Store auth credentials in the OS keychain (macOS + Linux)#2077
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Move auth tokens and refresh tokens out of the plaintext config.yaml into the OS-native credential store via 99designs/keyring: - macOS: Keychain Services with per-app ACL (re-prompts after binary updates when another process tries to read the item) - Linux: Secret Service (GNOME Keyring / KWallet) when a D-Bus session is available - Windows support to follow Credentials are managed through a SecureStore interface (pkg/keychain) with Get/Set/DeleteCredentials methods. A TokenHolder (pkg/httputil) is populated once during PersistentPreRunE and read by API client request editors on every outbound request — replacing the previous per-request context lookup for the token. On first run, MigrateLegacyCredentials copies token/refreshtoken fields from existing config.yaml contexts into the secure store and clears them from the config file. On Linux, when no Secret Service daemon is reachable (headless CI, containers without D-Bus), the store falls back to a plaintext JSON file at ~/.astro/credentials.json (mode 0600). This matches the previous config.yaml security posture and is acceptable because CI environments typically use ASTRO_API_TOKEN rather than interactive login credentials. Windows uses the same plaintext file fallback for now; the Credential Manager backend is added in the follow-up commit.
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Mostly looks great apart from tiny comments, this would be a great addition to CLI posture, so thanks for all the effort 🙇
Also, it would be worth checking basic functionality with APC platform or ask APC team to check the same
- Add tests for cachedStore, fileStore, loadSoftwareToken, and linux New() - Restrict Linux keyring backends to SecretService/KWallet only (keyctl doesn't persist across reboots, pass/file prompt for passphrases) - Remove stale NOTE comment from keychain_linux.go - Add store==nil guard to software Logout (reachable via login/logout which skip the storeErr check in pre-run hook) - Ignore 0o600/0o700 file permission literals in golangci-lint mnd Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I'm testing/asking for testers with this on APC before we merge. |
It was missing setting the current credentials, so it failed to verify the token in the post login step
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Move auth tokens and refresh tokens out of the plaintext config.yaml
into the OS-native credential store via 99designs/keyring:
updates when another process tries to read the item)
session is available
Credentials are managed through a SecureStore interface (pkg/keychain)
with Get/Set/DeleteCredentials methods. A TokenHolder (pkg/httputil) is
populated once during PersistentPreRunE and read by API client request
editors on every outbound request — replacing the previous per-request
context lookup for the token.
On first run, MigrateLegacyCredentials copies token/refreshtoken fields
from existing config.yaml contexts into the secure store and clears
them from the config file.
On Linux, when no Secret Service daemon is reachable (headless CI,
containers without D-Bus), the store falls back to a plaintext JSON
file at ~/.astro/credentials.json (mode 0600). This matches the
previous config.yaml security posture and is acceptable because CI
environments typically use ASTRO_API_TOKEN rather than interactive
login credentials.
Windows uses the same plaintext file fallback for now; the Credential
Manager backend is added in the follow-up commit.
After building and running this, the config file looks like:
And we can see the item in keychain access.
As of this Pr.
astro auth tokenstill works without further prompting (but I have a separate PR to put that, at least on macOS behind a TouchID et al prompt).A similar approach is possible on Windows (and the code is written, but not yet tested)