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Andrew Dunham c49d1fbaba ssh/tailssh: always set a LANG environment variable
In Tailscale SSH, we clear the local environment before running the
incubator process, which means that the incubator starts without a
LANG/LC_* environment variable passed from the `tailscaled` parent. In
the child, we don't use PAM, and thus never load environment variables
specified by pam_env.so. Additionally, our previous implementation of
envForUser didn't set a `LANG` variable by default.

On systems where we are capable of using the `login` or `su` commands to
create a login shell, the launched shell will read these environment
variables (e.g. from /etc/default/locale). However, this doesn't apply
in all cases:
  1. Where we handle SSH in-process (handleSSHInProcess), e.g. due to
     SELinux being enabled.
  2. Where we are able to use `su` or `login`, but where the user's
     shell *isn't Bash* (see below).

In such cases, we'd launch a process without a LANG/LC_* environment
set, possibly mangling output for the user.

One thing I discovered while testing this: on some distros, Bash is
compiled with the SSH_SOURCE_BASHRC option. If set, and if the bash
process is both the parent shell and the SSH_CLIENT variable is set,
Bash loads the ~/.bashrc environment variable *even if it's not an
interactive shell*. This is part of the reason that
`ssh user@host cmd` works if `cmd` isn't in the system-default $PATH
variable.

However, since this is a bash-specific configuration, if the user's
shell is set to something else (zsh, etc.), we would never execute the
~/.zshrc file and thus never set LANG (or similar).

(I also added a comment documenting this)

It should essentially always be safe to set the LANG environment
variable if not otherwise specified, and it's reset by both the `login`
and `su` command (tested on Ubuntu).

