resume(returnUrl, expectedServiceId, runtime = {}) {
+    if (!isAllowedReturnUrl(returnUrl, expectedServiceId)) return false;
+    const fetchFn = runtime.fetch || window.fetch.bind(window);
+    const locationObj = runtime.location || window.location;
+    try {
+      const response = await fetchFn(`/api/v1/auth/sso-handoff?serviceId=${encodeURIComponent(expectedServiceId)}`, {
+        credentials: 'include',
+        cache: 'no-store',
+      });
+      if (!response.ok) return false;
+      const data = await response.json();
+      const target = data.success && buildHandoffTarget(returnUrl, data.ssoToken, expectedServiceId);
+      if (!target) return false;
+      locationObj.replace(target);
+      return true;
+    } catch (_) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  window.DCCredentialVault = { isAllowedReturnUrl, buildHandoffTarget, resume };
+})();

status/js/notification-settings.js

@@ -240,9 +240,23 @@
           document.getElementById('ntfy-server').value = config.providers.ntfy.serverUrl;
         }
 
-        // email fields
+        // email fields — DC-092: prefill the FULL form so a save doesn't
+        // silently wipe fields the GET response previously omitted. Password
+        // is never returned; when one is stored the field shows a keep-hint
+        // and an empty submit preserves the stored credential server-side.
         if (config.providers?.email?.host) document.getElementById('email-host').value = config.providers.email.host;
         if (config.providers?.email?.from) document.getElementById('email-from').value = config.providers.email.from;
+        if (config.providers?.email?.to) document.getElementById('email-to').value = config.providers.email.to;
+        if (config.providers?.email?.port) document.getElementById('email-port').value = config.providers.email.port;
+        if (config.providers?.email?.secure !== undefined) document.getElementById('email-secure').checked = config.providers.email.secure === true;
+        if (config.providers?.email?.username) document.getElementById('email-user').value = config.providers.email.username;
+        const emailPassEl = document.getElementById('email-pass');
+        if (config.providers?.email?.hasPassword) {
+          emailPassEl.value = '';
+          emailPassEl.placeholder = 'saved — leave blank to keep';
+        } else {
+          emailPassEl.placeholder = 'app password';
+        }
 
         // Health check
         document.getElementById('health-check-enabled').checked = config.healthCheck?.enabled || false;
@@ -254,12 +268,14 @@
             `Last check: ${new Date(config.healthCheck.lastCheck).toLocaleString()}`;
         }
 
-        // Events
+        // Events — canonical kebab-case keys, matching the backend store
-        document.getElementById('event-container-down').checked = config.events?.containerDown !== false;
+        // (DC-092: previously read camelCase keys that never existed, so
-        document.getElementById('event-container-up').checked = config.events?.containerUp !== false;
+        // every toggle re-rendered as 'checked' regardless of stored state).
-        document.getElementById('event-deploy-success').checked = config.events?.deploymentSuccess !== false;
+        document.getElementById('event-container-down').checked = config.events?.['container-down'] !== false;
-        document.getElementById('event-deploy-failed').checked = config.events?.deploymentFailed !== false;
+        document.getElementById('event-container-up').checked = config.events?.['container-up'] === true;
-        document.getElementById('event-resource-alert').checked = config.events?.resourceAlert !== false;
+        document.getElementById('event-deploy-success').checked = config.events?.['deploy-success'] !== false;
+        document.getElementById('event-deploy-failed').checked = config.events?.['deploy-failed'] !== false;
+        document.getElementById('event-resource-alert').checked = config.events?.['alert'] !== false;
       }
     } catch (error) {
       errorHandler.logError('[Notifications] Load Config', error, { function: 'loadConfig' });
@@ -325,18 +341,18 @@
             host: document.getElementById('email-host').value.trim(),
             port: parseInt(document.getElementById('email-port').value) || 587,
             secure: document.getElementById('email-secure').checked,
-            user: document.getElementById('email-user').value.trim(),
+            username: document.getElementById('email-user').value.trim(),
-            pass: document.getElementById('email-pass').value.trim(),
+            password: document.getElementById('email-pass').value.trim(),
             from: document.getElementById('email-from').value.trim(),
             to: document.getElementById('email-to').value.trim()
           }
         },
         events: {
-          containerDown: document.getElementById('event-container-down').checked,
+          'container-down': document.getElementById('event-container-down').checked,
-          containerUp: document.getElementById('event-container-up').checked,
+          'container-up': document.getElementById('event-container-up').checked,
-          deploymentSuccess: document.getElementById('event-deploy-success').checked,
+          'deploy-success': document.getElementById('event-deploy-success').checked,
-          deploymentFailed: document.getElementById('event-deploy-failed').checked,
+          'deploy-failed': document.getElementById('event-deploy-failed').checked,
-          resourceAlert: document.getElementById('event-resource-alert').checked
+          'alert': document.getElementById('event-resource-alert').checked
         },
         healthCheck: {
           enabled: document.getElementById('health-check-enabled').checked,

