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Brad Fitzpatrick b4e3a5299c cmd/tailscaled, safesocket: add --windows-mode=dev
This adds a tailscaled string flag "--windows-mode" which accepts two
possible values: the empty string (default) to get the normal behavior
(tailscaled running as an admin, usually as a service), and "dev", to
make the safesocket named pipe path be at a location that regular
users (non-admins) can create.

It then modifies the safesocket client side (as used by the CLI) to
try the dev mode path too on failure.

This lets people work on tailscaled.exe+tailscale.exe in a terminal
easily during development, as either an admin or non-admin. (This
used to work prior to the move away from TCP localhost to named pipes
for safesocket on Windows)

Updates #2791

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: I9c1e3a5b7d0f2a4c6e8b0d2f4a6c8e0b2d4f6a8c
2026-09-28 13:26:52 -07:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
// Package safesocket creates either a Unix socket, if possible, or
// otherwise a localhost TCP connection.
package safesocket
import (
"context"
"errors"
"net"
"runtime"
"time"
"tailscale.com/feature"
"tailscale.com/feature/buildfeatures"
)
type closeable interface {
CloseRead() error
CloseWrite() error
}
// ConnCloseRead calls c's CloseRead method. c is expected to be
// either a UnixConn or TCPConn as returned from this package.
func ConnCloseRead(c net.Conn) error {
return c.(closeable).CloseRead()
}
// ConnCloseWrite calls c's CloseWrite method. c is expected to be
// either a UnixConn or TCPConn as returned from this package.
func ConnCloseWrite(c net.Conn) error {
return c.(closeable).CloseWrite()
}
var processStartTime = time.Now()
var tailscaledProcExists feature.Hook[func() bool]
// tailscaledStillStarting reports whether tailscaled is probably
// still starting up. That is, it reports whether the caller should
// keep retrying to connect.
func tailscaledStillStarting() bool {
d := time.Since(processStartTime)
if d < 2*time.Second {
// Without even checking the process table, assume
// that for the first two seconds that tailscaled is
// probably still starting. That is, assume they're
// running "tailscaled & tailscale up ...." and make
// the tailscale client block for a bit for tailscaled
// to start accepting on the socket.
return true
}
if d > 5*time.Second {
return false
}
f, ok := tailscaledProcExists.GetOk()
return ok && f()
}
// ConnectContext connects to tailscaled using a unix socket or named pipe.
func ConnectContext(ctx context.Context, path string) (net.Conn, error) {
for {
c, err := connect(ctx, path)
if err != nil && tailscaledStillStarting() {
if ctx.Err() != nil {
return nil, ctx.Err()
}
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
return nil, ctx.Err()
case <-time.After(250 * time.Millisecond):
}
continue
}
return c, err
}
}
// Connect connects to tailscaled using a unix socket or named pipe.
// Deprecated: use ConnectContext instead.
func Connect(path string) (net.Conn, error) {
return ConnectContext(context.Background(), path)
}
// Listen returns a listener either on Unix socket path (on Unix), or
// the NamedPipe path (on Windows).
func Listen(path string) (net.Listener, error) {
return listen(path)
}
// Windows-only implementations of ListenCurrentUser and
// ConnectCurrentUserContext, set by pipe_windows.go. Elsewhere they are nil
// and the functions behave like Listen and ConnectContext.
var (
listenCurrentUserHook func(path string) (net.Listener, error)
connectCurrentUserHook func(ctx context.Context, path string) (net.Conn, error)
)
// ListenCurrentUser is like Listen, but on Windows the named pipe is owned
// by, and accessible only to, the user running this process, so that a
// client can verify with ConnectCurrentUserContext that it reached a server
// running as itself. It is for a tailscaled run by a user for their own use
// (tailscaled --windows-mode=dev) rather than by the system. On other
// platforms it is Listen.
func ListenCurrentUser(path string) (net.Listener, error) {
if f := listenCurrentUserHook; f != nil {
return f(path)
}
return listen(path)
}
// ConnectCurrentUserContext is like ConnectContext, but on Windows it fails
// if the named pipe's owner is not the user running this process. Only
// administrators may make a pipe owned by anyone but themselves, so this
// stops another user from standing up a pipe of the expected name and
// impersonating the user's own tailscaled. On other platforms it is
// ConnectContext.
func ConnectCurrentUserContext(ctx context.Context, path string) (net.Conn, error) {
if f := connectCurrentUserHook; f != nil {
return f(ctx, path)
}
return ConnectContext(ctx, path)
}
var (
ErrTokenNotFound = errors.New("no token found")
ErrNoTokenOnOS = errors.New("no token on " + runtime.GOOS)
)
var localTCPPortAndToken func() (port int, token string, err error)
// LocalTCPPortAndToken returns the port number and auth token to connect to
// the local Tailscale daemon. It's currently only applicable on macOS
// when tailscaled is being run in the Mac Sandbox from the App Store version
// of Tailscale.
func LocalTCPPortAndToken() (port int, token string, err error) {
if localTCPPortAndToken == nil {
return 0, "", ErrNoTokenOnOS
}
return localTCPPortAndToken()
}
// PlatformUsesPeerCreds reports whether the current platform uses peer credentials
// to authenticate connections.
func PlatformUsesPeerCreds() bool {
if !buildfeatures.HasUnixSocketIdentity {
return false
}
return GOOSUsesPeerCreds(runtime.GOOS)
}
// GOOSUsesPeerCreds is like PlatformUsesPeerCreds but takes a
// runtime.GOOS value instead of using the current one.
func GOOSUsesPeerCreds(goos string) bool {
switch goos {
case "linux", "darwin", "freebsd", "solaris", "illumos":
return true
}
return false
}