With the new --open-unconditional-agent-socket option, every time
Uppity receives an SSH connection, it will immediately open a Unix-
domain socket and attempt to do agent forwarding on it, in the sense
that any connection to that socket will be turned into an
"auth-agent@openssh.com" CHANNEL_OPEN request on whichever SSH
connection it was associated with.
That connection-global socket is independent of any that are created
as part of setting up a session channel. The pathname of the socket
file is written to the server's event log (there being no other
sensible place to send it).
The aim is that this allows me to test the behaviour of an SSH client
if the server tries to open an agent-forwarding channel outside the
usual context. In particular, it allows me to test the change I just
made in the previous commit, that if you enable agent forwarding in
the client configuration, then auth-agent channels opened by the
server are accepted even if no session channel opened by the client
has sent an auth-agent-req. More importantly, it allows me to check
that I _haven't_ accidentally arranged that those channels are
accepted even when agent forwarding is _not_ permitted by the client
configuration!
Implementation details: the agent forwarding socket was previously
implemented as part of the internal sesschan structure. I've moved it
out into a little sub-struct of its own which can be created
independently of a sesschan.
Two minor memory-leak fixes on 0.74 seem not to be needed on master:
the fix in an early exit path of pageant_add_keyfile is done already
on master in a different way, and the missing sfree(fdlist) in
uxsftp.c is in code that's been completely rewritten in the uxcliloop
refactoring.
Other minor conflicts: the rework in commit b52641644905 of
ssh1login.c collided with the change from FLAG_VERBOSE to
seat_verbose(), and master and 0.74 each added an unrelated extra
field to the end of struct SshServerConfig.
This is a sweeping change applied across the whole code base by a spot
of Emacs Lisp. Now, everywhere I declare a vtable filled with function
pointers (and the occasional const data member), all the members of
the vtable structure are initialised by name using the '.fieldname =
value' syntax introduced in C99.
We were already using this syntax for a handful of things in the new
key-generation progress report system, so it's not new to the code
base as a whole.
The advantage is that now, when a vtable only declares a subset of the
available fields, I can initialise the rest to NULL or zero just by
leaving them out. This is most dramatic in a couple of the outlying
vtables in things like psocks (which has a ConnectionLayerVtable
containing only one non-NULL method), but less dramatically, it means
that the new 'flags' field in BackendVtable can be completely left out
of every backend definition except for the SUPDUP one which defines it
to a nonzero value. Similarly, the test_for_upstream method only used
by SSH doesn't have to be mentioned in the rest of the backends;
network Plugs for listening sockets don't have to explicitly null out
'receive' and 'sent', and vice versa for 'accepting', and so on.
While I'm at it, I've normalised the declarations so they don't use
the unnecessarily verbose 'struct' keyword. Also a handful of them
weren't const; now they are.
The motivation is for the SUPDUP protocol. The server may send a
signal for the terminal to reset any input buffers. After this, the
server will not know the state of the terminal, so it is required to
send its cursor position back.
The global 'int flags' has always been an ugly feature of this code
base, and I suddenly thought that perhaps it's time to start throwing
it out, one flag at a time, until it's totally unused.
My first target is FLAG_VERBOSE. This was usually set by cmdline.c
when it saw a -v option on the program's command line, except that GUI
PuTTY itself sets it unconditionally on startup. And then various bits
of the code would check it in order to decide whether to print a given
message.
In the current system of front-end abstraction traits, there's no
_one_ place that I can move it to. But there are two: every place that
checked FLAG_VERBOSE has access to either a Seat or a LogPolicy. So
now each of those traits has a query method for 'do I want verbose
messages?'.
A good effect of this is that subsidiary Seats, like the ones used in
Uppity for the main SSH server module itself and the server end of
shell channels, now get to have their own verbosity setting instead of
inheriting the one global one. In fact I don't expect any code using
those Seats to be generating any messages at all, but if that changes
later, we'll have a way to control it. (Who knows, perhaps logging in
Uppity might become a thing.)
