Five custom_metadata fields on every path in operators/ and
platform/workloads/: description, owner, used_by, rotation, on_loss.
Non-secret, so anyone orienting themselves can read all of them without
being granted a value.
on_loss is the field the section exists for. When the LLDAP admin
predecessor was destroyed on 2026-08-27 the answer had to be
reconstructed from first principles under pressure; written down in
advance it is one line.
used_by is the second lesson: rotation without a consumer list is how
privacyIDEA's resolver was left holding a superseded bind credential for
four days while everything else had been reconciled.
Inventory with ops-mason/scripts/custody-inventory.py. It reports 21
paths today, 17 undescribed — the four described are the ones this
session touched.
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Three gaps from NK-WP-0033, none of them the fault we set out to fix.
Operator custody (platform-root-custody.md). This document named a
password-safe entry that had never been created, so the 2026-08-23
rotation had nowhere to put the new LLDAP admin value and the outgoing
one survived only in a browser entry that was overwritten on 2026-08-27.
Decided: operators/<subsystem>/<account> in OpenBao for everything
reachable once logged in, plus a short closed offline list for what you
need when OpenBao is not — platform-root's own password, unseal shares,
break-glass. Anything on that list in OpenBao would be circular;
anything not on it does not belong in the packet.
The rule that closes it: every rotation names, as a numbered step, where
the outgoing and incoming values go. NK-WP-0033-T04 rotated four classes
with no such step, and that is the root cause of the session that
followed — not the four software defects it also surfaced.
Secret disclosure by trust stage, tied to the existing S0-S6 table. A
fingerprint may be spoken to confirm two parties hold the same
credential; the whole value never may. Used ad hoc throughout 2026-08-27
and worth writing down.
Attended procedures (new standard). reconcile-lldap-resolver-live.sh was
approved, documented, revision-pinned and had never run; its first
execution found four defects, two of which meant it could never have
completed. verify-t06.sh passed throughout. An unexecuted procedure is
unfinished work and must say so in its runbook header.
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