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jaap-jan
185790fb14
Keys sync and keys are shared: SshKey is in the sync registry on both sides, the material rides in the sealed payload, and every generation of the vault key is wrapped to a new member. What was missing was the way in. Hosts and groups could move between vaults and keychain items could not, so a key typed into a personal vault before the team existed stayed there for good — and moving a host into the team's vault left it authenticating with something nobody else in that vault can read. The code said so and could do nothing about it: "the answer is usually to put a copy of that key in the destination vault", which meant pasting the private half into a second item and deleting the first. A private key on a clipboard, and two items nobody can tell apart afterwards. MoveAsync already existed on the generic repository and is now exposed for keys and passwords as it is for hosts and groups. What had to be built around it is the re-aim. An item re-sealed under another vault's key lands with an id of that vault's making, so every host bound to the old one and every group lending it as a default is left naming a tombstone — and a host bound to something its vault no longer holds refuses to connect rather than falling back to a typed password. A move without the re-aim would look like a success and break every machine on that key. It runs over every vault this session can write to, because a binding resolves across all of them, and it counts what it could not rewrite: an item from a newer client, or one in a vault this account may only read. Those are said in the sentence afterwards rather than swallowed. The host's move asks the question rather than deciding it. A binding resolves across vaults, so the moved host goes on working for the person who moved it whichever way this is answered; it is the colleagues they have just joined who hold one vault's key and cannot connect with a host whose key stayed behind. Unticked, and it stays that way on purpose: moving a key into a team's vault hands it to everybody holding that key, and this design does not default anybody into a disclosure. Under the box is the count of everything else that authenticates with that key, because a key twenty machines use is a different decision from one nothing else touches, and neither number is visible from the panel otherwise. The question is answered against the vault in the picker, so choosing a different destination re-asks it and a key already in the destination offers nothing. One thing fixed on the way. A host that inherited its key from its group arrived in the destination naming nothing at all — the group belongs to the vault it left — so a machine that connected before the move refused after it, with no sentence anywhere saying why. The resolved binding is now written onto the host as it crosses, and the stranded-binding warning reads the resolved binding too, which is the case where somebody is least likely to know a key is involved. MOVE is on both heads, for keys and passwords only: a tag, a bucket and a pin are read from the active vault alone, so "another vault" is not a question any of them has. Four tests cover the move and its re-aim, the host's move with the key brought and without it, and the inherited binding.