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dc0e3202cc feat: Linux system-wide setup (pmg setup install --system) (#377)
* feat: add Linux system-wide setup

Install shared shims, managed configuration, and login-shell PATH integration so golden images and multi-user hosts can protect package installs for every user.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* chore: keep local design documents untracked

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix: harden and simplify Linux system install

Tighten shim detection, profile repair, and install ordering while
trimming over-specific doctor/info hints from the system-install path.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix: clarify system-install doctor alias and shim path checks

Use UserBinDir for PATH checks and pass aliases as not required under
system install without treating that as active interception.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix: tighten event-log soft-fail warning prefix

Prefix the warning with [pmg] and drop the redundant continuing clause.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* ci: add Linux system-install e2e and pin pnpm for add flake

Cover root system setup, PATH/profile.d, managed config, non-root
interception, and remove. Pin pnpm 11.10.0 on the package-manager e2e
job after an integrity crash on pnpm add.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* chore: bump packageManager to pnpm 11.10.0 for e2e

Align package.json with the pnpm version we want in CI so action-setup
stops erroring on a version mismatch after the e2e integrity flake.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* ci: use npm init for pnpm e2e to avoid integrity crash

pnpm 11.x `pnpm init` still writes onFail:download; `pnpm add` then
fails after PMG analysis even on 11.10.0. Seed the temp package with
npm init instead.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* chore: revert packageManager pin to pnpm 11.1.3

The e2e integrity crash is avoided by npm init; the 11.10.0 bump is
no longer needed.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix: harden system-install review findings

Require root-owned, non-group/other-writable pmg for --system install;
allow remove without that validation. Doctor checks npm resolution for
PATH precedence, uses ImpliesInterception instead of message matching,
and documents version-manager shadowing. Pass profile bin dir from the
shim manager and note that system config ignores per-user files.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix: harden doctor PATH checks and attribute cloud events by OS user

Doctor now verifies every installed package manager against the shim
directory, and system-install validation only requires a safe parent
directory. Cloud sync records username/uid on invocation context for
multi-user hosts sharing one endpoint.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix: address system-install review findings

- shim: make system executable resolution injectable so tests pass under
  umask 002; skip the root-owner test when running as root
- doctor: treat resolution into either the system or per-user shim dir as
  intercepted, and collapse the shim-in-PATH check to a single call site
- setup: make remove (both --system and per-user) best-effort with
  errors.Join so one failed step no longer strands the other artifact
- shim: allow a group-writable install parent dir (Debian/Ubuntu ship
  /usr/local/bin as root:staff 2775) while still rejecting world-writable
  and non-root-owned parents
- audit: attribute cloud events to SUDO_USER when running under sudo
- docs: drop the soft-fail event-logging claim (hard-fail is retained)

* ci: normalize /usr/local/bin perms before system-install e2e

The GitHub ubuntu-latest runner ships /usr/local/bin world-writable so
tooling can install without sudo. System install correctly refuses a
world-writable dir for the shared binary (any local user could replace
it and hijack every user's npm/pip). No FHS-compliant distro or Docker
image ships it world-writable — it is always root:root 0755 or
root:staff 2775 — so this normalizes only the anomalous CI runner back
to standard perms and still exercises the real /usr/local/bin path.

* fix: actionable remedy for root-created per-user config dir

A pmg run as root with a preserved HOME (GitHub runners, sudo -E, su
without -) creates the invoking user's ~/.config/safedep as root-owned,
and event-log init then fail-closes every later non-root command.
Make that state self-solvable:

- event-log init permission errors exit with a usefulerror naming the
  likely cause and the chown fix instead of a bare fatal
- pmg setup doctor probes event-log dir writability and reports the
  same fix via a new per-result Fix override
- document the mechanism and remedy in system-install.md, along with
  the binary ownership requirements for --system
- consolidate this branch's doctor tests into doctor_test.go

* fix: resolve per-user paths from root's own home when running as root

Path resolution trusted HOME (and XDG_*), which sudo and su can preserve
from the invoking user (GitHub runners, sudo -E, su without -). Any pmg
run as root then created root-owned ~/.config/safedep inside that user's
home, and event-log init fail-closed every later non-root pmg/npm/pip
run for them. System install made sudo pmg the documented flow, turning
this latent bug into the happy path.

When euid is 0, configDir and cacheDir now resolve from root's passwd
home instead of the environment, so root state lands under /root and
user homes are never touched. PMG_CONFIG_DIR/PMG_CACHE_DIR still win,
non-root resolution is unchanged, and Windows is unaffected (no euid).
Event-log init stays fatal on failure; sudo-run package events are
attributed via SUDO_USER and synced by the exit auto-sync as usual.