As part of this cleanup, I've added a new flag to cmdline_tooltype,
called TOOLTYPE_NO_VERBOSE_OPTION. The unconditionally-verbose tools
now set that, and it has the effect of making cmdline.c disallow -v
completely. So where 'putty -v' would previously have been silently
ignored ("I was already verbose"), it's now an error, reminding you
that that option doesn't actually do anything.
Finally, the 'default_logpolicy' provided by uxcons.c and wincons.c
(with identical definitions) has had to move into a new file of its
own, because now it has to ask cmdline.c for the verbosity setting as
well as asking console.c for the rest of its methods. So there's a new
file clicons.c which can only be included by programs that link
against both cmdline.c _and_ one of the *cons.c, and I've renamed the
logpolicy to reflect that.
In commit 09954a87c I introduced the portfwdmgr_connect_socket()
system, which opened a port forwarding given a callback to create the
Socket itself, with the aim of using it to make forwardings to Unix-
domain sockets and Windows named pipes (both initially for agent
forwarding).
But I forgot that a year and a bit ago, in commit 834396170, I already
introduced a similar low-level system for creating a PortForwarding
around an unusual kind of socket: the portfwd_raw_new() system, which
in place of a callback uses a two-phase setup protocol (you create the
socket in between the two setup calls, and can roll it back if the
socket can't be created).
There's really no need to have _both_ these systems! So now I'm
merging them, which is to say, I'm enhancing portfwd_raw_new to have
the one new feature it needs, and throwing away the newer system
completely. The new feature is to be able to control the initial state
of the 'ready' flag: portfwd_raw_new was always used for initiating
port forwardings in response to an incoming local connection, which
means you need to start off with ready=false and set it true when the
other end of the SSH connection sends back OPEN_CONFIRMATION. Now it's
being used for initiating port forwardings in response to a
CHANNEL_OPEN, we need to be able to start with ready=true.
This commit reverts 09954a87c2 and its
followup fix 12aa06ccc9, and simplifies
the agent_connect system down to a single trivial function that makes
a Socket given a Plug.
The number of people has been steadily increasing who read our source
code with an editor that thinks tab stops are 4 spaces apart, as
opposed to the traditional tty-derived 8 that the PuTTY code expects.
So I've been wondering for ages about just fixing it, and switching to
a spaces-only policy throughout the code. And I recently found out
about 'git blame -w', which should make this change not too disruptive
for the purposes of source-control archaeology; so perhaps now is the
time.
While I'm at it, I've also taken the opportunity to remove all the
trailing spaces from source lines (on the basis that git dislikes
them, and is the only thing that seems to have a strong opinion one
way or the other).
Apologies to anyone downstream of this code who has complicated patch
sets to rebase past this change. I don't intend it to be needed again.
All my instincts expect the shell subprocesses to start off in ~, so
it's confusing if they start off in some random PuTTY checkout
directory. So now we default to $HOME, and if I really do want the
latter, I can use the new config option to reselect '.'.
My helper scripts for invoking Uppity have been manually unsetting
things like XAUTHORITY and SSH_AUTH_SOCK, to avoid accidentally
passing them through from my primary login session, so that I don't
get confused about whether agent forwarding is happening, or end up
with one DISPLAY going with a different XAUTHORITY.
Now I clear these within Uppity itself, so the wrapping script won't
have to.
This mimics a bug in some old SSH servers for which PuTTY contains
compensation code (parsing an incoming "exit-signal" two ways and
seeing which one worked). I completely rewrote that code in commit
7535f645a, as part of the BinarySource rework. Now I can finally test
it sensibly.
In terminal-based GUI applications, this is passed through to
term_set_trust_status, to toggle whether lines are prefixed with the
new trust sigil. In console applications, the function returns false,
indicating to the backend that it should employ some other technique
for spoofing protection.
