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Closes #4666.

ACL DIGEST hashes the ACL LIST line of each user and XORs the results together. A user line names the roles it holds but not what those roles allow, and ACLDigest only walked Users, so editing a role left the digest untouched while the permissions of every member changed. On unstable at 6163991:

role reader ~data:* resetchannels -@all +get
user alice on #148de9c5... resetchannels -@all role=reader
digest before = 859a8c8dc3066a072522047c834bc6073799fc2ee9a37b7a6a79a4f8c3c889fe

ACL SETROLE reader ~data:* +get +set
ACL DRYRUN alice SET data:1 x  ->  OK

role reader ~data:* resetchannels -@all +get +set
user alice on #148de9c5... resetchannels -@all role=reader
digest after  = 859a8c8dc3066a072522047c834bc6073799fc2ee9a37b7a6a79a4f8c3c889fe

Alice gained SET and ACL LIST shows it, but the digest does not move. A client reading the digest to confirm which revision of an ACL a server is running would miss that edit.

This walks Roles as well and hashes each entry as the line ACL LIST prints, keyword included. The keyword matters once roles join the XOR: ACLRoleNameError checks characters only, so role dup and user dup can both exist, and hashing name and rules alone would let the pair cancel out.

Testing

Two cases in tests/unit/acl.tcl: the digest follows a role's rules and returns to the previous value when the rule is put back, and a role and a user sharing a name do not cancel each other out. Without the change both fail and nothing else does, which is how I checked they test what they claim. unit/acl and unit/acl-role run green together, 219 tests.

A user line names the roles it holds but not their rules, so editing a
role left the digest where it was even though the permissions of every
member had changed. A client reading the digest to confirm which
revision of an ACL a server is running would miss the edit.

Walk the Roles radix tree as well, and hash the ACL LIST line of each
entry with its leading keyword. The keyword matters once roles join the
XOR: role names are checked for valid characters only, so a role and a
user can carry the same name, and hashing name and rules alone would let
such a pair cancel each other out.

Signed-off-by: melancholictheory <selimvhorst@gmail.com>
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ACLDigest() now includes role rules and uses distinct prefixes for role and user entries. Tests verify role changes, same-name entries, and the XOR contract. Command metadata counts users and roles.

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ACL digest updates

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Role-aware digest generation and validation
src/acl.c, tests/unit/acl.tcl, src/commands.def, src/commands/acl-digest.json
ACLDigest() now hashes role and user entries with distinct keywords. Tests cover role changes, same-name entries, and the XOR contract. Complexity metadata counts configured users and roles.

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The digest now covers role and user ACL entries without collisions, with matching metadata and focused tests; the change is ready to merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: including roles in ACL DIGEST.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the ACL DIGEST issue, the role-handling change, the collision prevention, and the tests. It directly relates to the changeset.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy #4666. ACLDigestAddTable() hashes entries from both Roles and Users. Each hash includes the role or user keyword, the entry name, a space, and ACLDescribeUser() rules…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within #4666. The source change updates ACL digest construction. The metadata changes document the resulting users-and-roles complexity. The test changes verify the required role and …
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In `@tests/unit/acl.tcl`:
- Around line 1093-1094: Add a focused C++ unit test around ACLDigestAddTable
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The implementation is sound, but the command metadata and the keyword-specific regression coverage need to be kept in sync with it.

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# user can carry the same name. Their lines must not cancel out.
set before [r ACL DIGEST]
r ACL setrole digesttwin ~twin:* +get
r ACL setuser digesttwin on >twinpass ~twin:* +get

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This does not exercise the keyword that separates the two namespaces. This user’s description contains on and a password hash, while ACLDescribeUser omits flags and passwords for the role (src/acl.c:1206-1226), so their pre-keyword hash inputs are already different. An implementation that walks Roles but removes both keyword updates still passes these assertions. Make this check depend on the prefix, for example by comparing the digest of this controlled state with the expected hash of the complete ACL LIST lines.

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Confirmed, and I took your suggestion. Removing the keyword update while still walking Roles left both tests green, so they were not covering the prefix.

The new test in 0218015 compares the digest with the XOR of the SHA256 of every complete ACL LIST line. SHA256 comes from the server, because ACL SETUSER u >s stores the hex digest of s, so the check stays in Tcl and needs nothing exported from acl.c. Dropping either keyword now fails it.

Review pointed out that the two tests added here pass even when the role
and user keywords are dropped from what gets hashed. They cannot collide
today, because a user line carries flags and a password hash while a role
line carries neither, so the keyword is what keeps the two namespaces
apart if that ever stops holding.

Add a test that compares the digest against the XOR of the SHA256 of
every ACL LIST line, computed through the server, so the hashed content
is pinned whole. It fails when a keyword is dropped, which neither of the
other two does.

The complexity in acl-digest.json counted users only. Walking the roles
as well makes the runtime grow with the role count too.

Signed-off-by: melancholictheory <selimvhorst@gmail.com>
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Include ROLE's digest in ACL DIGEST command

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