ssh install works over sftp and runs nothing on the host #11

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Closes #10.

keyfunc ssh install no longer runs anything on the host. It uses the system
sftp in batch mode, so the user's own ssh setup applies. One session fetches
~/.ssh/authorized_keys; the line is added here, or the tool prints already
present and stops; a second session uploads the new file beside the old one,
sets its mode and renames it over .ssh/authorized_keys, and prints added.

What the diff does not show:

  • The fetch reads as an empty file only from the one line in which sftp
    reported .ssh/authorized_keys itself as not there. That wording turns up
    elsewhere -- ssh warns about an -i it cannot find, on a session that then
    authenticates -- and does not count; every other failure writes nothing and
    exits 1.
  • sftp reports a file in a directory it cannot enter as missing, so a ~/.ssh
    whose mode shuts the user out reads as a host with no file. README.md says
    so.
  • A failure of the write session names the uploaded file only when sftp's echo
    shows the put was reached, which is where such a file can exist.
  • Adding a line connects twice.
  • sftp -b turns on batch mode, which cannot prompt for a password: a key or an
    agent has to authenticate.
  • Options after -- reach sftp unchanged, so the port is -P, not -p.
  • The rename replaces the file in one step where the server offers OpenSSH's
    POSIX rename extension; a server without it may refuse.

make check is green.

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Closes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/keyfunc/issues/10. keyfunc ssh install no longer runs anything on the host. It uses the system sftp in batch mode, so the user's own ssh setup applies. One session fetches ~/.ssh/authorized_keys; the line is added here, or the tool prints already present and stops; a second session uploads the new file beside the old one, sets its mode and renames it over .ssh/authorized_keys, and prints added. What the diff does not show: - The fetch reads as an empty file only from the one line in which sftp reported .ssh/authorized_keys itself as not there. That wording turns up elsewhere -- ssh warns about an -i it cannot find, on a session that then authenticates -- and does not count; every other failure writes nothing and exits 1. - sftp reports a file in a directory it cannot enter as missing, so a ~/.ssh whose mode shuts the user out reads as a host with no file. README.md says so. - A failure of the write session names the uploaded file only when sftp's echo shows the put was reached, which is where such a file can exist. - Adding a line connects twice. - sftp -b turns on batch mode, which cannot prompt for a password: a key or an agent has to authenticate. - Options after -- reach sftp unchanged, so the port is -P, not -p. - The rename replaces the file in one step where the server offers OpenSSH's POSIX rename extension; a server without it may refuse. make check is green. Model: opus-5
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The ssh install command works over sftp (closes #10)
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The command no longer sends a shell script to the host. It fetches
~/.ssh/authorized_keys with the system sftp in batch mode, adds the key
line here, and writes the file back in a second session: mkdir and chmod
on ~/.ssh, put to authorized_keys.keyfunc-<random>, chmod 600, then
rename over authorized_keys. A run that adds a line connects twice; one
that finds the line there connects once and stops. A failed step leaves
everything as it is and names the uploaded file.

sftp echoes the commands it runs, so all of its output goes to standard
error and the tool prints only "added" or "already present". Batch mode
cannot prompt for a password; the README says so.

Model: opus-5
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FAIL — needs-rework.

1. internal/cli/ssh/install.go:85 (with internal/cli/ssh/install.go:183).
The fetch is sent as -get, so sftp ends with status 0 whatever went wrong
with that command, and the absence of a local file is then read as "the host
has no authorized_keys". A file that exists but cannot be read — owned by
root, mode 0000, an unreadable ~/.ssh — gives exactly the same signal, and
the run carries on to upload a file holding only the derived key and rename it
over the original. Every other key on the host is gone, and the tool prints
added. Acceptable: absence has to be established, not inferred from nothing
having arrived — keep the first session's output and take the empty reading
only when sftp reported the file as not found; on any other failure print
what sftp said, write nothing, and exit 1. README.md should say which
reading is which.

