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Post-change doc reconciliation for the hermes vhosts + DNS deletion batch: - Hermes-Dashboard.md: access is now the hermesadmin.franksdank.cloud vhost (direct Caddy proxy to 192.168.0.143:9119, no guard chain — exempt because the dashboard enforces its own basic-auth login), plus the raw LAN port. The old text claimed an Authentik-guarded public vhost, which was decommissioned. - Hermes-WebUI.md: description updated — the webui is now also reachable via the unguarded hermes.franksdank.cloud vhost (its own password auth is the gate). - LAN-DNS.md: "add a name in two places" corrected to a two-or-three-step decision; internal-only names (prometheus/loki/grafana/seerr) deliberately get no public A record and resolve on the LAN only, and DNS-01 issuance is unaffected because the challenge is a TXT record in the same zone. - Seerr.md: DNS row corrected — addn-hosts only since 2026-09-02; NXDOMAIN on WAN. - hermes-dashboard.container: unit comment no longer claims Authentik termination. No behavior change in this commit; tests 233/233 green (docs-completeness seam included).
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# Hermes-Dashboard
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The Hermes web dashboard is a browser UI for managing the agent. It shows config, API keys, and sessions. It is a management tool. It is not a chat window. Chat happens over Signal or the CLI. See [[Hermes]].
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**Host:** Dankclaw — **Port:** `9119` (published) — **URL:** `https://hermesadmin.franksdank.cloud` (internal-only; direct Caddy proxy, no guard chain) or `http://192.168.0.143:9119`
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## Facts
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| Image | `docker.io/nousresearch/hermes-agent:latest` (same as the gateway) |
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| Command | `hermes dashboard --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9119 --no-open --skip-build` |
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| Port | `9119` (published to the LAN) |
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| Auth | HTTP basic auth (username + scrypt password hash) |
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| Data | bind mount `/home/dank/Containers/hermes/data` → `/data`, shared with the gateway; plus a fresh anonymous volume at `/opt/data` per recreation |
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## Why a separate container
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The gateway container runs `hermes gateway run` (the Signal platform). That
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entrypoint does not start the dashboard. The dashboard is a separate process, so
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it runs in its own Quadlet unit
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([`dankclaw/hermes/quadlet/hermes-dashboard.container`](../../dankclaw/hermes/quadlet/hermes-dashboard.container):
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image `localhost/hermes-agent:latest`, `Pull=never`, `Exec=hermes dashboard
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--host 0.0.0.0 --port 9119 --no-open --skip-build`, `Restart=always`,
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`RestartSec=5`). All three Hermes containers mount the same `/data` bind mount.
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Unlike its two siblings — `hermes.container` and `hermes-webui.container` both
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run with `Network=host` — the dashboard is the only Hermes container on a bridge
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network (`Network=dankclaw_default`, subnet `10.89.1.0/24`, gateway `10.89.1.1`).
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That has a functional consequence: from inside its namespace it can dial only
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published ports via the gateway IP, and `host.containers.internal`
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(`169.254.1.2`) is an alias on the *default* `podman` network that this container
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is not attached to, so probes to it time out. It therefore never talks to the
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gateway, the webui, or the CDP daemon over the network — it shares their state
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through the bind mount instead. See [[Container Network Namespaces]].
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## Authentication
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The dashboard refuses to bind to a non-loopback address without an auth provider. There is no unauthenticated public bind. This repo uses basic auth:
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- `dashboard.basic_auth.username` and `dashboard.basic_auth.password_hash` live in
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the live `/data/config.yaml` (host path
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`/home/dank/Containers/hermes/data/config.yaml`); the tracked backup at
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`dankclaw/hermes/config.yaml.example` intentionally omits the password hash.
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- The stored value is a one-way scrypt hash. The plaintext password is never written to a file or the repo.
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- The hash is generated with `plugins.dashboard_auth.basic.hash_password`.
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## Access
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Two paths reach the same process, both gated by the dashboard's own basic-auth
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login — there is no unauthenticated bind:
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1. **`https://hermesadmin.franksdank.cloud`** — Caddy vhost added 2026-09-02 that
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reverse-proxies `192.168.0.143:9119` directly, with **no** Anubis/Outpost guard
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chain in front of it (exempt-by-construction: the app carries its own complete
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auth). The name deliberately has no public DNS record, so the vhost resolves on
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the LAN only; WAN clients get NXDOMAIN. See [[LAN DNS]].
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2. **`http://192.168.0.143:9119`** — the raw published port. Still reachable from
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any LAN host (the container binds `0.0.0.0` inside its namespace and publishes
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`9119:9119`), so treat the LAN as a trusted boundary here, not as a gate.
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See [[Container Network Namespaces]] for why this container is on a bridge
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network rather than the host namespace like its two siblings.
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## Gotchas
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- The dashboard and the gateway share one data volume. A config change made in the dashboard takes effect when the gateway restarts.
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- If the shared password is reused elsewhere, treat it as exposed. Rotate it and regenerate the hash.
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- `--skip-build` uses the prebuilt web assets in the image. Do not remove it unless the assets are rebuilt.
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## See Also
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- [[Hermes-WebUI]] — the phone-facing API server (Hermex)
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- [[Container Network Namespaces]] — why this container cannot dial the gateway, webui, or CDP daemon
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