First Windows plan

Cargo.lock

@@ -43,12 +43,6 @@ version = "1.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "cf1de2fe8c75bc145a2f577add951f8134889b4795d47466a54a5c846d691693"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "boxfnonce"
-version = "0.1.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5988cb1d626264ac94100be357308f29ff7cbdd3b36bda27f450a4ee3f713426"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "bumpalo"
 version = "3.4.0"
@@ -106,16 +100,6 @@ version = "0.4.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "cd51eab21ab4fd6a3bf889e2d0958c0a6e3a61ad04260325e919e652a2a62826"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "daemonize"
-version = "0.4.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "70c24513e34f53b640819f0ac9f705b673fcf4006d7aab8778bee72ebfc89815"
-dependencies = [
- "boxfnonce",
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "discard"
 version = "1.0.4"
@@ -267,31 +251,6 @@ version = "0.1.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7ffc5c5338469d4d3ea17d269fa8ea3512ad247247c30bd2df69e68309ed0a08"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "nix"
-version = "0.14.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6c722bee1037d430d0f8e687bbdbf222f27cc6e4e68d5caf630857bb2b6dbdce"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
- "cc",
- "cfg-if 0.1.10",
- "libc",
- "void",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "nix"
-version = "0.19.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b2ccba0cfe4fdf15982d1674c69b1fd80bad427d293849982668dfe454bd61f2"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
- "cc",
- "cfg-if 1.0.0",
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "once_cell"
 version = "1.5.2"
@@ -310,16 +269,6 @@ version = "0.2.10"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ac74c624d6b2d21f425f752262f42188365d7b8ff1aff74c82e45136510a4857"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "privdrop"
-version = "0.5.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ebd4c2739642e70439d1c0d9545beec45c1e54128739b3cda29bf2c366028c87"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "nix 0.19.1",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro-error"
 version = "1.0.4"
@@ -555,16 +504,6 @@ version = "0.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2579985fda508104f7587689507983eadd6a6e84dd35d6d115361f530916fa0d"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "signal"
-version = "0.7.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2f6ce83b159ab6984d2419f495134972b48754d13ff2e3f8c998339942b56ed9"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "nix 0.14.1",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "smallvec"
 version = "1.5.1"
@@ -838,29 +777,20 @@ version = "0.9.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b5a972e5669d67ba988ce3dc826706fb0a8b01471c088cb0b6110b805cc36aed"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "void"
-version = "1.0.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6a02e4885ed3bc0f2de90ea6dd45ebcbb66dacffe03547fadbb0eeae2770887d"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "vpncloud"
 version = "2.0.1"
 dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
- "daemonize",
  "fnv",
  "igd",
  "libc",
  "log",
- "privdrop",
  "rand 0.8.0",
  "ring",
  "serde",
  "serde_derive",
  "serde_yaml",
- "signal",
  "smallvec",
  "structopt",
  "tempfile",

Cargo.toml

@@ -18,15 +18,15 @@ serde = "1.0"
 serde_derive = "1.0"
 serde_yaml = "0.8"
 log = { version = "0.4", features = ["std"] }
-signal = "0.7"
+#signal = "0.7"
 libc = "0.2"
 rand = "0.8"
 fnv = "1"
 yaml-rust = "0.4"
 igd = { version = "0.11", optional = true }
-daemonize = "0.4"
+#daemonize = "0.4"
 ring = "0.16"
-privdrop = "0.5"
+#privdrop = "0.5"
 byteorder = "1.3"
 thiserror = "1.0"
 smallvec = "1.5"

