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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 211eba0666 Keep host key trust in the vault, and make it withdrawable
ci / build and test (ubuntu) (push) Canceled after 0s
ci / build (windows) (push) Canceled after 0s
A fingerprint approved once is now approved on every machine and survives a
restart, because host key trust is a vault item type rather than a dictionary
that dies with the process. InMemoryKnownHostStore was what shipped, so the user
was asked to verify a fingerprint on every single connection — which is the gap
most likely to train somebody to click through the one warning that actually
matters. A warning that appears when nothing is wrong teaches that nothing is
ever wrong.

The fourth item type, and like the third it cost no sync logic: a row, an EF
configuration, a migration, a server kind; a secret, a codec, a merge, a cipher,
a repository facade and a session property. One row in the client registry. The
reconciler, the mirror, the repository, the outbox and the pull filter were not
touched. SyncEntityType.KnownHostKey and AadResourceType.KnownHostKey were
already reserved, so neither the contract nor docs/crypto.md changed.

One item per (host, port, algorithm), because a server legitimately offers
several host keys and which one gets negotiated is not ours to predict. Pinning
per endpoint would make an algorithm change indistinguishable from an attack.

The label is derived rather than stored, which is the one place this type
departs from the other three. A user never names a pin — there is nothing to
name it after but the three fields it already has — and a stored label is a
second copy of data that can disagree with the first after a merge. Relabel
returns the secret unchanged, and says why.

The store answers the handshake without touching the disk. SshNetConnectionFactory
calls FindAsync from inside SSH.NET's synchronous HostKeyReceived event, over
.GetAwaiter().GetResult(), which cannot be avoided; doing SQLite I/O plus an AEAD
open per lookup there would put the handshake behind the cache. So decryption
happens in OpenAsync and RefreshAsync — on unlock and after each sync pass,
exactly where the host and key lists already reload — and FindAsync is a
dictionary read under a lock with no await inside it.

That snapshot is where the one real bug in this change lived. Install originally
merged the live pins over the freshly loaded snapshot, to protect a TrustAsync
that had landed while the read was in flight. It would also have resurrected
every pin the user had just forgotten, and stopped a withdrawal made on another
machine from ever taking effect — the store would have healed the deletion back
into existence on every refresh. Replacing wholesale and discarding the read
instead is correct because writes are the rare case: every write bumps a
generation counter, and a refresh whose stamp is stale throws itself away rather
than winning. Nothing found this but reading the method again; it is the kind of
mistake that passes every test written before it, because the test that catches
it is the one the bug tells you to write.

Forgetting is new, and persistence is what made it mandatory rather than
convenient. A mismatch is a hard refusal with no way to continue — deliberately,
and that stays — so pinning a key permanently is also a way to make a
legitimately rebuilt server permanently unreachable. Before this change the pin
died at exit and the problem solved itself; now it does not.

ForgetAsync drops every algorithm for an endpoint, and it is reachable from the
host editor rather than from the warning. Putting it on the mismatch banner would
have made it two clicks from "this may be an attack" to "connect anyway", which
is the affordance the hard refusal exists to deny. The banner already promised
the key could be removed in the host's settings; that promise is now true and
points at the button.

Trust recorded on another machine becomes visible at the next sync pass, not
immediately, and that is a decision rather than an oversight. The failure it
produces is a first-contact prompt for a host a colleague approved a minute ago:
answerable, and self-correcting on the next pass. The opposite trade — polling
the vault on the handshake thread to close a one-minute window — buys nothing
and costs the property above. The dangerous direction is not reachable at all: a
pin recorded here enters the snapshot as part of recording it, so a refresh can
never discard a local trust decision.

The server learns nothing, and this is the item type where the temptation was
real. A plaintext host column would let a known-hosts screen sort and page
without decrypting anything, and it would hand the operator the map of every
user's estate — assembled, as these things are, out of facts that are each
individually harmless. A host row concedes an address only when relay is
switched on and the database refuses to store one otherwise (ADR 0004); there is
no equivalent excuse here. The table has no column to put one in, and the EF
configuration says so where somebody adding it would be standing.

Two things about the migration in this commit are worth knowing, because both
came out of getting it wrong.

