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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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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
package sshd
import (
"errors"
"log/slog"
"strings"
@@ -25,19 +26,25 @@ func NewSession(reg *commands.Registry, conn *ssh.ServerConn, chans <-chan ssh.N
cancel: cancel,
}
s.commands.Register(&commands.Command{
Name: commands.Logout,
ShortDescription: "Ends the current session",
Callback: func(a any, args []string, w commands.StringWriter) error {
s.Close()
return nil
},
})
s.commands.Register(LogoutCommand(s.Close))
go s.handleChannels(chans)
return s
}
// LogoutCommand is the logout command a session registers on its clone of the registry,
// with end as what it does. Exported so a test can serve what a session serves.
func LogoutCommand(end func()) *commands.Command {
return &commands.Command{
Name: commands.Logout,
ShortDescription: "Ends the current session",
Callback: func(fs any, a []string, w commands.StringWriter) error {
end()
return nil
},
}
}
func (s *session) handleChannels(chans <-chan ssh.NewChannel) {
defer s.Close()
for newChannel := range chans {
@@ -84,9 +91,13 @@ func (s *session) handleRequests(in <-chan *ssh.Request, channel ssh.Channel) {
}
req.Reply(true, nil)
s.dispatchCommand(payload.Value, commands.NewStringWriter(channel))
err := s.dispatchCommand(payload.Value, commands.NewStringWriter(channel))
// A command that failed exits 1, so `ssh host cmd` callers can tell.
status := struct{ Status uint32 }{uint32(0)}
if err != nil {
status.Status = 1
}
channel.SendRequest("exit-status", false, ssh.Marshal(status))
channel.Close()
return
@@ -135,8 +146,20 @@ func (s *session) handleInput() {
}
}
func (s *session) dispatchCommand(line string, w commands.StringWriter) {
s.commands.Dispatch(line, w)
// dispatchCommand runs line and returns the command's error, which it has logged unless
// the command already told the user everything: the log line is for the operator reading
// the daemon's log, who learns nothing from a failure the user caused.
func (s *session) dispatchCommand(line string, w commands.StringWriter) error {
err := s.commands.Dispatch(line, w)
if err == nil {
return nil
}
var f *commands.Failure
if !errors.As(err, &f) {
s.l.Debug("Command returned an error", "line", line, "error", err)
}
return err
}
func (s *session) Close() {