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+# Attended lost-factor recovery
+
+Implementation tracked by KEY-WP-0036 and USER-WP-0030-T03. Provider-local
+recovery passes isolated tests; the attended production wrapper and portal
+integration still require acceptance. No real account has been recovered by
+this procedure yet. Run only as an attended platform operator with Kubernetes
+administration access. This is not a public recovery API.
+
+The wrapper derives the audit actor from an authenticated OpenBao entity with
+the platform-admin policy. Root and workload credentials are not substitutes.
+It checks the cluster identity and invokes the reviewed KeyCape provider-local
+module, without exporting provider credentials. OpenBao identity does not grant
+Kubernetes access: the operator must independently have that access.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. Establish the exact directory login, realm, selected factor serial and support
+   reference. Verify ownership through the organization's account-recovery
+   procedure; knowing a username or password alone is not identity verification.
+2. Review both scripts (`scripts/keycape_factor_recovery.py` here and
+   `../key-cape/scripts/factor_recovery.py`). Keep the sibling repositories at
+   their reviewed revisions. Route attended authentication with `warden route
+   show openbao-platform-admin-login --json` and the lane's contained execution
+   procedure. The owner command must remain silent; inspect only its receipt.
+3. Preview using the owner command below inside the attended envelope. Replace
+   placeholders with metadata only. The receipt path must not already exist.
+
+   ```sh
+   python3 scripts/keycape_factor_recovery.py --user LOGIN --serial SERIAL      --reference SUPPORT-REFERENCE --receipt /tmp/recovery-preview.json
+   ```
+
+4. Review the receipt's identity, factor, active state, version and scope.
+   `shared_identity_across_applications` means the change affects every application
+   using this identity, not just one tenant. Serialize recovery operations for
+   this identity/reference; this operator tool is not a concurrent request service.
+5. After identity verification, invoke the same command with `--apply
+   --identity-verified --expected-version VERSION` and a fresh receipt path.
+   The verification flag records the operator's attestation; it does not perform
+   identity verification. Preserve the original reference and preview version.
+6. Require a successful receipt and durable `keycape.factor.recovery` provider
+   audit entry for that reference. Recheck factor state. Guide the user through
+   a fresh login and replacement-factor enrollment, including possession proof.
+   Applications requiring AAL2 stay inaccessible until another confirmed factor
+   is usable. Disabling one factor alone does not promise restored access.
+
+## Failure and recovery
+
+- Ownership/realm mismatch, missing identity verification, stale preview or a
+  conflicting reference: no intended mutation; correct the target or obtain a
+  new preview. Do not silently substitute another account or factor.
+- Failure to persist the initial audit entry prevents disabling the factor.
+- A failure after disabling may mean the change succeeded but completion evidence
+  was interrupted. Retry the original approved request with the same reference
+  and version. Readback reconciles its audit without repeating the mutation.
+- Replacement/reassignment or reactivation invalidates the old confirmation.
+- Never automatically re-enable a lost factor as rollback. Escalate the support
+  case if the user cannot enroll a replacement through the supported flow.
+
+Recovery disables exactly one owned factor; it preserves account, password and
+other factors. Receipts contain support/identity metadata and must be retained
+with appropriate access controls. Never attach JWTs, OTP seeds or passwords.
+
+## Automated evidence
+
+`make keycape-factor-tests` tests authenticated actor derivation and denial for
+reader/root identities. KeyCape's `test_factor_recovery.py` tests preview,
+ownership, verification, stale/replaced factors, audit outages and retry.
+`provider-onboarding-contract.py` repeats recovery against the installed provider
+implementation with an isolated database and separate temporary audit database.
+Production wrapper/browser acceptance remains a separate task in KEY-WP-0036.
diff --git a/scripts/keycape_factor_recovery.py b/scripts/keycape_factor_recovery.py
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+"""Silent attended-owner front door. No provider administrative credential is exported."""
+import argparse,json,os,re,subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+from keycape_factor_metadata import call
+CLUSTER="a553c742-0115-43d4-99a4-a5ca56fe0786"
+def owner_identity():
+ data=call("token","lookup","-format=json")["data"]
+ policies=set(data.get("policies",[]))|set(data.get("identity_policies",[]))
+ entity=data.get("entity_id","")
+ if "platform-admin" not in policies or not re.fullmatch(r"[0-9a-f-]{36}",entity):raise ValueError("attended_platform_identity_required")
+ return "openbao:"+entity
+
+def execute(args):
+ actor=owner_identity()
+ r=subprocess.run(["kubectl","get","ns","kube-system","-o","json"],capture_output=True,check=True,timeout=20)
+ if json.loads(r.stdout)["metadata"]["uid"]!=CLUSTER:raise ValueError("wrong_cluster")
+ source=(Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]/"key-cape/scripts/factor_recovery.py").read_text()
+ request=dict(user=args.user,serial=args.serial,realm="coulomb",actor=actor,reference=args.reference,apply=args.apply,expected_version=args.expected_version,identity_verified=args.identity_verified)
+ # The source is code only; identity input travels through stdin, never a shell.
+ r=subprocess.run(["kubectl","-n","mfa","exec","-i","deployment/privacyidea","-c","privacyidea","--","python3","-c",source],input=json.dumps(request).encode(),capture_output=True,timeout=45)
+ result=json.loads(r.stdout)
+ allowed={"success","status","user","serial","realm","actor","reference","scope","operation","version","active","changes_applied","replayed","failure"}
+ if not isinstance(result,dict) or set(result)-allowed:raise ValueError("unexpected_provider_receipt")
+ return result
+
+def main():
+ p=argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Preview or perform one identity-verified factor recovery through attended OpenBao authentication")
+ p.add_argument("--user",required=True);p.add_argument("--serial",required=True);p.add_argument("--reference",required=True)
+ p.add_argument("--apply",action="store_true");p.add_argument("--identity-verified",action="store_true");p.add_argument("--expected-version")
+ p.add_argument("--receipt",type=Path,required=True);a=p.parse_args()
+ if any(os.environ.get(k) for k in ("BAO_TOKEN","VAULT_TOKEN","OPENBAO_TOKEN")):return 2
+ fd=os.open(a.receipt,os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREAT|os.O_EXCL,0o600);result={"success":False}
+ try:result=execute(a);return 0 if result.get("success") else 1
+ except Exception:result["failure"]="owner_operation_unavailable";return 1
+ finally:os.write(fd,json.dumps(result,indent=2).encode());os.close(fd)
+if __name__=="__main__":raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/tests/test_keycape_factor_recovery.py b/tests/test_keycape_factor_recovery.py
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+import importlib.util,sys,unittest
+from pathlib import Path
+from unittest.mock import patch
+sys.path.insert(0,str(Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]/'scripts'))
+import keycape_factor_recovery as m
+class OwnerRecoveryTests(unittest.TestCase):
+ def test_actor_comes_from_authenticated_entity(self):
+  with patch.object(m,'call',return_value={'data':{'policies':['platform-admin'],'entity_id':'11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111'}}):
+   self.assertEqual(m.owner_identity(),'openbao:11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111')
+ def test_reader_or_missing_entity_cannot_run_recovery(self):
+  for data in [{'policies':['workload-kv-read-keycape-factor-read'],'entity_id':'11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111'},{'policies':['root'],'entity_id':''},{'policies':['root'],'entity_id':'11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111'}]:
+   with patch.object(m,'call',return_value={'data':data}):
+    with self.assertRaises(ValueError):m.owner_identity()