
Ultimately, we'd like to get rid of the concept of the "current user". It is only used on Windows, but even then it doesn't work well in multi-user and enterprise/managed Windows environments. In this PR, we update LocalBackend and profileManager to decouple them a bit more from this obsolete concept. This is done in a preparation for extracting ipnlocal.Extension-related interfaces and types, and using them to implement optional features like tailscale/corp#27645, instead of continuing growing the core ipnlocal logic. Notably, we rename (*profileManager).SetCurrentUserAndProfile() to SwitchToProfile() and change its signature to accept an ipn.LoginProfileView instead of an ipn.ProfileID and ipn.WindowsUserID. Since we're not removing the "current user" completely just yet, the method sets the current user to the owner of the target profile. We also update the profileResolver callback type, which is typically implemented by LocalBackend extensions, to return an ipn.LoginProfileView instead of ipn.ProfileID and ipn.WindowsUserID. Updates tailscale/corp#27645 Updates tailscale/corp#18342 Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
Tailscale
Private WireGuard® networks made easy
Overview
This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code.
Notably, it includes the tailscaled
daemon and
the tailscale
CLI tool. The tailscaled
daemon runs on Linux, Windows,
macOS, and to varying degrees
on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's
code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.
Other Tailscale repos of note:
- the Android app is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android
- the Synology package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-synology
- the QNAP package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-qpkg
- the Chocolatey packaging is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-chocolatey
For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/.
Using
We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.
Other clients
The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.
Building
We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.23. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)
go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}
If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh
instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled
If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of
build_dist.sh
, please do the equivalent of what it does in your
distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.
Bugs
Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.
Contributing
PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.
We require Developer Certificate of
Origin
Signed-off-by
lines in commits.
See commit-messages.md (or skim git log
) for our commit message style.
About Us
Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see:
- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/graphs/contributors
- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android/graphs/contributors
Legal
WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.