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2026-01-23all: remove AUTHORS file and references to itWill Norris1-1/+1
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>
2025-05-22ssh/tailssh: exclude Android from Linux build tagsBrad Fitzpatrick1-1/+1
As noted in #16048, the ./ssh/tailssh package failed to build on Android, because GOOS=android also matches the "linux" build tag. Exclude Android like iOS is excluded from macOS (darwin). This now works: $ GOOS=android go install ./ipn/ipnlocal ./ssh/tailssh The original PR at #16048 is also fine, but this stops the problem earlier. Updates #16048 Change-Id: Ie4a6f6966a012e510c9cb11dd0d1fa88c48fac37 Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2025-04-02ssh/tailssh: add Plan 9 support for Tailscale SSHBrad Fitzpatrick1-1/+7
Updates #5794 Change-Id: I7b05cd29ec02085cb503bbcd0beb61bf455002ac Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2024-11-05types/result, util/lineiter: add package for a result type, use itBrad Fitzpatrick1-9/+9
This adds a new generic result type (motivated by golang/go#70084) to try it out, and uses it in the new lineutil package (replacing the old lineread package), changing that package to return iterators: sometimes over []byte (when the input is all in memory), but sometimes iterators over results of []byte, if errors might happen at runtime. Updates #12912 Updates golang/go#70084 Change-Id: Iacdc1070e661b5fb163907b1e8b07ac7d51d3f83 Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2024-04-23ssh/tailssh: try fetching group IDs for user with the 'id' commandAndrew Dunham1-8/+2
Since the tailscaled binaries that we distribute are static and don't link cgo, we previously wouldn't fetch group IDs that are returned via NSS. Try shelling out to the 'id' command, similar to how we call 'getent', to detect such cases. Updates #11682 Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca> Change-Id: I9bdc938bd76c71bc130d44a97cc2233064d64799
2023-11-09ssh/tailssh,util: extract new osuser package from ssh code (#10170)Andrew Lytvynov1-86/+3
This package is a wrapper for os/user that handles non-cgo builds, gokrazy and user shells. Updates tailscale/corp#15405 Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
2023-08-15ssh/tailssh: fix gokrazy SSH crashBrad Fitzpatrick1-6/+8
Stupid mistake in earlier refactor. Updates gokrazy/gokrazy#209 Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2023-06-05ssh/tailssh: Max Username Length 256 for linuxDerek Burdick1-1/+5
Max username length is increased to 256 on linux to match /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h Fixes #8277 Signed-off-by: Derek Burdick <derek-burdick@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-05-21ssh/tailssh: fix regression after LDAP supportBrad Fitzpatrick1-14/+21
58ab66ec51f1963fbee302c75ad0017d81d37884 added LDAP support for #4945 by shelling out to getdent. It was supposed to fall back to the old method when getdent wasn't found, but some variable name confusion (uid vs username) meant the old path wasn't calling the right lookup function (user.LookupId instead of user.Lookup). Which meant that changed probably also broke FreeBSD and macOS SSH support in addition to the reported OpenWRT regression. The gokrazy support didn't look right either. Fixes #8180 Change-Id: I273bbe96fe98b2517fbf0335fd476b483c051554 Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2023-05-08ssh/tailssh: move some user-related code into new user.goBrad Fitzpatrick1-4/+111
The previous commit 58ab66e added ssh/tailssh/user.go as part of working on #4945. So move some more user-related code over to it. Updates #cleanup Change-Id: I24de66df25ffb8f867e1a0a540d410f9ef16d7b0 Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2023-05-08ssh/tailssh: support LDAP users for Tailscale SSHBrad Fitzpatrick1-0/+116
Fixes #4945 Change-Id: Ie013cb47684cb87928a44f92c66352310bfe53f1 Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>