If centralised code like the SSH implementation wants to sanitise
escape sequences out of a piece of server-provided text, it will need
to do it by making a locale-based StripCtrlChars if it's running in a
console context, or a Terminal-based one if it's in a GUI terminal-
window application.
All the other changes of behaviour needed between those two contexts
are handled by providing reconfigurable methods in the Seat vtable;
this one is no different. So now there's a new method in the Seat
vtable that will construct a StripCtrlChars appropriate to that kind
of seat. Terminal-window seats (gtkwin.c, window.c) implement it by
calling the new stripctrl_new_term(), and console ones use the locale-
based stripctrl_new().
The _nm strategy is slower, so I don't want to just change everything
over no matter what its contents. In this pass I've tried to catch
everything that holds the _really_ sensitive things like passwords,
private keys and session keys.
This is a general cleanup which has been overdue for some time: lots
of length fields are now the machine word type rather than the (in
practice) fixed 'int'.
Those were a reasonable abbreviation when the code almost never had to
deal with little-endian numbers, but they've crept into enough places
now (e.g. the ECC formatting) that I think I'd now prefer that every
use of the integer read/write macros was clearly marked with its
endianness.
So all uses of GET_??BIT and PUT_??BIT are now qualified. The special
versions in x11fwd.c, which used variable endianness because so does
the X11 protocol, are suffixed _X11 to make that clear, and where that
pushed line lengths over 80 characters I've taken the opportunity to
name a local variable to remind me of what that extra parameter
actually does.
My normal habit these days, in new code, is to treat int and bool as
_almost_ completely separate types. I'm still willing to use C's
implicit test for zero on an integer (e.g. 'if (!blob.len)' is fine,
no need to spell it out as blob.len != 0), but generally, if a
variable is going to be conceptually a boolean, I like to declare it
bool and assign to it using 'true' or 'false' rather than 0 or 1.
PuTTY is an exception, because it predates the C99 bool, and I've
stuck to its existing coding style even when adding new code to it.
But it's been annoying me more and more, so now that I've decided C99
bool is an acceptable thing to require from our toolchain in the first
place, here's a quite thorough trawl through the source doing
'boolification'. Many variables and function parameters are now typed
as bool rather than int; many assignments of 0 or 1 to those variables
are now spelled 'true' or 'false'.
I managed this thorough conversion with the help of a custom clang
plugin that I wrote to trawl the AST and apply heuristics to point out
where things might want changing. So I've even managed to do a decent
job on parts of the code I haven't looked at in years!
To make the plugin's work easier, I pushed platform front ends
generally in the direction of using standard 'bool' in preference to
platform-specific boolean types like Windows BOOL or GTK's gboolean;
I've left the platform booleans in places they _have_ to be for the
platform APIs to work right, but variables only used by my own code
have been converted wherever I found them.
In a few places there are int values that look very like booleans in
_most_ of the places they're used, but have a rarely-used third value,
or a distinction between different nonzero values that most users
don't care about. In these cases, I've _removed_ uses of 'true' and
'false' for the return values, to emphasise that there's something
more subtle going on than a simple boolean answer:
- the 'multisel' field in dialog.h's list box structure, for which
the GTK front end in particular recognises a difference between 1
and 2 but nearly everything else treats as boolean
- the 'urgent' parameter to plug_receive, where 1 vs 2 tells you
something about the specific location of the urgent pointer, but
most clients only care about 0 vs 'something nonzero'
- the return value of wc_match, where -1 indicates a syntax error in
the wildcard.
- the return values from SSH-1 RSA-key loading functions, which use
-1 for 'wrong passphrase' and 0 for all other failures (so any
caller which already knows it's not loading an _encrypted private_
key can treat them as boolean)
- term->esc_query, and the 'query' parameter in toggle_mode in
terminal.c, which _usually_ hold 0 for ESC[123h or 1 for ESC[?123h,
but can also hold -1 for some other intervening character that we
don't support.
