A review of v0.10.4-rc.4, and a look at the live network, found: - Alertmanager listening on every interface: from any node its API took silences, with no login. Bound to loopback on the monitoring host, and the monitoring README now installs it that way; Prometheus beside it is its only client, and one Alertmanager needs no cluster port. - Login and signup unbounded in memory. Each attempt runs argon2 with 64 MiB, and nothing limited how many ran at once; the per-address throttle kept one entry per address ever tried. Hashing now takes one of a few slots and waits for one otherwise. The throttle expires entries whose window has passed when it fills, and if it is still full it refuses new addresses: evicting live ones instead would let a flood of made-up addresses reset the throttle on the address actually being guessed. - Metric labels taken from the request. A refused request counted the model name it asked for, so any key holder could mint a series per request. Requests are counted under the catalog's name, or "unknown". - Two in code written this week. A SQLite backup made its snapshot with the default mode in the listable backup directory, a full copy of the store readable while the backup ran; it is now made in a private directory, and the unit sets UMask=0077. And archive links were checked by name only, so "a -> ." then "a/a/b -> ../.." passed and a file written through them landed above the install directory, as root. Archives now unpack through os.Root, and a link may only point at a file beside it — which every llama.cpp b10991 archive, CPU and CUDA, was checked to follow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
systemd units
Two roles, two units. Copy the one you need to /etc/systemd/system/, put the
matching configuration in /etc/llmgw/, and systemctl enable --now it.
The control plane — llmgw-server.service
Runs unprivileged. It needs to read its own TLS key, so that file must belong to
the llmgw user and nothing else:
useradd --system --home-dir /var/lib/llmgw --shell /usr/sbin/nologin llmgw
chown llmgw:llmgw /etc/llmgw/server-key.pem
chmod 0400 /etc/llmgw/server-key.pem
StateDirectory=llmgw creates /var/lib/llmgw with the right owner, which is
where the store belongs. ProtectSystem=strict makes the rest of the filesystem
read-only, so anything else it writes to has to be named explicitly.
The agent — llmgw-agent.service
Runs as root, because it launches engines and needs device access.
KillMode=process is the line that matters and the reason this file exists
rather than being generated. Without it, systemd kills the whole control group
on stop — including the engines, which hold a loaded model and are serving
traffic. Engines are meant to outlive an agent restart: the router talks to them
directly, and the agent adopts them again when it comes back. Taking them down
with the agent turns a thirty-second upgrade into a full model reload on every
node.
systemd will log Found left-over process ... in control group while starting unit. Ignoring. on the next start. That is the mechanism working, not a fault.