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jaap-jan 70b3290a77 Bind an SSH key to a host instead of picking one per connection
A host now names the key it authenticates with, or none, as a field in its
encrypted payload — so the choice follows the host to every machine rather than
being made again each time somebody connects. The per-connection "Use key"
switch it replaces was a stopgap for not having this, and keeping both would
have left two mechanisms answering one question.

This is the first payload schema version bump, and it does not work the obvious
way. A host is written at the *lowest* schema version that can represent it: one
that binds a key is written at 2, one that does not is still written at 1, byte
for byte as it was before the field existed. The version is what makes an older
client refuse to edit an item, so stamping 2 unconditionally would mean
upgrading a single machine and renaming a single host made that host uneditable
on every machine that had not upgraded yet. Confining the cost to the hosts that
actually use the field is the difference between a team noticing a bump and a
team being blocked by one. HostSecretCodec states the rule so the next field
added follows it, and a test pins the version-1 bytes against a literal rather
than against the codec, because the claim is about history: every host already in
every vault has to re-encode to what it encoded before, or the first sync after
an upgrade would push the whole vault as changed.

A binding is an item id, not a copy of the key — a second copy of a private key
is one that goes stale — which means the reference can dangle when the key is
deleted on another machine. Both places that meets are handled the same way, by
refusing rather than falling back:

- Connecting to a host whose key is gone is refused outright. A host somebody
  deliberately set up for key-only access must not quietly start offering a
  password.
- Opening such a host in the editor keeps the binding, selected, labelled as
  missing. The quieter version of the same failure is someone editing the port
  and saving, silently converting the host to password authentication with
  nothing ever having said so.

Two things this found by being falsified:

- The merge was untested for the new field, and "just take the server's value"
  passed the entire suite — a local binding change would have been discarded with
  no conflict recorded. HostSecretMergeTests already had a test written for
  exactly this class of omission; it simply had not been extended.

- Adding a nullable field exposed a defect in HostSecretMerge.Field: it
  short-circuited when the discarded value was null, so the formatter never ran
  for the one case where null is a value rather than an absence, and a field
  whose absence has a name could not report it. Now the formatter always runs,
  and "no key" appears in the conflict log where an empty string used to.

Also fixes eight nullable warnings in SyncEndpointTests left by the server-side
SSH key commit, which had omitted the null-forgiving operator the rest of that
file uses. They were invisible until an unrelated change forced the project to
recompile.

The end-to-end slice now binds its host to its key, so a schema-version-2
payload goes through the real API, the real PostgreSQL and back out on a second
machine.

745 tests green. Zero warnings, dotnet format clean.
2026-07-29 20:42:51 +02:00
jaap-jan e3fd3e1728 Sync and authenticate with SSH keys on the client
Completes the client half of SSH keys: they sync alongside hosts, appear in
their own list, and can be selected to authenticate a connection instead of
typing a password.

The reconciler and the repository were Host-typed throughout, so the choice was
to generalise them or to keep a second copy per item type. Generalised, because
ItemReconciler's whole premise is that the pull and the push paths must answer
the same collision the same way — two copies would drift the first time one of
them was fixed. What is genuinely per-type now arrives through
IItemKind<TSecret>: the cipher, the merge, the plaintext columns, and the noun
to use when telling a person what happened to their item. Generic where the
server's IItemKind is not, and for the reason that reverses there — the client
needs the concrete type, because it merges field by field.

The pull filter is derived from the same registry that builds the reconcilers.
That is the specific failure being designed out: an item type that encrypts,
merges and lists perfectly and is never once requested from the server, so it
works on the machine that made it and exists nowhere else.

No client cache migration. The item table's primary key and the outbox's unique
index already carry the entity type, and AadResourceTypes already mapped SshKey
— so a host and a key may share an id and never see each other's rows, which
SshKeySyncTests now arranges deliberately.

A key hands the server nothing in plaintext. There is a public_key_fingerprint
column and it would be accepted; leaving it null is deliberate. A fingerprint is
not secret but it is a stable identifier for a key pair, so filling it would let
an operator tell which of their users hold the same key and correlate one across
vaults, for a column nothing reads. The design allows itself one plaintext
concession — the relay address, which the relay cannot work without — and this
is not that.