E2E: GitHub runners preserve HOME under sudo, so assert that no sudo
pmg run leaks state into the runner's home, and that the managed-config
refusal fails for the documented reason rather than a permission brick.

* fix: triage the unwritable config dir remedy by cause

The chown hint is only correct when another account created files
inside the current user's own home. When a leaked HOME or
XDG_CONFIG_HOME points at another user's home (e.g. sudo -u on GitHub
runners), following it would chown that user's directory and brick
their pmg instead. Classify the failure against the passwd home,
which the leaked environment cannot influence, and prescribe:

- dir inside own home: restore ownership with chown
- dir outside own home: fix the leaked environment, never chown
- explicit PMG_CONFIG_DIR: make it writable

Used by both the fatal event-log error and the doctor check, and the
docs troubleshooting now carries the same two-case triage.

* ci: pin XDG_CONFIG_HOME for the cross-user e2e step; terse doctor fix

GitHub runners export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/runner/.config and it leaks
through sudo -u, so the pmgtest pmg resolved the runner user's config
dir and fail-closed on its runner-owned log file (run 29289868727 shows
the triaged error catching exactly this). Set it inside the login shell
so it wins regardless of how the leak is delivered.

The remedy now returns a full-help and doctor-table pair from a single
triage, and drops the do-not-chown tail from the leak message.

* fix: adapt event-log error to the two-value remedy signature

Belongs with the previous commit; it was left unstaged and e0580b1
does not compile without it.

* fix: fall back to env path resolution when root has no passwd entry

Running as uid 0 without a resolvable root passwd entry (scratch
containers, minimal chroots) panicked at startup on every command,
because the euid-based path resolution had no fallback. Fall back to
env-derived resolution there: without a passwd database there is no
user switching, so the cross-user poisoning that branch prevents
cannot occur.

Also restore the underlying cause in the generic event-log init error
(minimal output hid it after the usefulerror change), and document
that root's per-user data lives under /root regardless of a preserved
HOME.

* fix: gate SUDO_USER trust and root path diversion; add doctor binary check

Address review findings on the system-install PR:

- cloud_sink: honor SUDO_USER for audit attribution only when euid==0.
  Without the gate any user could set SUDO_USER and spoof cloud-audit
  attribution to another account. Matches the guard in cmd/setup/cert.go.

- config: divert per-user paths to root's passwd home only on an actual
  sudo elevation (euid==0 && SUDO_USER set), not for every root euid.
  The blanket root diversion ignored HOME/XDG_CONFIG_HOME and silently
  stopped reading genuine root users' config (golden Docker images),
  regressing two tests that only fail when the suite runs as root.
  Genuine root honors the environment as before; su without - leaves no
  marker and stays a documented, loud-failing residual.

- doctor: add a system-only check re-validating that the binary the
  installed shims exec is still root-owned and non-writable, catching
  permission/ownership drift after install.

- shim: fold the duplicated shim-scan loop into firstShimContent.

* fix: harden system dirs at install; keep sudo attribution without passwd

Address remaining review comments:

- shim: force root:root 0755 on the managed system dirs (shim tree and
  profile.d) after MkdirAll. A pre-created dir with weaker ownership,
  possible under Debian's group-writable /usr/local/lib, would let a
  non-root user replace the shims every account executes.

- audit: when SUDO_USER has no passwd entry (minimal containers),
  attribute cloud events from sudo's recorded SUDO_USER/SUDO_UID env
  instead of falling back to root. Still gated on euid 0.

- setup: reword the root-without---system warning; alias/shim install
  follows HOME, so claiming it configures only root's home was wrong.

- shim: skip the non-root-owner validation test on Windows, where file
  ownership is not resolvable.

* fix: reject system binaries unreachable by other users; consistent info

The system-install validation checked the binary's own permissions and
the parent's tamper-safety but never reachability: a 0755 root-owned
binary under a 0700 directory (e.g. /root/pmg) passed every check while
every non-root user's shim failed with exit 127. Walk the directory
chain to / and require the search bit for others; doctor's system
binary check inherits this. E2E gains a reject case for a binary under
a non-searchable directory.

setup info: render alias/user-shim/system-shim rows through one
installed-state formatter (location when installed, "not installed"
otherwise) instead of a mix of booleans, paths, and prose.

* fix: stop reowning /etc/profile.d; document group-writable and su gaps

writeSystemProfile chowned/chmod'd /etc/profile.d itself, a shared
system directory pmg does not own, silently overriding any perms a
sysadmin set on it. Secure only the file pmg writes (pmg.sh) via
secureSystemFile, which also forces 0644 explicitly so a restrictive
root umask cannot leave the snippet non-world-readable (which would
drop the shim dir from other users' login-shell PATH).

