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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
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77* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
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80* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
81 calls instead.
82
83* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
84
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85Deprecations and removals:
86
87* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
88 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
89
90* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
c6407108 91
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92* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
93 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
94 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
95 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
96
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97* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
98 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 99 is only supported for such old kernels.
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9eb41aab 101* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 102 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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103 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
104 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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105 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
106
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107* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
108 baseline is 5.8.
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110* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
111 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
112
3345802c 113* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 114 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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116* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
117
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118Features:
119
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120* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
121
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122* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
123 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
124
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125* pick up creds from EFI vars
126
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127* sd-stub/sd-boot: write RNG seed to LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID config
128 table as well. (and possibly drop our efi var). Current kernels will pick up
129 the seed from there already, if EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL is not implemented by
130 firmware.
131
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132* sd-boot: include domain specific hash string in hash function for random seed
133 plus sizes of everything. also include DMI/SMBIOS blob
134
135* accept a random seed via DMI/SMBIOS vendor string that is credited to the
136 kernel RNG, as cheap alternative to virtio-rng
137
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138* sd-stub: invoke random seed logic the same way as in sd-boot, except if
139 random seed EFI variable is already set. That way, the variable set will be
140 set in all cases: if you just use sd-stub, or just sd-boot, or both.
141
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142* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
143 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
144 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
145 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
146 affect PCR values.
147
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148* systemd-measure tool:
149 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
150 - sign pre-calculated hashes in a way compatible with TPM2 PCR hash signature
151 policies, in a way they can be included in unified PE kernel images, and
152 made available to userspace. There, this should be consumed by
153 systemd-cryptsetup to implement PCR signature based TPM volume unlock
154 policies.
155
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156* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
157 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
158
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159* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
160 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
161
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162* sd-device: add an API for opening a child device, given a device object
163
164* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
165 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
166
167* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
168 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
169
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170* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
171 maybe some other stuff and boots it
172
e1b45a75 173* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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174 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
175 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
176 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
177 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
178 use it.
179
180* portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
181 file system paths to enable on start.
182
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183* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
184 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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186* PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
187 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
188 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
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190* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
191 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
192 what it was signed.
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194* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
195 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
196 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
197 be safely written to disk, then.
198
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199* systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
200 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
201 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
202 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
203 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
204 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
205 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
206 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
207 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
208 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
209 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
210 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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212* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
213 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
214
8c776523 215* bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
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216 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
217 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
218 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
219 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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220
221* networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
222 via the credentials logic.
223
e1b45a75 224* fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
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225 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
226 integrity-generator)
227
228* getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
229
230* run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
231
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232* resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
233 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
234 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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235 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
236
237* repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
238
239* tmpfiles: add snippet that provisions /etc/hosts, /etc/motd,
240 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from credential
241
242* timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
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244* define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
245 runtime state. Then, expose it:
246
247 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
248 about the unit.
249 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
250 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
251 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
252 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
253 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
254 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
255
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256* show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
257 for this on dbus)
258
259* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
260 what to do if support ended
261
262* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
263 login time, á la motd
264
e1b45a75 265* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 266 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 267 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 268 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 269 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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271* make tmpfiles read lines from creds, so that we can provision SSH host keys
272 via creds. Similar: sysusers, sysctl, homed
273
274* mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
275 initrd transition. Specifically:
276 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
277 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
278 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
279
280* implement varlink introspection
281
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282* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
283 chase_symlinks() instead
284
d486b26f 285* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 286 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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287 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
288 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
289 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
290 depending on desired level of persistency.
291
292* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
293 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
294 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
295 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
296 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
297 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
298 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
299 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
300
301* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
302 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
303 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
304 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
305
306* make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
307 usr=
308
309* add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
310
311* ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
312 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
313
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314* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
315
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316* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
317 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
318 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
319 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
320 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
321 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
322 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
323 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 324 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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325 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
326 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
327 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
328 not unprivileged code.
