The web UI's certificate from Let's Encrypt, through Jarl

tls.acme names the certificate and jarl: the Jarl server and a token that
may only write the challenge record. Steward gets the certificate with
DNS-01 (lego), writing the record through Jarl's API into every view that
has the zone, renews it with a third of its lifetime left and swaps it
in without a restart. A check runs before every order: Jarl, the zone,
the token's permission, a test record, the zone's name servers, public
resolvers, clean-up; each step says what to fix. Staging by default.

With a certificate, each listener serves HTTPS and plain HTTP on one port
(redirecting plain HTTP, except from the server itself).

steward cert / cert check / cert renew, Server -> Certificate in the web
UI, GET /certificate, POST /certificate/check|renew. docs/certificates.md
and docs/jarl.md (the Jarl user and the token's grant).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| `listen` | `["127.0.0.1:8067"]` | addresses of the web UI and API (`host:port`). Keep them on localhost or a management network |
| `tls.cert_file`, `tls.key_file` | none | serve HTTPS with this certificate; stewardd rereads it when the file changes, or on `systemctl reload steward` |
| `tls.acme.*` | off | get the certificate from Let's Encrypt, with Jarl publishing the challenge ([certificates.md](certificates.md#settings)) |
| `jarl.server`, `jarl.token_file` (or `jarl.token`), `jarl.ca_cert`, `jarl.insecure` | none | the Jarl server Steward uses for DNS, and its token ([jarl.md](jarl.md)) |
| `trusted_proxies` | `[]` | addresses or prefixes of reverse proxies whose `X-Forwarded-For` and `X-Forwarded-Proto` are believed |
| `socket` | `/run/steward/steward.sock` | the local API socket; `""` turns it off |
| `database` | `/var/lib/steward/steward.db` | the SQLite database: configuration, leases, history, users, audit log |
@@ -29,8 +31,9 @@ Durations are written `15s`, `12h` or `30d`.
## HTTPS
Over plain HTTP, passwords and tokens cross the network in the clear;
stewardd warns when it listens on a non-loopback address without TLS. Give
it a certificate:
stewardd warns when it listens on a non-loopback address without TLS. Let
it get its own certificate through Jarl ([certificates.md](certificates.md)),
or give it one:
```yaml
listen: ["10.0.10.2:8067"]
@@ -40,5 +43,7 @@ tls:
```
Or keep it on `127.0.0.1` behind a reverse proxy that terminates TLS, and
list the proxy in `trusted_proxies`. Ports below 1024 work too: the unit
list the proxy in `trusted_proxies`. With a certificate, the same port
answers HTTPS and redirects plain HTTP to it, except from the server
itself. Ports below 1024 work too: the unit
grants `CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE` for DHCP's port 67.