keyfunc/internal/cli/ssh/install.go

package ssh

import (
	"bytes"
	"crypto/rand"
	"encoding/hex"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"path/filepath"
	"slices"
	"strings"

	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)

// Where the key goes on the host and what the file it arrives in is
// called before it is renamed into place. The random end of that name
// keeps two runs at once from writing to the same file.
const (
	directory     = ".ssh"
	authorized    = ".ssh/authorized_keys"
	sidecarPrefix = ".ssh/authorized_keys.keyfunc-"
	sidecarBytes  = 8
)

// The modes the host is left with, as sftp's chmod spells them, and
// the mode of the copy made here on the way.
const (
	directoryMode = "700"
	fileMode      = "600"
	localMode     = 0o600
)

// install returns the command that adds the public key to a host.
func install() *cobra.Command {
	cmd := &cobra.Command{
		Use:   "install <[user@]host> [-- sftp options...]",
		Short: "add the public key to a host's authorized_keys",
		Long: "Downloads the host's authorized_keys with the system " +
			"sftp, adds the public key to it here unless the same " +
			"line is already there, and uploads the result as a file " +
			"beside it which is then renamed over it. Nothing is run " +
			"on the host. Anything after -- is given to sftp " +
			"unchanged, which is where the port goes (-P).",
		Args: cobra.MinimumNArgs(1),
		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
			key, comment, err := derived(cmd)
			if err != nil {
				return err
			}

			line, err := key.Line(comment)
			if err != nil {
				return err
			}

			return add(cmd, args[0], args[1:], line)
		},
	}

	addComment(cmd)

	return cmd
}

// add puts the key line in the host's authorized_keys. The file is
// fetched in one sftp session and written back in another, so a run
// that adds a line connects twice; a run that finds the line already
// there connects once and stops.
func add(cmd *cobra.Command, host string, options []string, line string) error {
	work, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "keyfunc-install-")
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("making a temporary directory: %w", err)
	}

	defer func() { _ = os.RemoveAll(work) }()

	content, present, err := fetch(cmd, host, options,
		filepath.Join(work, "authorized_keys"),
	)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	merged, added := merge(content, line)
	if !added {
		return write(cmd, "already present\n")
	}

	return upload(cmd, host, options, work, merged, present)
}

// upload writes the new file to the host and renames it over
// authorized_keys, which is the step that either happens or does not.
// Nothing is removed when a step fails: the file left behind is named
// so that it can be looked at and cleared away by hand. The directory
// is made and set to its mode only when the read found none: an .ssh
// that was already there is left with the mode it had.
func upload(
	cmd *cobra.Command, host string, options []string,
	work, merged string, present bool,
) error {
	local := filepath.Join(work, "authorized_keys.merged")

	err := os.WriteFile(local, []byte(merged), localMode)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("writing the new file: %w", err)
	}

	sidecar, err := sidecarName()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	var batch []string

	if !present {
		// The mkdir is allowed to fail in case the directory appeared
		// between the read and now; the chmod then sets its mode.
		batch = append(batch,
			"-mkdir "+directory,
			"chmod "+directoryMode+" "+directory,
		)
	}

	batch = append(batch,
		"put "+quoted(local)+" "+sidecar,
		"chmod "+fileMode+" "+sidecar,
		"rename "+sidecar+" "+authorized,
	)

	said, err := session(cmd, host, options, batch)
	if err != nil {
		// sftp echoes each command as it runs it and stops at the
		// first that fails, so the name is in what it said only once
		// the put was reached, which is where a file of that name
		// can be on the host. Before that there is none to name.
		if strings.Contains(said, sidecar) {
			return fmt.Errorf(
				"%w; %s may be left on the host", err, sidecar,
			)
		}

		return err
	}

	return write(cmd, "added\n")
}

// session runs one sftp session with the user's own options and the
// batch of commands, which sftp reads from its standard input and
// stops at the first of which that fails, unless it begins with a
// dash. sftp echoes the commands as it runs them, so everything it
// says goes to the error output and the tool's own output stays the
// one word it prints. What it said is also given back: a session that
// failed says there what went wrong, and the status alone does not.
func session(
	cmd *cobra.Command, host string, options []string, batch []string,
) (string, error) {
	argv := slices.Concat(
		[]string{"-b", "-"}, options, []string{host},
	)

	var said bytes.Buffer

	//nolint:gosec // the options are the user's own, meant for sftp
	command := exec.CommandContext(cmd.Context(), "sftp", argv...)
	command.Stdin = strings.NewReader(strings.Join(batch, "\n") + "\n")
	command.Stdout = &said
	command.Stderr = &said

	err := command.Run()

