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fix(docker): heal pairing-dir ownership after docker exec writes (#10270) (#59130)
* fix(docker): heal pairing-dir ownership after `docker exec` writes (#10270)

The official Docker image runs the gateway as the unprivileged `hermes`
user (uid 10000) via `gosu`, but `docker exec` defaults to root. Approval
files written by `docker exec <container> hermes pairing approve <code>`
end up as `-rw------- root:root`, and the post-gosu gateway process
cannot read them. The approval is silently ignored — the user keeps
hitting 'Unauthorized user' on every message.

The entrypoint's existing top-level chown is gated on the top-level
$HERMES_HOME being mis-owned, so on warm boots (where /opt/data is
already hermes:hermes) the recursive chown is skipped — meaning a
container restart does NOT self-heal the bug either.

Three-part fix:

1. docker/entrypoint.sh: chown the platforms/pairing/ (and legacy
   pairing/) subtree on every container start, regardless of the
   top-level decision. The directory is tiny (a few JSON files), so
   the unconditional chown is effectively free. Container restart
   now self-heals.

2. gateway/pairing.py: PairingStore._load_json was swallowing
   PermissionError under its bare 'except OSError' branch, which is
   what made this a silent failure. Split it out: log a WARNING that
   names the file, the gateway's uid, the file's owner/mode, and the
   exact docker exec -u hermes workaround. Still falls back to {} so
   the gateway stays up.

3. website/docs/user-guide/security.md: add a Docker tip to the
   pairing-CLI section pointing users at `docker exec -u hermes …`
   up front.

Reproduced end-to-end in a containerized harness — before the fix
the gateway sees 0 approved users after `docker exec` + restart;
after the fix it sees the expected 1, and the file on disk goes
from `root:root 600` back to `hermes:hermes 600` on next start.

Fixes #10270

* fix(pairing): gate os.geteuid for Windows in PermissionError warning
2026-07-05 14:48:50 -07:00
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