Automic Vault

Automic Vault 4.18.0 · macOS

Plumber hardener

The changes, security properties, caveats, and verification path for the plumber hardener.

Plumber hardener

Run av harden plumber to apply this hardener and av doctor plumber to verify it.

av harden plumber installs the signed Plumber Isotope and migrates the complete local config into one Automic Vault Secret. If the on-disk ~/.batchsh/plumber.json exists, it contains only a fixed, non-secret custody marker.

The patched Target routes local config reads and writes through dedicated Plumber-only XPC operations. Each operation binds the live Target, complete arguments, fixed local-config scope, and exact Secret Name. Plumber cluster-mode KV storage is unchanged.

Invalid or oversized JSON, unsafe paths, unsigned or incorrectly signed Targets, source drift, and unexpected archive contents fail closed.