status/js/service-credentials.js

@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
 
   injectModal('service-creds-modal', `<div id="service-creds-modal">
     <div class="service-creds-content">
-      <h3 id="svc-creds-title" style="margin: 0 0 4px; font-size: 1.05rem;">Service Credentials</h3>
+      <h3 id="svc-creds-title" style="margin: 0 0 4px; font-size: 1.05rem;">Encrypted Credential Vault</h3>
-      <p id="svc-creds-desc" style="font-size: 0.75rem; color: var(--muted); margin: 0 0 14px;">Credentials are injected automatically when accessing this service.</p>
+      <p id="svc-creds-desc" style="font-size: 0.75rem; color: var(--muted); margin: 0 0 14px;">Passwords are encrypted at rest and used automatically when you open this service.</p>
 
       <!-- Status indicator -->
       <div style="display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; margin-bottom: 12px;">
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
       <!-- Buttons -->
       <div style="display: flex; gap: 8px; margin-top: 14px;">
         <button id="svc-creds-save" class="btn-accent-solid" style="flex: 1; padding: 9px; border: none; border-radius: 6px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; font-size: 0.85rem;">
-          Save
+          Save to encrypted vault
         </button>
         <button id="svc-creds-clear" style="padding: 9px 14px; background: transparent; color: var(--bad-fg, #ff9aa3); border: 1px solid var(--bad-fg, #ff9aa3); border-radius: 6px; cursor: pointer; font-size: 0.85rem; display: none;">
           Clear
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@
 
   const modal = document.getElementById('service-creds-modal');
   let currentService = null;
+  let credentialReturnUrl = null;
+  let currentServiceHadCreds = false;
   const arrServices = ['sonarr', 'radarr', 'prowlarr', 'overseerr'];
   const qualityProfileServices = ['sonarr', 'radarr'];
 
@@ -124,8 +126,28 @@
     el.style.display = 'none';
   }
 
-  window.openServiceCredsModal = async function(service) {
+  async function requireSuccessfulWrite(response, label) {
+    if (!response) throw new Error(`${label} failed: no response`);
+    let data;
+    try {
+      data = await response.json();
+    } catch (_) {
+      throw new Error(`${label} failed: invalid server response`);
+    }
+    if (!response.ok || data?.success !== true) {
+      throw new Error(data?.error || `${label} failed (${response.status || 'unknown status'})`);
+    }
+    return data;
+  }
+
+  function isAllowedCredentialReturnUrl(returnUrl, serviceId) {
+    return !!window.DCCredentialVault?.isAllowedReturnUrl(returnUrl, serviceId);
+  }
+
+  window.openServiceCredsModal = async function(service, options = {}) {
     currentService = service;
+    credentialReturnUrl = isAllowedCredentialReturnUrl(options.returnUrl, service.id) ? options.returnUrl : null;
+    currentServiceHadCreds = false;
     hideError();
     const title = document.getElementById('svc-creds-title');
     const desc = document.getElementById('svc-creds-desc');
@@ -134,7 +156,10 @@
     const basicSection = document.getElementById('svc-creds-basic');
     const qualitySection = document.getElementById('svc-creds-quality');
 
-    title.textContent = service.name + ' Credentials';
+    title.textContent = service.name + ' — Encrypted Vault';
+    document.getElementById('svc-creds-save').textContent = credentialReturnUrl
+      ? 'Save to vault & open service'
+      : 'Save to encrypted vault';
     // Determine which sections to show
     const isExt = !!service.isExternal;
     const isArr = arrServices.includes(service.id) || arrServices.includes(service.appTemplate);
@@ -214,6 +239,7 @@
     }
 
     if (hasCreds) {
+      currentServiceHadCreds = true;
       dot.style.background = 'var(--ok-fg, #74dfc4)';
       status.style.color = 'var(--ok-fg, #74dfc4)';
       status.textContent = 'Credentials stored';
@@ -352,16 +378,35 @@
       const isArr = arrServices.includes(currentService.id) || arrServices.includes(currentService.appTemplate);
       const svcId = currentService.id || currentService.appTemplate;
 
