tailscale/util/winutil/winutil.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
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>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
// Package winutil contains misc Windows/Win32 helper functions.
package winutil
import (
"os/user"
)
const (
// RegBase is the registry path inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE where registry settings
// are stored. This constant is a non-empty string only when GOOS=windows.
RegBase = regBase
// RegPolicyBase is the registry path inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE where registry
// policies are stored. This constant is a non-empty string only when
// GOOS=windows.
RegPolicyBase = regPolicyBase
)
// GetPolicyString looks up a registry value in the local machine's path for
// system policies, or returns empty string and the error.
// Use this function to read values that may be set by sysadmins via the MSI
// installer or via GPO. For registry settings that you do *not* want to be
// visible to sysadmin tools, use GetRegString instead.
//
// This function will only work on GOOS=windows. Trying to run it on any other
// OS will always return an empty string and ErrNoValue.
// If value does not exist or another error happens, returns empty string and error.
func GetPolicyString(name string) (string, error) {
return getPolicyString(name)
}
// GetPolicyInteger looks up a registry value in the local machine's path for
// system policies, or returns 0 and the associated error.
// Use this function to read values that may be set by sysadmins via the MSI
// installer or via GPO. For registry settings that you do *not* want to be
// visible to sysadmin tools, use GetRegInteger instead.
//
// This function will only work on GOOS=windows. Trying to run it on any other
// OS will always return 0 and ErrNoValue.
// If value does not exist or another error happens, returns 0 and error.
func GetPolicyInteger(name string) (uint64, error) {
return getPolicyInteger(name)
}
func GetPolicyStringArray(name string) ([]string, error) {
return getPolicyStringArray(name)
}
// GetRegString looks up a registry path in the local machine path, or returns
// an empty string and error.
//
// This function will only work on GOOS=windows. Trying to run it on any other
// OS will always return an empty string and ErrNoValue.
// If value does not exist or another error happens, returns empty string and error.
func GetRegString(name string) (string, error) {
return getRegString(name)
}
// GetRegInteger looks up a registry path in the local machine path, or returns
// 0 and the error.
//
// This function will only work on GOOS=windows. Trying to run it on any other
// OS will always return 0 and ErrNoValue.
// If value does not exist or another error happens, returns 0 and error.
func GetRegInteger(name string) (uint64, error) {
return getRegInteger(name)
}
// IsSIDValidPrincipal determines whether the SID contained in uid represents a
// type that is a valid security principal under Windows. This check helps us
// work around a bug in the standard library's Windows implementation of
// LookupId in os/user.
// See https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/869
//
// This function will only work on GOOS=windows. Trying to run it on any other
// OS will always return false.
func IsSIDValidPrincipal(uid string) bool {
return isSIDValidPrincipal(uid)
}
// LookupPseudoUser attempts to resolve the user specified by uid by checking
// against well-known pseudo-users on Windows. This is a temporary workaround
// until https://github.com/golang/go/issues/49509 is resolved and shipped.
//
// This function will only work on GOOS=windows. Trying to run it on any other
// OS will always return an error.
func LookupPseudoUser(uid string) (*user.User, error) {
return lookupPseudoUser(uid)
}
// RegisterForRestartOpts supplies options to RegisterForRestart.
type RegisterForRestartOpts struct {
RestartOnCrash bool // When true, this program will be restarted after a crash.
RestartOnHang bool // When true, this program will be restarted after a hang.
RestartOnUpgrade bool // When true, this program will be restarted after an upgrade.
RestartOnReboot bool // When true, this program will be restarted after a reboot.
UseCmdLineArgs bool // When true, CmdLineArgs will be used as the program's arguments upon restart. Otherwise no arguments will be provided.
CmdLineArgs []string // When UseCmdLineArgs == true, contains the command line arguments, excluding the executable name itself. If nil or empty, the arguments from the current process will be re-used.
}
// RegisterForRestart registers the current process' restart preferences with
// the Windows Restart Manager. This enables the OS to intelligently restart
// the calling executable as requested via opts. This should be called by any
// programs which need to be restarted by the installer post-update.
//
// This function may be called multiple times; the opts from the most recent
// call will override those from any previous invocations.
//
// This function will only work on GOOS=windows. Trying to run it on any other
// OS will always return nil.
func RegisterForRestart(opts RegisterForRestartOpts) error {
return registerForRestart(opts)
}