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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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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package commands
import (
"bytes"
"errors"
"flag"
"strings"
"testing"
@@ -45,18 +46,41 @@ func TestFlagUsageGoesToTheWriter(t *testing.T) {
})
merged := &bytes.Buffer{}
require.Error(t, r.DispatchArgs([]string{"emit", "-nope"}, "", NewStringWriter(merged)))
require.Error(t, r.DispatchArgs([]string{"emit", "-nope"}, NewStringWriter(merged)))
assert.Contains(t, merged.String(), "flag provided but not defined")
}
// TestDispatchDropsUnparseableLine pins sshd's behaviour for a line shlex rejects: no
// answer at all. An operator with an unbalanced quote gets silence, as they always have.
func TestDispatchDropsUnparseableLine(t *testing.T) {
// TestDispatchReportsUnparseableLine: a line shlex rejects, an unbalanced quote, is a
// failure the user is told about.
func TestDispatchReportsUnparseableLine(t *testing.T) {
out := &bytes.Buffer{}
testRegistry().Dispatch(`served "unterminated`, NewStringWriter(out))
assert.Empty(t, out.String())
err := testRegistry().Dispatch(`served "unterminated`, NewStringWriter(out))
var f *Failure
require.ErrorAs(t, err, &f)
assert.Equal(t, f.Msg+"\n", out.String())
assert.Contains(t, out.String(), "could not parse the command line: ")
}
// TestFailTellsTheUserAndTheSurface: Fail writes the message and returns it as a Failure;
// when the write fails, the user heard nothing, so the write error is what comes back.
func TestFailTellsTheUserAndTheSurface(t *testing.T) {
out := &bytes.Buffer{}
err := Fail(NewStringWriter(out), "no such tunnel")
var f *Failure
require.ErrorAs(t, err, &f)
assert.Equal(t, "no such tunnel", f.Msg)
assert.Equal(t, "no such tunnel\n", out.String())
err = Fail(NewStringWriter(failingWriter{}), "no such tunnel")
require.EqualError(t, err, "gone")
assert.NotErrorAs(t, err, &f)
}
type failingWriter struct{}
func (failingWriter) Write([]byte) (int, error) { return 0, errors.New("gone") }
// TestAllSortsByName: registration order does not matter.
func TestAllSortsByName(t *testing.T) {
r := New()
@@ -72,8 +96,8 @@ func TestAllSortsByName(t *testing.T) {
}
// TestHelpFlagAgreesWithHelpCommand pins that -h answers through the registered help
// command. On a clone, help is bound to the source, so a command registered only on the
// clone is known to neither -h nor `help <name>`, and the two never disagree.
// command, and that help on a clone describes the clone: a command registered only there
// is known to both -h and `help <name>`, and one withheld from it is known to neither.
func TestHelpFlagAgreesWithHelpCommand(t *testing.T) {
r := testRegistry()
c := r.Clone()
@@ -88,10 +112,65 @@ func TestHelpFlagAgreesWithHelpCommand(t *testing.T) {
cmd := &bytes.Buffer{}
c.Dispatch("help logout", NewStringWriter(cmd))
assert.Equal(t, cmd.String(), flag.String())
assert.Equal(t, "Command not available logout\n", flag.String())
assert.Equal(t, "logout - ends the session\n", flag.String())
// The source never learns of it.
src := &bytes.Buffer{}
r.Dispatch("help logout", NewStringWriter(src))
assert.Equal(t, "Command not available logout\n", src.String())
// And a command both hold is described either way.
flag.Reset()
c.Dispatch("served -h", NewStringWriter(flag))
assert.Equal(t, "served - a command this surface serves\n", flag.String())
}
// TestCloneHelpListsTheClone: the command list help prints is the clone's, so a clone
// that withholds a command does not name it, and the source still does.
func TestCloneHelpListsTheClone(t *testing.T) {
r := testRegistry()
c := New()
c.Register(r.Get("served"))
c = c.Clone()
out := &bytes.Buffer{}
c.Dispatch("help", NewStringWriter(out))
assert.Equal(t, "Available commands:\n"+
"help - prints available commands or help <command> for specific usage info\n"+
"served - a command this surface serves\n\n", out.String())
out.Reset()
c.Dispatch("help withheld", NewStringWriter(out))
assert.Equal(t, "Command not available withheld\n", out.String())
out.Reset()
r.Dispatch("help withheld", NewStringWriter(out))
assert.Equal(t, "withheld - a command this surface withholds\n", out.String())
}
// TestDispatchReturnsTheCommandsError: what the callback returns reaches the caller, so
// a surface can log it.
func TestDispatchReturnsTheCommandsError(t *testing.T) {
r := New()
r.Register(&Command{
Name: "fails",
Callback: func(fs any, a []string, w StringWriter) error {
return errors.New("boom")
},
})
out := &bytes.Buffer{}
require.EqualError(t, r.Dispatch("fails", NewStringWriter(out)), "boom")
assert.Empty(t, out.String(), "a command's own error is not shown; the command speaks for itself")
}
// TestUnknownCommandNamesTheWord: only the first word is looked up, so only it is
// reported, followed by the command list, and the line is a failure to the surface.
func TestUnknownCommandNamesTheWord(t *testing.T) {
out := &bytes.Buffer{}
err := testRegistry().Dispatch(`nope "with args"`, NewStringWriter(out))
var f *Failure
require.ErrorAs(t, err, &f)
assert.Equal(t, "did not understand: nope", f.Msg)
assert.True(t, strings.HasPrefix(out.String(), "did not understand: nope\nAvailable commands:\n"), out.String())
}