From 0e77a212b1985988ba6b21229533449b9cbb82f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristoffer Dalby <kristoffer@dalby.cc>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:31:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] hscontrol/api: wrap the register user-lookup error as
 'looking up user'

Matches the wording the CLI auth-validation test expects (and the previous
handler used); still a 404.
---
 hscontrol/api/v1/nodes.go | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hscontrol/api/v1/nodes.go b/hscontrol/api/v1/nodes.go
index ceb87163..8ea581b8 100644
--- a/hscontrol/api/v1/nodes.go
+++ b/hscontrol/api/v1/nodes.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package apiv1
 import (
 	"cmp"
 	"context"
+	"fmt"
 	"net/netip"
 	"slices"
 	"time"
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ func (s *Server) RegisterNode(
 
 	user, err := s.state.GetUserByName(params.User.Or(""))
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapStateError(err)
+		return nil, mapStateError(fmt.Errorf("looking up user: %w", err))
 	}
 
 	node, nodeChange, err := s.state.HandleNodeFromAuthPath(