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jmoore-skild f62e907e9f fix(backup): refuse the whole LDAP family on restore, not just its password (#2656)
A settings restore could substitute the instance'"'"'s authentication source.
auth.py reads the LDAP config live from the settings table on every
login, and none of ldap_server_url, ldap_user_filter, ldap_auto_provision
or ldap_default_group is credential-shaped, so the secret-key hints never
saw them and only the four auth-policy keys were protected.

ldap_enabled was covered by the companion-credential rule instead, and
that rule asks the wrong question. It judges availability - "will the
integration still work?" - and an anonymous bind works, so a payload that
simply OMITS ldap_bind_password skips the refusal and has its toggle
written. Omitting the credential is exactly what an attacker authoring
the file would do: they own the directory being pointed at, so they need
no bind credential from us.

Left unrefused, a backup repository anyone can write to yields admin:
point ldap_server_url at your own directory, set ldap_auto_provision and
ldap_default_group=Administrators, and the next login on a fresh username
is provisioned into the admin group. Overwrite-off is enough on an
instance that never configured LDAP - there are no rows to skip.

Refused by prefix so a key added to the LDAP schema later is refused by
default, and matched case-insensitively because the key comes from the
backup JSON rather than from our own writer. ldap_enabled leaves
_COMPANION_CREDENTIALS rather than sitting there as dead code, since
_is_protected_setting_key runs first.

The two tests asserting an anonymous bind was a false positive are
inverted - they encoded the hole - and the refusal reuses the existing
settingsAuthSkipped note, which already points at Settings >
Authentication.
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