Docs: add Limitations entries for the group-writable install dir
bypass (validation is defeatable on non-sticky group-writable dirs
like Debian's /usr/local/bin) and the elevation-only scope (su without
- can still poison the caller's home; sudo -u cannot poison another
account). Trim the requireSafeParentDir comment to a pointer.

* refactor: separate unwritable-dir diagnosis from remedy rendering

Address the open review threads on #376:
- rename realUserHomeDir to currentUserHomeDir and fail when the passwd
  entry has no home directory
- split UnwritableConfigDirRemedy into classifyUnwritableDir (cause
  diagnosis) and pure message rendering so each function has one job
- replace cmd/setup's duplicate pathIsUnderDir with the shared
  config.PathWithinDir, now guarding empty inputs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011rWmR6NS47FpedJsrTWk8A

* fix: repair umask-clamped modes on system shims and managed config

os.WriteFile and os.MkdirAll honor the process umask, so a hardened root
umask (e.g. 077) produced 0700 shims other users cannot execute and a
0600/0700 managed config non-root pmg runs cannot read - silently
disabling the system-wide policy. Chmod/chown the artifacts explicitly
after writing, with unix regression tests running under umask 077.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011rWmR6NS47FpedJsrTWk8A

* refactor: address system-install maintainability review

- move PathWithinDir and the root-owned mkdir/chmod helpers into a new
  internal/fsutil package; config no longer exports a generic fs util
- create managed-config directories with MkdirAllRootOwned, which only
  sets ownership and mode on directories it creates - drops the
  hardcoded safedep parent-dir heuristic and never touches pre-existing
  directories
- collapse NewSystemShimManagerForRemove into NewSystemShimManager and
  validate the executable in Install, where the action needs it; Remove
  works regardless of binary state
- rename ShimConfig.ManageProfile to SystemProfile and document it
- name the Linux-only system paths linuxSystemBinDir/ProfilePath and
  document the Unix-only validation semantics
- share the PMG_BIN shim variable name between writeShimScript and
  parseShimPMGBin via the shimPMGBinVar constant
- cloud attribution falls back to the effective uid when SUDO_UID is
  absent, so sudo-invoked commands are not misattributed to root

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011rWmR6NS47FpedJsrTWk8A

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Co-authored-by: Sahilb315 <bansalsahil315@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 21:34:22 +05:30
c47776db27 feat(proxy): persistent proxy server mode (#351)
* refactor(flows): extract SetupCACertificate for reuse

Move the CA load/generate/merge logic out of proxyFlow into an exported
flows.SetupCACertificate so the persistent proxy server can reuse it.

* feat(proxy): add persistent proxy server with start/stop/env/status

Introduces 'pmg proxy' commands backed by internal/proxyserver: a long-lived
MITM proxy that intercepts package managers via env vars (no shims). Supports
--daemon (Unix), --state, --port; generic 'env' output that skips cert vars
when the CA is OS-trusted; opt-in 'stop --fail-on-violation' (fail-closed on
crash) with a synchronous cloud event flush; and the malysis analysis cache.

* feat(action): add server-mode for persistent proxy

When server-mode=true the action starts the proxy daemon and injects proxy
env vars into the job instead of installing shims.

* test(proxy): add persistent proxy server E2E workflow

* docs(readme): document persistent proxy server mode

* fix(proxy): create cache dir before writing state file and daemon log

On a fresh CI runner the cache directory does not exist yet; os.OpenFile and
os.WriteFile do not create parent dirs, so 'pmg proxy start --daemon' failed
with 'no such file or directory'. MkdirAll the parent before writing.

* docs: add persistent proxy server architecture doc

* refactor proxyserver

* fix(proxy): always emit cert env vars instead of skipping on OS-trust status

npm/pip/yarn/requests trust the MITM CA inconsistently across tools, versions,
and configs; many still use bundled CA stores. Always emitting the cert-path
env vars is the conservative choice that works regardless, and is harmless for
tools that read the OS store (they ignore the vars). Skipping them when a
system CA exists would silently break any tool still on a bundled store.

* refactor(proxy): drop redundant audit init in daemon; rely on main.go

main.go's PersistentPreRun already initializes the audit pipeline for every
command (including the daemon's re-exec'd child) and closes it at process exit.
Re-initializing in proxyserver.Run created a second auditor and a second
cloud-sync WAL connection, orphaning the first. Removing it makes the daemon
consistent with the normal proxy flow, which never self-initializes audit.

* fix(proxy): bypass proxy env when flushing events to cloud on stop

pmg proxy stop inherits HTTP(S)_PROXY (injected by 'pmg proxy env') pointing at
the PMG proxy it just shut down. The cloud sync gRPC client honored those vars
and routed api.safedep.io through the dead proxy, failing with 'connection
refused' so no events were delivered. Clear the proxy env vars before the sync
so PMG's own cloud traffic goes direct.