It was hand-written first, including its .Designer.cs, and that version is not
what is here. Verifying it turned up something that had been quietly assumed:
Migration_AppliedCleanly_WithNoPendingModelChanges does not check the model
snapshot. It asserts that migrations applied and that none are pending, which a
wrong snapshot satisfies perfectly — the snapshot only matters as the diff base
for the *next* migrations add, so an incorrect one passes the whole suite and
corrupts the following migration instead. The real check is to generate a
throwaway migration and confirm its Up and Down come out empty. They did, and
the generated designer was byte-identical to the transcribed one across all 1255
lines, so the hand-written work was in fact correct.

Then dotnet ef migrations remove --no-build deleted the wrong migration. With
--no-build the tool reads the previously compiled assembly rather than the files
on disk, and the probe had just changed which migration was last, so it removed
AddKnownHostKeyItem and reverted the snapshot. That turned out to leave exactly
the right diff base, so the migration here is EF's own output rather than a
transcription — a better outcome than the one that was interrupted, arrived at
by accident. Never pass --no-build to migrations remove.

Mutation tested, all three sabotages detected: dropping the algorithm from
KnownHostIdentity.For, merging instead of replacing in Install, and pointing
KnownHostKeyCipher at PortForward — which is what a cast from the wire enum's 10
would silently produce. Each is caught both by an assertion about the mechanism
and by a behavioural test that never mentions it; the resource-type sabotage is
caught by the table from d10a38d and nothing else, which is what that table is
for.

The end-to-end slice now approves the real sshd's host key through the vault,
pushes it, and reads it back on the second simulated machine — including a check
that the server learned no address, and that the second machine answers null for
an algorithm never offered.

845 tests green. Zero warnings, dotnet format clean.

Three things are deliberately not fixed. A tombstone queued over a create that
was never pushed is refused by the server as Invalid and parked; that is
pre-existing for all four item types, and the fix belongs in
VaultItemRepository.DeleteAsync rather than here. Deleting a host, or changing
its address, orphans its pins — both are correct as trust decisions, since a pin
describes an endpoint and not a bookmark, but nothing surfaces the leftovers.
And there is no interface listing pins at all: trust is created at the connect
prompt and withdrawn in the host editor. A known-hosts list is where the orphans
would become visible, and it wants the vault column rework first, for the same
reason the credential editor does.
2026-07-30 11:00:39 +02:00
jaap-jan e24012b039 Sync credentials as a vault item type, and bind one to a host
Closes the largest remaining M1 gap in the data layer: a username and password
can live in the vault, sync between machines, and be named by a host as how it
authenticates. What is not here is the interface for creating one — see the end
of this message.

The third item type, and the first one that cost almost nothing to add. Server:
a VaultCredential row, an EF configuration, a migration, and a CredentialKind.
Client: a secret, a codec, a merge, a cipher, a kind, a repository facade and a
session property. No new reconciliation logic, no change to the sync engine, no
client cache migration. That was the whole point of the item-kind seam, and this
is the evidence it holds.

The narrowest type of the three on plaintext, and not for symmetry. A host has a
deliberate concession — the relay needs an address it can resolve. A key has a
fingerprint, public by nature, which this client still declines to send. A
password has no part that is safe to expose: not its length, not a hash, not a
hint. So CredentialKind refuses every plaintext field there is, hydrates none,
and the table has no column to put one in.

HostSecret.CredentialId is the password counterpart of SshKeyId, and the two are
mutually exclusive. SSH itself would happily try a key and fall back to a
password, but a host naming both leaves "how does this authenticate?" without a
single answer — the interface, the connect path and the user would each be free
to guess differently. TryValidate refuses it. One consequence was not
anticipated: "a full host" stops being a coherent idea, which is what broke
AFullHost_RoundTrips and is now written into that test.

The schema version became a ladder rather than a maximum: credential-bound is 3,
key-bound is 2, neither is still 1. Adding credentials therefore does not drag
every key-bound host in every vault onto a version that clients understanding
keys perfectly well would refuse to edit. A test pins exactly that, because it is
the property the whole content-dependent-version rule exists to provide, and the
obvious implementation would quietly lose it.

Two tests had become false and said so:

- Push_AnUnsupportedEntityType_IsInvalidNotAFailedBatch used Credential as its
  example of a type this server does not implement. It now asks the server's own
  registry what is still missing, so it cannot go stale again, and skips with a
  reason if that set ever empties.
- ThePullFilterNamesEveryTypeThisBuildSynchronises pinned the exact list, which
  is what it is for.

