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tailscale/ipn/ipnauth/ipnauth.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
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
---

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>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
// Package ipnauth controls access to the LocalAPI.
package ipnauth
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
"net"
"os"
"os/user"
"runtime"
"strconv"
"tailscale.com/envknob"
"tailscale.com/feature/buildfeatures"
"tailscale.com/ipn"
"tailscale.com/safesocket"
"tailscale.com/types/logger"
"tailscale.com/util/clientmetric"
"tailscale.com/util/groupmember"
"tailscale.com/util/winutil"
"tailscale.com/version/distro"
)
// ErrNotImplemented is returned by ConnIdentity.WindowsToken when it is not
// implemented for the current GOOS.
var ErrNotImplemented = errors.New("not implemented for GOOS=" + runtime.GOOS)
// WindowsToken represents the current security context of a Windows user.
type WindowsToken interface {
io.Closer
// EqualUIDs reports whether other refers to the same user ID as the receiver.
EqualUIDs(other WindowsToken) bool
// IsAdministrator reports whether the receiver is a member of the built-in
// Administrators group, or else an error. Use IsElevated to determine whether
// the receiver is actually utilizing administrative rights.
IsAdministrator() (bool, error)
// IsUID reports whether the receiver's user ID matches uid.
IsUID(uid ipn.WindowsUserID) bool
// UID returns the ipn.WindowsUserID associated with the receiver, or else
// an error.
UID() (ipn.WindowsUserID, error)
// IsElevated reports whether the receiver is currently executing as an
// elevated administrative user.
IsElevated() bool
// IsLocalSystem reports whether the receiver is the built-in SYSTEM user.
IsLocalSystem() bool
// UserDir returns the special directory identified by folderID as associated
// with the receiver. folderID must be one of the KNOWNFOLDERID values from
// the x/sys/windows package, serialized as a stringified GUID.
UserDir(folderID string) (string, error)
// Username returns the user name associated with the receiver.
Username() (string, error)
}
// ConnIdentity represents the owner of a localhost TCP or unix socket connection
// connecting to the LocalAPI.
type ConnIdentity struct {
conn net.Conn
notWindows bool // runtime.GOOS != "windows"
// Fields used when NotWindows:
isUnixSock bool // Conn is a *net.UnixConn
creds PeerCreds // or nil if peercred.Get was not implemented on this OS
// Used on Windows:
// TODO(bradfitz): merge these into the peercreds package and
// use that for all.
pid int
}
// WindowsUserID returns the local machine's userid of the connection
// if it's on Windows. Otherwise it returns the empty string.
//
// It's suitable for passing to LookupUserFromID (os/user.LookupId) on any
// operating system.
func (ci *ConnIdentity) WindowsUserID() ipn.WindowsUserID {
if !buildfeatures.HasDebug && runtime.GOOS != "windows" {
// This function is only implemented on non-Windows for simulating
// Windows in tests. But that test (per comments below) is broken
// anyway. So disable this testing path in non-debug builds
// and just do the thing that optimizes away.
return ""
}
if envknob.GOOS() != "windows" {
return ""
}
if tok, err := ci.WindowsToken(); err == nil {
defer tok.Close()
if uid, err := tok.UID(); err == nil {
return uid
}
}
// For Linux tests running as Windows:
const isBroken = true // TODO(bradfitz,maisem): fix tests; this doesn't work yet
if ci.creds != nil && !isBroken {
if uid, ok := ci.creds.UserID(); ok {
return ipn.WindowsUserID(uid)
}
}
return ""
}
func (ci *ConnIdentity) Pid() int { return ci.pid }
func (ci *ConnIdentity) IsUnixSock() bool { return ci.isUnixSock }
func (ci *ConnIdentity) Creds() PeerCreds { return ci.creds }
// PeerCreds is the interface for a github.com/tailscale/peercred.Creds,
// if linked into the binary.
//
// (It's not used on some platforms, or if ts_omit_unixsocketidentity is set.)
type PeerCreds interface {
UserID() (uid string, ok bool)
PID() (pid int, ok bool)
}
var metricIssue869Workaround = clientmetric.NewCounter("issue_869_workaround")
// LookupUserFromID is a wrapper around os/user.LookupId that works around some
// issues on Windows. On non-Windows platforms it's identical to user.LookupId.
func LookupUserFromID(logf logger.Logf, uid string) (*user.User, error) {
u, err := user.LookupId(uid)
if err != nil && runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
// See if uid resolves as a pseudo-user. Temporary workaround until
// https://github.com/golang/go/issues/49509 resolves and ships.
if u, err := winutil.LookupPseudoUser(uid); err == nil {
return u, nil
}
// TODO(aaron): With LookupPseudoUser in place, I don't expect us to reach
// this point anymore. Leaving the below workaround in for now to confirm
// that pseudo-user resolution sufficiently handles this problem.
// The below workaround is only applicable when uid represents a
// valid security principal. Omitting this check causes us to succeed
// even when uid represents a deleted user.
if !winutil.IsSIDValidPrincipal(uid) {
return nil, err
}
metricIssue869Workaround.Add(1)
logf("[warning] issue 869: os/user.LookupId failed; ignoring")
// Work around https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/869 for
// now. We don't strictly need the username. It's just a nice-to-have.
// So make up a *user.User if their machine is broken in this way.
return &user.User{
Uid: uid,
Username: "unknown-user-" + uid,
Name: "unknown user " + uid,
}, nil
}
return u, err
}
// IsReadonlyConn reports whether the connection should be considered read-only,
// meaning it's not allowed to change the state of the node.
//
// Read-only also means it's not allowed to access sensitive information, which
// admittedly doesn't follow from the name. Consider this "IsUnprivileged".
// Also, Windows doesn't use this. For Windows it always returns false.
//
// TODO(bradfitz): rename it? Also make Windows use this.
func (ci *ConnIdentity) IsReadonlyConn(operatorUID string, logf logger.Logf) bool {
if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
// Windows doesn't need/use this mechanism, at least yet. It
// has a different last-user-wins auth model.
return false
}
const ro = true
const rw = false
if !safesocket.PlatformUsesPeerCreds() {
return rw
}
creds := ci.creds
if creds == nil {
logf("connection from unknown peer; read-only")
return ro
}
uid, ok := creds.UserID()
if !ok {
logf("connection from peer with unknown userid; read-only")
return ro
}
if uid == "0" {
logf("connection from userid %v; root has access", uid)
return rw
}
if selfUID := os.Getuid(); selfUID != 0 && uid == strconv.Itoa(selfUID) {
logf("connection from userid %v; connection from non-root user matching daemon has access", uid)
return rw
}
if operatorUID != "" && uid == operatorUID {
logf("connection from userid %v; is configured operator", uid)
return rw
}
if yes, err := isLocalAdmin(uid); err != nil {
logf("connection from userid %v; read-only; %v", uid, err)
return ro
} else if yes {
logf("connection from userid %v; is local admin, has access", uid)
return rw
}
logf("connection from userid %v; read-only", uid)
return ro
}
func isLocalAdmin(uid string) (bool, error) {
u, err := user.LookupId(uid)
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
var adminGroup string
switch {
case runtime.GOOS == "darwin":
adminGroup = "admin"
case distro.Get() == distro.QNAP:
adminGroup = "administrators"
default:
return false, fmt.Errorf("no system admin group found")
}
return groupmember.IsMemberOfGroup(adminGroup, u.Username)
}