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jaap-jan 8209f15741 Let a session's transport say what it negotiated
ISshConnection and ISftpSession both carry Cipher now — the server-to-client
algorithm off SSH.NET's own ConnectionInfo, captured once because a rekey is
not an event that library raises — and TerminalWorkspace.GetSessionFacts hands
that plus the host key's algorithm back per session, without ever handing over
the connection itself. Nothing reads either yet; the status bar that will is
the next commit.
2026-08-08 20:54:14 +02:00
jaap-jan 5cbda59a34 Merge branch 'main' into claude/host-management-ui-plan-7f20ab
Seven files needed a hand. Most were two branches adding something in the same
place, but three were one branch changing what the other had moved or renamed,
and those are the ones worth reading.

The shell keeps both new fields and both constructor lines: the connection
recorder this branch built and the teams view model main did. Where main put a
teams load inside OnScreenChanged, it now sits beside the logs refresh rather
than inside RaiseSurfaceState — this branch extracted that notification block
and it is called from two properties, so a screen-specific side effect in there
would fire on every terminal switch as well.

Main gave four row types a vault id and a vault name, and this branch had moved
one of them — KnownHostRowViewModel — into its own file when the pinned keys
became a screen. Git resolved that as "deleted here, modified there" and took
the delete, which compiles as long as nobody looks: the moved copy still had
the two-argument constructor and the call site had grown to four. Carried over
by hand, along with the ordering the pins list now does on them.

The status line's quiet rule was the subtle one. Main extracted it into
IsWorthReporting; this branch had changed the same condition to read item
counts rather than raw ones, because every user action queues a log entry a
moment later and this machine reads its own entries back on the next pull. Take
main's structure and the merge builds, passes, and silently restores a bug this
branch existed partly to fix — every save's message overwritten a second after
it appears. The method now reads PulledItems and PushedItems, with the reason
in its remarks.

Two conflicts were prose that had gone stale rather than code. The keychain
screen's comment said team vaults are refused by the server's access service,
which was true when it was written and is not now; main's replacement stands,
in this branch's vocabulary. The design-gaps row for groups was claimed by both
— real host groups here, per-vault headings there — and they are different
things, so both rows stay and the difference is stated: a group is a shelf the
user chose, a vault is who can read the item.

One defect the tests found and the compiler could not. Generating a key opens
the same editor as pasting one, but not through NewKey — so it never set the
target vault main added, and a generated key was filed into whatever vault was
edited last, or none. Both key-generation tests failed on it. Fixed where the
editor opens, with the reason recorded there.

One gap is left deliberately and is written down rather than half-built. Hosts,
keys, credentials and pins are read across every vault this session holds a key
for; groups are read from the active vault alone, so a host a teammate filed
shows under UNGROUPED. Nothing is lost or misfiled — it is what the sidebar
already shows for a group that has been deleted — but closing it needs a vault
id on every group row for rename and delete, and a way to tell two vaults'
identically-named groups apart under a layout with one heading per group. Both
are worth doing and neither is a merge's business. It is in the remarks on
ReloadGroupsAsync and in docs/design-import-gaps.md.

dotnet build, dotnet test and dotnet format --verify-no-changes are all clean:
1282 tests, including the end-to-end suite against real containers.
2026-07-31 20:44:39 +02:00
jaap-jan d07b336868 Free the terminal from the Hosts screen, and fill the room it left
The WebView sat inside the Hosts grid, so navigating to Files or the keychain
hid every open terminal and the strip that named them. A connection you had
opened was invisible from four of the five screens. The window now has two
surfaces rather than one: a nav rail that says which page you are on, and a
terminal strip that is always there and switches the whole content area to a
shell. Screen keeps meaning "which page" and never becomes a sixth kind of
page, which is why this is two properties instead of one enum with a terminal
member in it.

Every screen lives inside one wrapper panel that collapses when a terminal is
showing. That is not tidiness — the WebView hosts a Win32 child window that
composites above everything Avalonia draws, so a screen left visible over its
rectangle is a screen sliced in half, and this window has shipped that defect
once already. One decision point, IsTerminalShowing, and a nested panel rather
than five compound bindings nobody would remember to extend.

