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Jad Seifeddine ccd2badafe connections: folder default credentials for entries without their own
A folder can lend a username, password, private key and domain per session
type to entries that have no password or private key of their own, so an
entry created without secrets (a NetBox webhook, a bulk import) connects the
moment it exists. The defaults live at `<folder>/.defaults` beside
`.config`, are reserved like it (never listed, not a valid entry name) and
are removed with the folder. `GET/PUT/DELETE .../defaults` manage them
(secrets write-only, audited as update_folder_defaults /
delete_folder_defaults) and the folder dialog gains a Default credentials
section. Listings report such entries as `has_credentials: true` with
`inherited_credentials: true`. An entry's own credentials always win and an
entry set to prompt still prompts.

A subfolder without its own `.defaults` takes its nearest ancestor's, per
type, but the walk follows the access rule: it only continues past a folder
whose `.config` has `inherit_from_parent: true`. That flag is how a folder
is isolated for access, so a key set on a parent must not reach a subfolder
shared with someone else through `allowed_users`. The isolated folder's own
`.defaults` still apply to its entries. A folder with no `.config`, or one
written before the flag existed, counts as not inheriting, exactly as
`resolve_folder_access` treats it. The walk is `resolve_effective_defaults`
over a small `DefaultsSource` trait so it is tested without a Vault.

Both connect paths resolve defaults through one helper,
`lend_folder_defaults`: the Connections endpoint
(`POST .../entries/:entry/connect`) and `/api/connect` quick links, so an
entry that works from the page works from a link. `rustguac vault-migrate`
copies each folder's `.defaults` alongside its `.config`, so a DR split keeps
them (the dry run lists them as `[defaults]`).

Docs cover the storage layout, the inheritance rule and its boundary, the
migrate behaviour, and the warning that a web entry using a default
password has that password typed into a page the user can read.

Part 2/3 of #253.

(cherry picked from commit cc01469b07)
2026-10-17 09:50:49 +11:00
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