Add systemd sandboxing to hortusfox-setup, phpfpm, and cron services

hortusfox-setup and the cron jobs previously ran with no systemd
hardening at all; phpfpm-hortusfox only had whatever services.phpfpm
sets by default (ProtectSystem = "full"). Add a shared conservative
baseline (NoNewPrivileges, Protect*, Restrict*, LockPersonality,
RemoveIPC, RestrictAddressFamilies scoped to AF_UNIX/AF_INET/AF_INET6)
to hortusfox-setup and the cron services, and tighten phpfpm's own
ProtectSystem to "strict" plus an explicit ReadWritePaths for stateDir.

Deliberately no UMask override: a tighter umask silently reintroduces
the "Permission denied" static-asset bug already fixed once, since it
changes the mode cp/mkdir produce for files nginx/caddy (a different
user) need to read directly. Also no MemoryDenyWriteExecute or
SystemCallFilter for now -- broader surface, easy to break something
subtle in migrations/mysql/zip handling without much more testing.

Verified against both vm-tests (full boot + cookie-jar login) for both
proxy backends before landing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
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@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ The module (`nixos-module/default.nix`, `config.services.hortusfox-web`) wires H
- **`adminAccount.passwordFile` actually seeds an admin account.** This was previously a documented no-op; it isn't anymore, because there is no other way to log in at all. `migrate:fresh` creates schema only, no rows. HortusFox has no CLI/seed hook of its own, and its only "create user" flow lives in the admin panel — which requires already being logged in as an admin. So on first boot only (same `.installed` guard as migrations), if this is set, the setup script bcrypt-hashes the file's contents via `php -r '...password_hash(...)...'` (matching `UserModel`'s own hashing) and `INSERT`s a row directly into the `UserModel` table (name `adminAccount.username`, default `"admin"`, purely a display name since HortusFox logs in by email; email `adminAccount.email` — defaults to `admin@<domain>` but is independently overridable, since that default isn't necessarily a mailbox anyone controls and HortusFox's own "Restore password" flow emails it — admin flag set), bypassing the app's normal create-then-promote two-step flow since neither step is reachable yet. Both `vm-test`s exercise a full cookie-jar login against this seeded account, including scraping the CSRF token from `/auth` and checking the final URL isn't `/auth` again — page content alone isn't reliable here, since the dashboard's own (hidden) change-password form makes "does the response contain a password field" a false-positive-prone check.
- **Serving.** `proxy.server` selects the reverse-proxy backend: `"nginx"` (default) or `"caddy"`, each gated by `lib.mkIf (cfg.proxy.server == "...")`. `proxy.ssl` (default `true`) toggles HTTPS/ACME on the vhost — nginx via `forceSSL`/`enableACME`, caddy by prefixing the site address with `http://` (which disables its automatic HTTPS for that vhost specifically) — set it to `false` for local/test deployments with no real domain or internet access to reach Let's Encrypt (both `vm-test`s and `tests/default.nix` do this). `services.phpfpm.pools.hortusfox` runs as `cfg.user`/`cfg.group` regardless of proxy backend, but its fastcgi socket's `listen.owner`/`listen.group` must match whichever proxy is actually enabled (`config.services.caddy.user`/`.group` vs `config.services.nginx.user`/`.group`) — this was hardcoded to nginx before caddy support existed. nginx uses explicit `tryFiles`/location blocks (an Asatru-framework-style rewrite-to-`index.php` rule, mirroring upstream's `.htaccess`); caddy's `php_fastcgi` directive covers the same rewrite-then-serve behavior natively. Dotfiles are denied on both. When `proxy.ssl = true`, the deploying host config must set nginx's `security.acme.{acceptTerms,defaults.email}` or caddy's `services.caddy.email` globally (see comment at the bottom of the module).
- **`port` also has to override `SERVER_PORT` at the fastcgi layer, not just `APP_URL`.** Asatru's own `url()`/`asset()` helpers (`vendor/danielbrendel/asatru-php-framework/src/helper.php`) never read `APP_URL` at all — they build every absolute URL straight from `$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']`/`SERVER_PORT`. Nginx's/Caddy's default fastcgi env populates `SERVER_PORT` from the port the proxy itself is listening on (e.g. the QEMU test VM's unforwarded guest port 80), not an externally-reachable/forwarded one (e.g. the hostfwd'd 8080) — so with only `APP_URL` fixed, page HTML still loaded fine (that request itself hits the forwarded port directly) but every asset/CSS/JS URL the app *generates* silently dropped the port, breaking every static asset (`net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED` in the browser, since nothing listens on host port 80). Fixed by explicitly overriding the `SERVER_PORT` fastcgi param/env var to `cfg.port` whenever it's set — nginx via an extra `fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT "...";` line after `include fastcgi_params` (later same-name `fastcgi_param` wins), caddy via `php_fastcgi`'s `env SERVER_PORT ...` sub-directive. Verified by booting `nixosConfigurations.test` manually and confirming assets load over the forwarded port.
- **Systemd sandboxing, and the umask trap.** `hortusfox-setup` and the cron services share a `commonHardening` serviceConfig attrset (NoNewPrivileges, Protect*, Restrict*, LockPersonality, RemoveIPC, RestrictAddressFamilies = `AF_UNIX`/`AF_INET`/`AF_INET6` for the mysql socket and SMTP/cron's loopback curl); `phpfpm-hortusfox` instead tightens `services.phpfpm`'s own baseline (`ProtectSystem` "full" → "strict" via `lib.mkForce`, since the phpfpm module sets it as a plain assignment) plus `ReadWritePaths = [ stateDir ]`. `hortusfox-setup`'s `ProtectSystem = "strict"` needs no extra `ReadWritePaths` since its declared `StateDirectory`/`RuntimeDirectory` are auto-exempted. Deliberately excluded: `UMask` — a tighter umask (e.g. `0027`) looks like obvious hardening, but silently reintroduces the exact "Permission denied" static-asset bug fixed above, since it changes what mode `cp -r`/`mkdir` produce for files hortusfox-setup writes to `runDir`/`stateDir` and phpfpm writes to (e.g. uploaded `public/attachments`) — from world-readable 0755/0644 down to 0750/0640 — and the later `find ... chmod u+w` only adds the owner-write bit back, it can't restore group/other bits umask already stripped at creation time. Also excluded: `MemoryDenyWriteExecute` (PHP/Zend may want executable heap for opcache) and `SystemCallFilter` (broad surface, easy to break something subtle in migrations/mysql/zip handling) — this is a first pass at blast-radius reduction, not maximal hardening, and was verified against both `vm-test`s (full boot + login) before landing.
- **Cron.** HortusFox's cron endpoints (task overdue/tomorrow/recurring reminders, calendar reminders, auto-backup) are driven by `curl`ing the app's own HTTP cron routes from systemd timers (`hortusfox-cron-<name>` service+timer pairs), rather than an in-process scheduler. These live in the *same* `systemd.services` attrset as `hortusfox-setup`/`phpfpm-hortusfox` (merged in with `//`, generated via `lib.mapAttrs'` over `cronjobs`) — keep it that way; splitting the cron services into a second top-level `systemd.services = ...;` binding is a Nix duplicate-attribute error (partial-path assignments like `systemd.services.hortusfox-setup = ...` can't coexist with a later full `systemd.services = ...` reassignment in the same module).
## Current state / known issues