The focus choreography is the part no test in this repo can see. Every reveal
path now focuses in the same turn the WebView appeared, so all three of them
post at DispatcherPriority.Loaded and let the native control re-push its bounds
first. Going the other way had a real bug: the screen-changed branch called a
bare Focus() where it had to release the keyboard from the native child, so
switching from a terminal to Files silently ate the first keystrokes. Rare
before this commit and the primary gesture after it.

The tab strip grew a cross inside each tab, a plus that opens the quick-connect
palette, and middle-click close. Nested buttons are correct here: Avalonia
handles a left press on the cross and deliberately does not handle other
buttons, which is exactly what lets middle-click bubble up from the cross as
well as the tab. The test is PointerUpdateKind rather than
IsMiddleButtonPressed, because the latter reports button state and is also true
for a left press made while the middle button happens to be held. The handler
is on the tab and not the strip, so the background closes nothing by
construction. Plus opens the palette rather than a flyout, since a menu
dropping into the WebView's rectangle may or may not composite above a child
HWND and this repo does not make rendering claims it has not photographed.

Everything a user reads now says keychain. The wire, the database and the
cryptographic spec still say vault, deliberately: renaming those is a migration
and a protocol change for a word. That split is written down rather than left
to be rediscovered as an inconsistency.

Four things that were squeezed into the keychain's category rail, or into
nothing at all, now have screens. Pinned host keys get one, with fingerprints
never truncated and a filter that matches them, because comparing what you have
against what the operator published is the whole workflow; the approved date is
read out of the item's UUIDv7 rather than added as a column, and says so, since
it means first approval and not last use. Keys can be generated in the client,
which needed the openssh-key-v1 container written by hand — there is no BCL or
NSec helper, and the PKCS#8 route is unverified in the SSH library this uses.
The armour carries no passphrase: encrypting it needs bcrypt_pbkdf, which is
Blowfish with a swizzle, in a project whose crypto is otherwise entirely
libsodium, for a protection the key's own remarks argue is redundant inside a
vault. Generation fills the existing editor and stops, so SAVE stays the one
thing that writes. ~/.ssh/config can be imported behind a preview that is
ticked per row and writes nothing until the button; IdentityFile records the
path and imports the key material only on an explicit opt-in, because reading
somebody's private key into a vault is precisely the act this product exists to
make deliberate. Match blocks and ProxyJump are reported rather than obeyed —
one cannot be evaluated statically and the other has nothing behind it to route
with, and a preview that implied otherwise would be worse than one that admits
it.

Files can be dragged in all four directions that are honestly available. Remote
to Explorer does not ship and is not pretended to: the shell wants the bytes
during the drop, which needs a virtual file and a native COM data object,
outside what Avalonia offers. Note for the next person that Avalonia 12
replaced the drag model outright — DataObject and DataFormats are no-op stubs
and IDataObject is not in the reference assembly, so every tutorial written for
11 does not compile here.

Hosts can be grouped, flat and never nested. A parent id merged as a scalar
lets two offline clients each re-parent A under B and B under A, producing a
cycle inside an encrypted payload that no server can police and every reader
would have to detect for ever. Membership lives in that payload rather than in
the one plaintext concession ADR 0001 allows, whose test is that the relay
cannot function without it — nothing on the server reads a group, so what
plaintext would hand over is a clustering of the estate for nothing. The
plaintext column reserved for it is dropped, provably always null, and the
server now refuses a client that sends one; it was never populated, was copied
on apply, and was not cleared on delete, so a group id would have outlived the
host it described.

Snippets insert through xterm rather than through the pump, because xterm is
the only thing that knows whether the remote has bracketed paste on, and that
is what makes a shell treat embedded newlines as text instead of as execute.
The host process moves opaque bytes and never parses output, so it would have
to guess, and guessing wrong runs every line. Running is off by default and the
copy says the text goes into whatever is there — the terminal has no notion of
being at a prompt, and may be in vi or at a password prompt with echo off, so
the Enter the user presses themselves is the entire safety property.