+      if (credentialReturnUrl && !currentServiceHadCreds) {
+        const externalUser = document.getElementById('svc-seedhost-user').value.trim();
+        const externalPass = document.getElementById('svc-seedhost-pass').value;
+        const apiKeyInput = document.getElementById('svc-apikey-input');
+        const requestedApiKey = apiKeyInput?.value.trim();
+        const basicUser = document.getElementById('svc-basic-user').value.trim();
+        const basicPass = document.getElementById('svc-basic-pass').value;
+        const hasExternalLogin = currentService.isExternal && externalUser && externalPass;
+        const hasApiKey = isArr && requestedApiKey && requestedApiKey !== '••••••••';
+        const hasBasicLogin = !currentService.isExternal && basicUser && basicPass;
+        if (!hasExternalLogin && !hasApiKey && !hasBasicLogin) {
+          showError('Enter the login or API key DashCaddy should store for this service.');
+          saveBtn.textContent = 'Save to vault & open service';
+          saveBtn.disabled = false;
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+
       // Save seedhost creds (shared username + per-service password)
       if (currentService.isExternal) {
         const user = document.getElementById('svc-seedhost-user').value.trim();
         const pass = document.getElementById('svc-seedhost-pass').value;
         if (user) {
-          await secureFetch('/api/v1/seedhost-creds', {
+          const response = await secureFetch('/api/v1/seedhost-creds', {
             method: 'POST',
             headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
             body: JSON.stringify({ username: user, password: pass || undefined, serviceId: currentService.id })
           });
+          await requireSuccessfulWrite(response, 'Seedhost credential save');
         }
       }
 
@@ -387,23 +432,18 @@
               qualityProfileName: qualityProfileName || undefined
             })
           });
-          const data = await res.json();
+          const data = await requireSuccessfulWrite(res, 'ARR credential save');
-          if (!data.success) {
-            showError(data.error || 'Failed to save API key');
-            saveBtn.textContent = 'Save';
-            saveBtn.disabled = false;
-            return;
-          }
           if (data.connectionTest && !data.connectionTest.success) {
             showError(`API key saved but connection test failed: ${data.connectionTest.error}`);
           }
         } else {
           // Non-arr services use the generic endpoint
-          await secureFetch(`/api/v1/services/${currentService.id}/credentials`, {
+          const response = await secureFetch(`/api/v1/services/${currentService.id}/credentials`, {
             method: 'POST',
             headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
             body: JSON.stringify({ apiKey })
           });
+          await requireSuccessfulWrite(response, 'API key save');
         }
       } else if (isArr && qualityProfileServices.includes(svcId)) {
         // API key unchanged but user may have changed quality profile — save profile only
@@ -411,11 +451,12 @@
         const qualityProfileId = qualSelect?.value ? parseInt(qualSelect.value) : undefined;
         const qualityProfileName = qualSelect?.selectedOptions?.[0]?.textContent || undefined;
         if (qualityProfileId) {
-          await secureFetch('/api/v1/arr/quality-profiles', {
+          const response = await secureFetch('/api/v1/arr/quality-profiles', {
             method: 'POST',
             headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
             body: JSON.stringify({ service: svcId, qualityProfileId, qualityProfileName })
           });
+          await requireSuccessfulWrite(response, 'Quality profile save');
         }
       }
 
@@ -424,20 +465,28 @@
         const user = document.getElementById('svc-basic-user').value.trim();
         const pass = document.getElementById('svc-basic-pass').value;
         if (user && pass) {
-          await secureFetch(`/api/v1/services/${currentService.id}/credentials`, {
+          const response = await secureFetch(`/api/v1/services/${currentService.id}/credentials`, {
             method: 'POST',
             headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
             body: JSON.stringify({ username: user, password: pass })
           });
+          await requireSuccessfulWrite(response, 'Service credential save');
         }
       }
 
       await loadServiceCreds(currentService);
+      if (credentialReturnUrl) {
+        const returnUrl = credentialReturnUrl;
+        const resumed = await window.DCCredentialVault?.resume(returnUrl, currentService.id);
+        if (!resumed) throw new Error('Credential saved, but the secure service handoff failed. Try opening the service again.');
+        credentialReturnUrl = null;
+        return;
+      }
     } catch (e) {
       errorHandler.logError('[ServiceCredentials] Save', e, { function: 'saveCredentials' });
       showError('Failed to save: ' + (e.message || 'Unknown error'));
     }
-    saveBtn.textContent = 'Save';
+    saveBtn.textContent = credentialReturnUrl ? 'Save to vault & open service' : 'Save to encrypted vault';
     saveBtn.disabled = false;
   });
 
