Turning "Shared key allowed" off refused the key on the endpoints plugin and
left four core collector routes open to it. Anything still holding the old key
could keep rewriting logged-in user, last boot time, serial number and installed
app inventory for ANY hostname, while the admin believed the shared key was off.
Data integrity only - no command execution, no credential issuance - but it is a
hole in a boundary the product advertises as closed.
It cannot simply be closed. Both GE-Enforce reporters still authenticate with
that key, so refusing it fleet-wide would stop asset and printer reporting
everywhere, and on an air-gapped site mid-migration that is the wrong order of
operations. collector.legacysharedkeyrefused therefore DEFAULTS TO TODAY'S
BEHAVIOUR, and its description names exactly what turning it on breaks and when
it should be turned on: after the reporters move to per-PC credentials, not
before.
A legacy route used with the shared key now logs a warning, so a site can find
out who still depends on the key before flipping anything. On a stock Windows
deployment that warning may name the proxy rather than the caller; the token
prefix in the same line is the identifier to go by.
The switch is seeded with the core defaults and has a control on the
authentication settings page. Undeclared, it was a row that did not exist, and
this UI has no generic key/value editor, so seeding alone would have rendered
nothing for an operator to click.
Two contract declarations corrected while in here:
notifications.alertscope was declared db.JSON in the model while the migration
that creates it ships TEXT, and those migrations state the constraint in their
own docstrings: no JSON columns. The model now matches the shipped column rather
than the schema being bent to the model.
usb and printedparts both import a name that arrived in contract 0.35.0 while
declaring core_version floors of 0.1.0 and 0.16.0, so the loader would have
accepted them on a core that cannot satisfy them - an ImportError at blueprint
registration instead of a refusal with a reason. Both floors now say what the
plugin actually needs.
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