The PunktfunkScripting scheduled task ran operator-installed plugin code
as SYSTEM with -RunLevel Highest — any plugin defect was a full
compromise of the box. The principal is now NT AUTHORITY\LocalService
(minimal privileges, no password to manage, exists at boot, loopback
networking works), registered without RunLevel:
- installer: New-ScheduledTaskPrincipal -UserId 'LocalService'
- plugins enable: converges the principal idempotently (migrating tasks
an older installer or a dev box registered as SYSTEM) BEFORE starting,
then grants LocalService read — via icacls, full-System32-path — on
exactly the two SYSTEM/Admins-DACL'd files the runner's connect()
needs: the scoped plugin-token and the TLS-pin cert.pem. Never
mgmt-token. plugins disable revokes the grants; plugins status now
prints the task principal so the migration is verifiable.
- build-scripting.ps1 mirrors the convergence + grants on dev deploys.
The usage text also mentions the new --allow-public-registry gate that
lands with the supply-chain commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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