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>
WindowsActor is an ipnauth.Actor implementation that represents a logged-in
Windows user by wrapping their Windows user token.
Updates #14823
Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
When establishing connections to the ipnserver, we validate that the
local user is allowed to connect. If Tailscale is currently being
managed by a different user (primarily for multi-user Windows installs),
we don't allow the connection.
With the new device web UI, the inbound connection is coming from
tailscaled itself, which is often running as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM".
In this case, we still want to allow the connection, even though it
doesn't match the user running the Tailscale GUI. The SYSTEM user has
full access to everything on the system anyway, so this doesn't escalate
privileges.
Eventually, we want the device web UI to run outside of the tailscaled
process, at which point this exception would probably not be needed.
Updates tailscale/corp#16393
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
(*Token).IsAdministrator is supposed to return true even when the user is
running with a UAC limited token. The idea is that, for the purposes of
this check, we don't care whether the user is *currently* running with
full Admin rights, we just want to know whether the user can
*potentially* do so.
We accomplish this by querying for the token's "linked token," which
should be the fully-elevated variant, and checking its group memberships.
We also switch ipn/ipnserver/(*Server).connIsLocalAdmin to use the elevation
check to preserve those semantics for tailscale serve; I want the
IsAdministrator check to be used for less sensitive things like toggling
auto-update on and off.
Fixes#10036
Signed-off-by: Aaron Klotz <aaron@tailscale.com>
On Windows, the idiomatic way to check access on a named pipe is for
the server to impersonate the client on its current OS thread, perform
access checks using the client's access token, and then revert the OS
thread's access token back to its true self.
The access token is a better representation of the client's rights than just
a username/userid check, as it represents the client's effective rights
at connection time, which might differ from their normal rights.
This patch updates safesocket to do the aforementioned impersonation,
extract the token handle, and then revert the impersonation. We retain
the token handle for the remaining duration of the connection (the token
continues to be valid even after we have reverted back to self).
Since the token is a property of the connection, I changed ipnauth to wrap
the concrete net.Conn to include the token. I then plumbed that change
through ipnlocal, ipnserver, and localapi as necessary.
I also added a PermitLocalAdmin flag to the localapi Handler which I intend
to use for controlling access to a few new localapi endpoints intended
for configuring auto-update.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/755
Signed-off-by: Aaron Klotz <aaron@tailscale.com>
This updates all source files to use a new standard header for copyright
and license declaration. Notably, copyright no longer includes a date,
and we now use the standard SPDX-License-Identifier header.
This commit was done almost entirely mechanically with perl, and then
some minimal manual fixes.
Updates #6865
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Nick Khyl
Andrew Lytvynov
Aaron Klotz
Maisem Ali