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# Feature 0009 Remediation Review
Status: open
Reviewed implementation commits:
- `66ebea9 Make Audita configuration ownership configurable`
- `e9ae2dc Make Notarius configuration ownership configurable`
- `8b4c86e Make Scriptorium configuration ownership configurable`
- `eeb1105 Make Narratio configuration ownership configurable`
## Review Summary
The four completed standalone-role stages are concise, idiomatic, and aligned
with Feature 0009. Each role exposes owner, group, configuration-directory
mode, and configuration-file mode variables; applies them directly through the
ordinary `file` and `template` tasks; preserves its standalone defaults; and
documents the interface. No redundant inspection, corrective convergence,
private state, or unrelated application behavior was introduced. All four
repository-local integration suites passed independently during review.
Feature 0009 as a whole is not implemented. The pipeline repository remains at
pre-feature commit `3e253d7`; Stages 5 through 8 have not been executed. The
publication blocker encountered after Stage 4 has now been cleared: all four
standalone commits are available from their canonical origins. The following
findings therefore describe the remaining target architecture rather than
defects in the completed standalone commits.
## Finding 1: The Pipeline Does Not Select the Shared Configuration Policy
Severity: high
`ansible-role-dnd-pipeline/defaults/main.yml` and
`meta/argument_specs.yml` do not define the four suite-level runtime identity
and configuration-mode variables. `meta/main.yml:19-98` still runs Narratio
last and does not pass the new configuration ownership interfaces to Audita,
Notarius, Scriptorium, or Narratio. `requirements.yml:7-22` still pins the four
pre-feature role commits.
Consequently, applying the current pipeline role retains standalone ownership:
Audita, Notarius, and Scriptorium configuration remains `root:root`, while
Narratio configuration remains `root:narratio` with its standalone restrictive
modes. The target `narratio:narratio`, `0755` directory, and `0644` file suite
policy is not selected. Narratio also does not establish the service identity
before the other configuration-bearing dependencies run.
### Required Remediation
- Use the four published, immutable standalone-role commits recorded above;
do not replace their commit pins with branches.
- Execute Stage 5 of `docs/roadmap/implementation.md` in full.
- Add the four suite defaults and argument-spec entries, run Narratio first,
pass the selected identity and modes through every generic role interface,
update the four dependency pins, and apply the same values directly to the
pipeline-owned Narratio fragments.
- Retain direct module convergence without any post-dependency permission
repair.
## Finding 2: Shared Writable-Root ACL Convergence Is Absent
Severity: high
`ansible-role-dnd-pipeline/collections/requirements.yml:1-4` contains only
`community.general`. `tasks/main.yml:1-65` neither installs Ubuntu's `acl`
package nor uses `ansible.posix.acl`. The three Narratio writable roots still
receive mode `2775` from the standalone role, but the suite does not establish
the access and default ACLs required to preserve group write and world
read/traverse behavior across invocation identities with different umasks.
### Required Remediation
- Execute Stage 6 of the implementation plan in full.
- Pin `ansible.posix` 2.2.0 alongside the existing collection dependency.
- Install `acl` with one ordinary privileged `ansible.builtin.apt` task.
- Apply the selected access and default ACL entries to exactly
`/var/lib/narratio`, `/var/spool/narratio`, and `/var/cache/narratio` with
direct, non-recursive `ansible.posix.acl` convergence.
- Do not add filesystem probes, `getfacl` production commands, recursive
migration, handler flow, or supplemental permission repair.
## Finding 3: The Shared Execution Contract Has No Behavioral Coverage
Severity: medium
`ansible-role-dnd-pipeline/tests/integration:64-133` exercises the established
pipeline only as root and the `narratio` service account. It does not use a
representative existing member of the shared group, exchange writable-state
content between invocation identities, exercise inheritance under a
restrictive ordinary umask, or observe the deliberate world-readable boundary.
The missing tests are important because the group-sharing outcome is suite
behavior authored by this feature, not a request to re-test an individual
Ansible module. The tests should exercise actual access rather than assert
mode values or parse ACL metadata.
### Required Remediation
- Execute Stage 7 of the implementation plan after Findings 1 and 2 are
resolved.
- Use one uniquely named, test-owned operator account as an integration
fixture and clean up only that account and its explicitly named content.
- Validate one representative Narratio operation as that group member and one
bidirectional content exchange with the service account.
- Observe one representative world-readable configuration or artifact as an
account outside the group.
- Preserve immediate clean repeated convergence and avoid an exhaustive
identity, path, mode, or ACL matrix.
## Finding 4: Pipeline Consumer Documentation Is Stale
Severity: medium
`ansible-role-dnd-pipeline/README.md:185` still lists operator access among
deferred concerns. It does not document the new suite variables,
Narratio-first dependency order, service-owned and world-readable
configuration, shared setgid roots, inherited ACL behavior,
existing-group-member invocation, or the restricted future `secrets/`
boundary.
### Required Remediation
- Execute Stage 8 of the implementation plan after the production behavior and
tests are complete.
- Clearly distinguish generic standalone defaults from the pipeline's
opinionated overrides.
- Document setgid terminology, the three shared roots, supported invocation
identities, the fact that production does not manage human membership, and
the deliberate non-secret boundary.
- Do not promise the deferred secrets implementation, recursive migration, or
Feature 0010 Notarius behavior.
## Required Validation
After remediation, run the complete integration entry point in each changed
role:
```text
cd ansible-role-audita && tests/integration
cd ../ansible-role-notarius && tests/integration
cd ../ansible-role-scriptorium && tests/integration
cd ../ansible-role-narratio && tests/integration
cd ../ansible-role-dnd-pipeline && tests/integration
```
Then run from the workspace root:
```text
git diff --check
./scripts/status
```
The expected result is that all five role suites pass syntax and lint checks,
native application checks succeed, the shared cross-identity contract is
observed, every immediate repeat reports `changed=0` and `failed=0`, all eight
implementation-stage commits are identified, and every repository is clean.
## Review Validation Evidence
During this review, the complete `tests/integration` entry points passed in
`ansible-role-audita`, `ansible-role-notarius`,
`ansible-role-scriptorium`, and `ansible-role-narratio`. Each suite installed
its pinned collection dependencies, passed syntax checking and
production-profile lint, exercised its native application behavior, and
reported clean immediate repeats. `git diff --check` passed and all
implementation repositories remained clean after testing.
The pipeline suite was not presented as Feature 0009 validation evidence
because the pipeline repository contains no Feature 0009 implementation
commits. Its current test suite exercises the prior Feature 0008 architecture.
After review, each standalone commit was pushed to its canonical `origin/main`
branch and the local and remote-tracking revisions were confirmed identical.