Connections and keychain changes are recorded as synced encrypted items, which
is what makes them auditable by a team later and costs the server knowledge of
connection rate and timing from row counts alone. ADR 0001 already concedes it
cannot hide that class of metadata; the trade is now written into it rather
than left implicit. A connection entry is written once, at close, which is what
makes a synced log tractable: nothing to merge, one outbox row, no chance of
colliding with itself. Live sessions come from memory, not from the log. The
write is void by contract and posts to a bounded channel, because putting an
encrypt-and-write on the teardown path of every session is how closing the
application comes to take four seconds. A ticket opened before a lock still
closes afterwards, since a shell outlives the vault. The activity log hooks the
one generic repository every kind writes through, so it cannot miss a caller —
which is also why the log kinds themselves declare they are not audited, or the
first entry would write an entry about writing an entry. It records the names
of the fields that changed and never their values; a log with an old password
in it would be a plaintext credential store with no vault around it. Retention
is 90 days or 5,000 entries, whichever bites first, pruned on the sync loop
rather than on a second timer.

That log traffic then broke the status line, which is worth recording because
the fix is a shape and not a patch: background sync counted its own log rows as
pushed items, so the quiet rule stopped being quiet and every action's message
was overwritten a second later by a sync report. The report now separates log
rows from user items and the rule reads the latter.

S3 buckets appear as a remote in the file browser, behind the same interface an
SFTP session implements, so the queue and both panes did not have to learn what
they are talking to. Uploads go through a pipe, because the queue wants to
write and the SDK wants to read; memory is then bounded by the part size
instead of buffering a file to disk twice.

Finally, the Windows device key store moved out of the session project, which
was the one thing keeping it from being portable — everything else in it is
platform-neutral, and a Windows CNG dependency in the middle of the vault code
meant a second head could not reference it without dragging Windows along. The
seam that made the move free was already there. docs/android-port.md is the
audit behind that: what ports, what does not, in order of cost, the four
decisions taken, and an inventory of every screen and state the interface has
to carry, written so a design can be made from it directly.

dotnet build, dotnet test and dotnet format --verify-no-changes are all clean:
1240 tests at zero warnings, including the end-to-end suite against real
containers. The manual checks that headless Avalonia cannot make — the drag
from Explorer, a generated key against a real host, twelve tabs at the minimum
window width — are listed in docs/manual-checks.md and are still outstanding.
2026-07-31 20:30:05 +02:00
jaap-jan 03e902a2d2 Colour the host's file rows by what their mode says
ci / build and test (push) Failing after 2s
The remote pane's NAME column was blue for a directory and plain for everything
else, and the PERMS column was faint whatever it said. Two colours now come off
the mode, split across those two columns on purpose: NAME says what a row is,
so a file with an execute bit is green there, and PERMS says what is notable
about how it is set, so a file anyone may write to is amber over the characters
that actually say so. Because the two never compete for one TextBlock, a
world-writable executable shows both facts instead of one winning an argument.
No new blue is spent, which is what App.axaml asks for: it reserves blue for a
directory, a distinct scope, and calls it deliberately rare.

Both are files only, and each exclusion is a wrong answer avoided rather than a
case not got to. Every symbolic link is lrwxrwxrwx by convention and its mode
governs nothing — what may be written is the target, whose mode an lstat
listing never fetched — so amber there would fire on every link on the host. A
world-writable directory is /tmp, made safe by a sticky bit PosixMode does not
render, and warning about it would be warning about the half of the mode that
is on screen while the half that answers the warning is not. And the execute
bit on a directory means "may be searched", which is true of very nearly every
directory a host has, so green there would paint the whole pane and mark
nothing.

The two questions read back the string PosixMode wrote rather than carrying its
nine booleans through SftpEntry as well. That is the point rather than a
shortcut: two representations of one fact is how a row ends up coloured for a
bit the column beside it does not show. A mode of the wrong length answers
false rather than throwing, since these decide a colour and a listing is not
worth failing over one.

The amber is Warn rather than WarnText, which is the muted amber a warning card
writes its sentences in. At 9.5px against TextFaint that one is a shade rather
than a signal, and a marker nobody notices is the same as no marker.

The local pane is untouched, on the grounds it already gives for having no
PERMS column at all: a POSIX mode is not a fact about a file on Windows, and
colouring one there would invent exactly what the column declines to print.

