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LocalAI/core/services/worker/config.go
Richard Palethorpe 73385713ca feat(distributed): enforce registration token for worker file transfer (#10183)
The worker HTTP file-transfer server is authenticated by the registration
token via checkBearerToken, which fails open on an empty token: every
/v1/files, /v1/files-list and /v1/backend-logs request is then served
unauthenticated, granting read/write to the worker's models/staging/data
directories. The fail-open was also silent (the only auth log sat on the
unreachable reject branch), and the worker process never runs
DistributedConfig.Validate(), so the existing frontend warning did not
cover the component that exposes the server.

Mirror the NatsRequireAuth pattern: keep anonymous as the default but make
it loud and opt-in enforceable.

- Log a prominent warning when the file-transfer server starts tokenless.
- Add LOCALAI_REGISTRATION_REQUIRE_AUTH: DistributedConfig.Validate() errors
  on an empty token (frontend) and the worker refuses to start (fail-fast,
  before registration), so production can fail closed. Also satisfies the
  F-003 suggestion to fail Validate() on distributed + empty token.
- Add LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_REQUIRE_AUTH umbrella switch implying both
  RegistrationRequireAuth and NatsRequireAuth — one production knob locking
  down the registration/file-transfer layer and the NATS bus together; the
  granular flags remain available as single-layer overrides. Wired into the
  frontend, supervisor worker, and agent worker (vLLM worker has neither a
  NATS connection nor a file-transfer server, so it is left untouched).
- Document in distributed-mode.md (warning callout + flag tables).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-06-05 14:34:28 +02:00