@@ -450,12 +499,15 @@
       const svcId = currentService.id || currentService.appTemplate;
       const isArr = arrServices.includes(svcId);
       if (currentService.isExternal) {
-        await secureFetch(`/api/v1/seedhost-creds?serviceId=${currentService.id}`, { method: 'DELETE' });
+        const response = await secureFetch(`/api/v1/seedhost-creds?serviceId=${currentService.id}`, { method: 'DELETE' });
+        await requireSuccessfulWrite(response, 'Seedhost credential removal');
       }
       // Delete from both namespaces
-      await secureFetch(`/api/v1/services/${currentService.id}/credentials`, { method: 'DELETE' });
+      const response = await secureFetch(`/api/v1/services/${currentService.id}/credentials`, { method: 'DELETE' });
+      await requireSuccessfulWrite(response, 'Service credential removal');
       if (isArr) {
-        await secureFetch(`/api/v1/arr/credentials/${svcId}`, { method: 'DELETE' });
+        const arrResponse = await secureFetch(`/api/v1/arr/credentials/${svcId}`, { method: 'DELETE' });
+        await requireSuccessfulWrite(arrResponse, 'ARR credential removal');
       }
       const btn = document.getElementById(`creds-btn-${currentService.id}`);
       if (btn) btn.classList.remove('has-creds');
@@ -470,11 +522,13 @@
   document.getElementById('svc-creds-close')?.addEventListener('click', () => {
     modal.classList.remove('show');
     currentService = null;
+    credentialReturnUrl = null;
   });
   modal?.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
     if (e.target === modal) {
       modal.classList.remove('show');
       currentService = null;
+      credentialReturnUrl = null;
     }
   });
 
@@ -501,4 +555,18 @@
       }
     } catch (e) { /* ignore */ }
   };
+
+  // Protected service login pages send missing credentials here. Reuse the
+  // normal vault form, then resume through the existing one-time SSO handoff.
+  window.openRequestedCredentialForm = function() {
+    const params = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
+    const serviceId = params.get('credentials');
+    if (!serviceId) return false;
+    const service = (window.APPS || []).find(app => app.id === serviceId || app.appTemplate === serviceId);
+    if (!service) return false;
+    const returnUrl = params.get('return');
+    window.history.replaceState({}, '', window.location.pathname);
+    window.openServiceCredsModal(service, { returnUrl });
+    return true;
+  };
 })();

status/js/totp-auth.js

@@ -90,11 +90,22 @@
     errorEl.textContent = 'Verifying...';
     errorEl.className = 'totp-error verifying';
 
+    const redirect = safeSessionGet('totp_redirect');
+    let serviceId = null;
+    if (redirect) {
+      try {
+        const parsed = new URL(redirect, window.location.origin);
+        const suffix = SITE.tld.startsWith('.') ? SITE.tld : `.${SITE.tld}`;
+        const candidate = parsed.hostname.slice(0, -suffix.length);
+        if (parsed.hostname.endsWith(suffix) && /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$/.test(candidate)) serviceId = candidate;
+      } catch (_) { /* invalid redirect is handled by the normal auth flow */ }
+    }
+
     try {
       const res = await secureFetch('/api/v1/totp/verify', {
         method: 'POST',
         headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
-        body: JSON.stringify({ code })
+        body: JSON.stringify({ code, serviceId })
       });
       const data = await res.json();
 
@@ -106,7 +117,6 @@
         }
         hideTotpOverlay();
         // Check if redirected here from another service
-        const redirect = safeSessionGet('totp_redirect');
         if (redirect) {
           try { sessionStorage.removeItem('totp_redirect'); } catch (_) {}
           // .sami is an unregistered TLD, so browsers silently drop the

status/sw.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const CACHE = 'dashcaddy-shell-a24ef15882';
+const CACHE = 'dashcaddy-shell-3354f5fd96';
 const PRECACHE = [
   '/',
   '/index.html',

