// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS // SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause // Package osuser implements OS user lookup. It's a wrapper around os/user that // works on non-cgo builds. package osuser import ( "context" "errors" "log" "os/exec" "os/user" "runtime" "strings" "time" "unicode/utf8" "tailscale.com/version/distro" ) // LookupByUIDWithShell is like os/user.LookupId but handles a few edge cases // like gokrazy and non-cgo lookups, and returns the user shell. The user shell // lookup is best-effort and may be empty. func LookupByUIDWithShell(uid string) (u *user.User, shell string, err error) { return lookup(uid, user.LookupId, true) } // LookupByUsernameWithShell is like os/user.Lookup but handles a few edge // cases like gokrazy and non-cgo lookups, and returns the user shell. The user // shell lookup is best-effort and may be empty. func LookupByUsernameWithShell(username string) (u *user.User, shell string, err error) { return lookup(username, user.Lookup, true) } // LookupByUID is like os/user.LookupId but handles a few edge cases like // gokrazy and non-cgo lookups. func LookupByUID(uid string) (*user.User, error) { u, _, err := lookup(uid, user.LookupId, false) return u, err } // LookupByUsername is like os/user.Lookup but handles a few edge cases like // gokrazy and non-cgo lookups. func LookupByUsername(username string) (*user.User, error) { u, _, err := lookup(username, user.Lookup, false) return u, err } // lookupStd is either user.Lookup or user.LookupId. type lookupStd func(string) (*user.User, error) func lookup(usernameOrUID string, std lookupStd, wantShell bool) (*user.User, string, error) { // TODO(awly): we should use genet on more platforms, like FreeBSD. if runtime.GOOS != "linux" { u, err := std(usernameOrUID) return u, "", err } // No getent on Gokrazy. So hard-code the login shell. if distro.Get() == distro.Gokrazy { var shell string if wantShell { shell = "/tmp/serial-busybox/ash" } u, err := std(usernameOrUID) if err != nil { return &user.User{ Uid: "0", Gid: "0", Username: "root", Name: "Gokrazy", HomeDir: "/", }, shell, nil } return u, shell, nil } // Start with getent if caller wants to get the user shell. if wantShell { return userLookupGetent(usernameOrUID, std) } // If shell is not required, try os/user.Lookup* first and only use getent // if that fails. This avoids spawning a child process when os/user lookup // succeeds. if u, err := std(usernameOrUID); err == nil { return u, "", nil } return userLookupGetent(usernameOrUID, std) } func checkGetentInput(usernameOrUID string) bool { maxUid := 32 if runtime.GOOS == "linux" { maxUid = 256 } if len(usernameOrUID) > maxUid || len(usernameOrUID) == 0 { return false } for _, r := range usernameOrUID { if r < ' ' || r == 0x7f || r == utf8.RuneError { // TODO(bradfitz): more? return false } } return true } // userLookupGetent uses "getent" to look up users so that even with static // tailscaled binaries without cgo (as we distribute), we can still look up // PAM/NSS users which the standard library's os/user without cgo won't get // (because of no libc hooks). If "getent" fails, userLookupGetent falls back // to the standard library. func userLookupGetent(usernameOrUID string, std lookupStd) (*user.User, string, error) { // Do some basic validation before passing this string to "getent", even though // getent should do its own validation. if !checkGetentInput(usernameOrUID) { return nil, "", errors.New("invalid username or UID") } ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second) defer cancel() out, err := exec.CommandContext(ctx, "getent", "passwd", usernameOrUID).Output() if err != nil { log.Printf("error calling getent for user %q: %v", usernameOrUID, err) u, err := std(usernameOrUID) return u, "", err } // output is "alice:x:1001:1001:Alice Smith,,,:/home/alice:/bin/bash" f := strings.SplitN(strings.TrimSpace(string(out)), ":", 10) for len(f) < 7 { f = append(f, "") } return &user.User{ Username: f[0], Uid: f[2], Gid: f[3], Name: f[4], HomeDir: f[5], }, f[6], nil }