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saphid e63dc43c2f Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/windows-ssh-config-acl 2026-10-05 22:52:52 +11:00
Alex Southwell 80f433a2d3 Merge pull request #61 from saphid/fix/windows-rdp-report
Remote desktop from Windows: sign in as steamos, and say why when the Frame doesn't answer
2026-10-05 22:52:44 +11:00
saphidandClaude Opus 5.5 07f44f9082 Windows: fix ssh config ACL, link-local IPv6, and setup under python -I
- ~/.ssh/config writes swapped in a temp file that inherited the .ssh folder's
  ACL; Windows' OpenSSH refuses one granting another account (even a deleted
  one) more than read: "Bad owner or permissions". Writes now give the file an
  owner-only ACL (frame_host.make_private), and the server repairs a refused
  config once per run and retries.
- frame_link.probe named a link-local IPv6 zone with if_indextoname, which on
  Windows is "ethernet_32769"; Windows' ssh can't resolve that, so a headset
  found at fe80:: showed as "can't find the Frame". Use the zone number there.
- frame_connect.py imports frame_host (since #60), but the app runs it with
  python -I, which leaves its folder off sys.path: Set Up Connection exited
  with ModuleNotFoundError. Add the folder, as server.py does.

Verified on a Windows 11 VM against OpenSSH_for_Windows 9.5p2: the old write
reproduces the reported error with an orphan SID's Modify ACE; the new write,
repair and server retry all leave a config ssh accepts; ssh to %ethernet_32769
fails to resolve while %5 connects.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 22:43:51 +11:00
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"""Windows-only paths, faked on any OS: ~/.ssh/config's ACL and link-local IPv6 zones.
Run: python3 -m unittest discover -s tests
"""
import sandbox # noqa: F401 (first: keeps tests off real data and services)
import os
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
import unittest
from pathlib import Path
from unittest import mock
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "ui"))
import frame_host # noqa: E402
import frame_devices as fd # noqa: E402
REFUSED = ("Bad permissions. Try removing permissions for user: UNKNOWN\\UNKNOWN (S-1-5-21-1-2-3-1000) "
"on file C:/Users/bob/.ssh/config.\r\nBad owner or permissions on C:\\Users\\bob/.ssh/config\r\n")
def ran(*results):
"""subprocess.run stand-in answering whoami, then icacls."""
calls = []
def run(argv, **kw):
calls.append(argv)
return results[len(calls) - 1]
return run, calls
class MakePrivate(unittest.TestCase):
def test_windows_sets_owner_only_acl_by_sid(self):
run, calls = ran(subprocess.CompletedProcess([], 0, '"desktop\\björn","S-1-5-21-9-8-7-1001"\r\n'.encode("cp850")),
subprocess.CompletedProcess([], 0))
with mock.patch.object(frame_host, "WINDOWS", True), mock.patch.object(frame_host.subprocess, "run", run):
self.assertTrue(frame_host.make_private(Path("C:/x/config")))
self.assertEqual(calls[1][1:], [str(Path("C:/x/config")), "/inheritance:r", "/grant:r",
"*S-1-5-21-9-8-7-1001:F", "*S-1-5-18:F", "*S-1-5-32-544:F"])
def test_windows_falls_back_to_username_and_reports_failure(self):
run, calls = ran(subprocess.CompletedProcess([], 1, b""), subprocess.CompletedProcess([], 5))
with mock.patch.object(frame_host, "WINDOWS", True), mock.patch.object(frame_host.subprocess, "run", run), \
mock.patch.dict(os.environ, {"USERNAME": "bob"}):
self.assertFalse(frame_host.make_private(Path("config")))
self.assertIn("bob:F", calls[1])
@unittest.skipIf(os.name == "nt", "POSIX modes")
def test_posix_chmods_600(self):
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as f:
os.chmod(f.name, 0o644)
self.assertTrue(frame_host.make_private(f.name))
self.assertEqual(os.stat(f.name).st_mode & 0o777, 0o600)
class ConfigWrites(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.ssh = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="frame-acl-"))
