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Report ssh command failures to the surface (#1959)

The ssh debug commands told the user when something went wrong but
never told the surface that ran them, so `ssh host cmd` always exited 0
and a few failures were not reported at all. A failed command now
returns its error, a failure the user has already heard about is a
commands.Failure, and the ssh exec path exits 1 for either. The command
bodies also lose their ssh prefixes and the duplication they carried
over from ssh.go; both goldens pin that nothing else changed.

- Dispatch returns the callback's error, or shlex's; the ssh session
  logs it at debug, and not at all for a Failure the user already saw
- commands.Fail writes a message and returns it as a Failure in one step;
  an unknown command, `help` for a command that is not there, a failed
  reload and an unbalanced quote are failures
- ssh exec exit-status is 1 for a command, flag or failure error, 0
  otherwise; the e2e golden records the exit status for every case
- Clone rebinds help to the copy, so an ssh session's help lists logout
  and `help logout` and `logout -h` answer; sshd.LogoutCommand is the
  session's logout, exported for tests
- "did not understand" names the first word only, the one looked up;
  DispatchArgs takes just the tokens
- log-format writes its refusal to the user, as log-level does
- print-relays emits the relay error as a string and omits the key when
  there is none, where it printed {} or "Error":null
- list-hostmap and list-lighthouse-addrmap -json return the encode
  error; print-cert reports a certificate that will not marshal
- a flags type that is not the one registered is an internal error, not
  a silent success
- command functions and flag types are <name>Command and <name>Flags;
  parseVpnAddr and listHostMapFlagSet replace the repeated parse block
  and flag set; close-tunnel sends through sendCloseTunnel

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Matt RichardsonandClaude Fable 5.1 authored and GitHub committed 2026-10-19 10:48:26 -04:00
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@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ func (r *Registry) registerHelp() {
})
}
// Register adds a command that can be run by a user.
// Register adds a command that can be run by a user. A command registered under a name
// already held replaces it; see Clone for what that means for Help.
func (r *Registry) Register(c *Command) {
r.mu.Lock()
defer r.mu.Unlock()
@@ -77,29 +78,32 @@ func (r *Registry) All() []*Command {
return cmds
}
// Clone returns a copy holding the same commands.
// Clone returns a copy holding the same commands, with help bound to the copy: a
// command registered on the clone alone is listed and described there, and one the
// clone withholds is not. That rebinding replaces whatever was registered under Help on
// the source, built-in or not.
func (r *Registry) Clone() *Registry {
r.mu.RLock()
defer r.mu.RUnlock()
return &Registry{commands: maps.Clone(r.commands)}
c := &Registry{commands: maps.Clone(r.commands)}
r.mu.RUnlock()
c.registerHelp()
return c
}
// Dispatch parses a command line and runs it, reporting problems to w.
func (r *Registry) Dispatch(line string, w StringWriter) {
// A line shlex cannot split, an unbalanced quote, gets no answer. sshd was silent
// here too; this is a relocation, so it stays silent.
// Dispatch parses a command line and runs it, reporting problems to w. The error is for
// the caller to log, not to show; see CommandCallback.
func (r *Registry) Dispatch(line string, w StringWriter) error {
// A line shlex cannot split, an unbalanced quote.
args, err := shlex.Split(line, true)
if err != nil {
return
return Fail(w, "could not parse the command line: "+err.Error())
}
_ = r.DispatchArgs(args, line, w)
return r.DispatchArgs(args, w)
}
// DispatchArgs runs an already tokenized command line. orig is what the user typed,
// used only for the "did not understand" message; callers that have no raw line may
// pass "" and the joined args are used instead.
func (r *Registry) DispatchArgs(args []string, orig string, w StringWriter) error {
// DispatchArgs runs an already tokenized command line. The error is as for Dispatch.
func (r *Registry) DispatchArgs(args []string, w StringWriter) error {
if len(args) == 0 {
r.dumpCommands(w)
return nil
@@ -107,16 +111,14 @@ func (r *Registry) DispatchArgs(args []string, orig string, w StringWriter) erro
c := r.Get(Name(args[0]))
if c == nil {
if orig == "" {
orig = strings.Join(args, " ")
}
if err := w.WriteLine(fmt.Sprintf("did not understand: %s", orig)); err != nil {
// Only the first word was looked up, so only it is named.
msg := fmt.Sprintf("did not understand: %s", args[0])
if err := w.WriteLine(msg); err != nil {
return err
}
r.dumpCommands(w)
return nil
return &Failure{Msg: msg}
}
if checkHelpArgs(args) {
@@ -154,7 +156,7 @@ func (r *Registry) help(a []string, w StringWriter) error {
// We are printing a specific commands help text
cmd := r.Get(Name(a[0]))
if cmd == nil {
return w.WriteLine("Command not available " + a[0])
return Fail(w, "Command not available "+a[0])
}
if err := w.WriteLine(fmt.Sprintf("%s - %s", cmd.Name, cmd.ShortDescription)); err != nil {