When anyone connects to a PuTTY tool's listening socket - whether it's
a user of a local->remote port forwarding, a connection-sharing
downstream or a client of Pageant - we'd like to log as much
information as we can find out about where the connection came from.
To that end, I've implemented a function sk_peer_info() in the socket
abstraction, which returns a freeform text string as best it can (or
NULL, if it can't get anything at all) describing the thing at the
other end of the connection. For TCP connections, this is done using
getpeername() to get an IP address and port in the obvious way; for
Unix-domain sockets, we attempt SO_PEERCRED (conditionalised on some
moderately hairy autoconfery) to get the pid and owner of the peer. I
haven't implemented anything for Windows named pipes, but I will if I
hear of anything useful.
(cherry picked from commit c8f83979a3)
Conflicts:
pageant.c
Cherry-picker's notes: the conflict was because the original commit
also added a use of the same feature in the centralised Pageant code,
which doesn't exist on this branch. Also I had to remove 'const' from
the type of the second parameter to wrap_send_port_open(), since this
branch hasn't had the same extensive const-fixing as master.
If a sharing downstream asks for an auth method we don't understand,
we should send them CHANNEL_FAILURE *and then stop processing*. Ahem.
(Spotted while examining this code in the course of Coverity-related
fixes, but not itself a Coverity-found problem.)
Without this, doing 'Restart Session' on Windows in a session with
sharing enabled but no actual sharing being done would crash, because
the first incarnation of the session would become an upstream and
establish a listening named pipe, which then wouldn't get cleaned up
when the session closed, so the restarted session would try to connect
to it, triggering a call to plug_accepting on a freed sharestate.
[originally from svn r10216]
The basic strategy is described at the top of the new source file
sshshare.c. In very brief: an 'upstream' PuTTY opens a Unix-domain
socket or Windows named pipe, and listens for connections from other
PuTTYs wanting to run sessions on the same server. The protocol spoken
down that socket/pipe is essentially the bare ssh-connection protocol,
using a trivial binary packet protocol with no encryption, and the
upstream has to do some fiddly transformations that I've been
referring to as 'channel-number NAT' to avoid resource clashes between
the sessions it's managing.
This is quite different from OpenSSH's approach of using the Unix-
domain socket as a means of passing file descriptors around; the main
reason for that is that fd-passing is Unix-specific but this system
has to work on Windows too. However, there are additional advantages,
such as making it easy for each downstream PuTTY to run its own
independent set of port and X11 forwardings (though the method for
making the latter work is quite painful).
Sharing is off by default, but configuration is intended to be very
easy in the normal case - just tick one box in the SSH config panel
and everything else happens automatically.
[originally from svn r10083]