status/tests/auth-gate-return-url.test.js

@@ -93,3 +93,41 @@ test('same-origin and tokenless destinations keep their direct URL', () => {
   assert.equal(buildHandoffTarget('/settings', 'one-time'), 'https://status.sami/settings');
   assert.equal(buildHandoffTarget('https://router.sami/config', ''), 'https://router.sami/config');
 });
+
+test('an existing status.sami session returns to a service without another TOTP prompt', async () => {
+  const query = new URLSearchParams({ auth: 'required', return: 'https://plex.sami/web/' });
+  let scheduled;
+  let redirected;
+  const location = {
+    origin: 'https://status.sami',
+    pathname: '/',
+    search: `?${query.toString()}`,
+    replace(value) { redirected = value; },
+  };
+  const context = {
+    URL,
+    URLSearchParams,
+    SITE: { tld: '.sami' },
+    sessionStorage: { setItem() {} },
+    document: { getElementById() { return null; } },
+    setTimeout(fn) { scheduled = fn; },
+    console,
+    fetch: async (url) => {
+      assert.equal(url, '/api/v1/auth/sso-handoff?serviceId=plex');
+      return { ok: true, json: async () => ({ success: true, ssoToken: 'existing-session-token' }) };
+    },
+    window: {
+      location,
+      history: { replaceState() {} },
+    },
+  };
+  context.window.window = context.window;
+  vm.runInNewContext(source, context, { filename: 'auth-gate.js' });
+
+  assert.equal(typeof scheduled, 'function');
+  await scheduled();
+  assert.equal(
+    redirected,
+    'https://plex.sami/dashcaddy-sso?token=existing-session-token&return=%2Fweb%2F',
+  );
+});

