Nick Khyl 892f8a9582 various: allow tailscaled shutdown via LocalAPI
A customer wants to allow their employees to restart tailscaled at will, when access rights and MDM policy allow it,
as a way to fully reset client state and re-create the tunnel in case of connectivity issues.

On Windows, the main tailscaled process runs as a child of a service process. The service restarts the child
when it exits (or crashes) until the service itself is stopped. Regular (non-admin) users can't stop the service,
and allowing them to do so isn't ideal, especially in managed or multi-user environments.

In this PR, we add a LocalAPI endpoint that instructs ipnserver.Server, and by extension the tailscaled process,
to shut down. The service then restarts the child tailscaled. Shutting down tailscaled requires LocalAPI write access
and an enabled policy setting.

Updates tailscale/corp#32674
Updates tailscale/corp#32675

Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
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Tailscale

https://tailscale.com

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:

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:

WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.

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