2. internal/cli/ssh_test.go. Nothing covers the failure path that both
the implementer's brief and README.md:113 promise: a failing step prints
sftp's error, names the uploaded file, removes nothing, exits 1. The stand-in
sftp already ends a session with status 1 on a command that is not allowed to
fail, so no new machinery is needed. Acceptable: one test that makes a step of
the write session fail and asserts that the message names the uploaded file,
that the file on the stand-in host is unchanged, and that the status is 1.

3. internal/cli/ssh/install.go:133 against README.md:113. The uploaded
file is named on every failure of the write session, including the -mkdir and
chmod that run before the put, so a user can be sent looking for a file
that was never created. Acceptable: name it only where it can exist, or word
README.md to match.

Judgement call: the PR body is 269 words, taken as within the 250-word
guidance.

Issue: #10

Model: opus-5

FAIL — needs-rework. **1. `internal/cli/ssh/install.go:85` (with `internal/cli/ssh/install.go:183`).** The fetch is sent as `-get`, so `sftp` ends with status 0 whatever went wrong with that command, and the absence of a local file is then read as "the host has no `authorized_keys`". A file that exists but cannot be read — owned by root, mode `0000`, an unreadable `~/.ssh` — gives exactly the same signal, and the run carries on to upload a file holding only the derived key and rename it over the original. Every other key on the host is gone, and the tool prints `added`. Acceptable: absence has to be established, not inferred from nothing having arrived — keep the first session's output and take the empty reading only when `sftp` reported the file as not found; on any other failure print what `sftp` said, write nothing, and exit 1. `README.md` should say which reading is which. **2. `internal/cli/ssh_test.go`.** Nothing covers the failure path that both the implementer's brief and `README.md:113` promise: a failing step prints `sftp`'s error, names the uploaded file, removes nothing, exits 1. The stand-in `sftp` already ends a session with status 1 on a command that is not allowed to fail, so no new machinery is needed. Acceptable: one test that makes a step of the write session fail and asserts that the message names the uploaded file, that the file on the stand-in host is unchanged, and that the status is 1. **3. `internal/cli/ssh/install.go:133` against `README.md:113`.** The uploaded file is named on every failure of the write session, including the `-mkdir` and `chmod` that run before the `put`, so a user can be sent looking for a file that was never created. Acceptable: name it only where it can exist, or word `README.md` to match. Judgement call: the PR body is 269 words, taken as within the 250-word guidance. Issue: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/keyfunc/issues/10 Model: opus-5
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Reworked in 3d623ab.

  1. Fixed: the fetch is sent as get, and the empty reading is taken only when
    what sftp said is that the file is not there; any other failure prints
    what sftp said, writes nothing and exits 1. README.md says which reading
    is which.
  2. Fixed: a test makes the put fail on the stand-in host and asserts that the
    message names the uploaded file, that the file on the host is unchanged, and
    that the status is 1. A second test covers a fetch that fails without saying
    the file is not there.
  3. Fixed: the uploaded file is named only when sftp's echo of the batch shows
    the put was reached, and README.md is worded to match.

Judgement call: absence is told from sftp's wording, since batch mode gives
no status per command. Both spellings it uses are matched.

Judgement call: the stand-in sftp now echoes its batch as sftp does, so the
install tests read the tool's own output apart from what the stand-in said.

Model: opus-5

Reworked in 3d623ab. 1. Fixed: the fetch is sent as `get`, and the empty reading is taken only when what `sftp` said is that the file is not there; any other failure prints what `sftp` said, writes nothing and exits 1. `README.md` says which reading is which. 2. Fixed: a test makes the `put` fail on the stand-in host and asserts that the message names the uploaded file, that the file on the host is unchanged, and that the status is 1. A second test covers a fetch that fails without saying the file is not there. 3. Fixed: the uploaded file is named only when `sftp`'s echo of the batch shows the `put` was reached, and `README.md` is worded to match. Judgement call: absence is told from `sftp`'s wording, since batch mode gives no status per command. Both spellings it uses are matched. Judgement call: the stand-in `sftp` now echoes its batch as `sftp` does, so the install tests read the tool's own output apart from what the stand-in said. Model: opus-5
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FAIL — needs-rework.

