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[v11] Session Control + UI SSH Performance #18797

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Backports #18565 and #18656 to branch/v11

Session control logic existed within `HandleNewConn` of `srv/regular.Server`.
This prevented any of it from being used by other components that
also needed to enforce session control.

All the logic from within `HandleNewConn` was refactored to a new
`srv.SessionController` object which the `regular.Server` now uses
to perform session control. There were a few additional changes
needed to accomadate that session control now exists outside
the server and to make tests easier to write. Namely, altering
`srv.ComputLockTargets` to not take a `Server` as a parameter and
leveraging a clock within `services.SemaphoreLock`.

This is step 2 in addressing #15167. Before the web apiserver can
leverage the newly introduced proxy.Router and bypass making ssh
connections to the proxy ssh server it needs to be able to perfrom
session control.
Reduces latency creating ssh sessions via the web ui by:

1) No longer uses `TeleportClient.SSH` to establish a session
2) Reuses the user auth client for the web session to perform MFA ceremony
3) Ensures that connection attempts follow the flow outlined in RFD 93

The web api server now leverages the `proxy.Router` and `srv.SessionController`
directly, instead of doing so indirectly via `TeleportClient.SSH`. Using
the `TeleportClient` required an ssh connection to be established from the web
api server to the proxy ssh server, which are in the same process. This added
overhead can be avoided now that the routing logic and session control logic
exists in a reusable component. To create an interactive session on the node
once the connection is established, `client.NodeClient` is used. A new constructor
was added to facilitate creating one and remove duplicated creation code and a
`RunInteractiveShell` receiver method was added to allow callers outside of
`lib/client` to spawn a session.

`TerminalHandler.issueSessionMFACerts` used to check if per-session mfa was enabled
and perform the mfa ceremony via the `client.ProxyClient` which was constructed
with the `TeleportClient` established from connecting to the proxy ssh server.
This would dial the Auth server under the hood directly and call `IsMFARequired`
and do the ceremony if required. Each web session established via the web ui
already established an auth client with the credentials of the logged in user.
Again overhead is removed by leveraging the existing auth client and performing
the mfa ceremony manually.

Finally `TerminalHandler.makeClient` always attempted to perform the mfa ceremony
prior to returning the `TeleportClient`. As outlined in [RFD 93](https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/blob/master/rfd/0093-offline-access.md),
this causes additional latency and requires Auth connectivity to connect to nodes.
The connection flow is now modified to attempt connection to the nodes first, and
fall back to the mfa ceremony and reconnecting only if the node denies access.

Partially addresses #15167
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h.log.Debugf("New terminal request for ns=%s, server=%s, login=%s, sid=%s, websid=%s.",
req.Namespace, req.Server, req.Login, req.SessionID, ctx.GetSessionID())
req.Namespace, req.Server, req.Login, req.SessionID, sessionCtx.GetSessionID())

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}

h.log.Debugf("New terminal request for ns=%s, server=%s, login=%s, sid=%s, websid=%s.",
req.Namespace, req.Server, req.Login, req.SessionID, ctx.GetSessionID())
req.Namespace, req.Server, req.Login, req.SessionID, sessionCtx.GetSessionID())

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}

h.log.Debugf("New terminal request for ns=%s, server=%s, login=%s, sid=%s, websid=%s.",
req.Namespace, req.Server, req.Login, req.SessionID, ctx.GetSessionID())
req.Namespace, req.Server, req.Login, req.SessionID, sessionCtx.GetSessionID())

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}

h.log.Debugf("New terminal request for ns=%s, server=%s, login=%s, sid=%s, websid=%s.",
req.Namespace, req.Server, req.Login, req.SessionID, ctx.GetSessionID())
req.Namespace, req.Server, req.Login, req.SessionID, sessionCtx.GetSessionID())

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@rosstimothy rosstimothy enabled auto-merge (squash) November 28, 2022 17:26
@rosstimothy rosstimothy merged commit fb5993f into branch/v11 Nov 28, 2022
@zmb3 zmb3 deleted the tross/backport-ui-ssh-perf branch November 28, 2022 17:47
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