Three places in one request path each had their own notion of "same
management URL": the config layer compared the parsed URLs as strings, the
privileged-change gate compared scheme + host + effective port, and the MDM
conflict check compared strings after filling in the default port. Only the
middle one was right.
A string comparison answers the wrong question. "https://api.netbird.io",
"https://api.netbird.io/" and "https://API.netbird.io:443" are one endpoint
written three ways, so a client restating its own management URL with a
trailing slash — a normal way to write it — was still read as a client asking
to be repointed, and the update-settings gate refused it. The MDM check had
the same flaw against the enforced value.
profilemanager.SameServiceURL is now the single comparison: same scheme, same
host case-insensitively as DNS names are, same effective port. The config
layer, the privileged-change gate and the MDM conflict check all defer to it,
so there is one answer to "did this URL change?" instead of three.
The update-settings kill switch (--disable-update-settings /
NB_DISABLE_UPDATE_SETTINGS / the MDM DisableUpdateSettings key) forbids
changing settings, but it decided what a "change" was by looking at
whether a field was present in the request. The CLI fills the whole
config surface of SetConfigRequest and LoginRequest from its flags and
environment on every `netbird up` (setupSetConfigReq in cmd/up.go), so a
client configured by environment restates its own configuration on every
start and tripped the gate every time.
SetConfig only warned about that, but Login carries the same fields and
was gated the same way, and Login runs inside the CLI's backoff loop: the
daemon answered every attempt with codes.Unavailable, `netbird up` never
completed, and a container with NB_DISABLE_UPDATE_SETTINGS plus any
config env var (NB_MANAGEMENT_URL, for one) could not come up at all.
Both gates now compare values. Config.WouldChange is the dry-run half of
UpdateConfig: it runs the very same diff logic (Config.apply) against a
copy of the stored config, so the gate cannot drift from what an actual
update would do, nor go stale when a field is added. A request that
restates what the profile already holds changes nothing and is allowed; a
request that diverges is refused exactly as before, and a dry run that
cannot be evaluated fails closed. A profile with no config on disk yet is
judged against the config the daemon would create for it.
For Login, the compared input comes from loginOverridesInput, which
persistLoginOverrides also uses to perform the write, so the gate judges
precisely the two fields a login can persist (management URL, pre-shared
key) and no field it ignores.
Two adjacent defects surfaced while making the comparison exact:
- Config.apply compared URLs as raw strings, so the same endpoint spelled
without its default port ("https://api.netbird.io" vs
"https://api.netbird.io:443") counted as a new value and rewrote the
config. It now compares the parsed forms.
- UpdateConfig did not collapse the redacted pre-shared key, unlike
UpdateOrCreateConfig and DirectUpdateConfig, so a UI round-trip of the
mask replaced the stored key with asterisks.
The CLI warning for a refused SetConfig said the method was not available
in the daemon, which sent people looking for a version mismatch that was
not there; it now reports the refusal.
This introduces a disabled-by-default allow-remote-jobs setting that
controls whether the management server may run jobs (such as debug
bundles) on a peer. The flag propagates end to end: through client
configuration, the daemon SetConfig and Login requests, authentication,
and system info, up to management, where it is stored on the peer and
exposed on the peers API as remote_jobs_allowed. The client refuses any
management-requested job unless the peer has opted in. Because enabling
remote jobs crosses the user-to-root boundary, turning it on requires
privilege, mirroring the SSH-server gate. Administrators can enforce the
setting through MDM policy on both macOS and Windows, and MDM can also
override the debug-bundle upload URL. The change ships policy
documentation and generated profile templates, and adds configuration,
conflict, and enforcement tests covering the opt-in, privilege, and MDM
paths.
- **Wails v3 application** (`client/ui`) with a React + TypeScript + Tailwind frontend replacing the Fyne UI: main connection view, exit-node switcher, networks/peers browser with detail panels, profile management, settings (general, network, SSH, security, troubleshooting, appearance), debug-bundle creation, and a first-run welcome flow.
- **Internationalization**: go-i18n bundle with 9 locales (en, de, es, fr, hu, it, pt, ru, zh-CN) shared between the tray and the frontend.
- **New system tray** implementation with per-platform theme-aware icons, including a native XEmbed host for Linux (`xembed_tray_linux.c`) and a Linux theme watcher.
- **Session handling**: auth session watcher (`client/internal/auth/sessionwatch`), pending login flow, session-expiration dialog and tray notifications, and `netbird login` improvements.
- **Daemon API extensions** (`daemon.proto`): status stream subscription, event stream, networks/exit-node selection endpoints, and richer full status — with probe throttling on the daemon side to protect against UI-driven request storms.
- **UI preferences store** persisted per profile, autostart management via the daemon (single source of truth in HKCU on Windows).
- **Build system**: Taskfile-based builds per platform (macOS, Linux, Windows), Docker cross-compilation images, MSIX/NSIS/nfpm/AppImage packaging, and a new `frontend-ui` CI workflow.
