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 jaap-jan
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8a77b7ca68 |
Say how far a connection has got while it is still being made
The connecting card set its status string once, when the tab was created, and never touched it again. Every connection therefore looked identical from the outside: one three seconds into a key exchange, one waiting out a fifteen-second timeout against a machine that is asleep, and one that had hung all drew the same "connecting…". The card now draws the five steps of getting there, each lit at the moment the handshake reports reaching it, over an amber track that fills as they finish. ◆ NOTHING ON THE LIST IS INVENTED. Every row changes state because a layer below it said so, at the instant the thing it names actually began. That is the whole reason it is worth showing, and it is why most of this commit is plumbing rather than XAML: there was no progress reporting anywhere in the stack to hook a step list onto, and a card animating plausible progress would have been indistinguishable from one that had stopped receiving any. SshConnectionPhase names four phases and deliberately not more. SSH.NET runs the entire handshake inside one ConnectAsync and raises exactly one event from the middle of it — HostKeyReceived, once the key exchange has produced a key to show — so that event is the only interior moment there is to report. Everything before it is Reaching and everything after it is Authenticating. A fifth phase in that assembly would have to be a timer, so there is not one. OpeningShell is reported by TerminalWorkspace instead, because that is where it happens: the factory's work ends with an authenticated connection, and asking for a pseudo-terminal on one is a separate round trip. The SFTP path passes null — a second connection opened behind an already-open shell has nobody watching a step list for it. The card's fifth step, "Starting the terminal", is the renderer wait and lives in the shell rather than in the SSH assembly, which has never heard of a renderer. On the first connection after a cold start it is a real wait with a real failure mode of its own — a missing WebView2 runtime — so a list that began at "reaching the host" would leave the one wait most likely to hang unnamed. Amber for the step in flight, and that follows the palette's rule rather than bending it. Green is what is true and purple is what you can press; a step still happening is neither, and it is exactly the caveat-worth-reading that amber exists for. Steps behind it go green as they become true. Nothing animates, which is the argument TransfersScreen.axaml already makes for its own track, reaching a screen with far more reason to want a spinner: a spinner is furniture invented to fill a state nobody measured, and these states are measured, so the track fills to what has finished and then waits there. A refusal keeps the step it stopped on, in red, with the ones behind it still green. That is the half a progress bar could not do, and it is the difference between "that host is not there" and "that host is there and would not have me" — a question the reason sentence alone frequently does not settle. The strip's dot goes amber while a tab is connecting, on both heads. It was grey, and so is a tab whose shell has exited: the two states in that strip with the least in common, one worth waiting for and one over. PhoneShell's own comment already recorded half of this — the dot stopped being green before anything had answered — and this is the other half. Progress is raised inline rather than through System.Progress<T>, which captures whatever synchronisation context it was constructed on and posts to it. That reads like a convenience and is really a second place the marshalling decision gets made: silently, differently under a test with no context, and out of order with respect to the failure that follows a phase. The shell marshals once, in one handler, through a new optional post parameter on MainWindowViewModel — the same seam TransfersViewModel already uses, and for the reason its own remark gives. The three Dispatcher.UIThread.Post calls that predate it are the ones this suite's comments record as out of reach; they are left alone rather than swept in here. Both heads draw the list. They differ in one place: Phone.axaml's mono class sets a colour and a size along with the family, so the caption rule names its own family instead of composing the two and asking two rules for one Foreground. The desktop's mono sets the family alone, which is why ConnectingCard does compose them. Each head also gains SHOW LOGS beside the button that gives up — the step list is this attempt and the log is every other one, which is what a connection taking too long actually raises. Seven tests, and the two that matter most run against the container rather than a fake: a real handshake reports its phases in order, and a host-key refusal never claims to have authenticated. A fake asserting what it was written to assert would have established nothing about either. The rest cover the tab advancing while the connection is gated, the step a refusal stops on, and a phase reported after the user has given up on the tab. 1,861 tests, none failing. The Android head's layout is not verified by anything. It compiles, and compiled bindings mean every new binding path resolves, but that project is not in DodoSSH.slnx, there is no test project for it and no device here — so unlike the desktop card, whose shapes the layout harness measures, these rows have not been drawn. Vertical fit is reasoned, not observed. |
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jaap-jan
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6728a0a597 |
Let the desktop client replace itself, and give the repository one version
Packaging for Windows, and the updater that only exists once something is
packaged. Velopack, win-x64, fed from the project's own forge — never from the
deployment a client signs in to, which is ADR 0011 rule 2 carried over
unchanged and is why the feed address is a constant in the code rather than a
setting. See docs/adr/0012-desktop-distribution-and-updates.md.