In a few places there's an integer that I haven't turned into a bool
even though it really _can_ only take values 0 or 1 (and, as above,
tried to make the call sites consistent in not calling those values
true and false), on the grounds that I thought it would make it more
confusing to imply that the 0 value was in some sense 'negative' or
bad and the 1 positive or good:
- the return value of plug_accepting uses the POSIXish convention of
0=success and nonzero=error; I think if I made it bool then I'd
also want to reverse its sense, and that's a job for a separate
piece of work.
- the 'screen' parameter to lineptr() in terminal.c, where 0 and 1
represent the default and alternate screens. There's no obvious
reason why one of those should be considered 'true' or 'positive'
or 'success' - they're just indices - so I've left it as int.
ssh_scp_recv had particularly confusing semantics for its previous int
return value: its call sites used '<= 0' to check for error, but it
never actually returned a negative number, just 0 or 1. Now the
function and its call sites agree that it's a bool.
In a couple of places I've renamed variables called 'ret', because I
don't like that name any more - it's unclear whether it means the
return value (in preparation) for the _containing_ function or the
return value received from a subroutine call, and occasionally I've
accidentally used the same variable for both and introduced a bug. So
where one of those got in my way, I've renamed it to 'toret' or 'retd'
(the latter short for 'returned') in line with my usual modern
practice, but I haven't done a thorough job of finding all of them.
Finally, one amusing side effect of doing this is that I've had to
separate quite a few chained assignments. It used to be perfectly fine
to write 'a = b = c = TRUE' when a,b,c were int and TRUE was just a
the 'true' defined by stdbool.h, that idiom provokes a warning from
gcc: 'suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value'!
This commit includes <stdbool.h> from defs.h and deletes my
traditional definitions of TRUE and FALSE, but other than that, it's a
100% mechanical search-and-replace transforming all uses of TRUE and
FALSE into the C99-standardised lowercase spellings.
No actual types are changed in this commit; that will come next. This
is just getting the noise out of the way, so that subsequent commits
can have a higher proportion of signal.
Like the SFTP server, this is implemented in-process rather than by
invoking a separate scp server binary.
It also uses the internal SftpServer abstraction for access to the
server's filesystem, which means that when (or if) I implement an
alternative SftpServer implementing a dummy file system for test suite
purposes, this scp server should automatically start using it too.
As a bonus, the new scpserver.c contains a large comment documenting
my understanding of the SCP protocol, which I previously didn't have
even a de-facto or post-hoc spec for. I don't claim it's authoritative
- it's all reverse-engineered from my own code and observing other
implementations in action - but at least it'll make it easier to
refresh my own memory of what's going on the next time I need to do
something to either this code or PSCP.
Unlike the traditional Unix SSH server organisation, the SFTP server
is built into the same process as all the rest of the code. sesschan.c
spots a subsystem request for "sftp", and responds to it by
instantiating an SftpServer object and swapping out its own vtable for
one that talks to it.
(I rather like the idea of an object swapping its own vtable for a
different one in the middle of its lifetime! This is one of those
tricks that would be absurdly hard to implement in a 'proper' OO
language, but when you're doing vtables by hand in C, it's no more
difficult than any other piece of ordinary pointer manipulation. As
long as the methods in both vtables expect the same physical structure
layout, it doesn't cause a problem.)
The SftpServer object doesn't deal directly with SFTP packet formats;
it implements the SFTP server logic in a more abstract way, by having
a vtable method for each SFTP request type with an appropriate
parameter list. It sends its replies by calling methods in another
vtable called SftpReplyBuilder, which in the normal case will write an
SFTP reply packet to send back to the client. So SftpServer can focus
more or less completely on the details of a particular filesystem API
- and hence, the implementation I've got lives in the unix source
directory, and works directly with file descriptors and struct stat
and the like.
