Web UI now installs by default during first-time provisioning (fixed
port 8090, no prompt) instead of being opt-in, and can install/
reconfigure CUPS Printing, LMS Server, Squeezelite Player, and Asterisk
Intercom, and check for updates - the addons and Update action asked
for by name.
Privilege model: the web service itself still runs as $KIOSK_USER with
zero ambient sudo. A new narrow, allow-listed root helper
(menus/addon_webui.sh's webui_write_helper_script) is the only way it
ever gains privilege, reachable only via a single-path passwordless
sudo rule generated and validated with `visudo -c -f` before being
installed, and it re-checks its own fixed action allow-list before
dispatching anything. Each allow-listed action is the exact same
interactive action_* function the terminal menu already uses, driven
by piping the right answers on stdin - the same technique this
project's own bash tests already use, so no prompt/mutation refactor
of any addon file was needed. webui/lib/actions.js's stdin sequences
were cross-validated against the real bash functions (not just read),
which caught two real bugs (Squeezelite and Asterisk Intercom both
silently lost their "decline reconfigure" path).
Long-running installs stream live output via Server-Sent Events
(webui/lib/jobs.js), one action at a time.
Full visual redesign: a sidebar shell (Sites/Display/Lockout/Addons/
Update) replacing the single scrolling page, light+dark themes via
prefers-color-scheme, no external font/CDN dependency. Actually driving
the redesigned UI in a headless browser (not just reading the code)
caught a real bug: refreshing an addon's pill/button after a successful
install used to rebuild the whole card, racing (and usually losing to)
the success status/log that job had just written. Fixed to update
pill/buttons in place.
Uninstall-via-web is deliberately still not offered, for any addon.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VfsFSoRqfbRG7XAg5RoE7e
New Addons -> Web UI: a small Node/Express app (webui/) installed as a
systemd service running as $KIOSK_USER, giving a browser-based editor
for Sites & Page Timing, Display & Interaction, and Password Protection
& Lockout - the three Core Settings menus that are pure config.json
read/write with no privileged system mutation involved. Runs with no
sudo at all, since config.json is already owned by $KIOSK_USER.
webui/lib/config.js re-implements lib/config.sh's exact schema and
merge-on-save contract in JS (kiosk-app/main.js already reads the same
config.json directly in JS, so this isn't a new pattern), so it can
never silently clobber fields it doesn't track - the same bug
previously fixed in lib/config.sh's own history.
No login of its own by design: Authelia runs elsewhere, and the
expectation is a reverse proxy (e.g. Caddy) with Authelia forward-auth
in front of it, the same way other self-hosted apps get protected -
Authelia integration is explicitly out of scope for this repo.
Deliberately narrow scope for this first pass: WiFi, Timezone,
Power/Display/Quiet Hours, Complete Uninstall, every other addon, and
everything in Advanced remain terminal-only, since a network-facing
process shouldn't be handed sudo-level system mutation without a lot
more thought than this pass gives it. Wired into Complete Uninstall
(webui_do_uninstall) and Clone Settings (addon-presence detection) the
same way every other addon is.
This is the single-kiosk piece of the web-based GUI this repo's
"Modular Management" notes have mentioned for a while - a central
multi-kiosk fleet dashboard is an intentional follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VfsFSoRqfbRG7XAg5RoE7e
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