Brad Fitzpatrick c1ae2bb1f8 cmd/tailscale, ipn, feature/remoteconfig: add remote-config support
Add a new Prefs.RemoteConfig bool. When true, a c2n endpoint at
/remoteapi/localapi/* proxies into this node's LocalAPI at
/localapi/* with full read/write permission, giving the tailnet
admin the same API surface a local root/admin user has via the
tailscale CLI. All LocalAPI versions (v0, v1, ...) proxy through.

RemoteConfig is an alternative to Tailscale's default per-feature
double opt-in, in which both the tailnet admin and the local machine
owner must consent to each individual setting change. It is a single
client-side "I trust the tailnet admin" switch that, once on, hands
over full remote management of this node's settings and LocalAPI
without any further local prompt or confirmation.

This is only appropriate when the tailnet admin already owns the
machine (e.g. a corporate fleet device) or the local user has
explicitly delegated full control. It should never be enabled on a
personal/BYOD device with an untrusted tailnet admin. The trust
model is documented on the pref, on the hidden --remote-config CLI
flag, and on the feature/remoteconfig package.

The node advertises its RemoteConfig state to the control plane via
a new Hostinfo.RemoteConfig bool. This is only true when the feature
is both compiled in (buildfeatures.HasRemoteConfig) and its init
actually ran (feature.IsRegistered("remoteconfig")); tsnet builds
have the former but not the latter and correctly report false.

The handler lives in feature/remoteconfig and can be omitted with the
ts_omit_remoteconfig build tag. tsnet's TestDeps guards against
accidentally pulling it in.

Updates tailscale/corp#18043

Change-Id: I72ce10a90a0e4e738c72c940af3af64c986160b2
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
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Tailscale

https://tailscale.com

Private WireGuard® networks made easy

Overview

This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code. Notably, it includes the tailscaled daemon and the tailscale CLI tool. The tailscaled daemon runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and to varying degrees on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.

Other Tailscale repos of note:

For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/.

Using

We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.

Other clients

The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.

Building

We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.26. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)

go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}

If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:

./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled

If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of build_dist.sh, please do the equivalent of what it does in your distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.

Bugs

Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.

Contributing

PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.

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See commit-messages.md (or skim git log) for our commit message style.

About Us

Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see:

WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.

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