Files
tailscale/tstest/natlab/vmtest/ssh_test.go
T
Mario MinardiandMario Minardi e48e7b730a ssh/tailssh: check if user matching autogroup:nonroot is root
Add a check to ensure that the user being matched to an
autogroup:nonroot rule is in fact a non-root user on the system.

Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/43245

Signed-off-by: Mario Minardi <mario@tailscale.com>
2026-07-27 17:18:34 -06:00

236 lines
7.8 KiB
Go

// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
package vmtest_test
import (
"fmt"
"net/netip"
"strconv"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/creachadair/mds/shell"
"tailscale.com/tailcfg"
"tailscale.com/tstest"
"tailscale.com/tstest/natlab/vmtest"
"tailscale.com/tstest/natlab/vnet"
)
// TestTailscaleSSH_Ubuntu exercises the Tailscale SSH server ("tailscale up
// --ssh", not a system sshd) on an Ubuntu node, with an Ubuntu node as the SSH
// client. It tests logging in as both root and a non-root user, which
// exercises the incubator's su-based login path.
func TestTailscaleSSH_Ubuntu(t *testing.T) {
testSuite := newTestSuite(t, "ubuntu", vmtest.Ubuntu2404)
ubuntu := testSuite.server
if out, err := testSuite.env.SSHExec(ubuntu, "useradd -m -s /bin/bash tsuser"); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("useradd: %v\n%s", err, out)
}
testSuite.waitSSH(t, "ubuntu", "root")
testSuite.check(t, "ubuntu root login", "root", "id -un && pwd", "root\n/root")
testSuite.check(t, "ubuntu non-root login", "tsuser", "id -un && pwd", "tsuser\n/home/tsuser")
if out, code := testSuite.ssh(t, "nosuchuser", "true"); code == 0 {
t.Errorf("ubuntu nonexistent user: ssh succeeded, want failure:\n%s", out)
}
testSuite.checkAutogroupNonroot(t, "ubuntu")
}
// TestTailscaleSSH_FreeBSD exercises the Tailscale SSH server ("tailscale up
// --ssh", not a system sshd) on a FreeBSD node, with an Ubuntu node as the SSH
// client. It tests logging in as both root and a non-root user, which
// exercises the incubator's su-based login path.
func TestTailscaleSSH_FreeBSD(t *testing.T) {
testSuite := newTestSuite(t, "freebsd", vmtest.FreeBSD150)
freebsd := testSuite.server
if out, err := testSuite.env.SSHExec(freebsd, "pw useradd tsuser -m"); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("pw useradd: %v\n%s", err, out)
}
testSuite.waitSSH(t, "freebsd", "root")
testSuite.check(t, "freebsd root login", "root", "id -un && pwd", "root\n/root")
testSuite.check(t, "freebsd non-root login", "tsuser", "id -un && pwd", "tsuser\n/home/tsuser")
if out, code := testSuite.ssh(t, "nosuchuser", "true"); code == 0 {
t.Errorf("freebsd nonexistent user: ssh succeeded, want failure:\n%s", out)
}
testSuite.checkAutogroupNonroot(t, "freebsd")
}
// TestTailscaleSSH_Gokrazy exercises the gokrazy-specific cases in the
// Tailscale SSH server ("tailscale up --ssh", not a system sshd), with an
// Ubuntu node as the SSH client. util/osuser hard-codes the login shell to
// /tmp/serial-busybox/ash and falls back to a synthesized root user (uid 0,
// home dir "/") when user lookup fails, since gokrazy has no user database;
// and the incubator's findSU refuses to use su on gokrazy, so sessions are
// handled in-process.
func TestTailscaleSSH_Gokrazy(t *testing.T) {
testSuite := newTestSuite(t, "gokrazy", vmtest.Gokrazy)
testSuite.waitSSH(t, "gokrazy", "root")
// $0 is the login shell the session ran the command with, which on gokrazy
// is hard-coded rather than looked up with getent. These sessions also
// implicitly exercise the incubator's su-less in-process path, since
// gokrazy has no su.
testSuite.check(t, "gokrazy root login shell", "root", "echo $0", "/tmp/serial-busybox/ash")
testSuite.check(t, "gokrazy nonexistent user maps to root", "nosuchuser", "pwd", "/")
}
// ssh runs cmd as user on the node at ip over Tailscale SSH, from the
// client node, returning the combined output and the ssh client's exit
// code. The command run via Env.SSHExec always exits 0 so that its
// transport-error (exit 255) retry loop doesn't kick in when a
// Tailscale SSH connection is expected to fail.
const exitMarker = "tailscale-ssh-exit="
type sshTest struct {
client *vmtest.Node
server *vmtest.Node
serverIP netip.Addr
env *vmtest.Env
}