status/tests/credential-vault-onboarding.test.js

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+const fs = require('node:fs');
+const path = require('node:path');
+const vm = require('node:vm');
+const { JSDOM } = require('jsdom');
+const test = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+
+const handoffSource = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'js', 'credential-vault-handoff.js'), 'utf8');
+const formSource = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'js', 'service-credentials.js'), 'utf8');
+const initSource = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'js', 'core', 'init.js'), 'utf8');
+
+function loadVault() {
+  const window = { location: { origin: 'https://status.sami' } };
+  const context = vm.createContext({ window, SITE: { tld: '.sami' }, URL });
+  vm.runInContext(handoffSource, context);
+  return window.DCCredentialVault;
+}
+
+async function exerciseFailedModalWrite({
+  service,
+  fetchJson,
+  setupInputs,
+  expectedEndpoint,
+  writeResponse,
+  expectedError = /vault write rejected/,
+}) {
+  const dom = new JSDOM('<!doctype html><body></body>', {
+    url: 'https://status.sami/',
+    runScripts: 'outside-only',
+  });
+  const { window } = dom;
+  const writeUrls = [];
+  let resumeCalls = 0;
+  window.ErrorHandler = class { logError() {} };
+  window.SITE = { tld: '.sami' };
+  window.injectModal = (_id, html) => window.document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', html);
+  window.fetch = async (url) => ({ ok: true, json: async () => fetchJson(url) });
+  window.secureFetch = async (url) => {
+    writeUrls.push(url);
+    return writeResponse || {
+      ok: false,
+      status: 500,
+      json: async () => ({ success: false, error: 'vault write rejected' }),
+    };
+  };
+  window.DCCredentialVault = {
+    isAllowedReturnUrl: () => true,
+    resume: async () => { resumeCalls++; return true; },
+  };
+  window.confirm = () => true;
+  window.eval(formSource);
+
+  await window.openServiceCredsModal(service, { returnUrl: `https://${service.id}.sami/` });
+  setupInputs(window.document);
+  window.document.getElementById('svc-creds-save').click();
+  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 20));
+
+  assert.equal(writeUrls[0], expectedEndpoint);
+  assert.equal(resumeCalls, 0);
+  assert.match(window.document.getElementById('svc-creds-error').textContent, expectedError);
+}
+
+test('existing dashboard session mints a one-time token and resumes on the target host', async () => {
+  const vault = loadVault();
+  const calls = [];
+  const replacements = [];
+  const resumed = await vault.resume('https://plex.sami/web/?direct=1#home', 'plex', {
+    fetch: async (url, options) => {
+      calls.push({ url, options });
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        json: async () => ({ success: true, ssoToken: 'one-time-token' }),
+      };
+    },
+    location: { replace: (target) => replacements.push(target) },
+  });
+
+  assert.equal(resumed, true);
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 1);
+  assert.equal(calls[0].url, '/api/v1/auth/sso-handoff?serviceId=plex');
+  assert.equal(calls[0].options.credentials, 'include');
+  assert.equal(calls[0].options.cache, 'no-store');
+  assert.equal(
+    replacements[0],
+    'https://plex.sami/dashcaddy-sso?token=one-time-token&return=%2Fweb%2F%3Fdirect%3D1%23home',
+  );
+});
+
+test('vault handoff rejects an external return URL before minting a token', async () => {
+  const vault = loadVault();
+  let fetchCalled = false;
+  const resumed = await vault.resume('https://plex.sami.evil.example/phish', 'plex', {
+    fetch: async () => { fetchCalled = true; },
+    location: { replace: () => assert.fail('must not navigate') },
+  });
+
+  assert.equal(resumed, false);
+  assert.equal(fetchCalled, false);
+});
+
+test('credential request opens the form and save path calls the tested handoff helper', () => {
+  assert.match(formSource, /params\.get\('credentials'\)/);
+  assert.match(formSource, /openServiceCredsModal\(service, \{ returnUrl \}\)/);
+  assert.match(formSource, /DCCredentialVault\?\.resume\(returnUrl, currentService\.id\)/);
+  assert.match(initSource, /openRequestedCredentialForm\(\)/);
+  assert.match(formSource, /Save to vault & open service/);
+});
+
+test('actual vault modal save handler stores credentials then resumes the handoff', async () => {
+  const dom = new JSDOM('<!doctype html><body></body>', {
+    url: 'https://status.sami/?credentials=plex&return=https%3A%2F%2Fplex.sami%2Fweb%2F',
+    runScripts: 'outside-only',
+  });
+  const { window } = dom;
+  let stored = false;
+  const writes = [];
+  const resumed = [];
+  window.ErrorHandler = class { logError() {} };
+  window.SITE = { tld: '.sami' };
+  window.APPS = [{ id: 'plex', name: 'Plex', appTemplate: 'plex', url: 'https://plex.sami' }];
+  window.injectModal = (_id, html) => window.document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', html);
+  window.fetch = async () => ({
+    ok: true,
+    json: async () => ({
+      success: true,
+      hasApiKey: false,
+      hasBasicAuth: stored,
+      username: stored ? 'vault-user' : null,
+    }),
+  });
+  window.secureFetch = async (url, options) => {
+    writes.push({ url, body: JSON.parse(options.body) });
+    stored = true;
+    return { ok: true, json: async () => ({ success: true }) };
+  };
+  window.DCCredentialVault = {
+    isAllowedReturnUrl: () => true,
+    resume: async (returnUrl, serviceId) => { resumed.push({ returnUrl, serviceId }); return true; },
+  };
+  window.confirm = () => true;
+  window.eval(formSource);
+
+  await window.openServiceCredsModal(window.APPS[0], { returnUrl: 'https://plex.sami/web/' });
+  window.document.getElementById('svc-basic-user').value = 'vault-user';
+  window.document.getElementById('svc-basic-pass').value = 'vault-password';
+  window.document.getElementById('svc-creds-save').click();
+  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 20));
+
+  assert.deepEqual(writes, [{
+    url: '/api/v1/services/plex/credentials',
+    body: { username: 'vault-user', password: 'vault-password' },
+  }]);
+  assert.deepEqual(resumed, [{ returnUrl: 'https://plex.sami/web/', serviceId: 'plex' }]);
+});
+
+test('failed credential write does not mint a handoff or navigate', async () => {
+  const dom = new JSDOM('<!doctype html><body></body>', {
+    url: 'https://status.sami/',
+    runScripts: 'outside-only',
+  });
+  const { window } = dom;
+  let resumeCalls = 0;
+  window.ErrorHandler = class { logError() {} };
+  window.SITE = { tld: '.sami' };
+  window.injectModal = (_id, html) => window.document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', html);
+  window.fetch = async () => ({