Updates #TODO

Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@tailscale.com>
2026-05-13 17:27:00 -04:00
.bencher bencher: add config to suppress failures on benchmark regressions. 2021-10-01 16:16:02 -07:00
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appc appc,feature/conn25: prevent clients from forwarding DNS requests and 2026-04-16 09:41:54 -04:00
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clientupdate feature/clientupdate: windows update should use tailscale.exe update (#19438) 2026-04-17 10:28:35 -07:00
cmd cmd/k8s-operator: truncate long label values in metrics resources (#18895) 2026-04-28 14:11:59 +01:00
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envknob envknob/logknob: remove unused package (#19515) 2026-04-24 15:48:06 -07:00
feature posture: add HealthTracker for serial number retrieval (#19181) 2026-04-25 15:42:47 -03:00
gokrazy gokrazy: add arm64 natlab appliance image support 2026-04-10 16:57:19 -07:00
health cmd/vet: add subtestnames analyzer; fix all existing violations 2026-04-05 15:52:51 -07:00
hostinfo all: use Go 1.26 things, run most gofix modernizers 2026-03-06 13:32:03 -08:00
internal cmd/tailscale/cli: allow fetching keys from AWS Parameter Store 2026-01-29 18:09:56 -05:00
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k8s-operator cmd/k8s-operator: truncate long label values in metrics resources (#18895) 2026-04-28 14:11:59 +01:00
kube cmd/containerboot,cmd/k8s-proxy,kube: add authkey renewal to k8s-proxy (#19221) 2026-04-15 16:13:46 +01:00
licenses licenses: update license notices 2026-04-27 18:38:06 -07:00
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logtail logtail: run HTTP tests in-memory with memnet + synctest 2026-04-20 13:33:10 -07:00
metrics all: use Go 1.26 things, run most gofix modernizers 2026-03-06 13:32:03 -08:00
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portlist portlist: also tb.Skip benchmarks (not just tests) on bad Linux kernels 2026-02-12 13:19:09 -08:00
posture posture: add HealthTracker for serial number retrieval (#19181) 2026-04-25 15:42:47 -03:00
prober all: use Go 1.26 things, run most gofix modernizers 2026-03-06 13:32:03 -08:00
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release release/dist/qnap: preserve .codesigning files as build artifacts 2026-04-28 12:29:56 +01:00
safesocket safesocket, ipn/ipnserver: use PeerCreds on solaris and illumos 2026-03-23 07:45:35 -07:00
safeweb safeweb: add CSRF token helpers and set cookie path to root (#19265) 2026-04-06 12:52:36 -04:00
scripts scripts/installer.sh: handle KDE Linux (#18861) 2026-03-02 18:29:49 +00:00
sessionrecording cmd/vet: add subtestnames analyzer; fix all existing violations 2026-04-05 15:52:51 -07:00
ssh/tailssh ssh/tailssh: always set a LANG environment variable 2026-05-13 17:27:00 -04:00
syncs cmd/vet: add subtestnames analyzer; fix all existing violations 2026-04-05 15:52:51 -07:00
tailcfg ipn/ipnlocal,tailcfg: add /debug/tka c2n endpoint (#19198) 2026-04-20 16:00:03 +01:00
tempfork misc/genreadme,tempfork/pkgdoc,tsnet: generate README.md files from godoc 2026-04-22 15:13:09 -07:00
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tool tool/listpkgs: add --has-go-generate filter flag too 2026-04-21 17:51:13 -07:00
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tsnet tstest/largetailnet, tstest/integration/testcontrol: add in-process large-tailnet benchmark 2026-04-27 11:47:12 -07:00
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version version: use debug.ReadBuildInfo in CmdName on non-Windows 2026-04-24 09:48:11 -07:00
wf wf: allow limited broadcast to/from permitted interfaces when using an exit node on Windows 2026-01-23 18:30:38 -06:00
wgengine The connmark save/restore rules in mangle/PREROUTING restore the Tailscale bypass fwmark (0x80000) onto reply packets so that rp_filter's reverse-path check routes through the main table instead of table 52. However, the kernel only uses the packet's fwmark during the rp_filter lookup when net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1. (#19537) 2026-04-27 13:52:45 -04:00
wif wif: add AWS ecs for autogenerated OIDC tokens 2026-03-25 14:41:41 -06:00
words Add 'fish' to the list of scales 2026-03-27 08:41:33 +00:00
.gitattributes .: add .gitattributes entry to use Go hunk-header driver 2021-12-03 17:56:02 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: explicitly include tool/go.exe 2026-04-13 18:44:59 -07:00
.golangci.yml .golangci.yml: enforce gliderssh import alias via importas linter 2026-04-07 11:59:38 +01:00
.stignore Add .stignore for syncthing (#18540) 2026-01-27 16:15:17 -08:00
ALPINE.txt docker: bump alpine v3.19 -> 3.22 (#17155) 2025-09-17 20:22:24 +01:00
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build_docker.sh docker: add riscv64 to container image architectures 2026-03-29 07:47:39 -07:00
cache_key_test.go tailscaleroot: add test that tsgo rev is in Go build cache keys 2026-04-13 10:17:22 -07:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md: update code of conduct 2025-10-28 08:58:00 -07:00
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flake.lock nix: update flakes to get a nixpkgs version with go 1.26 2026-03-06 04:06:57 -08:00
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Makefile ssh/tailssh: speed up SSH integration tests 2026-04-13 14:18:27 -07:00
PATENTS Move Linux client & common packages into a public repo. 2020-02-09 09:32:57 -08:00
pkgdoc_test.go all: fix duplicate package docs and tighten TestPackageDocs 2026-04-24 19:01:43 -07:00
pull-toolchain.sh pull-toolchain.sh: advance the next hash if it's behind 2026-03-10 06:58:53 -07:00
README.md README: update the version of Go in the README (#19168) 2026-03-28 22:21:41 -03:00
SECURITY.md Add a SECURITY.md for vulnerability reports. 2020-02-11 10:26:41 -08:00
shell.nix tstest/natlab/vmtest: add web UI for watching VM tests live 2026-04-28 07:46:04 -07:00
staticcheck.conf all: cleanup unused code, part 2 (#10670) 2023-12-21 17:40:03 -08:00
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version-embed.go cmd/printdep: add --next flag to use rc Go build hash instead 2026-01-27 14:49:56 -08:00
VERSION.txt VERSION.txt: this is v1.97.0 (#18898) 2026-03-05 15:24:48 -05:00

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 1.26. (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.