d-OAuth-Server/docs/OPERATIONS.md

Operations

Administration is CLI plus declarative configuration only. There is no HTTP admin API, no default credential, and nothing is auto-created at startup. This is the de-facto admin interface and the runbook for its day-two tasks.

Purpose

For an operator: the full command surface, the declarative config sync file, the audit stream, key and certificate rotation, and backup and restore.

The admin model

• The migrate subcommand owns the schema and is the only writer of it.
• The serve subcommand serves OAuth and never migrates and never provisions.
• Every mutation (scopes, users, entitlements, redirect URIs, client attachments) is audited on the audit tracing target.
• Secrets are read from stdin, a file, or the environment, never from argv. A secret is printed only when the operator asked for a one-time value.

Command reference

The binary is d-oauth-server (cargo run --bin d-oauth-server -- <command>). Exit codes: 0 success, 1 command failure, 2 usage error.

serve and migrate

d-oauth-server serve
d-oauth-server migrate
d-oauth-server config check

• serve loads config, connects Postgres and Redis, asserts the Redis durability contract, and runs the TLS public listener plus the plaintext health listener. It never migrates. It drains on SIGTERM.
• migrate applies forward-only migrations under sqlx's advisory lock and prints schema current: N known migration(s) (N is the embedded count, not the delta just applied).
• config check validates configuration and prints config ok: issuer=....

Users

d-oauth-server user create --email <email> [--admin] [--password-stdin] [--password-file <path>]
d-oauth-server user enroll-totp --email <email>
d-oauth-server user disable --email <email>
d-oauth-server user grant-scope --email <email> --scope <scope>
d-oauth-server user revoke-scope --email <email> --scope <scope>
d-oauth-server user scopes --email <email>

• create reads the password from stdin by default or from --password-file. The two sources are mutually exclusive. --admin sets is_admin. A created user always starts with must_change_password = true.
• enroll-totp generates an encrypted TOTP secret and prints the secret and the otpauth:// URI exactly once. Register the secret in an authenticator now.
• grant-scope requires the scope to exist in the catalog.
• revoke-scope is idempotent.

Scopes

d-oauth-server scope create <name> [--description <text>]
d-oauth-server scope list
d-oauth-server scope enable <name>
d-oauth-server scope disable <name>
d-oauth-server scope delete <name>

create upserts: it creates a scope or updates its description. delete deletes a scope that nothing references, and disables it when user_scopes references it, so entitlements are not silently destroyed. The enabled scope catalog is what /metadata advertises as scopes_supported.

Redirect URIs and client attachments

d-oauth-server redirect-uri create <uri> [--kind authorize|post_logout] [--description <text>]
d-oauth-server redirect-uri list
d-oauth-server redirect-uri enable <uri> [--kind authorize|post_logout]
d-oauth-server redirect-uri disable <uri> [--kind authorize|post_logout]
d-oauth-server redirect-uri delete <uri> [--kind authorize|post_logout]
d-oauth-server client attach-redirect-uri --client-id <id> --uri <uri> [--kind authorize|post_logout]
d-oauth-server client detach-redirect-uri --client-id <id> --uri <uri> [--kind authorize|post_logout]
d-oauth-server client redirect-uris --client-id <id>

A redirect URI is a global catalog entry; a client attaches to it. /authorize matches only the client's attached and enabled authorize set. Detaching or disabling a URI stops future redirects to it; already issued tokens are unaffected. Deleting a referenced URI disables it instead.

kind selects the URI's role. authorize (the default) is an authorization-response callback. post_logout is a bare return target used only by GET /logout to send the browser back to the client after the session ends. A client may register at most one enabled post_logout URI; GET /logout redirects only to it, and only while the URI is enabled and the client active.

Declarative config

d-oauth-server config sync --file <path>
d-oauth-server config check

config sync applies a JSON file idempotently. A second identical run reports config sync: no changes. See the format below.

Admin bootstrap

d-oauth-server admin bootstrap --email <email> [--password-file <path>] [--force]

Creates the first admin under an advisory lock in one transaction. It refuses while any enabled admin exists unless --force is given (a loud warning and an audit event). The full replacement procedure is in RUNBOOK.md.

Initial access tokens (DCR)

d-oauth-server initial-access-token issue --uses <n> --ttl <seconds> [--label <text>]

Mints a one-time-use DCR initial-access token. The raw token is printed once; only its keyed hash and remaining-use budget are stored. The token is required when allow_open_registration is false.

Key generation and health

d-oauth-server keygen --alg es256
d-oauth-server healthcheck --url http://127.0.0.1:8081/health/live

keygen emits an ES256 keypair for test fixtures and client-side DPoP keys. It is never an authorization-server signing key; the server publishes no jwks_uri. healthcheck probes the health listener over raw HTTP and exits 0 or 1; it is the container HEALTHCHECK.

config sync file format

The file is JSON. Every section is optional and defaults to empty.