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package worker
// Config is the configuration for the distributed agent worker.
//
// Field tags are kong/kong-env metadata read by core/cli/worker.go's WorkerCMD,
// which embeds Config; this package does NOT import kong and the tags are inert
// here.
//
// Workers are backend-agnostic — they wait for backend.install NATS events
// from the SmartRouter to install and start the required backend.
//
// NATS is required. The worker acts as a process supervisor:
// - Receives backend.install → installs backend from gallery, starts gRPC process, replies success
// - Receives backend.stop → stops the gRPC process
// - Receives stop → full shutdown (deregister + exit)
//
// Model loading (LoadModel) is always via direct gRPC — no NATS needed for that.
type Config struct {
// Primary address — the reachable address of this worker.
// Host is used for advertise, port is the base for gRPC backends.
// HTTP file transfer runs on port-1.
Addr string `env:"LOCALAI_ADDR" help:"Address where this worker is reachable (host:port). Port is base for gRPC backends, port-1 for HTTP." group:"server"`
ServeAddr string `env:"LOCALAI_SERVE_ADDR" default:"0.0.0.0:50051" help:"(Advanced) gRPC base port bind address" group:"server" hidden:""`
BackendsPath string `env:"LOCALAI_BACKENDS_PATH,BACKENDS_PATH" type:"path" default:"${basepath}/backends" help:"Path containing backends" group:"server"`
BackendsSystemPath string `env:"LOCALAI_BACKENDS_SYSTEM_PATH" type:"path" default:"/var/lib/local-ai/backends" help:"Path containing system backends" group:"server"`
BackendGalleries string `env:"LOCALAI_BACKEND_GALLERIES,BACKEND_GALLERIES" help:"JSON list of backend galleries" group:"server" default:"${backends}"`
Galleries string `env:"LOCALAI_GALLERIES,GALLERIES" help:"JSON list of model galleries (used to resolve --prefetch-models on boot)" group:"server" default:"${galleries}"`
ModelsPath string `env:"LOCALAI_MODELS_PATH,MODELS_PATH" type:"path" default:"${basepath}/models" help:"Path containing models" group:"server"`
RequireBackendIntegrity bool `env:"LOCALAI_REQUIRE_BACKEND_INTEGRITY,REQUIRE_BACKEND_INTEGRITY" help:"If true, reject backend installs without a configured signature verification policy (OCI URIs) or SHA256 (tarball/HTTP URIs)." group:"hardening" default:"false"`
// PrefetchModels lets a worker download gallery model artifacts (GGUFs, etc.)
// from its own outbound internet at boot, instead of waiting for the master to
// stream them over the cluster network at first-inference time. Useful when the
// cluster-internal path is slow (slirp/circuit-relay, CGNAT) but outbound NAT
// works fine. Resolution reuses the same gallery installer the master uses, so
// the on-disk /models layout is identical. Errors are non-fatal — if the gallery
// is unreachable on boot, the worker logs a warning and starts the NATS loop
// anyway; the master can still push the file on demand (existing behaviour).
PrefetchModels []string `env:"LOCALAI_PREFETCH_MODELS,PREFETCH_MODELS" help:"Comma-separated gallery model IDs to download from LOCALAI_GALLERIES at worker boot (e.g. 'llama-3.2-1b-instruct,phi-3-mini-4k'). Skipped if already on disk and SHA matches." group:"server"`
// HTTP file transfer
HTTPAddr string `env:"LOCALAI_HTTP_ADDR" default:"" help:"HTTP file transfer server address (default: gRPC port + 1)" group:"server" hidden:""`
AdvertiseHTTPAddr string `env:"LOCALAI_ADVERTISE_HTTP_ADDR" help:"HTTP address the frontend uses to reach this node for file transfer" group:"server" hidden:""`
// Registration (required)
AdvertiseAddr string `env:"LOCALAI_ADVERTISE_ADDR" help:"Address the frontend uses to reach this node (defaults to hostname:port from Addr)" group:"registration" hidden:""`
RegisterTo string `env:"LOCALAI_REGISTER_TO" required:"" help:"Frontend URL for registration" group:"registration"`
NodeName string `env:"LOCALAI_NODE_NAME" help:"Node name for registration (defaults to hostname)" group:"registration"`
RegistrationToken string `env:"LOCALAI_REGISTRATION_TOKEN" help:"Token for authenticating with the frontend" group:"registration"`
RegistrationRequireAuth bool `env:"LOCALAI_REGISTRATION_REQUIRE_AUTH" default:"false" help:"Refuse to start the HTTP file-transfer server when no registration token is set (otherwise it fails open and serves read/write to models/staging/data unauthenticated)" group:"registration"`
DistributedRequireAuth bool `env:"LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_REQUIRE_AUTH" default:"false" help:"Umbrella switch implying both --nats-require-auth and --registration-require-auth" group:"distributed"`
HeartbeatInterval string `env:"LOCALAI_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL" default:"10s" help:"Interval between heartbeats" group:"registration"`
NodeLabels string `env:"LOCALAI_NODE_LABELS" help:"Comma-separated key=value labels for this node (e.g. tier=fast,gpu=a100)" group:"registration"`
// MaxReplicasPerModel caps how many replicas of any one model can run on
// this worker concurrently. Default 1 = historical single-replica
// behavior. Set higher when a node has enough VRAM to host multiple
// copies of the same model (e.g. a fat 128 GiB box running 4× of a
// 24 GiB model for throughput). The auto-label `node.replica-slots=N`
// is published so model schedulers can target high-capacity nodes via
// the existing label selector.
MaxReplicasPerModel int `env:"LOCALAI_MAX_REPLICAS_PER_MODEL" default:"1" help:"Max replicas of any single model on this worker. Default 1 preserves single-replica behavior; set higher to allow stacking replicas on a fat node." group:"registration"`
// NATS (required)
NatsURL string `env:"LOCALAI_NATS_URL" required:"" help:"NATS server URL" group:"distributed"`
NatsJWT string `env:"LOCALAI_NATS_JWT" help:"NATS user JWT override (normally from registration nats_jwt)" group:"distributed"`
NatsUserSeed string `env:"LOCALAI_NATS_USER_SEED" help:"NATS user signing seed override (normally from registration nats_user_seed)" group:"distributed"`
NatsRequireAuth bool `env:"LOCALAI_NATS_REQUIRE_AUTH" default:"false" help:"Require NATS JWT+seed from registration or env" group:"distributed"`
NatsTLSCA string `env:"LOCALAI_NATS_TLS_CA" type:"existingfile" help:"PEM file for NATS server CA (private PKI)" group:"distributed"`
NatsTLSCert string `env:"LOCALAI_NATS_TLS_CERT" type:"existingfile" help:"Client certificate for NATS mTLS" group:"distributed"`
NatsTLSKey string `env:"LOCALAI_NATS_TLS_KEY" type:"existingfile" help:"Client private key for NATS mTLS" group:"distributed"`
// S3 storage for distributed file transfer
StorageURL string `env:"LOCALAI_STORAGE_URL" help:"S3 endpoint URL" group:"distributed"`
StorageBucket string `env:"LOCALAI_STORAGE_BUCKET" help:"S3 bucket name" group:"distributed"`
StorageRegion string `env:"LOCALAI_STORAGE_REGION" help:"S3 region" group:"distributed"`
StorageAccessKey string `env:"LOCALAI_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY" help:"S3 access key" group:"distributed"`
StorageSecretKey string `env:"LOCALAI_STORAGE_SECRET_KEY" help:"S3 secret key" group:"distributed"`
}
// NatsAuthRequired reports whether NATS JWT credentials must be present — the
// granular flag or the umbrella (LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_REQUIRE_AUTH).
func (c Config) NatsAuthRequired() bool {
return c.NatsRequireAuth || c.DistributedRequireAuth
}
// RegistrationAuthRequired reports whether a registration token must be set
// before the file-transfer server may start — the granular flag or the umbrella.
func (c Config) RegistrationAuthRequired() bool {
return c.RegistrationRequireAuth || c.DistributedRequireAuth
}