Co-authored-by: Zoltan Papp <zoltan.pmail@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Eduard Gert <kontakt@eduardgert.de>
Co-authored-by: braginini <bangvalo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Pascal Fischer <32096965+pascal-fischer@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: riccardom <riccardomanfrin@gmail.com>
* Initial scaffolding
* Applies MDM override
* Unit tests
* Helpers business logic
* Return error if trying to modify any config that is gated by MDM
* Add ManagedFields to returned config over GetConfig
* Adds initial 101 MDM policy business logic testing
* gRPC MDM changes
* MDM Name scoping for clarity
* Implements windows loading of MDM policy
* Adds missing WGPort config
* Cleanup setupKey to align to linear
* Align split tunnel code
* Adds some log
* Prefix every log with MDM
* Adds debug config cobra command
This can be useful for troubleshooting and checking config
now that its resolution is not trivial
defaults > config > env cars > CLI/UI > MDM
* Adds MDM 1m diff checker & reloader
* Adds also up/start after cancel
* Publishes event for UI to sync upon MDM changes
* Add events to resync UI to actual config
This also provide fixup for UI no aligning to changed config when coming from cli up with config flags.
* UI behavior conflicts relaxation
UI sends full config snapshot with all values. It doesn't
make sense to block it if the values are aligned with the
values constrained by the MDM policy. It's just simplier
to allow values that are compliant. (this goes for the CLI
as well at this point)
* Lock toggle Settngs
* Advanced Settings locking
* Fixup presharedkey
* Apply MDM locks
* Toggle gray in/out for Advanced Settings
* Adds support for disabling of Profiles and UpdateSettings feature flags
* Adds Gate Login as well when --disable-update-settings=true is given to service
This commit tries to settle things with an old PR-4237 which had relaxed
the case where the SetConfig returned an `Unavailable` code error.
Under this circumnstance the PR allowed the upFunc to just emit a warning and
progress further with the login gRPC. Since the login call is consuming
the --management-url coming from the `up` command, it might be possible
to abuse the "Unavailable" code to inject a management URL that is different
from the configured one even though the --disable-update-settings is set
to true (?)
* Evaluate disable-update-settings errors only when there's an actual override
* [UI] Fixup advanced Settings
* [UI] Fixup for preshared key
* [UI] Fixup for profile enable/disable toggle
We need to align the initial state to evaluate the delta in case.
The initial state has to be "true" since the profile starts visible.
Then we receive MDM and transition the cache bool value to the actual
MDM imposed state
* Enforces disable networks
* [UI] Aligns to "enable/disable once on change only"
* Fixup: MDM wins. always
* Removes --disable-advanced-settings
It was a typo in our meetings. the actual thing is --disable-update-settings
* [PROTO] Removes --disable-advanced-settings
* [UI] Removes --disable-advanced-settings
* Pins feat profile retrieval to notif event
* [UI] Fix for "hide" not working when propagating to parent with children
* Adds dep for reading plist files
* Introduces support for darwing plist loading
* Tests MDM config reload via ticker
* [PROVISIONING] ADMX/ADML/PS/bash scripts/templates
* CI fixes
- Add docstrings to `mdm_integration`
- refactor for cognitive complexity
- mod tidy
* Linting
* Add docstrings to `mdm_integration`
* nil,nil is no policy and no error. Allow it
* nil,nil is no policy and no error. Allow it
* exclude MDM profile adminstrated keys data from debug bundle
* Fixes Rosenpass left disable after MDM unlock
* Partial revert coderabbit added docstrings
* Renaming fix
* Avoid locking on clientRunning bool when the connection is aborted for whatever reason
We want to just signal this through the giveUpChan, we will manage the signal from
the waiter side and in case set it to false there. THis way we avoid locking,
which should allow the MDM down+wait_for_term_chan_signal_+up procedure
clientRunning is used to signal two different conditions here:
1. the initialization procedure is over (we have an engine)
2. the connection being up (or being attempted)
Probably these two functionalities should not alias, and the failure of the second condition
(because of any error) should just drive a reconnection (currently it's not happening,
and we silently go idle).
OR, mor probably, the two things are the SAME and there should not exist a case where
we did the "Up" initialization and connection attempt but we are not still attempting it.
* Moves test helper at te very bottom
* Addresses github comments
* No lock no copy
* Prevents engine not stopping within 10 secs from being paired by another instance
We instead juts SKIP updating the policy, so
1. the MDM ticker will kick in 1 minute time,
2. find the policy misaligned,
3. enter the onMDMPolicyChange,
4. find the s.clientRunning == true
(because it is set to false only in server cleanupConnection,
and not by s.actCancel())
5. call s.actCancel() again if not nil
6. immediately return from <-s.clientGiveUpChan
7. finally call s.restartEngineForMDMLocked()
* Since we ARE running there should be a config
If the config was cancelled midflight, connect will abort later on
* DisableAutoConnect should not stop a running connection.
DisableAutoConnect should just avoid the connection attempts *when the service starts*.
If we are started and we are up and running, DisableAutoConnect should not kick in.
Another PR will follow about this topic
* Removes unused vars
* Moves callback into Run method arg
* align comment to removal of DisableAutoConnect
DisableAutoConnect should just avoid the connection attempts *when the service starts*.
If we are started and we are up and running, DisableAutoConnect should not kick in
* Removes unused managed_fields data.
This was initially used to drive the UI but approach changed
to reload config/features upon notifications which makes this data redundant.
* Reorder stuff
* Unexport unrequired vars/functions
PoliciesEqual → policiesEqual
AllKeys → allKeys
* Adds list of MDM managed fields in the debug bundle
riccardom