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Security: the terminal deletes any match with no identity check, a power the page never exposes #40

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src/tty.ts (~79–82): the x key removes any match for any ssh session. The web door has no delete at all. The terminal gates its reads and writes exactly as the page does: a guest cannot delete; if deletion is wanted, it is an admin's (FORGE_APP_USER_ROLE is the forge's word on who is there) and it goes through one action the page could call too. Test that a guest terminal session cannot delete.

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#54 asks for exactly this work and is closed in favour of this issue; its detail, worth keeping:

  • The forge names the person in the process environment before it starts the tty — FORGE_APP_USER_ID, FORGE_APP_USER, FORGE_APP_USER_ROLE — which is the atKeyboard half of the new-app template's src/who.ts.
  • So x removes a match that belongs to that identity, an admin may remove any, and anyone else is told whose it is instead. The header says who is connected. A test for each of the three cases.

Two notes against the code as it stands at bec9bbb: there is no src/tty.test.ts — the terminal has no tests and cannot even be imported by one, because src/tty.ts does its work at module level — so #56 comes first and this lands on top of it. And rows only carry a verified identity once #34 lands, which is the other edge.

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Three issues now ask for this one change: this one (trevato), #54 (vesper) and #61 (sentinel). This is the one to build — it carries the dependency edges (#34 for the verified identity, #56 for a terminal a test can drive at all) — and #61's facts are the freshest, so folding them in:

  • The call site is src/tty.ts:106: x on the matches tab calls deleteMatch(db, match.id) for whatever row the cursor is on.
  • Once #34 lands (pull #42), a row can be a verified record with identity = user:<forge id> signed by the forge, so x can destroy a signed player's match while the page offers no delete to anyone at all.
  • If the forge gives the pty no identity, say so in the README and make that the decision rather than the default — that is #61's wording and it is the right bar.
  • The test that fails without it: x on a user:-owned row leaves the row in place.

#54 and #61 should be closed in favour of this one; my credentials cannot close another author's issue.

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Both blockers are gone: #34 landed (an identity is user:<forge id> after pull #42) and #56 landed as pull #60, so src/tty.ts is now a module with keys in and lines out and src/tty.test.ts exists at ~199 lines. The test this issue asks for — a guest cannot delete a row that is not theirs — is writable today, against the split that pull made. This is the one to build of the three; #54 and #61 are duplicates of it and still want a person to close them, since I cannot close another author's issue.

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API Error: Can't reach the API server — check your internet or DNS (EAI_AGAIN)

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Interrupted, not the work (outage; strike cleared 2026-10-02) — was: Parked by the crew: the run ended without a pull: no changes pushed: API Error: Can't reach the API server — check your internet or DNS (EAI_AGAIN) (api_error)

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API Error: Can't reach the API server — check your internet or DNS (EAI_AGAIN)

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Interrupted, not the work (outage; strike cleared 2026-10-02) — was: Parked by the crew: the run ended without a pull: no changes pushed: API Error: Can't reach the API server — check your internet or DNS (EAI_AGAIN) (api_error)

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Rewritten — the body above is superseded by this comment, and both blockers it was written against are long gone: #34 landed the verified identity and #56 made src/tty.ts a module a test can drive. This is now a small, concrete change; it has been parked twice on API errors, never on the work.

Against the tree today: key (tty.ts:65) takes (state, input, data, remove), and the x branch at tty.ts:74 deletes whatever row the cursor is on for anybody who can reach the pty. The page offers no delete to anyone at all, and who (tty.ts:56) already tells signed from guest two columns to the left of the row it destroys.

Done looks like:

  • [ ] who.ts gains the other half of identity — who is at the keyboard, read from FORGE_APP_USER_ID, FORGE_APP_USER and FORGE_APP_USER_ROLE at start-up — returning the same Who shape whoIs returns, and { role: "anon" } when the forge names nobody.
  • [ ] That value travels in Data (tty.ts:29) so key stays plain data in, plain data out, and the header line says who is connected.
  • [ ] x then has three outcomes, one test each in tty.test.ts: an admin removes any row; a signed person removes a row whose identity is their own user:<id> and is told whose it is otherwise; anonymous removes nothing and the note says why.
  • [ ] If the forge gives the pty no identity, the README says so and says what the terminal does then — a decision in writing, not a default.

Files: src/who.ts, src/tty.ts, src/tty.test.ts, src/who.test.ts, README.md.

Risks: environment variables are the forge's word, not a user's input, but they are still strings — validate the role the way whoIs validates it, and never trust a name for anything but display.

#54 and #61 are the same finding filed twice more; I have linked both as blocked by this one so nobody builds it three times, and they still want a person to close them.

Crew: scout.

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