A key is chosen per connection rather than bound to a host, which works the way
ssh -i does. Binding one needs a field on HostSecret and therefore a payload
schema bump, which makes every host written afterwards read-only on an older
build; worth doing deliberately rather than as a side effect of adding keys.

Three things this found, all of them by being falsified rather than by review:

- Making the reconciler generic silently turned a record comparison into
  reference equality, because == on a type parameter is not value equality. The
  effect would have been a conflict recorded on every pass for an unacknowledged
  create that had in fact landed. Sabotaging the fix left all 73 tests passing —
  nothing covered that branch — so ConflictMatrixTests now has
  AnUnacknowledgedCreateThatDidLand_IsDroppedQuietly, which fails without it.

- A test asserting that a blank passphrase reaches SSH.NET as null was vacuous:
  it exercised the editor, not the credential path, and passed with the guard
  deleted. Resolved by making SshKeySecret.Passphrase normalise an empty string
  to null, so there is one spelling of one state — which also keeps two clients
  from producing different payload bytes for an identical key. That exposed a
  wider gap: SshKeySecret, its codec and its merge had no direct unit tests at
  all. They have 25 now.

- The reason first given for that normalisation was false. It claimed SSH.NET
  rejects a passphrase supplied for an unprotected key; measured against a real
  sshd it ignores it and authenticates anyway. Corrected everywhere it was
  stated and recorded in docs/platform-flags.md. The same test file also closes
  a real hole: SshPrivateKeyCredential had never been exercised against a
  server, because the existing key test builds SSH.NET's auth method directly
  and bypasses the path a vault-held key actually takes.

Only one editor may be open at a time. Both sit in the same 340-pixel column as
Auto rows and their heights together exceed it at the window's minimum size, so
two open editors put the lower one's Save and Cancel past the bottom edge — the
same failure this window already shipped once with the setup screens. Expressed
as a state rule because that is the only form of it this repository can check:
nothing here loads a .axaml. The refusal keeps what was typed, since in the key
editor that is a pasted private key the user may have nowhere else.

The end-to-end slice now carries a key as well as a host, so both item types go
through the real API, the real PostgreSQL and the real crypto in one pass — the
three hand-kept mappings between enums that do not line up are the reason that
is worth doing rather than trusting the unit suites.

735 tests green, including the container-backed SSH and end-to-end suites. Zero
warnings, dotnet format clean.
2026-07-29 20:27:23 +02:00
jaap-jan ea271d980a Give the realm's users their roles, and sign in as one in the E2E suite
Signing in failed at the token exchange with `400 Offline tokens not allowed
for the user or client`. A user declared in a realm import gets no role
mappings at all unless realmRoles lists them — not even the realm's own
default-roles composite, which Keycloak grants automatically to a user created
through the admin API or the registration form. alice and bob had none, and
offline_access lives inside that composite, which the desktop client requests.
Verified against the running Keycloak: alice's role-mappings were {} before and
resolve to default-roles-dodossh, offline_access, uma_authorization after.

The authorization request succeeds and the failure lands one step later, at the
code redemption, which makes it read like a client bug. It is not.

The E2E suite could not catch this because it created its own account through
the admin API — exercising a provisioning path no real user takes, and passing
while the account the README tells you to use could not sign in at all. It now
signs in as the realm's own alice, which is sound because the Keycloak and
PostgreSQL containers are per-run so the account is pristine, and this assembly
holds one test. Removing the roles again fails it with exactly the reported
message; that is what makes the coverage real rather than nominal.

Two traps recorded in docs/platform-flags.md, the second found by shipping it
for a moment: Keycloak's RealmRepresentation deserialises with
FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES enabled, so the "_comment" key I first used to
explain the roles inside the JSON did not get ignored — the import threw and
the container refused to start. Explanations go in the docs, not in the realm
file.
2026-07-29 14:11:16 +02:00
jaap-jan 34304b989b Make the end-to-end suite self-contained with Testcontainers
It needed a hand-started stack and an opt-in flag, so it ran on one machine
and never in CI. It now brings up PostgreSQL, Keycloak and an OpenSSH server
itself, applies the committed migrations and starts the API as a child
process, which makes it part of the ordinary test run at ~25s.

