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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 cli
import (
"bytes"
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/netip"
"os"
"os/user"
"path/filepath"
"runtime"
"strings"
"github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3/ffcli"
"tailscale.com/envknob"
"tailscale.com/ipn/ipnstate"
"tailscale.com/net/tsaddr"
"tailscale.com/paths"
"tailscale.com/version"
)
var sshCmd = &ffcli.Command{
Name: "ssh",
ShortUsage: "tailscale ssh [user@]<host> [args...]",
ShortHelp: "SSH to a Tailscale machine",
LongHelp: strings.TrimSpace(`
The 'tailscale ssh' command is an optional wrapper around the system 'ssh'
command that's useful in some cases. Tailscale SSH does not require its use;
most users running the Tailscale SSH server will prefer to just use the normal
'ssh' command or their normal SSH client.
The 'tailscale ssh' wrapper adds a few things:
* It resolves the destination server name in its arguments using MagicDNS,
even if --accept-dns=false.
* It works in userspace-networking mode, by supplying a ProxyCommand to the
system 'ssh' command that connects via a pipe through tailscaled.
* It automatically checks the destination server's SSH host key against the
node's SSH host key as advertised via the Tailscale coordination server.
`),
Exec: runSSH,
}
func runSSH(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" && version.IsMacAppStore() && !envknob.UseWIPCode() {
return errors.New("The 'tailscale ssh' subcommand is not available on macOS builds distributed through the App Store or TestFlight.\nInstall the Standalone variant of Tailscale (download it from https://pkgs.tailscale.com), or use the regular 'ssh' client instead.")
}
if len(args) == 0 {
return errors.New("usage: tailscale ssh [user@]<host>")
}
arg, argRest := args[0], args[1:]
username, host, ok := strings.Cut(arg, "@")
if !ok {
host = arg
lu, err := user.Current()
if err != nil {
return nil
}
username = lu.Username
}
st, err := localClient.Status(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
prefs, err := localClient.GetPrefs(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// hostForSSH is the hostname we'll tell OpenSSH we're
// connecting to, so we have to maintain fewer entries in the
// known_hosts files.
hostForSSH := host
ps, ok := peerStatusFromArg(st, host)
if ok {
hostForSSH = ps.DNSName
// If MagicDNS isn't enabled on the client,
// we will use the first IPv4 we know about
// or fallback to the first IPv6 address
if !prefs.CorpDNS {
ipHost, found := ipFromPeerStatus(ps)
if found {
hostForSSH = ipHost
}
}
}
ssh, err := findSSH()
if err != nil {
// TODO(bradfitz): use Go's crypto/ssh client instead
// of failing. But for now:
return fmt.Errorf("no system 'ssh' command found: %w", err)
}
knownHostsFile, err := writeKnownHosts(st)
if err != nil {
return err
}
argv := []string{ssh}
if envknob.Bool("TS_DEBUG_SSH_EXEC") {
argv = append(argv, "-vvv")
}
argv = append(argv,
// Only trust SSH hosts that we know about.
"-o", fmt.Sprintf("UserKnownHostsFile %q", knownHostsFile),
"-o", "UpdateHostKeys no",
"-o", "StrictHostKeyChecking yes",
"-o", "CanonicalizeHostname no", // https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/10348
)
// MagicDNS is usually working on macOS anyway and they're not in userspace
// mode, so 'nc' isn't very useful.
if runtime.GOOS != "darwin" {
socketArg := ""
if localClient.Socket != "" && localClient.Socket != paths.DefaultTailscaledSocket() {
socketArg = fmt.Sprintf("--socket=%q", localClient.Socket)
}
argv = append(argv,
"-o", fmt.Sprintf("ProxyCommand %q %s nc %%h %%p",
// os.Executable() would return the real running binary but in case tailscale is built with the ts_include_cli tag,
// we need to return the started symlink instead
os.Args[0],
socketArg,
))
}
// Explicitly rebuild the user@host argument rather than
// passing it through. In general, the use of OpenSSH's ssh
// binary is a crutch for now. We don't want to be
// Hyrum-locked into passing through all OpenSSH flags to the
// OpenSSH client forever. We try to make our flags and args
// be compatible, but only a subset. The "tailscale ssh"
// command should be a simple and portable one. If they want
// to use a different one, we'll later be making stock ssh
// work well by default too. (doing things like automatically
// setting known_hosts, etc)
argv = append(argv, username+"@"+hostForSSH)
argv = append(argv, argRest...)
