Fix check for user exec command

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Malton <sebastian@malton.name>

package.json

@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@
     "byline": "^5.0.0",
     "chalk": "^4.1.0",
     "chokidar": "^3.4.3",
-    "command-exists": "1.2.9",
     "conf": "^7.0.1",
     "crypto-js": "^4.1.1",
     "electron-devtools-installer": "^3.2.0",

src/common/custom-errors.ts

@@ -19,15 +19,17 @@
  * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  */
 
+import path from "path";
+
 export class ExecValidationNotFoundError extends Error {
-  constructor(execPath: string, isAbsolute: boolean) {
+  constructor(execPath: string) {
     super(`User Exec command "${execPath}" not found on host.`);
     let message = `User Exec command "${execPath}" not found on host.`;
 
-    if (!isAbsolute) {
+    if (!path.isAbsolute(execPath)) {
       message += ` Please ensure binary is found in PATH or use absolute path to binary in Kubeconfig`;
     }
-    this.message = message; 
+    this.message = message;
     this.name = this.constructor.name;
     Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
   }

src/common/kube-helpers.ts

@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ import path from "path";
 import os from "os";
 import yaml from "js-yaml";
 import logger from "../main/logger";
-import commandExists from "command-exists";
 import { ExecValidationNotFoundError } from "./custom-errors";
 import { Cluster, Context, newClusters, newContexts, newUsers, User } from "@kubernetes/client-node/dist/config_types";
 import { resolvePath } from "./utils";
 import Joi from "joi";
+import { execFileSync } from "child_process";
 
 export type KubeConfigValidationOpts = {
   validateCluster?: boolean;
@@ -295,13 +295,22 @@ export function validateKubeConfig(config: KubeConfig, contextName: string, vali
 
     // Validate exec command if present
     if (validateExec && user?.exec) {
-      const execCommand = user.exec["command"];
+      try {
-      // check if the command is absolute or not
+        execFileSync(user.exec.command, { timeout: 1 });
-      const isAbsolute = path.isAbsolute(execCommand);
 
-      // validate the exec struct in the user object, start with the command field
+        // If this doesn't throw an error it also means that it has found the executable.
-      if (!commandExists.sync(execCommand)) {
+      } catch (error) {
-        return new ExecValidationNotFoundError(execCommand, isAbsolute);
+        switch (error?.code) {
+          case "ETIMEDOUT":
+            // ignore this error code. It means that the exec can be found.
+            break;
+          case "ENOENT":
+          case "EACCES":
+          case "EPERM":
+            return new ExecValidationNotFoundError(user.exec.command);
+          default:
+            return error;
+        }
       }
     }
 

yarn.lock

@@ -4066,11 +4066,6 @@ combined-stream@^1.0.6, combined-stream@^1.0.8, combined-stream@~1.0.6:
   dependencies:
     delayed-stream "~1.0.0"
 
-command-exists@1.2.9:
-  version "1.2.9"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/command-exists/-/command-exists-1.2.9.tgz#c50725af3808c8ab0260fd60b01fbfa25b954f69"
-  integrity sha512-LTQ/SGc+s0Xc0Fu5WaKnR0YiygZkm9eKFvyS+fRsU7/ZWFF8ykFM6Pc9aCVf1+xasOOZpO3BAVgVrKvsqKHV7w==
-
 commander@2.9.0:
   version "2.9.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/commander/-/commander-2.9.0.tgz#9c99094176e12240cb22d6c5146098400fe0f7d4"