When the Postgres role updates database passwords (e.g., due to a
change in the secret derivation method), the Matrix Authentication
Service container may still be running with old configuration that
references the previous password. This causes mas-cli to fail with
"password authentication failed" when the matrix-user-creator role
tries to register users.
Rather than adding config-change detection or eager restarts to the
MAS role, this adds targeted retry logic: if the initial registration
attempt fails with a database authentication error, restart the MAS
service (which picks up the new config with the updated password),
wait for it to start, and retry. The restart usually only triggers
once per run since subsequent user registrations succeed after the restart.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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