#!/usr/bin/env python3 """What this machine offers to other machines, and switches for it. Every row reports what is actually true, including "the software for this is not installed". GNOME's Sharing panel shows switches for services that are absent, which is how a switch ends up doing nothing at all. Enabling remote login is a system-wide change and goes through pkexec, which prompts with the polkit agent this desktop already runs. Remote desktop is a user service and needs no privilege. panama-sharing snapshot panama-sharing set-remote-login true|false panama-sharing set-remote-desktop true|false panama-sharing set-hostname NAME """ from __future__ import annotations import json import re import shutil import subprocess import sys from pathlib import Path HOSTNAME = re.compile(r"^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,62}$") class BoundaryError(RuntimeError): """A user-visible validation or permission failure.""" def run(command: list[str], timeout: float = 25.0) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess: try: return subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=timeout, check=False) except (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired) as error: raise BoundaryError(f"{command[0]} did not answer.") from error def unit_state(unit: str, user: bool = False) -> dict: scope = ["--user"] if user else [] active = run(["systemctl", *scope, "is-active", unit]).stdout.strip() enabled = run(["systemctl", *scope, "is-enabled", unit]).stdout.strip() return { "installed": enabled not in ("", "not-found"), "active": active == "active", "enabled": enabled == "enabled", } def ssh_setting(name: str) -> str: """What sshd's own configuration says, or "" when it says nothing. `sshd -T` would be authoritative but needs root. Reading the files means reporting "not configured" rather than guessing a default -- which matters, because claiming "keys only" on a machine that actually accepts passwords would be a security claim this cannot back up. """ paths = [Path("/etc/ssh/sshd_config")] paths.extend(sorted(Path("/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d").glob("*.conf")) if Path("/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d").is_dir() else []) pattern = re.compile(rf"^\s*{name}\s+(\S+)", re.IGNORECASE) for path in paths: try: for line in path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").splitlines(): found = pattern.match(line) if found: return found.group(1) except OSError: continue return "" def remote_desktop() -> dict: state = unit_state("gnome-remote-desktop.service", user=True) state["available"] = bool(shutil.which("grdctl")) state["rdpEnabled"] = False state["port"] = "" state["hasCredentials"] = False if not state["available"]: return state status = run(["grdctl", "status"]).stdout section = status.split("RDP:", 1) if len(section) > 1: block = section[1].split("VNC:", 1)[0] state["rdpEnabled"] = re.search(r"Status:\s*enabled", block) is not None port = re.search(r"Port:\s*(\d+)", block) state["port"] = port.group(1) if port else "" # grdctl prints "(hidden)" when a credential is stored and nothing when # it is not, so this reads presence without ever reading the value. state["hasCredentials"] = "(hidden)" in block return state def snapshot() -> dict: static_name = run(["hostnamectl", "--static"]).stdout.strip() pretty_name = run(["hostnamectl", "--pretty"]).stdout.strip() login = unit_state("sshd.service") login["port"] = ssh_setting("Port") or "22" login["passwordAuthentication"] = ssh_setting("PasswordAuthentication") login["rootLogin"] = ssh_setting("PermitRootLogin") return { "hostname": static_name, "prettyHostname": pretty_name, "remoteLogin": login, "remoteDesktop": remote_desktop(), # Reported as absent rather than offered as a switch that would do # nothing. Installing software is not this page's job. "fileSharing": {"installed": bool(shutil.which("smbd")), "package": "samba"}, "mediaSharing": {"installed": bool(shutil.which("rygel")), "package": "rygel"}, "error": "", } def set_remote_login(enabled: bool) -> None: if not unit_state("sshd.service")["installed"]: raise BoundaryError("OpenSSH server is not installed.") action = ["enable", "--now"] if enabled else ["disable", "--now"] result = run(["pkexec", "systemctl", *action, "sshd.service"], timeout=120) if result.returncode != 0: raise BoundaryError(_refusal(result, "Remote login could not be changed.")) def set_remote_desktop(enabled: bool) -> None: state = remote_desktop() if not state["available"]: raise BoundaryError("Remote desktop support is not installed.") if enabled and not state["hasCredentials"]: raise BoundaryError("Set a remote desktop username and password first.") toggle = run(["grdctl", "rdp", "enable" if enabled else "disable"]) if toggle.returncode != 0: raise BoundaryError(_refusal(toggle, "Remote desktop could not be changed.")) action = ["enable", "--now"] if enabled else ["disable", "--now"] result = run(["systemctl", "--user", *action, "gnome-remote-desktop.service"], timeout=60) if result.returncode != 0: raise BoundaryError(_refusal(result, "The remote desktop service could not be changed.")) def set_hostname(name: str) -> None: if not HOSTNAME.fullmatch(name or ""): raise BoundaryError("A name may use letters, digits and hyphens.") result = run(["hostnamectl", "set-hostname", name], timeout=60) if result.returncode != 0: raise BoundaryError(_refusal(result, "The name could not be changed.")) def _refusal(result: subprocess.CompletedProcess, fallback: str) -> str: text = (result.stderr or "").strip().splitlines() if text and ("not authorized" in text[-1].lower() or "dismissed" in text[-1].lower()): return "That change was not authorized." return text[-1][:200] if text else fallback def main(arguments: list[str]) -> int: try: if arguments == ["snapshot"]: print(json.dumps(snapshot(), separators=(",", ":"))) return 0 if len(arguments) == 2 and arguments[0] == "set-remote-login": set_remote_login(arguments[1] == "true") elif len(arguments) == 2 and arguments[0] == "set-remote-desktop": set_remote_desktop(arguments[1] == "true") elif len(arguments) == 2 and arguments[0] == "set-hostname": set_hostname(arguments[1]) else: raise BoundaryError( "Usage: panama-sharing snapshot | set-remote-login true|false | " "set-remote-desktop true|false | set-hostname NAME") except BoundaryError as error: state = snapshot() state["error"] = str(error) print(json.dumps(state, separators=(",", ":"))) return 0 print(json.dumps(snapshot(), separators=(",", ":"))) return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv[1:]))