self.addCleanup(shutil.rmtree, self.ssh, ignore_errors=True)
self.config = self.ssh / "config"
def test_devices_and_connect_writes_make_the_file_private(self):
import frame_connect as fc
self.config.write_text("Host other\n User me\n", encoding="utf-8")
with mock.patch.object(frame_host, "make_private", return_value=True) as private, \
mock.patch.object(fc, "SSH_DIR", self.ssh), mock.patch.object(fc, "CONFIG", self.config):
fc.write_config("10.0.0.5")
self.assertTrue(fd.repair_permissions(self.config))
fd.rewrite_block("frame", path=self.config, user="deck")
self.assertEqual(private.call_count, 3)
self.assertIn("User deck", self.config.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
self.assertTrue(all(Path(c.args[0]).parent == self.ssh for c in private.call_args_list))
self.assertIn("Host other", self.config.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
def test_setup_runs_isolated_as_the_app_starts_it(self):
r = subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-I", "-B", str(ROOT / "ui" / "frame_connect.py"), "--help"],
capture_output=True, text=True, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, timeout=30)
self.assertNotIn("ModuleNotFoundError", r.stderr)
self.assertIn("frame_connect.py", r.stdout + r.stderr)
def test_repair_keeps_the_bytes_and_skips_a_missing_file(self):
self.assertFalse(fd.repair_permissions(self.config))
data = "# caf\xe9 (ANSI, not UTF-8)\r\nHost a\r\n".encode("cp1252")
self.config.write_bytes(data)
with mock.patch.object(frame_host, "make_private", return_value=True):
self.assertTrue(fd.repair_permissions(self.config))
self.assertEqual(self.config.read_bytes(), data)
def test_repair_fails_without_the_acl_and_leaves_the_file(self):
self.config.write_bytes(b"Host a\n")
before = self.config.stat().st_ino
with mock.patch.object(frame_host, "make_private", return_value=False):
self.assertFalse(fd.repair_permissions(self.config))
self.assertEqual((self.config.read_bytes(), self.config.stat().st_ino), (b"Host a\n", before))
self.assertEqual(sorted(f.name for f in self.ssh.iterdir()), ["config", fd.LOCK_NAME])
class ServerRepair(unittest.TestCase):
@classmethod
def setUpClass(cls):
import server
cls.server = server
def setUp(self):
self.ssh = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="frame-acl-"))
self.addCleanup(shutil.rmtree, self.ssh, ignore_errors=True)
(self.ssh / "config").write_text("Host a\n", encoding="utf-8")
patches = [mock.patch.dict(os.environ, {"FRAME_CONTROL_SSH_DIR": str(self.ssh)}),
mock.patch.object(frame_host, "WINDOWS", True),
mock.patch.object(self.server, "_config_repaired", False)]
for p in patches:
p.start()
self.addCleanup(p.stop)
def test_repairs_the_refused_config_once(self):
with mock.patch.object(fd, "repair_permissions", return_value=True) as repair:
self.assertTrue(self.server.repair_ssh_config(REFUSED))
self.assertFalse(self.server.repair_ssh_config(REFUSED))
repair.assert_called_once()
def test_leaves_other_files_and_errors_alone(self):
key = REFUSED.replace(".ssh/config", ".ssh/id_ed25519_frame")
with mock.patch.object(fd, "repair_permissions") as repair:
self.assertFalse(self.server.repair_ssh_config(key))
self.assertFalse(self.server.repair_ssh_config("ssh: connect to host frame port 22: timed out"))
with mock.patch.object(frame_host, "WINDOWS", False):
self.assertFalse(self.server.repair_ssh_config(REFUSED))
repair.assert_not_called()
def test_ssh_retries_after_repairing(self):
results = iter([subprocess.CompletedProcess([], 255, "", REFUSED), subprocess.CompletedProcess([], 0, "ok", "")])
with mock.patch.object(frame_host, "run_ssh", lambda *a, **k: next(results)), \
mock.patch.object(fd, "repair_permissions", return_value=True), \
mock.patch.object(self.server, "LINK", None):
self.assertEqual(self.server.ssh("true"), "ok")
class LinkLocalZone(unittest.TestCase):
"""A .local name answering on fe80::: Windows' ssh needs fe80::1%12, not %wireless_32768."""