1. internal/cli/ssh/install.go:219 (absent), against README.md:99.
Absence is still not established from what sftp said about the file that was
asked for. absent lower-cases the whole of the session's combined standard
output and standard error and looks for no such file or not found anywhere
in it. ssh's own output carries that wording for reasons that have nothing to
do with the remote authorized_keys; the everyday one is
Warning: Identity file ... not accessible: No such file or directory., which
ssh prints whenever an -i given after -- names a file that is not there,
and prints on a session that then authenticates perfectly well through the
agent. On such a session, a get that fails for a real reason — the file is
there and cannot be read, ~/.ssh cannot be entered — is read as an empty
file, and the run goes on to upload and rename a file holding the derived key
alone. Run against a host in that state, the tool replaced an
authorized_keys holding two other keys with one holding only its own, printed
added, and exited 0. That is the first round's finding, narrowed but still
reachable, and it is the opposite of what README.md:99 promises. Acceptable:
take the empty reading only from the message in which sftp reports on
.ssh/authorized_keys itself — the line that names that path — and never from
wording that appears elsewhere in the session's output; every other failure
prints what sftp said, writes nothing, and exits 1.

2. internal/cli/ssh_test.go:62. The stand-in says a file is missing only
as File "..." not found., so of the two spellings absent depends on, only
one is ever exercised: deleting the no such file arm leaves the suite green.
That is the arm that matters most, because it is also the wording ssh itself
produces for unrelated failures. Acceptable: cover both spellings of a genuinely
missing file, and add the case that finding 1 describes — a fetch that fails for
another reason while that wording is present in the output — asserting the run
stops, writes nothing, and exits 1.

Deviation: the lint image was built directly with its cache disabled, because
script/lint offers no way to defeat a cached layer; the repository's own
Dockerfile.lint and pinned linter were used unchanged.

Judgement call: the PR body is 248 words and the commit body 117, both taken as
within the guidance.

Issue: #10

Model: opus-5

FAIL — needs-rework. **1. `internal/cli/ssh/install.go:219` (`absent`), against `README.md:99`.** Absence is still not established from what `sftp` said about the file that was asked for. `absent` lower-cases the whole of the session's combined standard output and standard error and looks for `no such file` or `not found` anywhere in it. `ssh`'s own output carries that wording for reasons that have nothing to do with the remote `authorized_keys`; the everyday one is `Warning: Identity file ... not accessible: No such file or directory.`, which `ssh` prints whenever an `-i` given after `--` names a file that is not there, and prints on a session that then authenticates perfectly well through the agent. On such a session, a `get` that fails for a real reason — the file is there and cannot be read, `~/.ssh` cannot be entered — is read as an empty file, and the run goes on to upload and rename a file holding the derived key alone. Run against a host in that state, the tool replaced an `authorized_keys` holding two other keys with one holding only its own, printed `added`, and exited 0. That is the first round's finding, narrowed but still reachable, and it is the opposite of what `README.md:99` promises. Acceptable: take the empty reading only from the message in which `sftp` reports on `.ssh/authorized_keys` itself — the line that names that path — and never from wording that appears elsewhere in the session's output; every other failure prints what `sftp` said, writes nothing, and exits 1. **2. `internal/cli/ssh_test.go:62`.** The stand-in says a file is missing only as `File "..." not found.`, so of the two spellings `absent` depends on, only one is ever exercised: deleting the `no such file` arm leaves the suite green. That is the arm that matters most, because it is also the wording `ssh` itself produces for unrelated failures. Acceptable: cover both spellings of a genuinely missing file, and add the case that finding 1 describes — a fetch that fails for another reason while that wording is present in the output — asserting the run stops, writes nothing, and exits 1. Deviation: the lint image was built directly with its cache disabled, because `script/lint` offers no way to defeat a cached layer; the repository's own `Dockerfile.lint` and pinned linter were used unchanged. Judgement call: the PR body is 248 words and the commit body 117, both taken as within the guidance. Issue: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/keyfunc/issues/10 Model: opus-5
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Reworked in ae3b79e.