**Nothing is ever installed while somebody is using it.** A newer build is found
on a six-hourly pass, downloaded in the background, and then waits — for a
restart the user presses, or for the next launch they were going to do anyway.
That is a policy rather than caution: this application argues at length that
locking keeps shells running, because a lock that destroyed work would stop
being used, and a restart does not keep them. Having taught that, it owes the
user the choice at the one moment it stops being true, and the sentence saying
so counts the shells it would close.
**The version is now derived from the v* tag**, by MinVer, for everything. There
was no version before this — no property anywhere, so every assembly reported
the SDK's 1.0.0 and the API served that string as its serverVersion to every
client that asked. The tag was already the version of record for the container
image; this makes it the version of record full stop. MinVer's failure mode is
answering plausibly rather than failing, and here a wrong version is a client
that never updates, so it is guarded twice: fetch-depth 0 on every checkout, and
a step that fails a tag build when the tag and the computed version disagree.
**The pack id is DodoSSH.Desktop and not DodoSSH**, which is the one decision
here that would have destroyed data. Velopack installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\<packId>
and removes that whole directory on uninstall, and %LOCALAPPDATA%\DodoSSH is
where ClientPaths keeps the encrypted cache, the outbox of changes not yet
pushed, and the device key. The obvious id would have had the uninstaller
silently delete work the server has never seen — the thing the application
refuses to do without a counted confirmation. Velopack's own advice to move user
data to roaming %APPDATA% is declined for the reason ClientPaths already gives.
**Releases are cut by a person, and CI gains no job that could.** The tempting
argument is that a forge write token is not a signing key. It does not survive
contact with what the token does: Velopack clients trust their feed and do not
verify a package signature when they apply one, so whoever can write a release
can ship an update every install runs. That is the capability ADR 0011 rule 1
puts on a machine which is not a runner, reached through a different door. The
mechanical objection — vpk needs Windows and the runners are Linux — is the
smaller of the two and is recorded beside it, because somebody will fix one and
believe they are done.
Unsigned for now, deliberately and with the cost stated where a user reads it:
SmartScreen warns once per person, on Setup.exe, because Mark-of-the-Web is
applied by the browser that downloaded it. In-app updates are fetched by the
application and applied from a local file, and never trip it.
The banner is a fourth row of the window rather than an overlay. Anything drawn
in the terminal's rectangle is sliced by the native child window that composites
above it — the defect this window has shipped once — and a sibling row is the
arrangement TitleBar and StatusBar already prove works.
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Three defects surfaced on the way, none of them in the feature being built.
**A settings key absent from the file came back as the CLR default, not the
declared one.** The JSON source generator builds a record through a synthesised
parameterised constructor and assigns every property from its argument array, so
a property initializer runs and is then overwritten by a default for anything the
file did not contain. A settings.json of {} read back a font size of 0, clamped
up to the 8px floor rather than the 13px the renderer draws at. It could not bite
while there was one setting, because that setting was written on every save and
so was never absent; adding a second would have turned automatic update checks
off for every existing profile, silently, the opposite of the documented default.
Reflection-based deserialisation of the same JSON answers correctly, which is why
every way of checking it by hand agrees except the one that ships. The defaults
now live on the constructor parameters, which is the only place the generator
reads them from.
**Declaring a RuntimeIdentifier on the desktop head broke the server's image
build.** It is the obvious way to let a self-contained publish restore under
locked mode, and it writes a net10.0/win-x64 target into the lock file of every
project the head references transitively — including DodoSSH.Contracts and
DodoSSH.Crypto, which the API builds too. The Dockerfile restores those with no
RID and fails NU1004. Found by running docker build rather than by reading. The
RID stays out of the committed state; the two commands that need one ask for it
unlocked, and the release script puts the lock files back.
