sshpiper/CONTRIBUTING.md
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Customize sshd with sshd config.d (#525)
* Update OpenSSH server image version and add no penalties configuration

* Refactor SSH configuration paths and update test scripts for public key handling

* Update Docker Compose volumes to remove read-only flag for shared directory

* Remove end-to-end test files and related Docker configuration for CA public cert authentication
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# Contributing
Thank you for your interest in contributing to sshpiper.
Make sure you have read [README.md](README.md) before starting.
## Getting Started
### Software Requirements
* Go <https://go.dev/>
* Docker <https://www.docker.com/>
* Docker Compose <https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/>
* Git <https://git-scm.com/>
### Get the code
rememeber to clone the submodules
```
git clone https://github.com/tg123/sshpiper
cd sshpiper
git submodule update --init --recursive
```
### Start Develop Environment
_Note_: in vscode, you can use Reopen in dev container to start the develop environment.
```
# in e2e folder, run:
SSHPIPERD_DEBUG=1 docker-compose up --force-recreate --build -d
```
you will have two sshd:
* `host-password:2222`: a password only sshd server (user: `user`, password: `pass`)
* `host-publickey:2222`: a public key only sshd server (put your public key in `/publickey_authorized_keys/authorized_keys`)
more settings: <https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-openssh-server>
### Make some direct changes to source code
after you have done, attach to testrunner container:
```
docker exec -ti e2e_testrunner_1 bash
```
then run test in `/src/e2e`
```
go test
```
### Send PR with Github
<https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request>
## Understanding how sshpiper works
### sshpiper seasoned cryto ssh lib
The `crypto` folder contains the source code of the [sshpiper seasoned cryto ssh lib](./crypto/).
It based on [crypto/ssh](https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/ssh/) and with a drop-in [sshpiper.go](./crypto/ssh/sshpiper.go) to expose all low level sshpiper required APIs.
### sshpiperd
[sshpiperd](./cmd/sshpiperd/) is the daemon wraps the `crypto/ssh` library to provide ssh connections management.
It accepts ssh connections from `downstream` and routes them to `upstream`.
The plugins are responsible to figure out how to authenticate `downstream` and map it to `upstream`
### plugin
The plugin is typically a grpc server that accepts requrests from `sshpiperd`.
The proto defines in [sshpiper.proto](./proto/sshpiper.proto).
In most of the cases, the plugin connects with `sshpiperd` via `stdin/stdout`. The [ioconnn](./libplugin/ioconn/) wraps stdin/stdout to net.Conn for grpc use.
`sshpiperd` also supports to create remote grpc connections to a plugin deploy in a different machine.
## Your first plugin
[fixed](./plugin/fixed/) and [simplematch](./plugin/simplematch/) are two good examples of plugins.
They are very simple and just less than 50 lines of code.
Take `fixed` as an example:
```
&libplugin.SshPiperPluginConfig{
PasswordCallback: func(conn libplugin.ConnMetadata, password []byte) (*libplugin.Upstream, error) {
return &libplugin.Upstream{
Host: host,
Port: int32(port),
IgnoreHostKey: true,
Auth: libplugin.CreatePasswordAuth(password),
}, nil
},
}
```
Here means the `downstream` is sending password to `sshpiperd`. Then `sshpiperd` will call plugin's `PasswordCallback` to get the `upstream` to connect to.
The `upstream` object contains host port and auth info about how to connect to the `upstream`. you can aslo return an error to deny the connection.
### build and run the plugin
simple build it with:
```
go build -tags full
```
you will get the executable in the current directory. say `myplugin`. start it with:
```
sshpiperd /path/to/myplugin
```