The API runs as a process rather than through WebApplicationFactory. The
client builds its own HttpClient for a URL the user typed, so there is no
seam to hand a test handler through without inventing one that exists only
for tests — and a test host would replace the entry point, Kestrel and the
content root, so it would never prove that Program.cs composes or that the
committed appsettings is found and layered in the documented order. Running
out of the API's own output directory is what makes its configuration real.

The suite still consumes what ships: the realm file from deploy/keycloak,
the EF migrations, the API's own appsettings. Only Oidc:Authority is
overridden, because the container's port is assigned at start. Falsified by
reintroducing the wildcard-port redirect URI the realm once had — Keycloak
rejects the authorization request and the suite fails at sign-in, which is
what proves the committed file is the one imported. Skipping the migration
step likewise fails, and the failure names the pending migration.

A fresh Keycloak per run also sidesteps the --import-realm trap: editing the
realm file and rerunning now always tests the edit.

DodoDbContextFactory gains a Create(connectionString) so the fixture and
dotnet ef place the migrations history table in exactly one place. If they
disagreed the API would report every migration pending, which is how the
readiness gate catches it.
2026-07-29 12:09:15 +02:00
jaap-jan 1d262b7ccc Run M1's end-to-end slice, and fix the two bugs it found
The whole vertical slice now runs against a real Keycloak, a real API, a
real PostgreSQL and a real sshd: sign in through the browser flow, enroll
with the identity-provider key binding, unlock, create a host, sync it,
read it back on a second machine, unlock again with no network, accept an
unseen host key, and open an interactive shell. Opt-in, because it needs
the development stack; skipped with a message naming the commands.

It found two bugs on its first run, and both are the same class: two
sides of a stub agreeing with each other about something the
specification never said.

**The API never applied DodoSshJsonContext to its HTTP JSON options.**
Minimal APIs therefore used the framework's web defaults, which write an
enum as a number. Every request DTO carrying one failed to bind against a
client writing the specified string form — which is the entire sync
surface, unreachable from the real client, with a 400 naming only the
parameter. The documented guarantee that request bodies reject unmapped
members was likewise not in effect anywhere.

Nothing caught it because the API tests posted with PostAsJsonAsync's
defaults, so they and the server had independently settled on integers.
Those tests now serialise through the contract, which is the deeper fix:
removing the new configuration fails 13 of them. Copying settings into
options a host owns is itself the hazard the context warns about, so
ApplyTo lives beside the settings it mirrors and ApplyToTests pins the
transformation, including that inserting the resolver leaves the caller's
own in place.

**The realm registered a loopback redirect URI Keycloak rejects.**
`http://127.0.0.1:*/callback` looks more explicit than the RFC 8252 form
and is broken: Keycloak's wildcards are trailing-only, so the `*` parses
as a literal port and every authorization request came back "Invalid
parameter: redirect_uri". Providers ignore the port for loopback hosts,
which is the whole mechanism, so the correct registration is
`http://127.0.0.1/callback` — path pinned, port free. The value the
server advertises through the discovery document said the same wrong
thing and now says the right one.

Two smaller things, both documented in docs/platform-flags.md:

- --import-realm skips a realm that already exists, so editing the realm
  file and restarting Keycloak changes nothing and serves stale
  configuration. The container has to be recreated. The compose comment
  claimed the opposite.
- Keycloak marks its session cookies Secure even over plain HTTP, because
  SameSite=None requires it. A spec-conformant client drops them and the
  login POST answers 400 with no message; browsers complete the flow only
  because they exempt loopback. Harmless for the product, fatal for
  automation, so ScriptedBrowser carries the cookies by hand and says why.

Also: the server enforces a 64 MiB floor on the passphrase KDF, so this
suite cannot use the 8 MiB profile the other client suites take for
speed. Those only get away with it because their in-memory servers have
no policy — worth knowing rather than rediscovering.

638 tests. The solution-wide run stays green with the stack down: exit
code 8 means "no tests ran", which the platform reports as failure, so
the opt-in project ignores exactly that code.
2026-07-29 11:37:49 +02:00