This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.
A Brief History of AUTHORS files
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The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.
The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".
This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.
Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:
> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.
It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.
In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.
Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.
The source file changes were purely mechanical with:
git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
With the introduction of node sealing, store.New fails in some cases due
to the TPM device being reset or unavailable. Currently it results in
tailscaled crashing at startup, which is not obvious to the user until
they check the logs.
Instead of crashing tailscaled at startup, start with an in-memory store
with a health warning about state initialization and a link to (future)
docs on what to do. When this health message is set, also block any
login attempts to avoid masking the problem with an ephemeral node
registration.
Updates #15830
Updates #17654
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
It's an unnecessary nuisance having it. We go out of our way to redact
it in so many places when we don't even need it there anyway.
Updates #12639
Change-Id: I5fc72e19e9cf36caeb42cf80ba430873f67167c3
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The Tracker was using direct callbacks to ipnlocal. This PR moves those
to be triggered via the eventbus.
Additionally, the eventbus is now closed on exit from tailscaled
explicitly, and health is now a SubSystem in tsd.
Updates #15160
Signed-off-by: Claus Lensbøl <claus@tailscale.com>
This is a small introduction of the eventbus into controlclient that
communicates with mainly ipnlocal. While ipnlocal is a complicated part
of the codebase, the subscribers here are from the perspective of
ipnlocal already called async.
Updates #15160
Signed-off-by: Claus Lensbøl <claus@tailscale.com>
Although, at the moment, we do not yet require an event bus to be present, as
we start to add more pieces we will want to ensure it is always available. Add
a new constructor and replace existing uses of new(tsd.System) throughout.
Update generated files for import changes.
Updates #15160
Change-Id: Ie5460985571ade87b8eac8b416948c7f49f0f64b
Signed-off-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@tailscale.com>
We have several places where LocalBackend instances are created for testing, but they are rarely shut down
when the tests that created them exit.
In this PR, we update newTestLocalBackend and similar functions to use testing.TB.Cleanup(lb.Shutdown)
to ensure LocalBackend instances are properly shut down during test cleanup.
Updates #12687
Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
We add the ClientID() method to the ipnauth.Actor interface and updated ipnserver.actor to implement it.
This method returns a unique ID of the connected client if the actor represents one. It helps link a series
of interactions initiated by the client, such as when a notification needs to be sent back to a specific session,
rather than all active sessions, in response to a certain request.
We also add LocalBackend.WatchNotificationsAs and LocalBackend.StartLoginInteractiveAs methods,
which are like WatchNotifications and StartLoginInteractive but accept an additional parameter
specifying an ipnauth.Actor who initiates the operation. We store these actor identities in
watchSession.owner and LocalBackend.authActor, respectively,and implement LocalBackend.sendTo
and related helper methods to enable sending notifications to watchSessions associated with actors
(or, more broadly, identifiable recipients).
We then use the above to change who receives the BrowseToURL notifications:
- For user-initiated, interactive logins, the notification is delivered only to the user who initiated the
process. If the initiating actor represents a specific connected client, the URL notification is sent back
to the same LocalAPI client that called StartLoginInteractive. Otherwise, the notification is sent to all
clients connected as that user.
Currently, we only differentiate between users on Windows, as it is inherently a multi-user OS.
- In all other cases (e.g., node key expiration), we send the notification to all connected users.
Updates tailscale/corp#18342
Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
this commit changes usermetrics to be non-global, this is a building
block for correct metrics if a go process runs multiple tsnets or
in tests.
Updates #13420
Updates tailscale/corp#22075
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Dalby <kristoffer@tailscale.com>
Currently, we use PermitRead/PermitWrite/PermitCert permission flags to determine which operations are allowed for a LocalAPI client.
These checks are performed when localapi.Handler handles a request. Additionally, certain operations (e.g., changing the serve config)
requires the connected user to be a local admin. This approach is inherently racey and is subject to TOCTOU issues.
We consider it to be more critical on Windows environments, which are inherently multi-user, and therefore we prevent more than one
OS user from connecting and utilizing the LocalBackend at the same time. However, the same type of issues is also applicable to other
platforms when switching between profiles that have different OperatorUser values in ipn.Prefs.
We'd like to allow more than one Windows user to connect, but limit what they can see and do based on their access rights on the device
(e.g., an local admin or not) and to the currently active LoginProfile (e.g., owner/operator or not), while preventing TOCTOU issues on Windows
and other platforms. Therefore, we'd like to pass an actor from the LocalAPI to the LocalBackend to represent the user performing the operation.
The LocalBackend, or the profileManager down the line, will then check the actor's access rights to perform a given operation on the device
and against the current (and/or the target) profile.
This PR does not change the current permission model in any way, but it introduces the concept of an actor and includes some preparatory
work to pass it around. Temporarily, the ipnauth.Actor interface has methods like IsLocalSystem and IsLocalAdmin, which are only relevant
to the current permission model. It also lacks methods that will actually be used in the new model. We'll be adding these gradually in the next
PRs and removing the deprecated methods and the Permit* flags at the end of the transition.
Updates tailscale/corp#18342
Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
Previously, we were registering TCP and UDP connections in the same map,
which could result in erroneously removing a mapping if one of the two
connections completes while the other one is still active.
Add a "proto string" argument to these functions to avoid this.
Additionally, take the "proto" argument in LocalAPI, and plumb that
through from the CLI and add a new LocalClient method.
Updates tailscale/corp#20600
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I35d5efaefdfbf4721e315b8ca123f0c8af9125fb
On unix systems, the check involves executing sudo, which is slow.
Instead of doing it for every incoming request, move the logic into
localapi serveServeConfig handler and do it as needed.
Updates tailscale/corp#15405
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
For an operator user, require them to be able to `sudo tailscale` to use
`tailscale serve`. This is similar to the Windows elevated token check.
Updates tailscale/corp#15405
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
For a serve config with a path handler, ensure the caller is a local administrator on Windows.
updates #8489
Signed-off-by: Tyler Smalley <tyler@tailscale.com>
It would end up resetting whatever hostinfo we had constructed
and leave the backend statemachine in a broken state.
This fixes that by storing the PushDeviceToken on the LocalBackend
and populating it on Hostinfo before passing it to controlclient.
Updates tailscale/corp#8940
Updates tailscale/corp#15367
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
The whois handler was documented as taking IP (e.g. 100.101.102.103)
or IP:port (e.g. usermode 127.0.0.1:1234) but that got broken at some point
and we started requiring a port always. Fix that.
Also, found in the process of adding tests: fix the CapMap lookup in
userspace mode (it was always returning the caps of 127.0.0.1 in
userspace mode). Fix and test that too.
Updates #9714
Change-Id: Ie9a59744286522fa91c4b70ebe89a1e94dbded26
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This is for use by LocalAPI clients written in other languages that
don't appear to be able to talk HTTP over a socket (e.g.
java.net.http.HttpClient).
Signed-off-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@tailscale.com>