**A Docker ARG named VERSION silently sets MSBuild's Version.** An ARG is an
environment variable for the rest of the stage, MSBuild reads environment
variables as properties, and property names are case-insensitive. With the
workflow passing main-<short sha> on a main build the publish died with
NETSDK1018 pointing at DodoSSH.Contracts, a project nobody had touched. The build
stage's argument is ASSEMBLY_VERSION now, empty except on a tag build.
All three are in docs/platform-flags.md, which is where the next person will look.
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Verified: the whole solution builds and restores locked; 289 shell, 93 layout and
54 session tests pass, including the regression test for the settings defect and
a measurement of the banner at the window's minimum width. vpk pack runs end to
end and reports "Verified VelopackApp.Run()" against Program.Main. The API image
builds correctly both as a main build and as a tag build, carrying 1.0.0 and
0.1.0 respectively.
Not verified, and it needs a published release to be: installing, updating and
uninstalling on a real machine. That is Phase 15 of docs/manual-checks.md, and
the pack id and the WebView2 profile fix are reasoned and commented but only
proved by walking it. Two things to watch at the first upload — the reverse
proxy's body-size limit for a 64 MB asset, and whether vpk upload gitea is happy
with Gitea 1.27.1.
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 jaap-janandClaude Opus 5
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8c04ba60b0 |
Build the three things the phone's + needs, before the + exists
Steps 1 to 3 of docs/adding-hosts-on-the-phone.md: the domain half. Nothing on either head has changed, which is deliberate — the plan orders these first because everything the editors will bind to has to exist and be merge-safe before a screen can offer it. HostGroupSecret gains a parent and four defaults, and the codec gains the version rule it never had. It stamped CurrentSchemaVersion unconditionally, which was harmless with one field and one version and stops being harmless here: upgrading one machine and renaming any group would have made that group uneditable on every machine still on the old build. It now emits the lowest version that loses nothing, so a flat group with no defaults still encodes at version 1, byte for byte, pinned against a literal. Tags become a real item over the reserved slot. Secret, codec, merge, cipher, repository, both registries, the EF entity and a generated AddTagItem migration. TagCipher names AadResourceType.Tag as a constant rather than casting the wire type, because Tag is 5 on the wire and 8 in the crypto enum and 5 there is Credential — a cast would seal every tag under the resource type for a password, encrypt and decrypt perfectly on the machine that wrote it, and only fail when another implementation refused the item, by which time the AAD is frozen into stored ciphertext. HostTag stays reserved and unused: the one thing the join buys over a set on the host is bought instead by merging TagIds per id. HostSecret grows TagIds and Port goes nullable, which is the change with the widest blast radius and the only one that loses an item rather than locking one. A host with no port of its own omits the property, an older build reads int Port as 0, and TryValidate refuses it — unreadable rather than read-only. That cost is confined to hosts which actually inherit, because the version is a maximum over the fields present; the alternative, writing 22 into every host, is the lie inheritance exists to stop telling. One decision the plan did not specify. "Three states where there were two" is four — key, credential, typed password, or the group's answer — and two nullable ids carry three. Naming neither id now means inherit, so AsksForPassword says "a typed password even under a group that lends a key" out loud. Only true is ever written and a decoded false folds back to null, so a host that never touched it encodes as it always did. Nothing already stored changed meaning: no group could lend a binding before this build, so every existing host resolves exactly as it did. HostInheritance is the resolver, and its visited set is load-bearing rather than defensive. Two clients can each re-parent A under B and B under A while offline; the merge sees one item against one item and the server sees ciphertext, so nothing upstream can refuse the pair. With inheritance the chain is walked at connect time, so an unguarded cycle is not an undrawable sidebar — it is a shell that never opens. Stopping at the first repeat degrades it to a group that reads as a root, and clearing the parent is the repair. A tag set turns out to be the one field on a host that can never ask the user anything. TagSet.ToIdMap keys by the value, so no key can hold two values, so the both-sides-moved-differently branch of the keyed merge is unreachable — asserted over the whole eight-row matrix. The conflict loop is kept anyway, because that proof is one edit from ceasing to hold and what it would cause is a discarded tag nothing records. Three guard tests failed by design and were fixed rather than relaxed: the ordered pull filter, the AAD pinning table, and the server's refusal of a plaintext parent — that last one survives with its reason rewritten, because the refusal now means "the parent is not the server's to hold" rather than "there is no such thing as a parent". The prose that said groups are flat is rewritten in all four places it appeared, not deleted. The five view-model sites that read Port directly now go through the resolver, which is a down payment on step 4 rather than the whole of it. HostFields.From still emits the stored port, and that is the one remaining place where an unresolved read would be a wrong wire rather than a wrong label. Verified by the whole suite: 1382 tests over nineteen projects, none failing. Both heads build. Nothing seen on a display, because nothing on a display has changed yet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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jaap-janandClaude Opus 5
