The /system/appliance endpoint is fetched by the SPA's i18n bootstrap on
mount to seed locale, hostname, timezone, and the chrony NTP-gate state
BEFORE any login state exists. The route handler itself has no auth
dependency and the test_route_auth_coverage allowlist correctly marks it
public, but the global auth_middleware in main.py — which short-circuits
every /api/ path not in PUBLIC_API_ROUTES — was never told about it.
Result: every browser session on an auth-enabled install logged a 401
on the appliance endpoint before login.
Added /api/v1/system/appliance to PUBLIC_API_ROUTES with a comment
pointing at the dual-list pattern so this doesn't drift again, and a
regression test in TestAuthMiddlewarePublicRoutes that posts /auth/setup
to turn auth on, then asserts the endpoint returns 200 with the
documented shape (hostname / timezone / locale / time_synced fields all
present).
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