+    ok: true,
+    json: async () => ({ success: true, hasApiKey: false, hasBasicAuth: false, username: null }),
+  });
+  window.secureFetch = async () => ({
+    ok: false,
+    status: 500,
+    json: async () => ({ success: false, error: 'vault write rejected' }),
+  });
+  window.DCCredentialVault = {
+    isAllowedReturnUrl: () => true,
+    resume: async () => { resumeCalls++; return true; },
+  };
+  window.confirm = () => true;
+  window.eval(formSource);
+
+  const service = { id: 'plex', name: 'Plex', appTemplate: 'plex', url: 'https://plex.sami' };
+  await window.openServiceCredsModal(service, { returnUrl: 'https://plex.sami/web/' });
+  window.document.getElementById('svc-basic-user').value = 'vault-user';
+  window.document.getElementById('svc-basic-pass').value = 'vault-password';
+  window.document.getElementById('svc-creds-save').click();
+  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 20));
+
+  assert.equal(resumeCalls, 0);
+  assert.match(window.document.getElementById('svc-creds-error').textContent, /vault write rejected/);
+});
+
+test('failed ARR credential write does not mint a handoff or navigate', async () => {
+  await exerciseFailedModalWrite({
+    service: { id: 'radarr', name: 'Radarr', appTemplate: 'radarr', url: 'https://radarr.sami' },
+    fetchJson: (url) => url.includes('/services/')
+      ? { success: true, hasApiKey: false, hasBasicAuth: false, username: null }
+      : { success: true, profiles: [] },
+    setupInputs: (document) => { document.getElementById('svc-apikey-input').value = 'arr-key'; },
+    expectedEndpoint: '/api/v1/arr/credentials',
+  });
+});
+
+test('failed ARR quality-profile write does not mint a handoff or navigate', async () => {
+  await exerciseFailedModalWrite({
+    service: { id: 'radarr', name: 'Radarr', appTemplate: 'radarr', url: 'https://radarr.sami' },
+    fetchJson: (url) => url.includes('/services/')
+      ? { success: true, hasApiKey: true, hasBasicAuth: false, username: null }
+      : { success: true, profiles: [{ id: 1, name: 'Default' }], storedProfileId: 1 },
+    setupInputs: () => {},
+    expectedEndpoint: '/api/v1/arr/quality-profiles',
+  });
+});
+
+test('failed seedhost write does not mint a handoff or navigate', async () => {
+  await exerciseFailedModalWrite({
+    service: { id: 'torrent', name: 'qBittorrent', isExternal: true, externalUrl: 'https://torrent.sami' },
+    fetchJson: (url) => url.includes('/seedhost-creds')
+      ? { success: true, hasCredentials: false, username: null }
+      : { success: true, hasApiKey: false, hasBasicAuth: false, username: null },
+    setupInputs: (document) => {
+      document.getElementById('svc-seedhost-user').value = 'seed-user';
+      document.getElementById('svc-seedhost-pass').value = 'seed-password';
+    },
+    expectedEndpoint: '/api/v1/seedhost-creds',
+  });
+});
+
+test('failed generic API-key write does not mint a handoff or navigate', async () => {
+  await exerciseFailedModalWrite({
+    service: { id: 'custom', name: 'Custom', url: 'https://custom.sami' },
+    fetchJson: () => ({ success: true, hasApiKey: false, hasBasicAuth: false, username: null }),
+    setupInputs: (document) => {
+      document.getElementById('svc-apikey-input').value = 'custom-key';
+      document.getElementById('svc-basic-user').value = 'user';
+      document.getElementById('svc-basic-pass').value = 'password';
+    },
+    expectedEndpoint: '/api/v1/services/custom/credentials',
+  });
+});
+
+test('HTTP 2xx with malformed JSON does not mint a handoff or navigate', async () => {
+  await exerciseFailedModalWrite({
+    service: { id: 'plex', name: 'Plex', appTemplate: 'plex', url: 'https://plex.sami' },
+    fetchJson: () => ({ success: true, hasApiKey: false, hasBasicAuth: false, username: null }),
+    setupInputs: (document) => {
+      document.getElementById('svc-basic-user').value = 'user';
+      document.getElementById('svc-basic-pass').value = 'password';
+    },
+    expectedEndpoint: '/api/v1/services/plex/credentials',
+    writeResponse: { ok: true, status: 200, json: async () => { throw new Error('bad json'); } },
+    expectedError: /invalid server response/,
+  });
+});
+
+test('HTTP 2xx without success:true does not mint a handoff or navigate', async () => {
+  await exerciseFailedModalWrite({
+    service: { id: 'plex', name: 'Plex', appTemplate: 'plex', url: 'https://plex.sami' },
+    fetchJson: () => ({ success: true, hasApiKey: false, hasBasicAuth: false, username: null }),
+    setupInputs: (document) => {
+      document.getElementById('svc-basic-user').value = 'user';
+      document.getElementById('svc-basic-pass').value = 'password';
+    },
+    expectedEndpoint: '/api/v1/services/plex/credentials',
+    writeResponse: { ok: true, status: 200, json: async () => ({ message: 'ambiguous' }) },
+    expectedError: /failed \(200\)/,
+  });
+});
+
+test('failed credential clear remains visibly failed and keeps stored-state UI', async () => {
+  const dom = new JSDOM('<!doctype html><body><button id="creds-btn-plex" class="has-creds"></button></body>', {
+    url: 'https://status.sami/',
+    runScripts: 'outside-only',
+  });
+  const { window } = dom;
+  window.ErrorHandler = class { logError() {} };
+  window.SITE = { tld: '.sami' };
+  window.injectModal = (_id, html) => window.document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', html);
+  window.fetch = async () => ({
+    ok: true,
+    json: async () => ({ success: true, hasApiKey: false, hasBasicAuth: true, username: 'vault-user' }),
+  });
+  window.secureFetch = async () => ({
+    ok: false,
+    status: 500,
+    json: async () => ({ success: false, error: 'clear rejected' }),
+  });
+  window.DCCredentialVault = { isAllowedReturnUrl: () => false };
+  window.confirm = () => true;
+  window.eval(formSource);
+
+  const service = { id: 'plex', name: 'Plex', appTemplate: 'plex', url: 'https://plex.sami' };
+  await window.openServiceCredsModal(service);
+  window.document.getElementById('svc-creds-clear').click();
+  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 20));
+
+  assert.match(window.document.getElementById('svc-creds-error').textContent, /clear rejected/);
+  assert.equal(window.document.getElementById('creds-btn-plex').classList.contains('has-creds'), true);
+});
+
+test('handoff rejects a private-TLD host that is not the requested protected service', async () => {
+  const vault = loadVault();
+  let fetchCalled = false;
+  const resumed = await vault.resume('https://dns1.sami/', 'plex', {
+    fetch: async () => { fetchCalled = true; },
+    location: { replace: () => assert.fail('must not navigate') },
+  });
+
+  assert.equal(resumed, false);
+  assert.equal(fetchCalled, false);
+});

