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>
An error returned by net.Listener.Accept() causes the owning http.Server to shut down.
With the deprecation of net.Error.Temporary(), there's no way for the http.Server to test
whether the returned error is temporary / retryable or not (see golang/go#66252).
Because of that, errors returned by (*safesocket.winIOPipeListener).Accept() cause the LocalAPI
server (aka ipnserver.Server) to shut down, and tailscaled process to exit.
While this might be acceptable in the case of non-recoverable errors, such as programmer errors,
we shouldn't shut down the entire tailscaled process for client- or connection-specific errors,
such as when we couldn't obtain the client's access token because the client attempts to connect
at the Anonymous impersonation level. Instead, the LocalAPI server should gracefully handle
these errors by denying access and returning a 401 Unauthorized to the client.
In tailscale/tscert#15, we fixed a known bug where Caddy and other apps using tscert would attempt
to connect at the Anonymous impersonation level and fail. However, we should also fix this on the tailscaled
side to prevent a potential DoS, where a local app could deliberately open the Tailscale LocalAPI named pipe
at the Anonymous impersonation level and cause tailscaled to exit.
In this PR, we defer token retrieval until (*WindowsClientConn).Token() is called and propagate the returned token
or error via ipnauth.GetConnIdentity() to ipnserver, which handles it the same way as other ipnauth-related errors.
Fixes#18212Fixestailscale/tscert#13
Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
This type seems to be a migration shim for TCP tailscaled sockets
(instead of unix/windows pipes). The `port` field was never set, so it
was effectively used as a string (`path` field).
Remove the whole type and simplify call sites to pass the socket path
directly to `safesocket.Connect`.
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
I manually tested that the code path that relaxes pipe permissions is
not executed when run with elevated priviliges, and the test also passes
in that case.
Updates #7876
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com>
Will Norris
Nick Khyl
Brad Fitzpatrick
Andrew Lytvynov
James Tucker