  1. Fixed: the empty reading is taken only from the one line in which sftp
    reported .ssh/authorized_keys itself as not there; that wording anywhere
    else in the session never counts, and every other failure of the fetch
    prints what sftp said, writes nothing and exits 1.
  2. Fixed: the code accepts the single wording a real OpenSSH sftp client uses
    for a missing remote file, checked against an sftp-server in a container,
    and the stand-in says it that way; a new test covers a fetch that fails for
    another reason while ssh's warning about a missing -i has put the wording
    of a missing file in the output, and asserts that the run stops, writes
    nothing and exits 1.

Judgement call: sftp reports a file in a directory it cannot enter the same way
it reports a missing one, so a ~/.ssh whose mode shuts the user out still reads
as a host with no file. README.md now says so instead of promising the run
stops there.

Rule suppressed: testpackage, on the one test file that reads those wordings
through the unexported function that judges them.

Model: opus-5

Reworked in ae3b79e. 1. Fixed: the empty reading is taken only from the one line in which sftp reported .ssh/authorized_keys itself as not there; that wording anywhere else in the session never counts, and every other failure of the fetch prints what sftp said, writes nothing and exits 1. 2. Fixed: the code accepts the single wording a real OpenSSH sftp client uses for a missing remote file, checked against an sftp-server in a container, and the stand-in says it that way; a new test covers a fetch that fails for another reason while ssh's warning about a missing -i has put the wording of a missing file in the output, and asserts that the run stops, writes nothing and exits 1. Judgement call: sftp reports a file in a directory it cannot enter the same way it reports a missing one, so a ~/.ssh whose mode shuts the user out still reads as a host with no file. README.md now says so instead of promising the run stops there. Rule suppressed: testpackage, on the one test file that reads those wordings through the unexported function that judges them. Model: opus-5
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PASS — keyfunc ssh install runs no command on the host, takes the empty reading only from the line in which sftp reports on .ssh/authorized_keys, and leaves a file it cannot read untouched.

Deviation: the lint image was rebuilt with its cache disabled, because script/lint offers no way to defeat a cached layer; Dockerfile.lint and its pinned linter were used unchanged.

Judgement call: a ~/.ssh whose owner cannot enter it reads as a host with no file, so a run there sets the directory to 0700 and replaces the keys in it, printing added; sftp can tell that state apart from a missing directory, this change does not, and README.md says so.

Judgement call: absent also accepts the path as it was asked for, which the real client never writes; only the table in internal/cli/ssh/install_test.go exercises that arm.

Judgement call: the PR body is 255 words and the commit body 120, both taken as within the guidance.

Issue: #10

Model: opus-5

PASS — `keyfunc ssh install` runs no command on the host, takes the empty reading only from the line in which `sftp` reports on `.ssh/authorized_keys`, and leaves a file it cannot read untouched. Deviation: the lint image was rebuilt with its cache disabled, because `script/lint` offers no way to defeat a cached layer; `Dockerfile.lint` and its pinned linter were used unchanged. Judgement call: a `~/.ssh` whose owner cannot enter it reads as a host with no file, so a run there sets the directory to `0700` and replaces the keys in it, printing `added`; `sftp` can tell that state apart from a missing directory, this change does not, and `README.md` says so. Judgement call: `absent` also accepts the path as it was asked for, which the real client never writes; only the table in `internal/cli/ssh/install_test.go` exercises that arm. Judgement call: the PR body is 255 words and the commit body 120, both taken as within the guidance. Issue: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/keyfunc/issues/10 Model: opus-5
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