{
  "scopes": [
    { "name": "orders:read", "description": "Read orders", "enabled": true }
  ],
  "redirect_uris": [
    { "uri": "https://app.example.com/callback", "enabled": true },
    { "uri": "https://app.example.com/signed-out", "kind": "post_logout", "enabled": true }
  ],
  "user_scopes": [
    { "email": "operator@example.com", "scope": "orders:read" }
  ],
  "client_redirect_uris": [
    { "client_id": "example-client", "uri": "https://app.example.com/callback" },
    { "client_id": "example-client", "uri": "https://app.example.com/signed-out", "kind": "post_logout" }
  ]
}

Scope names must match the RFC 6749 scope-token grammar. openid is reserved. Redirect URIs must be absolute and are matched exactly at /authorize (or, for kind: post_logout, at GET /logout). kind defaults to authorize.

Apply and re-apply:

d-oauth-server config sync --file ./oauth-config.json
d-oauth-server config sync --file ./oauth-config.json

The first reports the counts of what it created; the second reports no changes. Upserts use IS DISTINCT FROM, so an unchanged row does not bump updated_at.

Audit events

CLI mutations go to the audit target with event = "cli.mutation", an operation, and a subject. The operations are migrate, config.sync, user.create, user.enroll_totp, user.disable, user.grant_scope, user.revoke_scope, scope.create, scope.enable, scope.disable, scope.delete, redirect_uri.create, redirect_uri.enable, redirect_uri.disable, redirect_uri.delete, client.attach_redirect_uri, client.detach_redirect_uri, initial_access_token.issue, and the admin.bootstrap.* family.

HTTP events on the same target include login.success, login.failure, consent, token.issue, token.revoke, token.refresh_reuse_detected, and dcr.register. No event carries a token, password, OTP, or secret.

Tracing is JSON. Route it to your log pipeline and alert on token.refresh_reuse_detected and repeated login.failure.

Key and certificate rotation

Token pepper

Opaque token hashes are stored under a version id, default v1, set by token_pepper_id. The key ring resolves a stored id newest-first across a retained chain, so verification keeps working while an old pepper is retained. The current loader supplies one active pepper; to rotate without invalidating live tokens, retain the previous key id for at least the refresh lifetime (ttl.refresh_secs, default 30 days) before removing it. New tokens are always minted under the active pepper.

TOTP encryption key

The encrypted TOTP blob carries its key id, and the ring can resolve a retained TOTP key by id. Rotate by making the new key active and retaining the old key until every user has re-enrolled or until existing secrets are re-encrypted.

TLS certificate

serve loads the certificate chain and key once at startup. Rotate by replacing the mounted material and performing a rolling restart; there is no hot reload, by design.

Backup and restore

Postgres holds all durable state, so a normal backup covers it:

pg_dump --format=custom "$DATABASE_URL" > oauth.dump
pg_restore --clean --if-exists --dbname "$DATABASE_URL" oauth.dump

Restore into a migrated database, then run migrate to confirm the schema version matches the binary. Redis is ephemeral and need not be backed up: codes, tokens, sessions, and replay markers are re-created as clients re-authenticate, and a Redis loss does not lose clients, users, scopes, or redirect URIs. Registration access token hashes are in Postgres, so DCR client management also survives a Redis loss.

Security properties

• No HTTP admin surface and no default credential.
• Every mutation is audited.
• Bootstrap refuses a second admin without --force, which is loud and audited.
• A restricted session (forced password change or missing TOTP) cannot reach /authorize, the OAuth endpoints, or admin-gated actions.
• Secrets stay out of argv, logs, and audit events.

Edge cases

• Deleting a referenced scope or redirect URI disables it rather than leaving a dangling foreign key.
• A second config sync is a no-op; a changed field is an update, not a new row.
• Rotating the token pepper without retaining the old key invalidates every live opaque token. Plan the overlap.
• admin bootstrap with a non-TTY stdout and no password source refuses rather than print a generated password into job logs.

Operational runbook

• First install: migrate, then admin bootstrap, then complete the forced password change and TOTP enrollment, then create a named admin. See RUNBOOK.md.
• Routine provisioning: config sync for scopes, redirect URIs, and entitlements; user create for users.
• Key rotation: overlap the pepper for at least the refresh lifetime.
• Backup: pg_dump Postgres; Redis is not backed up.
• Health: liveness GET /health/live, readiness GET /health/ready on the plaintext health listener.

File and directory references

• src/cli.rs for the command tree and flags.
• src/cli/ops.rs, src/cli/user.rs, src/cli/scope.rs, src/cli/redirect.rs, src/cli/sync.rs, src/cli/admin.rs, src/cli/secret.rs for implementations.
• src/middleware/audit.rs for the HTTP audit events.
• RUNBOOK.md for the bootstrap and replacement procedure.