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338c1a8647 |
Move the plaintext exemption out of the test body it made too long
MA0051: TheWholeSlice reached 68 lines against a limit of 60, because the last commit put a nine-line paragraph and a five-line call in the middle of it. dotnet format --verify-no-changes runs the analysers, so the build stopped there and never reached the two fixes that paragraph was explaining. The explanation was worth keeping and the place was wrong. It is a fact about one call, not about the slice, and this file already keeps its steps in named methods under a "Steps" heading. SignInToTheStackAsync now holds both, which leaves the test body reading as the sequence it is meant to be — sign in, enroll, unlock, write, read elsewhere — rather than a sequence with an essay in it. Nothing about the behaviour changed: same call, same configureOidc, same exemption claimed by the same single caller that starts the provider it is talking to. I should also say how this reached CI, since the answer is not that it was hard to catch. I ran the format gate locally before the last push and read the exit code of a pipeline it was piped into rather than the tool's own, so a failing command reported as passing. Run again against the tool's exit status it is 0, and the end-to-end suite still passes in the Alpine container that reproduces the runner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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jaap-janandClaude Opus 5
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cf1a321d1e |
Pin the font the layout suite measures, and let the slice say it means plaintext
Two failures left on the runner, with nothing in common except that both only appear on a machine unlike the one anybody develops on. The runner is Alpine, musl, inside a container, with no fonts installed at all — and that combination is now reproducible locally, which is how these were fixed rather than guessed at. Both are verified by running the suite in it. The layout suite had two causes stacked, and the first hid the second completely. Missing libfontconfig stops libSkiaSharp loading, which the last commit fixed and which then revealed the real one: Avalonia takes its default font family from the platform, and on an image with no fonts there is no answer, so FontManager throws "Default font family name can't be null or empty" inside AppBuilder.SetupUnsafe — before a single test body runs, for all sixty-eight of them, naming none of their subjects. WithInterFont does not prevent it: it registers a collection without nominating a default. HeadlessApp's own comment already claimed it measured "the same Inter font the application registers", which was an intention the code never carried out. Both heads now name it, through FontManagerOptions.DefaultFamilyName. That is worth more than getting CI green: a suite whose entire job is measuring text was taking its metrics from whatever the machine happened to have — Segoe UI here, DejaVu there — and reporting the two as one number. It also means the application uses the font it has been shipping and declining to use since it first referenced the package; almost nothing moves visually, because App.axaml already sets MonoFont on essentially everything that draws. The end-to-end slice was the product being right and the test leaning on an accident. ServerConnection permits an http authority only when it is loopback. Testcontainers reports the host a container can actually be reached at, so running the suite directly gives localhost and passes, while running it inside a container gives the bridge gateway 172.17.0.1 and is refused — correctly, since a client that accepted plaintext metadata from a routable address would be a weakness for everyone who is not a test. Loosening that rule was the wrong repair. The slice now passes configureOidc and says out loud that it accepts plaintext from the Keycloak it started itself. Verified by reproducing the runner rather than approximating it: dotnet/sdk:10.0-alpine, musl-x64, fc-list returning zero, the docker socket mounted so Testcontainers resolves the gateway exactly as it does in CI. The whole solution passes there — 19 suites, 0 failures, 4 skipped — and the end-to-end failure was confirmed causal by reverting only that one file and watching it fail again in the same container. The layout suite also still passes on a Fedora desktop with 595 fonts, so the two agree now. Not verified on Windows, and it should be said plainly rather than left to be discovered: pinning the family changed the measured metrics there too, so a tight layout assertion could have moved. platform-flags.md records that, and corrects the entry the last commit added — "libfontconfig, and nothing else" was true of the container it was tested in and false of the runner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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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. |
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jaap-jan
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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. |
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95816de0c5 |
Share a vault with a team, without the server holding a key