// ssh runs a command as the specified user on the [sshTest.server] via its
// debug SSH NIC.
func (st *sshTest) ssh(t *testing.T, user string, cmd string) (string, int) {
t.Helper()
inner := "ssh" +
" -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" +
" -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" +
" -o BatchMode=yes" +
" -o ConnectTimeout=10" +
" -o LogLevel=ERROR" +
" " + user + "@" + st.serverIP.String() +
" " + shell.Quote(cmd)
out, err := st.env.SSHExec(st.client, inner+" 2>&1; echo "+exitMarker+"$?")
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("ssh %s@%s: %v\n%s", user, st.serverIP, err, out)
}
i := strings.LastIndex(out, exitMarker)
if i == -1 {
t.Fatalf("ssh %s@%s: no exit marker in output:\n%s", user, st.serverIP, out)
}
code, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(out[i+len(exitMarker):]))
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("ssh %s@%s: bad exit marker in output:\n%s", user, st.serverIP, out)
}
return strings.TrimSpace(out[:i]), code
}
// waitSSH waits for the node's Tailscale SSH server to accept a
// connection; the first one can race tailscaled's SSH server startup
// and WireGuard path setup.
func (st *sshTest) waitSSH(t *testing.T, name, user string) {
t.Helper()
deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Minute)
for {
out, code := st.ssh(t, user, "echo ok")
if code == 0 && strings.Contains(out, "ok") {
t.Logf("[%s] Tailscale SSH up as %s@%s", name, user, st.serverIP)
return
}
if time.Now().After(deadline) {
t.Fatalf("[%s] Tailscale SSH as %s@%s never came up; last output (exit %d):\n%s", name, user, st.serverIP, code, out)
}
time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
}
}
// check attempts to execute a command as specified user on the server, failing
// if the output isn't what is expected.
func (st *sshTest) check(t *testing.T, desc, user string, cmd, want string) {
t.Helper()
out, code := st.ssh(t, user, cmd)
if code != 0 {
t.Errorf("%s: ssh %s@%s %q exited %d:\n%s", desc, user, st.serverIP, cmd, code, out)
return
}
if out != want {
t.Errorf("%s: ssh %s@%s %q = %q, want %q", desc, user, st.serverIP, cmd, out, want)
}
}
// checkAutogroupNonroot adjusts the server's SSH policy to be equivalent to "autogroup:nonroot"
// and verifies that attempting to SSH as root fails.
func (st *sshTest) checkAutogroupNonroot(t *testing.T, name string) {
t.Helper()
orignalSSHPolicy := st.env.ControlServer().SSHPolicy
defer func() {
st.env.ControlServer().SetSSHPolicy(orignalSSHPolicy)
}()
st.env.ControlServer().SetSSHPolicy(&tailcfg.SSHPolicy{
Rules: []*tailcfg.SSHRule{{
Principals: []*tailcfg.SSHPrincipal{{Any: true}},
SSHUsers: map[string]string{"*": "="},
Action: &tailcfg.SSHAction{Accept: true},
}},
})
if err := tstest.WaitFor(30*time.Second, func() error {
_, code := st.ssh(t, "root", "true")
if code == 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("root SSH still succeeds")
}
return nil
}); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("%s: root SSH still succeeds after policy update to autogroup:nonroot-only; policy may not have propagated", name)
}
}
func newTestSuite(t *testing.T, serverName string, serverOS vmtest.OSImage) *sshTest {
t.Helper()
env := vmtest.New(t)
client := sshTestNode(env, "client", vmtest.Ubuntu2404)
server := sshTestNode(env, serverName, serverOS, vmtest.TailscaleSSH())
env.Start()
serverIP := tailscaleIP4(t, env, server)
return &sshTest{
client: client,
server: server,
serverIP: serverIP,
env: env,
}
}
// sshTestNode adds a node named name running img behind its own
// easy-NAT network.
func sshTestNode(env *vmtest.Env, name string, img vmtest.OSImage, opts ...any) *vmtest.Node {
n := env.NumNodes()
opts = append([]any{
env.AddNetwork(
fmt.Sprintf("2.%d.%d.%d", n, n, n), // public IP
fmt.Sprintf("192.168.%d.1/24", n), vnet.EasyNAT),
vmtest.OS(img),
}, opts...)
return env.AddNode(name, opts...)
}
// tailscaleIP4 returns the node's IPv4 Tailscale address.
func tailscaleIP4(t *testing.T, env *vmtest.Env, n *vmtest.Node) netip.Addr {
t.Helper()
st := env.Status(n)
for _, ip := range st.Self.TailscaleIPs {
if ip.Is4() {
return ip
}
}
t.Fatalf("no IPv4 Tailscale address for %s; have %v", n.Name(), st.Self.TailscaleIPs)
panic("unreachable")
}