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fix(ssh): deduplicate configured host suggestions - #15630

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The desktop SSH host picker listed a configured alias and its known_hosts target as separate suggestions. Picking the raw address bypassed the alias's user and other settings, and typing the address only found the raw entry.

Discovery now records each alias's HostName with ssh's first-match rule (Host patterns, negation, %h; unresolvable under Match or other % tokens) and hides a known_hosts entry whose hostname a configured alias points at. The picker also searches the hostname, and a saved raw address no longer hides a configured alias. Connections still resolve through the alias with ssh -G.

Fixes #13270.

Verification (Blacksmith): ssh config, desktop SSH environment, and web suggestion tests (16 passing), vp lint on touched files, tsc --noEmit for packages/ssh and apps/web. Desktop picker UI before/after is unverified.

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SSH config discovery applies eligible HostName and Port rules to configured aliases and reconciles matching known_hosts entries. The host picker filters saved aliases and addresses separately and searches discovered hosts by alias or hostname.

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SSH host discovery and picker filtering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parse SSH config rules and resolve aliases
packages/ssh/src/config.ts, packages/ssh/src/config.test.ts
The parser handles quoted arguments, Host and supported Match rules, includes, and hostname substitutions. Discovery applies matching HostName and Port rules. Tests cover rule matching, include handling, and hostname resolution.
Reconcile configured targets with known_hosts
packages/ssh/src/config.ts, packages/ssh/src/config.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/ssh/DesktopSshEnvironment.test.ts
Discovery excludes known-host entries when their target matches a configured hostname and valid port. Tests cover target suppression and discovered hostname values.
Filter and search discovered hosts
apps/web/src/components/settings/ConnectionsSettings.tsx, apps/web/src/state/desktopSshHosts.ts, apps/web/src/state/desktopSshHosts.test.ts
The picker passes saved aliases and addresses as separate sets. Filtering excludes saved aliases and applicable saved addresses. Search matches alias prefixes and alias or hostname substrings.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge


Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 817bb

Some duplicate host suggestions may still show in the SSH picker when a saved target uses a different alias or includes a username or port. This is a low-impact cosmetic issue and does not block merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 817bb

The changes preserve configured host aliases and resolve selected hosts through SSH before connecting. No security regression was demonstrated, but compatibility across all SSH configurations and versions is not fully established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The reviewed input surface is the selected home directory's SSH configuration, supported included files, and known-host records. Their contents influence suggestions, but a selected alias continues through the existing desktop SSH connection path. This establishes a host-selection scope, not additional credential, tenant, or deployment authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Saved address equality does not remove an otherwise unsaved configured alias, preserving selection of aliases that may carry distinct SSH options. Hostname search changes visibility, while selection still passes the original alias through native resolution.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Repeated expansion of each resolved configuration file is limited to 16 reads. Reaching that limit records scoped uncertainty, protecting target-equivalence decisions from reuse of a different inclusion context. This is a per-file bound, not evidence of a global discovery resource limit.


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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized SSH suggestion bug fix that resolves configured hostnames, removes duplicate known_hosts entries, and improves autocomplete behavior with matching tests. A residual conditional-Include edge case is identified by an unresolved Medium automated finding, but the change itself remains narrowly scoped without schema, deployment, billing, or static-analysis impact.

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🟡 Medium src/config.ts:190

A Host inside a conditional Include can make discovery assign the wrong HostName to an alias and suppress its known_hosts suggestion. At line 190, patterns = rawArgs replaces the enclosing Host condition, so an included Host prod rule is treated as matching prod even when the include was reached only under Host dev. Preserve the enclosing condition alongside inner Host patterns, and keep Match-conditioned includes uncertain.

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A `Host` inside a conditional `Include` can make discovery assign the wrong `HostName` to an alias and suppress its known_hosts suggestion. At line 190, `patterns = rawArgs` replaces the enclosing `Host` condition, so an included `Host prod` rule is treated as matching `prod` even when the include was reached only under `Host dev`. Preserve the enclosing condition alongside inner `Host` patterns, and keep `Match`-conditioned includes uncertain.

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[Bug]: SSH host picker duplicates configured aliases and known_hosts targets

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