M3's teams, sharing and ACLs. Teams with roles, a public-key directory, the append-only key log served for clients to check it against, team-owned vaults, and vault key grants wrapped by a client and stored opaquely by the server. VaultAccessService resolves team membership to PermissionFlags, so a viewer may pull and may not push; the desktop client reads and syncs every vault it holds a key for, and a real TEAMS screen replaces the one that said it did not exist. No migration: team, team_membership, vault.team_id and vault_key_grant have all been there since the first one, which is what carrying two unused tables bought. Membership is authorisation. A grant is access. The obvious model is one concept — "access", with a role attached, handed out by the server — and this architecture cannot implement it: a vault key is sealed to each member's X25519 key, and only a client holding the plaintext can seal it for somebody else. So "give Bob access" decomposes into a database write and a wrap, which happen on different machines. Adding a member makes the server serve them the vault; it cannot make it readable. VaultSummary.WrappedVaultKey is null in the meantime and the vault appears in their list saying it is waiting for a key, because hiding it until a grant existed would have been tidier and would have implied the server was the thing granting access. The screen says the same thing after every add, in the status line. ADR 0009 records the whole decision. Sharing verifies or refuses. A directory lookup is a claim by the server about a third party's public key, and wrapping to an unverified claim hands the vault to whoever made it — no amount of transport security helps, because the server is inside the threat model. KeyLogAudit reads the whole log, recomputes every entry's hash from its own contents, checks the chain from genesis, and refuses unless the offered key appears in it unchanged. There is no override flag: one that exists gets used on the day the log is briefly unreachable, and the resulting grant is indistinguishable from a correct one afterwards. What it still cannot promise is that the key is the right person's, so the fingerprint comes back for an out-of-band comparison and the success message says so every time. A test corrupts the fake server's log by one byte and watches the client refuse rather than warn. The roles are only the ones that are enforceable. There is no ConnectOnly, despite the design asking for one and TeamRole having room: SSH terminates on the client, so a session needs the credential's plaintext on that machine, and "may connect but may not read the key" cannot be enforced here. Shipping it as an option in a dropdown would have been a lie. Connect rides along with Read and is documented as an interface hint. Removal is named for what it does — it revokes grants and flags the vault for rekey, and claims nothing about what is already on somebody's laptop. Three things are deliberately absent, and each is a refusal rather than an omission. The rekey itself, because re-wrapping every item's data key under a new vault key needs a client holding the current one; the server records that a rotation is owed and the interface reports it, which is more honest than a button that only appears to do it. Ownership transfer, because allowing an owner to be removed without one leaves a team nobody can administer. And cross-vault host key trust: a pin in a team vault is listed but not consulted at connect time, because any member with Write could otherwise pre-approve a fingerprint another member's client then trusts silently for a host in their own vault. Scoping trust properly needs a scope on the SSH connect path, which IKnownHostStore has not got; until then the narrow direction is the safe one and the cost is in the README rather than hidden. Reading now spans vaults and writing still does not. Every list on the vault and hosts screens covers each vault the keyring opened, rows carry the vault they came from, and an edit goes back to that vault rather than to the active one — writing it to the active vault would fork the item and only show up when a colleague wondered why their change never arrived. A new item goes wherever a picker says, defaulting to the personal vault and never moving on its own, because an item filed into a team's vault is visible to that team and moving it back means deleting and retyping. The sidebar heading stops naming one vault once there are two, and each row names its own. The server checks what it can and nothing it cannot. It will not record a grant for a key its recipient no longer holds, for a superseded generation, or for somebody who is not in the team — each of those would otherwise surface days later at the far end as a tag failure indistinguishable from corruption. It does not verify the wrap or the signature, and the grant service says so: that would be a convenience and never the boundary, and would put an asymmetric implementation on a machine that is supposed to hold no keys. Two bugs the tests found. TeamsViewModel's busy gate blocked its own reload, so a team created a moment earlier was missing from the list it had just been added to. And syncing every vault turned a failure from an exception into a report, which made a background pass announce an unreachable vault once a minute — the exact behaviour AnAutomaticPassThatFails_LeavesTheStatusAlone exists to prevent. The fact is recorded and the message swallowed, as it was before; pressing Sync still names the vault and the reason. 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Keep host key trust in the vault, and make it withdrawable
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
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |