A Spelunk API key reaches one organisation, so a server elsewhere - oc-linux in Orange Climate - was
refused before it reached the agent. Each device now signs in to a Spelunk once, under Settings ->
Security -> Spelunk or from a Spelunk host's editor: the OAuth authorization code flow with PKCE for a
native app (RFC 8252), with Spelunk as the authorization server. The browser opens Spelunk's
/api/app-sign-in/authorize with a loopback redirect (the app's own scheme on Android), the person signs
in there however they normally do and allows "DodoSSH on <device>", and the code is redeemed at
/api/app-sign-in/token for an app session token. That token opens terminals in every organisation its
person is in, with the role they have on each server at the time; tunnel tickets send no organisation.
The sign-in stays on the device: sealed in the local cache under the LocalCacheKey (AAD resource type
18, bound to its row), never synced, wiped with the cache, and only ever sent to the Spelunk it came
from. A 401 from Spelunk forgets it; SIGN OUT ends it there and here, and so does signing out of
DodoSSH. Before every Spelunk connection DodoSSH asks its own identity provider whether its sign-in
still stands (a forced refresh, at most once a minute), and an account it refuses is signed out of
DodoSSH and of every Spelunk on the device.
A route names no key any more: Spelunk hosts are written at host schema 11, which an older build shows
read-only and asks to be updated for, and a payload that still names a key credential decodes with the
id skipped. The SpelunkKey item type is gone: SyncEntityType 14, ChangeEntityType 14 and AAD type 17
are retired, the server drops spelunk_key and its change-log rows, and the client cache drops its
cached items, outbox entries and conflicts of that type. A link still never starts a sign-in: from a
Spelunk this device is not signed in to it opens the editor, which offers to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A Spelunk route can now say that Spelunk signs the user in. Each connection makes a throwaway Ed25519 key pair in memory, sends the public half with the ticket request ({"signIn":{"publicKey":...}}), and logs in as the account Spelunk names (root when it names none) with that key, over the agent's one-connection sshd. Such a host needs no username, key, credential or typed password: the editor greys the login out and saves none, the password box and sheet stay down, and shells, file transfer and port forwards all take the key and account from the route. The flag is nested in the spelunk object at host schema version 10; hosts without it keep their version-9 bytes.
A dodossh://spelunk/connect link now connects: to the personal vault's host tagged spelunk for that server, or, when a saved host already sends an API key to that Spelunk, to a new sign-in host saved in the personal vault with that key and the spelunk tag (made if missing). Only the first link from a Spelunk opens the editor, pre-filled with sign-in ticked and the tag on, so the key credential is chosen once and never sent to an address no saved host already sends it to.
A server Spelunk manages runs Spelunk's agent, which keeps a connection open
to Spelunk. A host can now be marked "Connect through Spelunk": a connect
asks Spelunk for a ticket, opens a WebSocket, and the agent connects to the
SSH server on the machine's own loopback, so the server needs no open SSH
port. Shells and file transfers both go this way.
Client, in Client.Session:
- SpelunkTunnel implements Spelunk's contract: POST
{api}/api/servers/{id}/tunnel-tickets with the API key as a bearer token
and {"port":N}, then a WebSocket to the API's own origin at the path
Spelunk returns, offering spelunk.tunnel.v1 and ticket.<ticket>. After the
upgrade the relay's RelayBridge carries the bytes unchanged. Every refusal
is a sentence: 401 key, 403 role (with Spelunk's detail), 404 server, 503
agent not connected, 401/503 on the upgrade, and close codes 4502 (agent
could not reach the port, or is too old: "Unknown stream kind") and 4503
(agent disconnected). Only a path is taken from the ticket response, so it
cannot send the ticket to another host.
- IConnectionRoute is what RelayRoute and SpelunkTunnelRoute have in common,
so the connect path has one shape for both.
Host model: HostSecret.Spelunk is a SpelunkRoute (normalised API base,
server id, and the id of the credential holding the API key), at payload
schema version 8. It is written last and only when present, so every other
host keeps its bytes and its version; an older build reads a Spelunk host
as read-only rather than dropping the route. A half-written route makes the
item unreadable instead of dialled. It merges as one value and is exclusive
with RelayEnabled. The API address must be https, or http to loopback.
The API key is an ordinary keychain credential whose password is the key,
referenced by id, so it is encrypted, synced, merged and rotated like every
other secret, one credential serves every server in the organisation, and
the used-by list and deletion warning count it.
Routing: OpenRouteAsync is the one decision for both transports. A Spelunk
host is never dialled directly, never probed after a failure, and a route
that hung up with a reason replaces SSH.NET's transport error.
UI: a "Connect through Spelunk" card beside the relay card in the desktop
drawer and the phone's editor; ticking one unticks the other.
dodossh://spelunk/connect?api=&server=&name=&host= links:
- SpelunkLink parses them strictly and never reads a credential from one.
- Program reads a link from the arguments; a launch that finds DodoSSH
running passes it down the doorbell as "dodossh.open-link <link>", which
the running instance parses again, bounded, and otherwise ignores whole.
The plain come-forward ring is unchanged.
- A saved host routed to that server on that Spelunk is connected to;
otherwise the editor opens on a new, unsaved Spelunk host, with the key
pre-chosen only when another host already sends it to that Spelunk. A link
that arrives while locked waits for the unlock.
- Windows registers the scheme under HKCU from Velopack's install and update
hooks and removes it on uninstall only if it still points at this
executable; the macOS plist template declares CFBundleURLTypes and the app
takes the URL from Avalonia's activation event; the Linux desktop entry
gets %u and MimeType=x-scheme-handler/dodossh.
laurensandClaude Opus 5.5
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