	_, _ = cmd.ErrOrStderr().Write(said.Bytes())

	if err != nil {
		return said.String(), fmt.Errorf("running sftp: %w", err)
	}

	return said.String(), nil
}

// merge returns the file with the key line on the end, and whether it
// had to be added. A file whose last line has no newline at its end
// gets one first, so that the two lines do not run into each other.
func merge(content, line string) (string, bool) {
	if slices.Contains(strings.Split(content, "\n"), line) {
		return content, false
	}

	if content != "" && !strings.HasSuffix(content, "\n") {
		content += "\n"
	}

	return content + line + "\n", true
}

// fetch brings the host's authorized_keys into the given path and
// returns what is in it, and whether the .ssh directory was already
// there. The one session lists .ssh and then gets the file, so the
// listing settles the state of the directory before the get is read.
//
// The file reads as empty in just two cases: sftp reported .ssh itself
// as not there, or the listing succeeded and the get then reported the
// file as not there. Anything else — the listing refused, the file
// there but unreadable, the connection down — fails the run and writes
// nothing, because writing back over what was not read would leave the
// host with the new key and nothing else. sftp cannot tell a missing
// file from one in a directory it cannot enter, so the listing does:
// a directory that is there but cannot be read is a failure, not an
// empty file.
func fetch(
	cmd *cobra.Command, host string, options []string, into string,
) (string, bool, error) {
	said, err := session(cmd, host, options, []string{
		"ls -1 " + directory,
		"get " + authorized + " " + quoted(into),
	})
	if err != nil {
		if directoryAbsent(said) {
			return "", false, nil
		}

		if absent(said) {
			return "", true, nil
		}

		return "", false, err
	}

	//nolint:gosec // the path is a temporary file of the tool's own
	content, err := os.ReadFile(into)
	if err != nil {
		return "", false, fmt.Errorf("reading the fetched file: %w", err)
	}

	return string(content), true, nil
}

// directoryAbsent says whether sftp reported .ssh itself as not being
// there, which is the one listing failure read as a host that has no
// authorized_keys yet. The reading is taken only from the line in which
// sftp reports on that directory: any other failure of the listing, in
// particular a directory that is there but cannot be entered, is left
// as a failure, so that no key is written to a host whose keys were
// never read.
func directoryAbsent(said string) bool {
	for line := range strings.Lines(said) {
		named, is := reportedCannotList(strings.TrimSpace(line))
		if is && (named == directory ||
			strings.HasSuffix(named, "/"+directory)) {
			return true
		}
	}

	return false
}

// reportedCannotList returns the path an sftp line reports it cannot
// list for want of the directory, and whether the line is such a
// report. The client writes this one wording when the directory a
// listing names is not there, giving the path the server expanded.
func reportedCannotList(line string) (string, bool) {
	const (
		before = `Can't ls: "`
		after  = `" not found`
	)

	if !strings.HasPrefix(line, before) ||
		!strings.HasSuffix(line, after) {
		return "", false
	}

	return strings.TrimSuffix(strings.TrimPrefix(line, before), after), true
}

// absent says whether sftp reported the file that was asked for as
// not being there, which is the one failure of the fetch that is read
// as an empty authorized_keys. The reading is taken only from the
// line in which sftp reports on that file, because ssh writes "no
// such file" into the same output for reasons of its own — a missing
// -i identity file draws that warning on a session that then
// authenticates through the agent — and a real read failure on such a
// session must not pass for an empty file.
func absent(said string) bool {
	for line := range strings.Lines(said) {
		named, is := reportedNotFound(strings.TrimSpace(line))
		if is && (named == authorized ||
			strings.HasSuffix(named, "/"+authorized)) {
			return true
		}
	}

	return false
}

// reportedNotFound returns the path an sftp line reports as not being
// there, and whether the line is such a report. The client writes one
// wording for a remote file it cannot find, naming the path the
// server expanded, which is the absolute one.
func reportedNotFound(line string) (string, bool) {
	const (
		before = `File "`
		after  = `" not found.`
	)

	if !strings.HasPrefix(line, before) ||
		!strings.HasSuffix(line, after) {
		return "", false
	}

	return strings.TrimSuffix(strings.TrimPrefix(line, before), after), true
}

// sidecarName returns the name the new file is uploaded under.
func sidecarName() (string, error) {
	random := make([]byte, sidecarBytes)

	_, err := rand.Read(random)
	if err != nil {
		return "", fmt.Errorf("making a name for the new file: %w", err)
	}

	return sidecarPrefix + hex.EncodeToString(random), nil
}

// quoted puts the double quotes around a path that sftp needs when the
// path has a space in it. Only paths of the tool's own making are
// given to it, and they hold no quote of their own.
func quoted(path string) string {
	return `"` + path + `"`
}