infrastructure/docker-compose.yml had \`\${VAR:-default}\` fallbacks for
JWT_SECRET, SESSION_SECRET, and POSTGRES_PASSWORD that silently
substituted known-weak values (\`change-me-in-production\`, \`trails\`)
when the env wasn't set. A misconfigured prod deploy would happily come
up with these defaults — JWT/session forgery + a guessable Postgres
password.
Switched the four critical substitutions to \`\${VAR:?message}\` so
\`docker compose up\` fails loud instead. Mirrors the existing pattern
already used for BROUTER_URL/BROUTER_AUTH_TOKEN and (in staging) for
JWT_SECRET/SESSION_SECRET.
Sites fixed:
- journal: DATABASE_URL (POSTGRES_PASSWORD), JWT_SECRET, SESSION_SECRET
- planner: DATABASE_URL (POSTGRES_PASSWORD)
- postgres: POSTGRES_PASSWORD (container itself)
- exporter: DATA_SOURCE_NAME (POSTGRES_PASSWORD)
- staging: both DATABASE_URLs
Production already provides all three via SOPS-encrypted
secrets.app.env, so this is a defense-in-depth change with no behavior
change on a properly-configured deploy.
Updated infrastructure/.env.example to make SESSION_SECRET explicit
(was missing) and call out the trio as required.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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