* chore(proxy): address review feedback

- configurable bind host via proxy.server.listen_host (default loopback)
- proxy commands use ui.ErrorExit instead of returning errors to cobra
- rename errcode to ProxyPolicyViolation (covers malware + cooldown)
- share cloud sync via audit.DrainToCloud (de-dup with cmd/cloud/sync)
- centralize proxy CA bundle path in certmanager
- docs: persistent proxy cert trust + bind address

* fix(proxy): show real message on fail-on-violation error

stopExitError set only WithMsg, but ui.ErrorExit renders HumanError, so the
framed error showed 'no human-readable message available'. Set both from one
string, and emit the framed error before the stdout summary so the blocked
count is stated once.

* fix(proxy): flush cloud events from the daemon, not stop

The stop process inherits HTTP_PROXY (from 'pmg proxy env'), so its cloud
client routed api.safedep.io through the already-stopped proxy and failed with
connection refused. Move the flush into the daemon's shutdown, which has no
proxy env (it started before env injection) and dials SafeDep directly.

- daemon flushes on shutdown via audit.DrainToCloud and records the result in
  the state file; stop surfaces it (on both success and fail-on-violation
  paths) since the daemon's own logs aren't visible to stop
- coordinate stop's wait with the daemon shutdown budget; on timeout, error
  out without reading stale state or deleting the file (fail-closed)
- persist blocked count before the flush so the gate stays correct if the
  flush hangs or the daemon is killed mid-flush
- remove now-redundant cloud_flush.go

* disable auto-sync for proxy cmds

* feat(proxy): periodic cloud sync + move proxy env vars to packagemanager

- daemon runs a periodic cloud-sync ticker so the shutdown flush stays small;
  the run total is reported by stop, and shutdown timeouts are coordinated
- move EnvVarForProxy from config to packagemanager (it is package-manager
  knowledge); the shared function now builds the proxy URL and NO_PROXY itself,
  removing the duplicated construction in the per-command and persistent paths
- relocate the #319 yarn and #339 IPv6 regression tests alongside the function
- enable cloud sync in the persistent-proxy E2E workflow and fix the stale
  internal/proxystate path filter

* refactor(proxy): rename cloudFlushLockTimeout to cloudFlushLockWait

Consistent timeout naming: *LockWait is the lock-acquire bound, *Timeout is
the sync-RPC bound. Previously the final-flush pair was cloudFlushLockTimeout
vs cloudFlushTimeout — two lookalike names for different operations.

* refactor(proxy): extract cloudFlush and trim duplicate shutdown comments

The shutdown's final-flush block is now a cloudFlush helper, symmetric with
startCloudSyncLoop (one-shot vs loop). Removed the triplicated ticker/lock
contention comments, keeping the contract on the function doc and one-line
pointers at the call sites.

* docs: update persistent proxy cloud sync to daemon-owned model

The daemon now owns cloud delivery (periodic sync while serving + final flush
on shutdown); stop signals it, waits, and reports the result. Rewrite the Cloud
event sync section, fix stop attributions, add the cloud_sync state field, and
update the sequence diagram.

* docs: move Usage section up below How it works

Put the copy-paste recipes near the top so users find them before the internals.

* refactor(proxy): address PR review feedback

- configurable bind host/port via --host/--port flags + config (listen_host,
  listen_port), bound directly to config fields per PMG's flag pattern
- daemon log path via --log-file and readiness timeout in ProxyDaemonConfig;
  Daemonize no longer owns path policy (caller validates, fails fast)
- gate periodic cloud sync on auto_sync; suppress detached background sync for
  proxy commands instead of flipping the flag
- pmg proxy env --export emits shell-quoted lines for eval (spaces survive)
- extract shared flows.BuildCachedMalysisAnalyzer, dropping the analyzer+cache
  duplication between proxy flow and proxy server
- add internal/proxyserver/doc.go documenting the package + boundary vs flows
- E2E: assert malicious installs are blocked (drop continue-on-error)
- docs: trim Commands/State-file to user contracts; refresh bind address

* refactor(proxy): proactive alignment fixes from whole-PR review

- gate the shutdown cloud flush on auto_sync too, matching the periodic ticker
  (auto_sync consistently controls all daemon-driven cloud delivery)
- ResolveStatePath takes cacheDir instead of *RuntimeConfig, keeping state.go
  free of config dependency
- drop the empty-host comment in listenAddr; keep the loopback guard so a blank
  host never silently binds all interfaces

* fix: Decouple localdb with malysis analyser construction

* fix: Persist global args before proxy server daemon exec

* fix: GitHub Action for cloud auto-sync in server mode

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Co-authored-by: Abhisek Datta <abhisek.datta@gmail.com>
2026-06-26 11:19:28 +05:30