Also fixes ten nullable warnings — eight in SyncEndpointTests, two in a test file
added earlier today. Neither set was introduced here; both were invisible until
an unrelated change forced their project to recompile, which means the
zero-warning claims made earlier in this work only ever covered what happened to
be rebuilt.

777 tests green. Zero warnings, dotnet format clean.

Not done, and deliberately: the credential interface. The vault column is 340
pixels wide and already holds two lists and two editors, kept from clipping its
own buttons at the window's minimum height only by the one-editor-at-a-time rule
added earlier today. A third list and a third editor would recreate that defect
rather than avoid it, so the column needs a shape decision first. Credentials
sync; they cannot yet be created in the interface.
2026-07-29 21:09:08 +02:00
jaap-jan e93acc856f Sync SSH keys as a vault item type, over a shared write path
The private key now lives in the vault as ciphertext, syncs between a user's
machines, and is stored on the server so it can later be shared — sharing
itself needs M3's signed grants; this is the storage that makes it possible.

More was already reserved than expected: SyncEntityType.SshKey,
CryptoSpec.AadResourceType.SshKey, ChangeEntityType.SshKey,
SyncPlaintextFields.PublicKeyFingerprint, and SshPrivateKeyCredential wired
through PrivateKeyFile over a MemoryStream so a key never touches disk. The
frozen contract and crypto spec needed no change at all.

What was missing was the server. Rather than copy the push path per item type
— version check, change-log append, exactly-once receipt, advisory lock — it
is now written once over IVaultItem, with everything type-specific behind
IItemKind: which table, which plaintext columns, and what those columns must
satisfy. Ten copies of that logic by M5, with a fix applied to nine, is the
outcome this avoids. The refactor landed first with no behaviour change, so
all 66 existing Host tests were the regression net, and they stayed green.

An interface rather than a base class, deliberately: EF Core maps an
inheritance hierarchy when it can see one, so a mapped base would quietly
become a table-per-hierarchy discriminator across item types — the very
arrangement per-type tables exist to avoid.

ssh_key mirrors host and pointedly has no relay trio. That is the argument
for separate tables rather than one wide item table: the columns a host needs
are columns a key must never have, and a shared table could only make them
nullable and trust the code. A key carrying a relay target is refused with a
reason rather than silently dropped.

A key hydrates PlaintextFields as null, not an empty instance — the
difference is visible on the wire, because an all-defaults instance still
serialises "relayEnabled": false and invites a reader to believe the setting
exists and is off. It has none.

Two things now defended by tests rather than by comments. Each kind states
its own ChangeEntityType instead of casting: the two enums agree numerically
but do not even share member names (Host against SshHost), and filing key
changes under the host type is silent sync corruption — sabotaging it fails
three tests. And EntityTypeAlignmentTests asserts the two enums stay aligned
in both directions and in count, which nothing did before.

The client half is next: SshKeySecret, its codec and merge, the cipher, a
repository, and the UI. Note for that work — SyncEntityType.SshKey is 3 while
AadResourceType.SshKey is 6, so a cast between them would seal key ciphertext
as a vault and nothing would fail.
2026-07-29 15:14:06 +02:00
jaap-jan 3829217e8a Add sync engine: cursors, push/pull, and the advisory-lock ordering proof (M1)
The vault write path. Push is the only way items change — no per-entity POST/PUT/DELETE —
so one place enforces revisions, the change log and access control.

The concurrency hazard, now proven rather than asserted:
bigserial assigns sequence values when the INSERT runs, not at commit, so transaction A
can take sequence 5 while B takes 6 and commits first. A reader polling in between sees
only 6, advances past 5, and never learns about it. AdvisoryLockOrderingTests reproduces
that gap WITHOUT the lock first — otherwise the with-lock test proves nothing, since it
would pass just as happily if the interleaving never occurred — then shows
pg_advisory_xact_lock removes it, and that 12 concurrent writers produce no gaps.

Cursors are opaque and HMAC-tagged, and carry their vault id. 29 unit tests cover the
rejections, which are the point: an accepted-but-wrong cursor is silent data loss, strictly
worse than an error a client can resync from. Rejected: tampered tag, tampered payload,
foreign signing key, a legitimately-issued cursor from another vault, truncation, and
hostile input (never throws — cursors come from clients).