if envknob.Bool("TS_DEBUG_SSH_EXEC") {
log.Printf("Running: %q, %q ...", ssh, argv)
}
return execSSH(ssh, argv)
}
func writeKnownHosts(st *ipnstate.Status) (knownHostsFile string, err error) {
confDir, err := os.UserConfigDir()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
tsConfDir := filepath.Join(confDir, "tailscale")
if err := os.MkdirAll(tsConfDir, 0700); err != nil {
return "", err
}
knownHostsFile = filepath.Join(tsConfDir, "ssh_known_hosts")
want := genKnownHosts(st)
if cur, err := os.ReadFile(knownHostsFile); err != nil || !bytes.Equal(cur, want) {
if err := os.WriteFile(knownHostsFile, want, 0644); err != nil {
return "", err
}
}
return knownHostsFile, nil
}
func genKnownHosts(st *ipnstate.Status) []byte {
var buf bytes.Buffer
for _, k := range st.Peers() {
ps := st.Peer[k]
for _, hk := range ps.SSH_HostKeys {
hostKey := strings.TrimSpace(hk)
if strings.ContainsAny(hostKey, "\n\r") { // invalid
continue
}
fmt.Fprintf(&buf, "%s %s\n", ps.DNSName, hostKey)
for _, ip := range ps.TailscaleIPs {
fmt.Fprintf(&buf, "%s %s\n", ip.String(), hostKey)
}
}
}
return buf.Bytes()
}
// peerStatusFromArg returns the PeerStatus that matches
// the input arg which can be a base name, full DNS name, or an IP.
func peerStatusFromArg(st *ipnstate.Status, arg string) (*ipnstate.PeerStatus, bool) {
if arg == "" {
return nil, false
}
argIP, _ := netip.ParseAddr(arg)
for _, ps := range st.Peer {
if argIP.IsValid() {
for _, ip := range ps.TailscaleIPs {
if ip == argIP {
return ps, true
}
}
continue
}
if strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSuffix(arg, "."), strings.TrimSuffix(ps.DNSName, ".")) {
return ps, true
}
if base, _, ok := strings.Cut(ps.DNSName, "."); ok && strings.EqualFold(base, arg) {
return ps, true
}
}
return nil, false
}
// nodeDNSNameFromArg returns the PeerStatus.DNSName value from a peer
// in st that matches the input arg which can be a base name, full
// DNS name, or an IP.
func nodeDNSNameFromArg(st *ipnstate.Status, arg string) (dnsName string, ok bool) {
if arg == "" {
return
}
argIP, _ := netip.ParseAddr(arg)
for _, ps := range st.Peer {
dnsName = ps.DNSName
if argIP.IsValid() {
for _, ip := range ps.TailscaleIPs {
if ip == argIP {
return dnsName, true
}
}
continue
}
if strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSuffix(arg, "."), strings.TrimSuffix(dnsName, ".")) {
return dnsName, true
}
if base, _, ok := strings.Cut(ps.DNSName, "."); ok && strings.EqualFold(base, arg) {
return dnsName, true
}
}
return "", false
}
func ipFromPeerStatus(ps *ipnstate.PeerStatus) (string, bool) {
if len(ps.TailscaleIPs) < 1 {
return "", false
}
// Look for a IPv4 address or default to the first IP of the list
for _, ip := range ps.TailscaleIPs {
if ip.Is4() {
return ip.String(), true
}
}
return ps.TailscaleIPs[0].String(), true
}
// getSSHClientEnvVar returns the "SSH_CLIENT" environment variable
// for the current process group, if any.
var getSSHClientEnvVar = func() string {
return ""
}
// isSSHOverTailscale checks if the invocation is in a SSH session over Tailscale.
// It is used to detect if the user is about to take an action that might result in them
// disconnecting from the machine (e.g. disabling SSH)
func isSSHOverTailscale() bool {
sshClient := getSSHClientEnvVar()
if sshClient == "" {
return false
}
ipStr, _, ok := strings.Cut(sshClient, " ")
if !ok {
return false
}
ip, err := netip.ParseAddr(ipStr)
if err != nil {
return false
}
return tsaddr.IsTailscaleIP(ip)
}