def probe(self, windows):
import frame_link as fl
info = [(fl.socket.AF_INET6, fl.socket.SOCK_STREAM, 6, "", ("fe80::1", 22, 0, 12))]
sock = mock.MagicMock()
with mock.patch.object(frame_host, "WINDOWS", windows), \
mock.patch.object(fl.socket, "getaddrinfo", return_value=info), \
mock.patch.object(fl.socket, "socket", return_value=sock), \
mock.patch.object(fl.socket, "if_indextoname", return_value="wireless_32768", create=True):
return fl.probe("frame.local", 22)["ip"]
def test_windows_uses_the_numeric_zone(self):
self.assertEqual(self.probe(True), "fe80::1%12")
def test_elsewhere_uses_the_interface_name(self):
self.assertEqual(self.probe(False), "fe80::1%wireless_32768")
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()
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@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ import urllib.error
import urllib.request
from pathlib import Path
import frame_host
# The app runs this with python -I, which leaves the script's folder off sys.path.
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
import frame_host # noqa: E402
FRAME_USER = os.environ.get("FRAME_USER", "steamos")
USER_FROM_ENV = "FRAME_USER" in os.environ
@@ -332,8 +334,9 @@ def _write_config(host, port, user):
block = config_block(host, port, user)
tmp = CONFIG.with_name(f"config.frame-control.{os.getpid()}.tmp")
tmp.write_text("\n".join(block + kept) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")
if os.name != "nt":
tmp.chmod(0o600)
if not frame_host.make_private(tmp):
say(" couldn't make ~/.ssh/config private; if ssh says \"Bad owner or permissions\", "
"Frame Control repairs it when it next connects")
# On Windows a running ssh.exe (Frame Control's own, say) keeps the config open
# and locked, so the swap can fail for a moment; keep trying for a while.
for attempt in range(60):
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try:
with os.fdopen(fd_, "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
fh.write(text)
if not frame_host.WINDOWS:
tmp.chmod(0o600)
frame_host.make_private(tmp) # best effort: an edit still beats none (repair_permissions insists)
for attempt in range(20): # Windows: a running ssh.exe can hold the file for a moment
if read_config(path) != expected:
return False
@@ -271,6 +270,37 @@ def _edit_config(path, change):
raise OSError(f"{path} kept changing while Frame Control tried to update it")
def repair_permissions(path=None):
"""Give ~/.ssh/config make_private's ACL by swapping in a byte-for-byte copy: for a
file Windows' OpenSSH refuses ("Bad owner or permissions"). -> True only if the copy
got that ACL and replaced the file."""
path = Path(path or ssh_config())
with _config_lock, file_lock(path.with_name(LOCK_NAME)):
try:
data = path.read_bytes()
except OSError:
return False
fd_, tmp = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix="config.frame-control.", dir=str(path.parent))
tmp = Path(tmp)
try:
with os.fdopen(fd_, "wb") as fh:
fh.write(data)
if not frame_host.make_private(tmp):
return False
for attempt in range(20): # a running ssh.exe can hold the file for a moment
if path.read_bytes() != data:
return False
try:
os.replace(tmp, path)
return True
except PermissionError:
time.sleep(0.25)
return False
finally:
if tmp.exists():
tmp.unlink()
def rewrite_block(alias, path=None, hostname=None, user=None, port=None, expect=None):
"""Change HostName, User or Port inside ALIAS's managed block, leaving the rest of the
file alone. -> True if the file changed. Does nothing if there's no such block, or
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raise HostError("Can't read the clipboard")
# What Windows' OpenSSH says when it refuses ~/.ssh/config (or a key) for its ACL.
BAD_PERMISSIONS = "Bad owner or permissions on "
def make_private(path):
"""Leave only this user able to open PATH, as ssh insists for ~/.ssh/config.
