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netbird/client/internal/certproof/collect_windows.go
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mlsmaycon e0ede59d68 read the signed-in user's certificate store on Windows
A service reads LocalMachine\MY, where AD and Intune enrol device
certificates. CurrentUser\MY lives in the signed-in user's registry hive
with keys protected against their profile, and a service that opens it does
not fail: "current user" resolves to HKU\S-1-5-18, so it silently reads the
service account's own empty store. The service therefore reads the machine
store itself and launches "netbird posture cert-proof" with the session
token for the rest, mirroring the macOS console user helper.

Windows lets a privileged service assume a user identity, so the token goes
straight into the child process and no external tooling is involved.
CREATE_NO_WINDOW keeps a console window from flashing on the desktop every
sync. In-process impersonation would also work but is per OS thread while
goroutines migrate, so the child process avoids that class of bug.

Session selection prefers the physical console and falls back to any active
session, so remote desktop and VDI hosts are covered. WTSQueryUserToken
needs SE_TCB_NAME, so a user-run client skips the helper and reads the
machine store alone.

SystemStore takes a store location, gaining NewUserStore alongside
NewSystemStore and the per candidate logging macOS already had. The request
building and proof merging move to helper_spawn.go, shared by both
platforms, and helperStore picks what the helper reads per platform.
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package certproof
import (
"bytes"
"context"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"os"
"os/exec"
"strings"
"syscall"
"time"
log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
"golang.org/x/sys/windows"
"github.com/netbirdio/netbird/shared/management/certposture"
"github.com/netbirdio/netbird/shared/management/proto"
)
const helperTimeout = 30 * time.Second
// CollectProofs answers the certificate challenges in checks from every store this
// machine can reach. The service reads the local machine store itself, where AD and
// Intune enrol device certificates, and reaches the signed-in user's store by launching
// a helper with that session's token. A machine at the sign-in screen therefore proves
// device certificates alone.
func CollectProofs(ctx context.Context, checks []*proto.Checks, peerKey []byte) []certposture.Proof {
challenges := certificateChallenges(checks)
if len(challenges) == 0 {
logNoChallenges(checks)
return nil
}
proofs := CollectChallenges(ctx, DefaultStore(), challenges, peerKey)
// The helper already runs as the signed-in user, and an ordinary process has no
// right to a session token, so only the service goes looking for one.
if !runningAsLocalSystem() {
return proofs
}
userProofs, err := collectAsDesktopUser(ctx, challenges, peerKey)
if err != nil {
log.Infof("certificate posture: user certificate store unavailable: %v", err)
}
return mergeProofs(proofs, userProofs)
}
// helperStore is the store the helper reads. It runs as the signed-in user, so it wants
// that user's store rather than the machine store the service already read.
func helperStore() Store {
return NewUserStore()
}
// collectAsDesktopUser runs the helper inside the interactive session of the signed-in
// user. Unlike a keychain on macOS, a Windows service can assume a user identity
// directly, so the session token goes straight into the child process.
func collectAsDesktopUser(ctx context.Context, challenges []*proto.CertificateChallenge, peerKey []byte) ([]certposture.Proof, error) {
user, ok := CurrentDesktopUser()
if !ok {
return nil, nil
}
defer user.Close()
binary, err := os.Executable()
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("resolve own binary: %w", err)
}
payload, err := json.Marshal(helperRequest(challenges, peerKey))
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("encode helper request: %w", err)
}
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, helperTimeout)
defer cancel()
cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, binary, "posture", "cert-proof")
cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{
Token: syscall.Token(user.Token),
HideWindow: true,
CreationFlags: windows.CREATE_NO_WINDOW,
}
cmd.Stdin = bytes.NewReader(payload)
var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
cmd.Stdout = &stdout
cmd.Stderr = &stderr
log.Infof("certificate posture: asking the session of %q (session %d) to answer %d challenges", user.Name, user.Session, len(challenges))
if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("run helper as %s: %w: %s", user.Name, err, strings.TrimSpace(stderr.String()))
}
var resp HelperResponse
if err := json.Unmarshal(stdout.Bytes(), &resp); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("decode helper response: %w", err)
}
log.Infof("certificate posture: session of %q returned %d proofs", user.Name, len(resp.Proofs))
return resp.Proofs, nil
}