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Summary

A managed inbound with no users is written to the Xray config as "clients": []. For a Shadowsocks 2022 inbound
(2022-blake3-aes-128-gcm / 2022-blake3-aes-256-gcm) Xray then builds its single-user server instead of the multi-user one. That server:

• accepts any client that presents only the inbound's server key, the first part of every server:user key in a Shadowsocks 2022 link, so anyone who
  ever had a link for the inbound (disabled, expired, limited and deleted users included) can connect, and that traffic is not counted;
• rejects every later AddUser (proxy is not a UserManager), so users given the inbound after the core started never get access, and every user
  batch that contains them fails on the panel side.

It happens whenever no active user has the inbound when the core (re)starts: a new inbound before any group includes it, all its users disabled,
expired or limited, or a health restart / full user sync while it is empty. Every released node (v0.5.0 to v0.5.4) writes the same empty list.

Fix

An empty Shadowsocks 2022 AES inbound is written with one placeholder client whose random key (16 or 32 bytes from crypto/rand) exists only in the
node process: it is never stored, never sent to the panel and never reported in stats (Xray creates user counters and online entries only for
authenticated connections, and nobody holds the key). Once the inbound has real users the placeholder is not written. 2022-blake3-chacha20-poly1305
has no multi-user mode in Xray and is left unchanged (the panel already refuses managed chacha20 Shadowsocks 2022 inbounds).

Tests

• Unit test on the generated config (Xray's own builder): single-user before, multi-user after.
• Real-Xray test through xray.New with an empty Shadowsocks 2022 inbound: before the fix a client with only the server key reaches a local HTTP
  page and AddUser fails; after it the bare key is rejected and AddUser works. Verified on Xray 26.10.10 (aes-128 and aes-256).
• Full suite with -race: 10/10 packages ok, no data race.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed startup behavior for empty Shadowsocks 2022 inbounds, allowing them to start before users are configured.
  • Confirmed that newly synced users can connect, while empty inbounds do not grant access using the server key alone.
  • Preserved existing behavior for other Shadowsocks methods and protocols.

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Walkthrough

Empty AES Shadowsocks 2022 inbounds now serialize with a process-random placeholder account. Tests cover serialized configurations and verify runtime behavior before and after syncing a user.

Changes

Shadowsocks 2022 Inbound Configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Placeholder account serialization backend/xray/config.go, backend/xray/config_tobytes_test.go	Empty AES Shadowsocks 2022 inbounds serialize with a placeholder account. Tests cover AES, chacha20, and legacy methods, check Xray config building, and verify that syncing a real user serializes only that user.
Runtime behavior before and after user sync backend/xray/shadowsocks2022_test.go	The integration test checks that a client using only the server key receives no bytes before user sync. After syncing a user, it checks that a client using the server key and the user's derived key receives data.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 93d4f

The change keeps empty AES Shadowsocks 2022 inbounds in multi-user mode. In debug mode, the generated config file can be readable by other local users and now also includes the placeholder key. The file already contained other secrets, so this is a small follow-up to fix; restricting its permissions to 0600 is enough.

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Failed checks: 1 warning

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- Around line 421-422: Update Core.Start’s creation of xray.json to restrict
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Restrict the debug configuration file to the process owner.

Core.Start writes xray.json only in debug mode. os.Create requests mode 0666, so a 022 umask makes the new placeholder password readable by other local users. This violates the placeholder's process-only guarantee.

The debug file can already contain server passwords and real client credentials, so this is a narrow local debug-file exposure rather than a major new exposure. Use mode 0600, including for an existing file.

Suggested fix

-	jsonFile, err := os.Create(filepath.Join(c.configPath, "xray.json"))
+	jsonFile, err := os.OpenFile(filepath.Join(c.configPath, "xray.json"), os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC, 0600)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	defer jsonFile.Close()
 
+	if err := jsonFile.Chmod(0600); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+

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Review comment at @backend/xray/config.go around lines 421 - 422:
Update Core.Start’s creation of xray.json to restrict permissions to the process
owner: create or truncate the file with mode 0600 and explicitly set that mode
for existing files as well.

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