ci(aur): say which key AUR refused, instead of just that it refused one

[EtienneLescot]

The answer to "did AUR work?"

No. v1.9.5 ran the workflow (the RCs were correctly skipped) and failed at the very last step:

[master 32875d1] Bump to 1.9.5
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
aur@aur.archlinux.org: Permission denied (publickey).

Everything before it worked: tag resolved · .pacman asset found · AUR repo cloned · PKGBUILD audited · version and every checksum recomputed · .SRCINFO regenerated · diff verified · commit created. The pipeline is correct. Only authentication fails — and v1.9.1 and v1.9.2 failed identically.

Why we still cannot say more than that

Permission denied (publickey) is one message for three different problems:

1. AUR_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY is not a readable private key (wrong format, mangled newlines).
2. The key is fine but was never registered on the AUR account.
3. The key is registered, but that account is not a maintainer of openscreen and cannot write to it.

A public key was added upstream and this still fails, which makes the interesting question "is the key CI presents the same one that was added?" — and nothing in the workflow can answer it. There is no ssh-keygen, no fingerprint, no -v anywhere in the file.

What this adds

One continue-on-error step, on the real path, after the existing key-touches-disk-last step:

• ssh-keygen -y on the secret — proves it parses, and prints the public key plus fingerprint. A public key is public; printing it is exactly how you compare what CI presents against what is on the account.
• ssh -T aur@aur.archlinux.org — the decisive probe. AUR answers by naming the account it authenticated, which separates case 3 from cases 1 and 2 in one line.

Deliberately not moved into dry_run: that mode never writes the key to disk and its summary says so, which is a property worth keeping. Re-running for real is safe anyway — a refused push does not touch AUR, and the commit is local to the runner.

Next step

Merge, then dispatch aur-publish.yml with tag: v1.9.5. It will either push (if the key was fixed in the meantime) or fail again — but this time the log names the key and the account, which is what Dark needs to check the registration against.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Improved package publishing diagnostics by displaying the deployment key’s public key and fingerprint.
  • Added a non-blocking authentication check to help verify publishing access before release.
  • Authentication troubleshooting details are now clearer without interrupting the publishing workflow when validation encounters an error.

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Walkthrough

The AUR publish workflow restricts SSH authentication to the deployment key. It adds a non-blocking diagnostic that displays the key identity and performs a timeout-bounded AUR authentication probe.

Changes

AUR SSH diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Restrict AUR SSH authentication .github/workflows/aur-publish.yml	SSH offers only the deployment key with IdentitiesOnly yes and retains strict host-key verification.
Add non-blocking AUR key diagnostics .github/workflows/aur-publish.yml	The workflow validates the private key, displays its public key and fingerprint, and performs a bounded authentication probe. Diagnostic failures do not stop publication.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9e0d2

This change adds diagnostic output to the AUR publishing workflow without changing the publishing path; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Possibly related PRs

• getopenscreen/openscreen#297: Both changes update AUR publishing SSH authentication behavior in the workflow.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the workflow change that identifies the SSH key involved in AUR authentication failures.
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/aur-publish.yml:
- Line 393: Update the SSH diagnostic command near the aur@aur.archlinux.org
probe to enforce bounded execution: wrap ssh with a 30-second timeout and
5-second kill-after grace period, add a 10-second connection timeout, and
preserve BatchMode, the existing host/test flags, stderr redirection, and ||
true behavior.
- Line 393: Update the SSH probe command and the shared Host aur.archlinux.org
configuration to set IdentitiesOnly and explicitly use the workflow key at
$HOME/.ssh/aur_key, ensuring both the connectivity check and subsequent git push
authenticate only with that key.
- Around line 373-379: Update the SSH diagnostics comments near the AUR
authentication check to state that ssh -T only identifies the authenticated
account, not authorization to publish ${PACKAGE}; either add a package-specific
authorization check or remove the maintainer-access claim. Configure the SSH
invocation with IdentitiesOnly yes so the tested identity matches the public key
printed by ssh-keygen.

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[EtienneLescot]

All three taken. 9e0d28ad.

The overclaim was mine and it mattered. The comment sold ssh -T as decisive about maintainer access. It is not — it identifies the authenticated account and says nothing about whether that account may write ${PACKAGE}. Reworded to what it actually does: narrow by elimination. If AUR answers, the key parses and is registered, so only authorization is left standing.

I also switched -T → help, which is the documented way to test AUR auth without pushing, and whose reply enumerates the commands the account may run. That is the honest place to look for a repo-listing command if this needs to go further — I did not assert one exists, because I could not verify it: both the Arch wiki and the AUR RPC are behind Anubis from here, so help's own output will be the source of truth on the next run.

Bounded: timeout -k 5 30 plus ConnectTimeout=10. A diagnostic that hangs is worse than the missing diagnostic it replaces.

IdentitiesOnly yes — and this one is more than hygiene here. Without it, ssh offers whatever else it finds first, so the probe can report on a different identity than the push uses. That would make the diagnostic actively misleading, which is the one thing a diagnostic must never be. It is also the standard cause of AUR permission-denied wherever more than one key is reachable, per the research on this thread.

Validated: YAML parses, every run block passes bash -n, and the three properties are asserted mechanically rather than eyeballed —

IdentitiesOnly in ssh config: true
probe bounded by timeout:     true
probe uses help (documented): true