Windows: an ACL of just this user, SYSTEM and Administrators, inherited nothing.
A file written into ~/.ssh otherwise takes the folder's ACL, and Windows' OpenSSH
refuses it if that grants anyone else, even an account deleted long ago
("Bad owner or permissions"). Best effort: -> False if it couldn't."""
if not WINDOWS:
try:
os.chmod(path, 0o600)
return True
except OSError:
return False
me = os.environ.get("USERNAME", "")
try: # "desktop\me","S-1-5-21-..."
# Bytes: the account name is in the console's code page, the SID is ASCII.
out = subprocess.run(["whoami", "/user", "/fo", "csv", "/nh"], capture_output=True,
stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, timeout=10).stdout
sid = out.decode("ascii", "replace").strip().rsplit(",", 1)[-1].strip('"')
if sid.startswith("S-1-"):
me = "*" + sid
except (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired):
pass
if not me:
return False
try:
return subprocess.run(["icacls", str(path), "/inheritance:r", "/grant:r", f"{me}:F",
"*S-1-5-18:F", "*S-1-5-32-544:F"], capture_output=True,
stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, timeout=10).returncode == 0
except (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired):
return False
def ssh_hostname(alias):
"""The real host name an ssh alias points at (`ssh -G`), for non-SSH clients like RDP."""
try:
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ip = addr[0]
if family == socket.AF_INET6 and len(addr) > 3 and addr[3] and "%" not in ip:
try: # a link-local IPv6 address only works with its interface
ip = f"{ip}%{socket.if_indextoname(addr[3])}"
# Windows' ssh takes only the number: its names ("wireless_32768") don't resolve.
ip = f"{ip}%{addr[3] if frame_host.WINDOWS else socket.if_indextoname(addr[3])}"
except (OSError, AttributeError):
pass
left = deadline - now()
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raise Failure(f"Timed out talking to {FRAME}")
if r.returncode != 0:
err = (r.stderr or r.stdout) if text else (r.stderr or r.stdout).decode(errors="replace")
if r.returncode == 255 and repair_ssh_config(err):
return ssh(remote, stdin=stdin, timeout=timeout, text=text)
if r.returncode == 255 and LINK and unreachable(err):
LINK.lost(err, route_gen) # ssh itself failed: the connector reconnects
failure = Failure(strip_ansi(err).strip() or f"ssh exited {r.returncode}")
@@ -347,6 +349,30 @@ def ssh(remote, *, stdin=None, timeout=30, text=True):
return r.stdout
_config_repaired = False
def repair_ssh_config(err):
"""Windows' OpenSSH refused ~/.ssh/config for its ACL: give the file a private one,
once per run. -> True if it did, so the command is worth retrying."""
global _config_repaired
if _config_repaired or not frame_host.WINDOWS or frame_host.BAD_PERMISSIONS not in err:
return False
# ssh doubles the backslashes: "C:\\Users\\me/.ssh/config"
named = re.sub(r"[\\/]+", "/", err.split(frame_host.BAD_PERMISSIONS, 1)[1].splitlines()[0].strip())
config = frame_devices.ssh_config()
if not named.lower().endswith("/" + config.name.lower()):
return False # a key or another file: not ours to rewrite
_config_repaired = True
try:
if frame_devices.repair_permissions(config):
print(f"Gave {config} a private ACL: ssh refused it ({named})", file=sys.stderr)
return True
except OSError as e:
print(f"Couldn't repair {config}'s permissions: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
return False
def strip_ansi(s):
return re.sub(r"\x1b\[[0-9;?]*[A-Za-z]|\r", "", s)