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Summary

Implements session management features including per-user session limits, idle timeout detection, and session tracking.

Changes

  • SessionConfig: Configurable session limits

    • max_sessions_per_user: Limit concurrent sessions per user (default: 10)
    • max_total_sessions: Limit total concurrent sessions (default: 1000)
    • idle_timeout: Duration for idle detection (default: 1 hour)
    • session_timeout: Optional maximum session duration
  • SessionManager enhancements:

    • Per-user session tracking with user_sessions HashMap
    • authenticate_session() with per-user limit enforcement
    • touch() for updating last activity timestamp
    • get_idle_sessions() for timeout detection
    • Session statistics and admin operations
  • SessionInfo activity tracking:

    • last_activity field for idle detection
    • idle_secs(), is_idle(), is_expired() methods
  • SSH handler integration:

    • Per-user session limit checking during authentication
    • Rejects authentication when user exceeds session limit
  • Configuration:

    • New fields: max_sessions_per_user, session_timeout_secs
    • session_config() helper for creating SessionConfig

Test plan

  • SessionConfig creation and builder pattern
  • Per-user session limit enforcement
  • Session authentication with user tracking
  • Session activity tracking (touch)
  • Idle session detection
  • Session removal updates user tracking
  • Session statistics
  • Admin operations (kill_session, kill_user_sessions)
  • All 972+ tests passing

Closes #142

- Add SessionConfig for configurable session limits:
  - max_sessions_per_user: Limit concurrent sessions per user
  - max_total_sessions: Limit total concurrent sessions
  - idle_timeout: Detect idle sessions
  - session_timeout: Optional maximum session duration

- Enhance SessionManager with per-user tracking:
  - user_sessions HashMap for tracking sessions by username
  - authenticate_session() method with per-user limit enforcement
  - touch() method for updating last_activity timestamp
  - get_idle_sessions() for timeout detection
  - get_stats() for session statistics
  - list_sessions() / list_user_sessions() for admin operations
  - kill_session() / kill_user_sessions() for forced disconnect

- Add SessionError and SessionStats types

- Enhance SessionInfo with activity tracking:
  - last_activity field for idle detection
  - idle_secs() and is_idle() methods
  - is_expired() for session timeout checks

- Integrate per-user limits in SSH handler:
  - Check per-user session limits during authentication
  - Reject authentication if user has too many sessions
  - Update SessionManager's user tracking on auth success

- Add session config to ServerConfig:
  - max_sessions_per_user field
  - session_timeout_secs field
  - session_config() helper method

- Comprehensive test coverage (30+ new tests)
- Fix HIGH: Race condition in Drop - add retry mechanism with
  exponential backoff to ensure session cleanup under lock contention

- Fix MEDIUM: Add input validation for SessionConfig - clamp
  max_sessions_per_user and max_total_sessions to minimum of 1
  to prevent misconfiguration that could deny all connections

- Add validate() method to SessionConfig for detecting potentially
  problematic configuration combinations

- Fix MEDIUM: Atomic ordering - change SessionId counter from
  Ordering::Relaxed to Ordering::SeqCst for stricter ordering
  guarantees and consistent logging

- Add tests for config validation and clamping behavior
- Fix code formatting issues (handler.rs, session.rs)
- Fix unused variable warning in test (s2 -> _s2)
- Add comprehensive session management documentation
- Document session_timeout configuration option
- Add session management API examples
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PR Finalization Report

Project Structure Discovered

  • Project Type: Rust (Cargo workspace)
  • Test Framework: cargo test
  • Documentation System: Markdown docs in docs/architecture/
  • Lint Tools: cargo fmt, cargo clippy

Checklist

Tests

  • Analyzed existing test structure (45+ tests in session.rs)
  • Verified all tests pass (967 tests passed)
  • No additional tests needed - comprehensive coverage exists

Documentation

  • Session management module has comprehensive doc comments
  • Updated docs/architecture/server-configuration.md with:
    • session_timeout configuration option documentation
    • New "Session Management" section with API examples
    • Session configuration, limits, timeouts documentation
    • Admin operations documentation
    • Configuration validation documentation

Code Quality

  • cargo fmt --check - Fixed formatting issues
  • cargo clippy -- -D warnings - Passes with no warnings
  • Fixed unused variable warning in test (s2 -> _s2)

Changes Made

  1. Fixed formatting issues in src/server/handler.rs (import line wrapping)
  2. Fixed formatting issues in src/server/session.rs (warning message formatting)
  3. Fixed unused variable warning in test_session_manager_get_stats test
  4. Added comprehensive session management documentation to docs/architecture/server-configuration.md:
    • Session configuration options with code examples
    • Session limits (per-user and total) documentation
    • Session timeouts (idle and max duration) documentation
    • Session activity tracking documentation
    • Session statistics API documentation
    • Admin operations documentation
    • Configuration validation documentation

Verification

All checks passing:

  • 967 tests passed
  • No clippy warnings
  • No formatting issues

Merge origin/main into feat/session-management-142.
Both branches added new builder methods - kept all three:
- scp_enabled (from main)
- max_sessions_per_user (from current branch)
- session_timeout_secs (from current branch)
@inureyes inureyes merged commit 0862853 into main Jan 24, 2026
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@inureyes inureyes deleted the feat/session-management-142 branch January 24, 2026 10:52
@inureyes inureyes self-assigned this Jan 24, 2026
@inureyes inureyes added priority:medium Medium priority issue status:done Completed type:enhancement New feature or request labels Jan 24, 2026
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