Add a CLIENT_IP_HEADERS escape hatch and stop the auth handler hanging

Two changes, both from working out how to verify the client-IP configuration
on the Plesk vhost before deploying.

CLIENT_IP_HEADERS=none now trusts no header at all. This covers the one case
where the wrong setting is worse than no setting: if the proxy does not
overwrite the header we trust, any client can send it and mint itself an
unlimited brute-force budget against /sign-in. Falling back to the shared
rate-limit bucket is a nuisance - one noisy client can lock everyone out for
ten seconds at a time - but it fails closed, and it can be reverted from the
environment without a deploy. An empty or unset value still means "use the
default": a stray blank line in a .env must not silently change how requests
are bucketed, so only the explicit word does that. An empty array is what
better-auth reads as "no headers"; it falls back to its own default only when
the option is absent, and [] is truthy.

The TRUSTED_PROXY_IPS boot warning was overstating the risk. It now says that
a single-value header needs no trusted proxies, so seeing it on a plain
single-proxy setup is expected rather than a problem to chase.

Separately: a rejected promise from better-auth's handler used to escape as an
unhandled rejection, leaving the request hanging forever with no response while
the process logged an uncaughtException. Express 4 does not await an async
handler, and nearly every better-auth route touches the admin database, so any
database blip would have done this. Found by pointing ADMIN_DB at a database
the user cannot open while testing the hatch. The handler now answers 503, so
the caller learns and the other domains keep serving; verified as a 24ms
response instead of a hang, with / and /feedback/admin/me unaffected.

test/admin/admin.config.test.ts is new: it pins both branches of the hatch and
the rule that an unset NODE_ENV counts as production. It stubs dotenv, because
admin.config would otherwise read the repo's own .env and quietly reintroduce
NODE_ENV=development - the exact value several of those cases exist to remove.

157 unit tests and 41 integration tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

test/admin/admin.config.test.ts

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+import {afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi} from 'vitest';
+
+// admin.config calls dotenv.config(), which would read the repo's own .env and
+// quietly reintroduce NODE_ENV=development - the exact value several of these
+// cases exist to remove. Stub it so the tests see only what they set.
+vi.mock('dotenv', () => ({config: vi.fn()}));
+
+/**
+ * admin.config reads the environment once at import, so every case here has to
+ * reset the module registry and re-import it. The two things worth pinning are
+ * the ones that are silent when wrong: which client-IP header is trusted, and
+ * whether an unset NODE_ENV counts as production.
+ */
+
+const ORIGINAL_ENV = {...process.env};
+
+const loadConfig = async () => {
+	vi.resetModules();
+	return import('../../src/models/admin/admin.config.js');
+};
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+	process.env = {...ORIGINAL_ENV};
+	// dotenv.config() in admin.config does not overwrite what is already set,
+	// so setting these here is enough to keep the local .env out of the test.
+	process.env.NODE_ENV = 'test';
+	delete process.env.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS;
+	delete process.env.TRUSTED_PROXY_IPS;
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+	process.env = {...ORIGINAL_ENV};
+});
+
+describe('CLIENT_IP_HEADERS', () => {
+	it('defaults to the single header Plesk nginx sets', async () => {
+		const config = await loadConfig();
+		expect(config.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS).toEqual(['x-real-ip']);
+		expect(config.TRUST_NO_CLIENT_IP_HEADER).toBe(false);
+	});
+
+	it('reads a comma-separated list', async () => {
+		process.env.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS = 'x-real-ip, cf-connecting-ip';
+		const config = await loadConfig();
+		expect(config.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS).toEqual(['x-real-ip', 'cf-connecting-ip']);
+	});
+
+	it('trusts nothing when set to "none"', async () => {
+		// The escape hatch. An empty list is what better-auth reads as "no
+		// headers" - it only falls back to its own default when the option is
+		// absent - so this really does stop any header being believed.
+		process.env.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS = 'none';
+		const config = await loadConfig();
+		expect(config.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS).toEqual([]);
+		expect(config.TRUST_NO_CLIENT_IP_HEADER).toBe(true);
+	});
+
+	it('accepts the hatch case-insensitively and with stray whitespace', async () => {
+		process.env.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS = '  NONE  ';
+		const config = await loadConfig();
+		expect(config.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS).toEqual([]);
+	});
+
+	it('treats an empty value as "use the default", not as the hatch', async () => {
+		// A blank line in a .env must not silently change how requests are
+		// bucketed - only the explicit word does that.
+		process.env.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS = '';
+		const config = await loadConfig();
+		expect(config.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS).toEqual(['x-real-ip']);
+		expect(config.TRUST_NO_CLIENT_IP_HEADER).toBe(false);
+	});
+
+	it('does not mistake a header actually named none-ish for the hatch', async () => {
+		process.env.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS = 'x-none';
+		const config = await loadConfig();
+		expect(config.CLIENT_IP_HEADERS).toEqual(['x-none']);
+		expect(config.TRUST_NO_CLIENT_IP_HEADER).toBe(false);
+	});
+});
+
+describe('isProd', () => {
+	it('is false only for the explicit relaxed environments', async () => {
+		process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development';
+		expect((await loadConfig()).isProd).toBe(false);
+
+		process.env.NODE_ENV = 'test';
+		expect((await loadConfig()).isProd).toBe(false);
+	});
+
+	it('treats an unset NODE_ENV as production, which is what a bare vhost gives', async () => {
+		delete process.env.NODE_ENV;
+		// Strict mode refuses to boot without these; supply them so the import
+		// gets far enough to answer the question being asked.
+		process.env.BETTER_AUTH_SECRET = 'x'.repeat(48);
+		process.env.API_BASE_URL = 'https://api.nachklang.art';
+		process.env.ADMIN_APP_URL = 'https://admin.nachklang.art';
+
+		expect((await loadConfig()).isProd).toBe(true);
+	});
+
+	it('refuses to start without a signing key outside development', async () => {
+		delete process.env.NODE_ENV;
+		delete process.env.BETTER_AUTH_SECRET;
+		process.env.API_BASE_URL = 'https://api.nachklang.art';
+		process.env.ADMIN_APP_URL = 'https://admin.nachklang.art';
+
+		await expect(loadConfig()).rejects.toThrow(/BETTER_AUTH_SECRET/);
+	});
+});