diff --git a/src/camera.rs b/src/camera.rs
index ce750d9..6b63f73 100644
--- a/src/camera.rs
+++ b/src/camera.rs
@@ -55,11 +55,16 @@ use crate::uplink::SharedFleet;
 
 /// How often to rebuild the configuration from what the printers report.
 ///
-/// A camera URL changes when a printer's address changes, which is a DHCP
-/// lease event, not something that needs watching closely. The first useful
-/// rebuild is the one a few seconds after startup, once the first reports
-/// have arrived - before that the fleet has nothing to say.
-const REBUILD_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(30);
+/// The first tick fires immediately, before any printer has reported, so it
+/// always writes a config with no streams. The one that matters is the next,
+/// once the first reports have arrived - and until it runs, telemetry already
+/// advertises a camera that go2rtc cannot serve, so a viewer in that window
+/// gets "stream not found". At 30s that window was half a minute after every
+/// start (found by scripts/e2e-camera.sh, which asked at +7s).
+///
+/// Cheap to poll: it reads in-memory reports and compares the rendered
+/// config byte for byte, and go2rtc is only restarted when that changes.
+const REBUILD_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5);
 
 /// The username every Bambu uses for its own services - MQTT, FTPS, and the
 /// camera. Not a guess: it is what `bambu_mqtt` and `bambu_ftps` already
@@ -162,8 +167,8 @@ impl ApiAuth {
     /// Generated once per run and then held, never re-derived: `render_config`
     /// is called every `REBUILD_INTERVAL` and its output is compared
     /// byte-for-byte to decide whether to restart go2rtc, so a password that
-    /// changed per call would restart it - and drop every live viewer - every
-    /// 30 seconds, forever.
+    /// changed per call would restart it - and drop every live viewer - on
+    /// every tick, forever.
     ///
     /// A generated password is never logged. It is written into the config
     /// file, which already holds every printer's access code and is already
@@ -369,8 +374,23 @@ pub async fn run(
 /// on the same filesystem, so a reader sees either the old file or the new
 /// one.
 async fn write_atomically(path: &str, contents: &str) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;
+
     let temp = format!("{path}.tmp");
-    tokio::fs::write(&temp, contents).await?;
+    // `tokio::fs::write` creates with 0666 minus the umask, so 0644: any local
+    // user could read the printer's access code and go2rtc's API password out
+    // of this file. Created owner-only instead, and created fresh - a temp file
+    // left behind by a crash would keep whatever mode it was given, because the
+    // mode applies only when the file is created.
+    let _ = tokio::fs::remove_file(&temp).await;
+    let mut options = tokio::fs::OpenOptions::new();
+    options.write(true).create_new(true);
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    options.mode(0o600);
+    let mut file = options.open(&temp).await?;
+    file.write_all(contents.as_bytes()).await?;
+    file.flush().await?;
+    drop(file);
     tokio::fs::rename(&temp, path).await
 }
 
@@ -538,4 +558,29 @@ mod tests {
             "got:\n{config}"
         );
     }
+
+    /// The file holds a printer's access code and go2rtc's API password, so it
+    /// must not be readable by other local users. The second write matters: a
+    /// temp file left by a crash, created 0644, must not poison the next one.
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn the_go2rtc_config_is_written_owner_only() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("continuum-camera-{}", std::process::id()));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        let path = dir.join("go2rtc.yaml");
+        let path_str = path.to_str().unwrap();
+
+        std::fs::write(format!("{path_str}.tmp"), "stale").unwrap();
+        std::fs::set_permissions(format!("{path_str}.tmp"), std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o644)).unwrap();
+
+        write_atomically(path_str, "secret: yes\n").await.unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read_to_string(&path).unwrap(), "secret: yes\n");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::metadata(&path).unwrap().permissions().mode() & 0o777, 0o600);
+
+        write_atomically(path_str, "secret: again\n").await.unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::metadata(&path).unwrap().permissions().mode() & 0o777, 0o600);
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 55fd162..ab23b47 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let restart_go2rtc = std::sync::Arc::new(tokio::sync::Notify::new());
 
     // Built once, here, rather than inside the rebuild loop: the config is
-    // re-rendered every 30s and compared byte-for-byte to decide whether to
+    // re-rendered every few seconds and compared byte-for-byte to decide whether to
     // restart go2rtc, so a credential that changed per render would restart
     // it - and drop every viewer - on every tick.
     let camera_auth = camera::ApiAuth::new()?;
@@ -124,6 +124,16 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let (outbound, inbox) = uplink::channel();
 
     tokio::select! {
+        // Ends the process through a normal return, so the supervisors below
+        // are dropped and go2rtc's `kill_on_drop` actually fires. Without this
+        // arm SIGTERM - what `kill`, `docker stop` and a service manager all
+        // send - ends the process on the spot with no destructor run, and
+        // go2rtc is orphaned: it keeps :1984 and :8555 bound, so the restarted
+        // proxy cannot start its own, and it keeps a printer's access code in
+        // memory. Found when a test run left one behind.
+        _ = shutdown_requested() => {
+            info!("stop requested; exiting so go2rtc is stopped with us");
+        }
         _ = uplink::run(config.clone(), fleet.clone(), outbound.clone(), inbox) => {}
         _ = continuum_proxy::discovery::report::run(
             config.discovery.clone(),
@@ -157,6 +167,23 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+/// Resolves when the process is asked to stop: SIGTERM or SIGINT on Unix,
+/// Ctrl-C elsewhere.
+async fn shutdown_requested() {
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    {
+        use tokio::signal::unix::{SignalKind, signal};
+        if let Ok(mut terminate) = signal(SignalKind::terminate()) {
+            tokio::select! {
+                _ = terminate.recv() => {}
+                _ = tokio::signal::ctrl_c() => {}
+            }
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+    let _ = tokio::signal::ctrl_c().await;
+}
+
 /// Connects every configured printer concurrently (not one at a time -
 /// Bambu's auto-detect fallback alone can take several seconds per
 /// printer if it has to time out on MQTT v5 before trying v3.1.1;