Push semantics:
- 200 even on partial failure, with per-operation status, so one stale item cannot block
  everything a client queued while offline.
- Conflict returns the server's current row for client-side three-way merge. The server
  cannot merge ciphertext, so never last-writer-wins.
- opId receipts make retries exactly-once per operation, not per batch — a client retrying
  a partially-overlapping batch after a timeout would otherwise double-apply what landed.
- A tombstone beats a late upsert, and delete clears hostname/port: leaving the address
  would keep the server able to resolve a host the user believes they deleted.
- Relay field validation mirrors the DB CHECK so a bad request is a clear Invalid rather
  than a constraint violation surfacing as a 500.

Authorization goes through IVaultAccessService, which returns the same answer for "absent"
and "forbidden" — distinguishing them is an existence oracle for other tenants' vault ids.
Team vaults are explicitly denied until M3 rather than falling through to a permissive
default. JIT provisioning keys on (issuer, subject), never email, and handles the
concurrent-first-request race via the unique index.

Renamed two domain types: Host -> SshHost, because Host collides with
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Host in every file of a web project, and SyncChange ->
VaultChange to stop it colliding with the Contracts DTO of the same name. Aliasing at every
use site would have been permanent friction.

Worth noting: `ef migrations has-pending-model-changes` reported clean after those renames
even though the snapshot still said "DodoSSH.Domain.Host" — it diffs tables, not CLR type
names. The snapshot was regenerated and the emitted DDL diffed against the previous
artifacts/schema/v0.1.sql to confirm the rename produced no schema change.

Also removed ConfigureAwait(false) from test methods: xUnit1030 flags it as bypassing
parallelization limits, which is why MA0004 is suppressed in test projects.

Verified: 0 warnings on a clean rebuild, 146 tests pass (up from 122), format clean.

Endpoint-level tests are the immediate next step: they need a WireMock OIDC/JWKS stub and
real JWT minting, so the "wrong user is denied" matrix does not exist yet for these two
routes. The service-layer authorization and the concurrency property are covered.
2026-07-28 15:02:02 +02:00
jaap-jan eaf68c86b0 Add data model, DbContext and initial migration (M1)
Schema for identity, vaults, grants, hosts and the sync change log, verified against a
real PostgreSQL 18 container rather than an in-memory provider: partial unique indexes,
CHECK constraints, citext and identity-always columns are all provider behaviour that an
in-memory fake would not exercise.

Invariants pushed into the database, so they hold even when application code has a bug:
- ck_host_relay_target is a security boundary, not tidiness. A host may carry a plaintext
  hostname and port ONLY when relay is deliberately enabled. Both directions are tested;
  the important one is that relay-disabled hosts cannot carry an address, since otherwise
  a bug would silently give the server infrastructure visibility it was never granted.
- ck_vault_owner: exactly one of owner_user_id or team_id, or permission resolution would
  have no defined answer.
- ck_vault_key_grant_recipient: member grants name a user; recovery and escrow grants are
  wrapped to a key and must not.
- ck_user_key_wrap_kdf: a password-derived wrap without its parameters is permanently
  unopenable, so a partial write is rejected outright.

Present from the first migration on purpose:
- GrantKind (Member/Recovery/Escrow). Recovery cannot be bolted on later — every vault
  created before it existed would be unrecoverable by design.
- team and team_membership, though team features are M3. Adding them later would mean
  introducing a foreign key on a live vault table.
- Host.ContentKeyId, reserved for per-item content keys wrapped to individual users.
- user_key as its own table, so key rotation does not require altering the user row.

Two things verified rather than assumed:
- Npgsql's UseXminAsConcurrencyToken helper no longer exists in EF 10, so xmin is mapped
  directly in XminConcurrency. The generated migration *looks* like it creates an xmin
  column; it does not. Confirmed by inspecting pg_attribute (attnum -2, a system column)
  and by grepping the emitted DDL. A test pins both, because had it created a real column
  PostgreSQL would have rejected the name.
- EF Core is now pinned centrally. The Npgsql provider asks for 10.0.4 while
  EntityFrameworkCore.Design pulls 10.0.10, and because Design is PrivateAssets=all that
  higher version does not flow to referencing projects — producing a CS1705 in any test
  project referencing Infrastructure.

Also commits artifacts/schema/v0.1.sql, the idempotent script, as the baseline for future
upgrade tests.

Verified: 0 warnings, 122 tests pass (27 new against Postgres), format clean.
2026-07-28 14:17:37 +02:00