WINDOWS.md

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# VpnCloud for Windows
+
+## Toolchain
+
+rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
+rustup toolchain install stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
+apt-get install mingw64
+
+## Problems
+
+### Running VpnCloud
+
+**Problem:**
+
+- Library "daemonize" does not compile
+  - Windows uses "Services" instead of daemonized processes
+- Library "privdrop" does not compile
+  - Is dropping privileges in Windows services even a thing?
+- Library "signal" does not compile
+  - Windows services work differently, no Ctrl-C handling needed
+- Normal Windows programs can't stay active when the user logs out
+
+**Potential solution:**
+
+- Wrap VpnCloud as Windows service
+  - https://github.com/mullvad/windows-service-rs
+- Do not support dropping privileges under Windows
+
+### Polling solution
+
+**Problem:**
+
+- Epoll is Linux only
+- RawFd is Unix only
+
+**Potential solution:**
+
+Use multi-threading to remove the need to wait on multiple events at the same time:
+
+- One thread waits on the device and sends to the socket
+- One thread waits on the socket and sends to the device and handles the control traffic
+
+Problems to solve:
+
+- Synchronization is slow
+  - Do not use locking in hot code, cache shared data locally and synchronize periodically
+
+### Tun/Tap devices
+
+**Problem:**
+
+Tun/Tap works completely different on Windows
+
+- Drivers need to be signed by Microsoft, complicated process
+
+**Potential solution:**
+
+Use existing Tun & Tap drivers:
+
+- (Old) TapWindows from OpenVPN project
+  - https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/GettingTapWindows
+  - https://github.com/Tazdevil971/tap-windows
+
+- (New) WinTun from Wireguard
+  - https://www.wintun.net/
+
+### Configuration
+
+**Problem:**
+
+- Windows users are not used to write config files and execute commands
+- Windows setup is more complicated than in Linux (install Drivers, register Services, etc.)
+
+**Potential solution:**
+
+- Create configuration UI

src/main.rs

@@ -189,30 +189,9 @@ fn run<P: Protocol>(config: Config) {
         cloud.add_reconnect_peer(addr);
     }
     if config.daemonize {
-        info!("Running process as daemon");
+        error!("Daemonize not supported under windows");
-        let mut daemonize = daemonize::Daemonize::new();
-        if let Some(user) = config.user {
-            daemonize = daemonize.user(&user as &str);
-        }
-        if let Some(group) = config.group {
-            daemonize = daemonize.group(&group as &str);
-        }
-        if let Some(pid_file) = config.pid_file {
-            daemonize = daemonize.pid_file(pid_file).chown_pid_file(true);
-            // Give child process some time to write PID file
-            daemonize = daemonize.exit_action(|| thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(10)));
-        }
-        try_fail!(daemonize.start(), "Failed to daemonize: {}");
     } else if config.user.is_some() || config.group.is_some() {
-        info!("Dropping privileges");
+        error!("Privdrop not supported under windows");
-        let mut pd = privdrop::PrivDrop::default();
-        if let Some(user) = config.user {
-            pd = pd.user(user);
-        }
-        if let Some(group) = config.group {
-            pd = pd.group(group);
-        }
-        try_fail!(pd.apply(), "Failed to drop privileges: {}");
     }
     cloud.run();
     if let Some(script) = config.ifdown {

src/util.rs

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ use crate::error::Error;
 
 #[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))] use time;
 
-use signal::{trap::Trap, Signal};
 use smallvec::SmallVec;
 use std::time::Instant;
 
@@ -272,7 +271,6 @@ impl fmt::Display for Bytes {
 
 pub struct CtrlC {
     dummy_time: Instant,
-    trap: Trap
 }
 
 impl CtrlC {
@@ -281,15 +279,14 @@ impl CtrlC {
     }
 
     pub fn was_pressed(&self) -> bool {
-        self.trap.wait(self.dummy_time).is_some()
+        false
     }
 }
 
 impl Default for CtrlC {
     fn default() -> Self {
         let dummy_time = Instant::now();
-        let trap = Trap::trap(&[Signal::SIGINT, Signal::SIGTERM, Signal::SIGQUIT]);
+        Self { dummy_time }
-        Self { dummy_time, trap }
     }
 }