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shell_tunnel/security/
capability.rs

1//! Capability set — the frozen access-control *mechanism* (Phase A wire contract v1).
2//!
3//! A token carries a **set** of capability strings. A route declares a
4//! **required-capability**; an access decision is a **set-membership** check.
5//! The literal `"*"` is a **wildcard** that satisfies every capability check.
6//!
7//! Only this *mechanism* is contractual (frozen). The capability *vocabulary*
8//! (which strings exist, e.g. `exec`, `session.read`) and role *presets* are
9//! **non-contract** and grow additively — new strings may be added, but renaming,
10//! removing, or tightening an existing string is breaking. See the Phase A spec.
11
12use std::collections::HashSet;
13
14/// The wildcard capability: a token holding it passes every capability check.
15pub const WILDCARD: &str = "*";
16
17/// An unordered set of capability strings held by a token.
18///
19/// Access control is pure set membership with a single special case: the
20/// [`WILDCARD`] string satisfies any required capability.
21#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
22pub struct CapabilitySet(HashSet<String>);
23
24impl CapabilitySet {
25    /// Create an empty capability set (holds no capabilities).
26    pub fn new() -> Self {
27        Self(HashSet::new())
28    }
29
30    /// Create a wildcard set — satisfies **every** capability check.
31    ///
32    /// This is the set held by the `full-control` preset and the legacy-key
33    /// mapping target (spec §4).
34    pub fn wildcard() -> Self {
35        let mut set = HashSet::new();
36        set.insert(WILDCARD.to_string());
37        Self(set)
38    }
39
40    /// Whether this set **satisfies** `required` — either it holds the wildcard,
41    /// or it directly contains the required capability string.
42    ///
43    /// This is the frozen access-decision primitive (spec §2.1).
44    pub fn satisfies(&self, required: &str) -> bool {
45        self.0.contains(WILDCARD) || self.0.contains(required)
46    }
47
48    /// Whether this set holds the wildcard capability.
49    pub fn is_wildcard(&self) -> bool {
50        self.0.contains(WILDCARD)
51    }
52
53    /// Insert a capability string into the set.
54    pub fn insert(&mut self, capability: impl Into<String>) {
55        self.0.insert(capability.into());
56    }
57
58    /// Number of capability strings in the set.
59    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
60        self.0.len()
61    }
62
63    /// Whether the set holds no capabilities.
64    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
65        self.0.is_empty()
66    }
67
68    /// Iterate over the capability strings.
69    pub fn iter(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &String> {
70        self.0.iter()
71    }
72}
73
74impl<S: Into<String>> FromIterator<S> for CapabilitySet {
75    fn from_iter<I: IntoIterator<Item = S>>(iter: I) -> Self {
76        Self(iter.into_iter().map(Into::into).collect())
77    }
78}
79
80/// Capability strings the router currently maps routes onto.
81///
82/// Vocabulary, not mechanism — additive by design (see the module header).
83/// See [`preset`] for why the presets below draw their boundary at `exec`
84/// rather than at `fs.*`.
85///
86/// The practical consequence — and what `src/fs/root.rs` points here for: a
87/// `--fs-root` jail confines something only for a token holding `fs.*`
88/// **without** `exec`, which is exactly what `file-read` and `file-write`
89/// grant. Against `operator` or `full-control` it is a convenience boundary —
90/// chunked, resumable, checksummed transfer instead of piping bytes through a
91/// command — and not a containment one, because `exec` already reaches every
92/// file this process can. Both halves matter: the second is why the file API
93/// needs no flag to exist, the first is why `--fs-root` still has a job.
94pub const KNOWN_CAPABILITIES: &[&str] = &[
95    "exec",
96    "session.read",
97    "session.manage",
98    "fs.read",
99    "fs.write",
100];
101
102/// Resolve a role **preset** name to its capability set (spec §6).
103///
104/// Presets are a **non-contract** convenience mapping — they may change freely
105/// and are not part of the frozen wire contract. Returns `None` for an unknown
106/// name so the caller can surface a clear error.
107///
108/// **The gradient's cut line is `exec`.** A token holding `exec` reaches every
109/// file this process can, so withholding the file API from it confines nothing
110/// and only forces callers onto the slow path. The presets below therefore
111/// split into "carries exec, and so carries everything" and "carries no exec,
112/// and so the file capabilities are a real boundary".