(One purpose of this abstraction layer is that I may well want to
write a second dummy implementation, for test-suite purposes, with
completely controllable behaviour, and now I have a handy place to
plug it in in place of the live filesystem.)
In between sesschan's parsing of the byte stream into SFTP packets and
the SftpServer object, there's a layer in the new file sftpserver.c
which does the actual packet decoding and encoding: each request
packet is passed to that, which pulls the fields out of the request
packet and calls the appropriate method of SftpServer. It also
provides the default SftpReplyBuilder which makes the output packet.
I've moved some code out of the previous SFTP client implementation -
basic packet construction code, and in particular the BinarySink/
BinarySource marshalling fuinction for fxp_attrs - into sftpcommon.c,
so that the two directions can share as much as possible.
This server is NOT SECURE! If anyone is reading this commit message,
DO NOT DEPLOY IT IN A HOSTILE-FACING ENVIRONMENT! Its purpose is to
speak the server end of everything PuTTY speaks on the client side, so
that I can test that I haven't broken PuTTY when I reorganise its
code, even things like RSA key exchange or chained auth methods which
it's hard to find a server that speaks at all.
(For this reason, it's declared with [UT] in the Recipe file, so that
it falls into the same category as programs like testbn, which won't
be installed by 'make install'.)
Working title is 'Uppity', partly for 'Universal PuTTY Protocol
Interaction Test Yoke', but mostly because it looks quite like the
word 'PuTTY' with part of it reversed. (Apparently 'test yoke' is a
very rarely used term meaning something not altogether unlike 'test
harness', which is a bit of a stretch, but it'll do.)
It doesn't actually _support_ everything I want yet. At the moment,
it's a proof of concept only. But it has most of the machinery
present, and the parts it's missing - such as chained auth methods -
should be easy enough to add because I've built in the required
flexibility, in the form of an AuthPolicy object which can request
them if it wants to. However, the current AuthPolicy object is
entirely trivial, and will let in any user with the password "weasel".
(Another way in which this is not a production-ready server is that it
also has no interaction with the OS's authentication system. In
particular, it will not only let in any user with the same password,
but it won't even change uid - it will open shells and forwardings
under whatever user id you started it up as.)
Currently, the program can only speak the SSH protocol on its standard
I/O channels (using the new FdSocket facility), so if you want it to
listen on a network port, you'll have to run it from some kind of
separate listening program similar to inetd. For my own tests, I'm not
even doing that: I'm just having PuTTY spawn it as a local proxy
process, which also conveniently eliminates the risk of anyone hostile
connecting to it.
The bulk of the actual code reorganisation is already done by previous
commits, so this change is _mostly_ just dropping in a new set of
server-specific source files alongside the client-specific ones I
created recently. The remaining changes in the shared SSH code are
numerous, but all minor:
- a few extra parameters to BPP and PPL constructors (e.g. 'are you
in server mode?'), and pass both sets of SSH-1 protocol flags from
the login to the connection layer
- in server mode, unconditionally send our version string _before_
waiting for the remote one
- a new hook in the SSH-1 BPP to handle enabling compression in
server mode, where the message exchange works the other way round
- new code in the SSH-2 BPP to do _deferred_ compression the other
way round (the non-deferred version is still nicely symmetric)
- in the SSH-2 transport layer, some adjustments to do key derivation
either way round (swapping round the identifying letters in the
various hash preimages, and making sure to list the KEXINITs in the
right order)
- also in the SSH-2 transport layer, an if statement that controls
whether we send SERVICE_REQUEST and wait for SERVICE_ACCEPT, or
vice versa
- new ConnectionLayer methods for opening outgoing channels for X and
agent forwardings
- new functions in portfwd.c to establish listening sockets suitable
for remote-to-local port forwarding (i.e. not under the direction
of a Conf the way it's done on the client side).