Twenty cases in RemotePathTests, which needs no container — the execute bit in
any of the three triples rather than only the owner's, the others-write bit
alone, a mode of the wrong length, and the file-only rule for both questions
from all three kinds. dotnet format is clean and the app and layout suites pass
at 109 and 35.
2026-07-31 12:17:56 +02:00
jaap-jan 04faef6597 Move files to and from a host over SFTP
M2's file transfer, built bottom-up: an SFTP session on the SSH layer, a
transfer queue in a project of its own, and the two-pane browser the design
asked for replacing the screen that said it did not exist. Remote listings
carry names, sizes, modification times and a real drwxr-xr-x — nothing in this
repository could render a POSIX mode before — and the queue moves one file at a
time with progress, throughput and resume.

The design import assumed this would be an SFTP subsystem channel on
ISshConnection, beside the shell on a transport that is already up. SSH.NET
does not offer that: SftpClient derives from BaseClient and owns its own
transport, and there is no supported way to hand it an SshClient's session. So
file transfer opens a second authenticated connection, and it is named for
that rather than dressed up as a channel — OpenSftpAsync is on
ISftpSessionFactory, not on a connection. The difference is visible to a user:
the host records a second login, and a host whose password is typed each time
asks for it again on this screen. It goes through the same host key gate, the
same pin and the same two refusals a shell does, so a fingerprint approved for
a terminal is approved here and one approved here reaches the other machines
with the next sync. docs/design-import-gaps.md is corrected, and marked as the
one row where what shipped differs from what it predicted.

Nothing is written at its final name until it is complete. Every transfer goes
to a .dodossh-part file beside its destination and is renamed into place at the
end, so an interrupted transfer can never be mistaken for a finished one —
which matters most for what this screen is actually for, which is copying a
build artefact onto a server and then running it. A destination that already
exists is refused outright rather than overwritten: the queue has no way to
ask, and silently replacing a file somebody's process is serving is the worse
of the two failures. The remote pane has DELETE and MKDIR so that refusal is
not a dead end. A test against the container pins the assumption underneath all
of this — that SFTP's rename does not clobber.

Resume works within a run of the application and not across a restart, and the
limit is deliberate rather than unfinished. Nothing records which source wrote
a part file, and resuming one on the strength of its name matching is how a
corrupt artefact gets delivered with nothing reporting a failure; a part file
found at startup is started over. Making it survive a restart needs the
preferences store this client still has not got. The offset a resume starts at
is the part file's own length rather than the transfer's recorded progress: a
cancellation can land between a write completing and the counter moving, and
only one of those two is a fact about the bytes that are there.

The queue and its connection outlive a lock, as shells do. LockAsync already
argues that locking must not destroy work in flight — it is what somebody does
when they walk away from the machine, which is exactly when a long transfer is
most likely to be running — so TransfersViewModel is created once and the vault
is attached on unlock and detached on lock. What locking takes is the host
list, and it has to: those rows carry decrypted secrets.

DodoSSH.Client.Transfer is a new project rather than more of Client.Ssh. The
two answer different questions — one is about reaching a host, the other about
moving bytes and what to do when moving them stops halfway — and this is the
only client project that deliberately touches the local filesystem.

Three defects the tests found, none of which review would have. SftpPath.Name
answered an empty string for the root. NavigateRemoteAsync wrapped itself in
the busy guard, so navigating from inside another command did nothing at all
and the remote pane simply stayed empty after connecting, with no failure
anywhere to explain it. And opening an SFTP session per test made two
handshakes per test — this client learns a host key by being refused — which
pushed the SSH assembly past sshd's MaxStartups and failed a different few
unrelated tests each run; the session is shared through the fixture now, with
the reason written where the next person will hit it.

1004 tests green across 18 projects, 24 of them new: the SFTP subsystem against
the OpenSSH container, the queue against a real temporary directory and a fake
host, and three more layout measurements because a screen this window has never
laid out is a screen never checked.

Not verified: the screen has not been looked at running. The layout harness
measures it at the window's minimum in three shapes, which is the class of
defect that has shipped here before, but reaching it in the application needs
the compose stack, the migrations, the API and a browser sign-in. What is still
absent — the status bar's transfer count, dragging between the panes,
transferring a directory, and sftp over a bastion — is in
docs/design-import-gaps.md.
2026-07-31 11:07:29 +02:00