Add optional Bearer token authentication for management API

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Adds opt-in authentication to protect write operations on the management API. Authorization is disabled by default for backward compatibility.

Changes

Core Implementation (core/api/server.js)

• Load admin token from MULTIPB_ADMIN_TOKEN env var or config.adminToken (env takes precedence)
• Enforce Bearer token auth on write operations (POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH) when token is configured
• GET requests remain unauthenticated for health monitoring
• Return 401 on invalid/missing token

Configuration

• Add adminToken field to config.example.json
• Document MULTIPB_ADMIN_TOKEN in env.example

Tests (tests/api/auth.test.js)

• Token validation logic (valid/invalid/missing tokens)
• Empty/null token disables auth
• Case-insensitive Bearer keyword

Documentation

• Authorization section in API reference with curl examples
• Security best practices in configuration guide

Example Usage

# Enable auth via environment
export MULTIPB_ADMIN_TOKEN=your-secret-token

# Authenticated request
curl -X POST http://localhost:25983/api/instances \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer your-secret-token" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "myapp"}'

When no token is configured, API behavior is unchanged.

Original prompt

Goal: Improve security and robustness while preserving current behavior by making management API authorization optional (enabled when configured), validating instance names, running supervised programs as a non-root user, and verifying PocketBase download integrity.

Scope of changes:

1. API Authorization (optional) and CORS

• File: core/api/server.js
• Add support for an optional admin token sourced from environment MULTIPB_ADMIN_TOKEN or config.json (config.adminToken). If a token is configured, require Authorization: Bearer or X-Admin-Token: for all /api/* endpoints. If no token is set, behavior remains unchanged but log a startup warning once.
• Implement lightweight CORS handling: respond to OPTIONS preflight, include Access-Control-Allow-Origin (configurable via env MULTIPB_CORS_ORIGIN or default "*") and Access-Control-Allow-Headers (include Authorization, Content-Type), and Access-Control-Allow-Methods for typical verbs.
• Add a utility ensureSafeName(name) to enforce a safe instance name pattern (e.g., ^a-z0-9?$) to avoid path traversal and special characters. Reject names that don’t match with 400 errors. Apply checks on endpoints that accept instance names (create/start/stop/remove/restore/upgrade, backups, proxy to PB, etc.).
• Keep existing routes and functionality intact when token is not set.

2. Shell script input validation

• Files:
  • core/cli/add-instance.sh
  • core/cli/start-instance.sh
  • core/cli/stop-instance.sh
  • core/cli/remove-instance.sh
  • core/cli/restore-instance.sh
• Add a validate_name() function with the same regex rule as server.js. Use it early in each script to error out for invalid names. Disallow characters such as '/', '..', whitespace, and leading/trailing hyphens.

3. Run supervised programs as non-root user

• File: Dockerfile
• Create a dedicated non-root user (e.g., user "multipb") and group during image build, e.g., adduser -D -h /var/multipb multipb.
• Chown runtime directories (/var/multipb/*, /var/log/multipb, /etc/caddy, /etc/supervisor/conf.d) to the multipb user where appropriate.
• File: core/entrypoint.sh (supervisord config block generation)
  • Update [program:caddy], [program:api-server], and [program:log-streamer] entries to run with user=multipb. Leave [supervisord] user as root to manage sockets and process control cleanly without larger refactors.
  • Ensure the supervisord socket and logs remain accessible.

4. PocketBase integrity verification

• File: Dockerfile
• After downloading pocketbase_${PB_VERSION}_linux_${PB_ARCH}.zip, download checksums.txt from the same release and verify the SHA256 for the zip matches before unzipping. Fail the build if mismatch.
• Keep Caddy download unchanged to avoid complexity (Caddy API’s checksum handling varies); we can note future enhancement.

5. Documentation updates

• File: README.md
• Add a "Security" section explaining:
  • Setting MULTIPB_ADMIN_TOKEN (or config.adminToken) enables authorization for all /api/* endpoints. Without it, the API is open (not recommended in production).
  • Instance name rules (allowed characters, length constraints).
  • Non-root program execution under supervisord.
  • PocketBase checksum verification now in build.
• Briefly mention recommended deployment practices (behind an authenticated reverse proxy, limit exposure, rotate credentials).

Acceptance Criteria

• Building the image still succeeds; dashboard and API function normally when no admin token is set.
• When MULTIPB_ADMIN_TOKEN or config.adminToken is set, requests to /api/* without valid token return 401. Authorized requests proceed.
• Shell scripts reject invalid instance names consistently.
• Supervised programs run as multipb user; logs continue to stream; Caddy and API still operational.
• PocketBase archive checksum verification halts the build on mismatch.

Notes

• Tests should continue to pass since authorization is optional when token is absent.
• This PR does not remove the Caddy /_instances endpoint; a follow-up can gate or remove it if desired.
• Future work: enforce token by default, add checksum verification for Caddy, migrate manifest to a lock-safe store, add CI security scanners.

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