status/tests/dns-credential-vault.test.js

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+const fs = require('node:fs');
+const path = require('node:path');
+const { JSDOM } = require('jsdom');
+const test = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+
+const source = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'js', 'core', 'credentials.js'), 'utf8');
+
+function buildDnsCredentialUi() {
+  const dom = new JSDOM('<!doctype html><body><button id="manage-tokens"></button></body>', {
+    url: 'https://status.sami/',
+    runScripts: 'outside-only',
+  });
+  const { window } = dom;
+  const local = new Map();
+  const session = new Map();
+  window.SITE = { dnsServers: { dns1: { name: 'Primary DNS' } } };
+  window.injectModal = (_id, html) => window.document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', html);
+  window.safeGet = key => local.get(key) || null;
+  window.safeSet = (key, value) => local.set(key, value);
+  window.safeRemove = key => local.delete(key);
+  window.safeSessionGet = key => session.get(key) || null;
+  window.safeSessionSet = (key, value) => session.set(key, value);
+  window.closeModal = () => {};
+  window.confirm = () => true;
+  window.TextEncoder = TextEncoder;
+  window.setTimeout = () => 1;
+  window.eval(source);
+  window.document.getElementById('manage-tokens').click();
+  return { window, local };
+}
+
+test('failed DNS credential save never populates browser cache or success UI', async () => {
+  const { window, local } = buildDnsCredentialUi();
+  window.secureFetch = async () => ({
+    ok: false,
+    status: 500,
+    json: async () => ({ success: false, error: 'DNS vault rejected' }),
+  });
+  window.document.getElementById('dns1-admin-username').value = 'dns-admin';
+  window.document.getElementById('dns1-admin-token').value = 'dns-password';
+  window.document.getElementById('token-save').click();
+  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 20));
+
+  assert.equal(local.has('dns1-admin-username-enc'), false);
+  assert.equal(local.has('dns1-admin-token-enc'), false);
+  assert.match(window.document.getElementById('dns1-token-status').textContent, /DNS vault rejected/);
+  assert.equal(window.document.getElementById('dns1-token-status').classList.contains('success'), false);
+});
+
+test('failed DNS credential clear preserves cached state and shows error', async () => {
+  const { window, local } = buildDnsCredentialUi();
+  local.set('dns1-admin-username-enc', 'existing-user');
+  local.set('dns1-admin-token-enc', 'existing-password');
+  window.secureFetch = async () => ({
+    ok: true,
+    status: 200,
+    json: async () => ({ message: 'ambiguous response' }),
+  });
+  window.document.getElementById('token-clear-all').click();
+  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 20));
+
+  assert.equal(local.has('dns1-admin-username-enc'), true);
+  assert.equal(local.has('dns1-admin-token-enc'), true);
+  assert.match(window.document.getElementById('dns1-token-status').textContent, /DNS credential removal failed/);
+  assert.equal(window.document.getElementById('dns1-token-status').classList.contains('success'), false);
+});