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Give a job a credential for the bot it acts as

6e1fca5115b709d31eeb51864b187d79aa104e5f · Keenan Nemetz · 6d ago · parent 446542e6

Give a job a credential for the bot it acts as

A workflow can name a bot account with `bot:`. When the job is leased the
instance generates a key for that run, stores the public half with the run,
repository and expiry, and sends the private half on the lease channel. The
runner writes it into the job's run directory with a known_hosts entry for the
instance, so a step's `git push` or `vole issue comment` authenticates as the
account and nothing has to be wired per job.

The account's role is the permission, in full. The credential replaces exactly one
requirement — that writing to the issues branch needs `maintain` — and adds no rule
of its own. What a job may write there is what its account may do, asked the same
way the browser asks: discuss, file an issue, manage an item it wrote, open a
change from a branch it may push, triage and approve when the role allows it. Those
are the ACL's own capabilities (`CanDiscuss`, `CanOpenRequest`, `CanTriage`,
`CanApprove`), so a maintainer's job may do everything a maintainer's key may do,
including labels, states, and other people's items.

A session is scoped only when the fingerprint it authenticated with is a live
credential row; an expired one reads as absent, so the push falls back to the
account's own role and is refused where a contribute account cannot write.

Two things end the key: the run finishing, which drops the row, and the expiry,
which is what stops a credential whose runner was killed and never reported. The
key is also masked in the log like a secret, since a step that cats it should not
leave it in the attempt.

Closes #165.

server/ci.go +9

@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ func (s *Server) queue(m *repo.Meta, repoName string, spec queueSpec) int {
220 220 Env: job.Env,
221 221 Network: job.Network,
222 222 Timeout: durationText(job.Timeout),
223 Bot: job.Bot,
223 224 ReleaseArtifacts: releasePaths(job),
224 225 PagesPath: site,
225 226 Created: time.Now().UTC(),
@@ -464,6 +465,14 @@ func (s *Server) watchLeases(ctx context.Context) {
464 465 s.Log.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("ci: %d job(s) returned to the queue, %d failed after %d attempts",
465 466 back, failed, runs.MaxAttempts))
466 467 }
468 // A run whose runner disappeared never sends a finish, so the key it was
469 // given is ended by its expiry. Sweeping here keeps the rows bounded and
470 // means a credential that is refused is not still sitting in the table.
471 if dropped, err := s.Runs.ExpiredCredentials(time.Now().UTC()); err != nil {
472 s.Log.Warn("ci: cannot sweep expired run credentials", "err", err)
473 } else if dropped > 0 {
474 s.Log.Info("ci: swept expired run credentials", "credentials", dropped)
475 }
467 476 // Presence is not history: a runner that was killed leaves a row nothing
468 477 // will ever refresh, so it is forgotten rather than shown as connected.
469 478 if n, err := s.Runs.PruneSessions(time.Now().UTC().Add(-10 * time.Minute)); err != nil {