113pub fn preset(name: &str) -> Option<CapabilitySet> {
114    match name {
115        // `fs.read`/`fs.write` sit alongside `exec` here rather than being
116        // withheld from it: this preset already grants command execution, which
117        // reaches every file this process can. See `KNOWN_CAPABILITIES` above.
118        "operator" => Some(
119            [
120                "exec",
121                "session.read",
122                "session.manage",
123                "fs.read",
124                "fs.write",
125            ]
126            .into_iter()
127            .collect(),
128        ),
129        // No `exec`, so the file capabilities are the whole grant and a
130        // `--fs-root` jail actually confines something. `session.*` is
131        // deliberately absent: without `exec` there is no session to read.
132        "file-write" => Some(["fs.read", "fs.write"].into_iter().collect()),
133        "file-read" => Some(["fs.read"].into_iter().collect()),
134        "full-control" => Some(CapabilitySet::wildcard()),
135        _ => None,
136    }
137}
138
139#[cfg(test)]
140mod tests {
141    use super::*;
142
143    #[test]
144    fn test_empty_set_satisfies_nothing() {
145        let set = CapabilitySet::new();
146        assert!(set.is_empty());
147        assert!(!set.satisfies("exec"));
148        assert!(!set.is_wildcard());
149    }
150
151    #[test]
152    fn test_wildcard_satisfies_everything() {
153        let set = CapabilitySet::wildcard();
154        assert!(set.is_wildcard());
155        assert!(set.satisfies("exec"));
156        assert!(set.satisfies("session.read"));
157        assert!(set.satisfies("anything.at.all"));
158    }
159
160    #[test]
161    fn test_membership_is_exact() {
162        let set: CapabilitySet = ["session.read"].into_iter().collect();
163        assert!(set.satisfies("session.read"));
164        // Not a prefix/hierarchy match — membership is exact.
165        assert!(!set.satisfies("session.manage"));
166        assert!(!set.satisfies("session"));
167        assert!(!set.is_wildcard());
168    }
169
170    #[test]
171    fn test_multiple_capabilities() {
172        let set: CapabilitySet = ["exec", "session.read", "session.manage"]
173            .into_iter()
174            .collect();
175        assert_eq!(set.len(), 3);
176        assert!(set.satisfies("exec"));
177        assert!(set.satisfies("session.read"));
178        assert!(set.satisfies("session.manage"));
179        assert!(!set.satisfies("fs.read"));
180    }
181
182    #[test]
183    fn test_insert() {
184        let mut set = CapabilitySet::new();
185        set.insert("exec");
186        assert!(set.satisfies("exec"));
187        assert_eq!(set.len(), 1);
188    }
189
190    #[test]
191    fn file_presets_carry_no_exec() {
192        let read = preset("file-read").expect("file-read must exist");
193        assert!(read.satisfies("fs.read"));
194        assert!(!read.satisfies("fs.write"));
195        assert!(!read.satisfies("exec"));
196        // Not slipping in anything the name doesn't promise: without `exec`
197        // there is no session to create, so session lookup would be useless.
198        assert!(!read.satisfies("session.read"));
199        assert_eq!(read.len(), 1);
200
201        let write = preset("file-write").expect("file-write must exist");
202        assert!(write.satisfies("fs.read"));
203        assert!(write.satisfies("fs.write"));
204        assert!(!write.satisfies("exec"));
205        assert!(!write.satisfies("session.read"));
206        assert_eq!(write.len(), 2);
207    }
208
209    #[test]
210    fn read_only_is_gone_rather_than_silently_redefined() {
211        // This preset's name and behaviour used to disagree ("read-only" that
212        // couldn't read a file). Keeping the name as an alias while changing
213        // its meaning would be a silent capability escalation for existing
214        // tokens picking up `fs.read` — removal is the honest direction.
215        assert!(preset("read-only").is_none());
216    }
217
218    #[test]
219    fn test_presets() {
220        let operator = preset("operator").unwrap();
221        assert!(operator.satisfies("exec"));
222        assert!(operator.satisfies("session.read"));
223        assert!(operator.satisfies("session.manage"));
224        // Carried because `exec` above already reaches every file this process
225        // can: withholding them confined nothing. Asserted rather than left
226        // implicit so removing them again has to be a deliberate act.
227        assert!(operator.satisfies("fs.read"));
228        assert!(operator.satisfies("fs.write"));
229        assert!(!operator.is_wildcard());
230
231        let full = preset("full-control").unwrap();
232        assert!(full.is_wildcard());
233        assert!(full.satisfies("anything"));
234
235        assert!(preset("nonexistent").is_none());
236    }
237}