329
330* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
331 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
332
333* allow embedding a signature blob for PCR hashes into separate section in
334 unified kernel binaries. This section should be picked up by sd-stub, and
335 passed in a file to the booted kernel (via initrd cpio, as usual). Usecase:
336 this way we can implement disk encryption policies that bind to specific
337 kernel PCR state, without breaking things on every kernel update. As long as
338 the kernel includes the PCR signature blob we should be good, as disk
339 encryption can then pass the signature to the TPM to unlock their secrets.
340 Why do this via a separate PE section? That's because the PCR state depends
341 on the measured kernel/initrd of course, thus we cannot put the signature
342 into the kernel/initrd itself, because that would require a time machine.
343 Hence we have to find a separate place. A simple solution is a PE section
344 of its own, because then it is next to the kernel and initrd which after all
345 are stored in PE sections of their own too. Building a unified kernel would
346 thus mean, calculating PCR values for the raw kernel image, and raw initrd
347 image, then signing those PCR values with a vendor key, and then combining
348 sd-stub, raw kernel image, raw initrd, and PCR signature into a unified
349 kernel image.
350
351* a new tool "systemd-trust" or so, that can calculate PCR hashes offline, and
352 optionally sign them. for that we should extend our syntax for specifying pcr
353 policies (e.g. the string like "4+7+9") so that it can also include explicit
354 hash values, i.e.
355 4=sha256:0ef149998289474e4bb31813edda6ad7f3c991b2d8dec6e8fe4db7a1f039f2d1+7=sha256:87428fc522803d31065e7bce3cf03fe475096631e5e07bbd7a0fde60c4cf25c7+9=sha256:0263829989b6fd954f72baaf2fc64bc2e2f01d692d4de72986ea808f6e99813f
356 and file names to calculate hashes from, i.e.
357 4=file:/boot/vmlinuz+7=file:/boot/initrd/+9=file:/etc/fstab"
358 The systemd-trust tool should then be able to resolve any "underspecifed"
359 form into the form with explicit hash values.
360
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361* maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
362 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
363 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
364 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
365
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366* tmpfiles: for f/F/w lines, if the argument columns is left unspecified, look
367 for a service credential named after the file path to write to, and load
368 contents to write from there. Usecase: provision arbitrary files from
369 credentials. Example use: with a line like "f /root/.ssh/authorized-keys
370 0644 root root" in a tmpfiles.d/ snippet add
371 LoadCredential=root.ssh.authorized-keys via drop-in to
372 systemd-tmpfiles.service, and then provision an SSH access key through
373 nspawn's --load-credential=, through qemu's fw_cfg, or via systemd-stub's
374 credntial pick-up. The latter is particularly interesting to implement SSH
375 access to an initrd.
376
377* systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential sysemd.homed.register
378 or so with JSON user records to automatically register if not registered yet.
379 Usecase: deploy a system, and add an account one can directly log into.
380
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381* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
382 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
383 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
384 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
385 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
386 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
387 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
388 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
389 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
390
391* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
392 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
393 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
394 order.
395
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396* TPM2: add auth policy for signed PCR values to make updates easy. i.e. do
397 what tpm2_policyauthorize tool does. To be truly useful scheme needs to be a
398 bit more elaborate though: policy probably must take some nvram based
399 generation counter into account that can only monotonically increase and can
400 be used to invalidate old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to
401 old signed PCR sets whenever they want. Usecase: encrypt the rootfs with LUKS
402 with a key that can only be unlocked via a pristine pre-built Fedora
403 kernel+initrd.
404
405* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
406 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
407 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
408
409* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
410 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
411 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
412 acquire.
413
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414* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
415 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
416 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
417 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 418 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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419 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
420 IN_IGNORED again)
421
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422* systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
423 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
424 virtio-fs.
425
426* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 427 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 428 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 429 on verification if in secureboot mode
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430 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
431 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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432 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
433 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
434 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
435 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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436 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
437 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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438 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
439 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 440 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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441 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
442 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
443 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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445* Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
446 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
447 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
448 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
449 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
450 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
451 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
452 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
453 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
454 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
455 service runtime logic quite substantially.
456
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457* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
458 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
459 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
460
598e4315 461* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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462 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
463 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
464 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
465 friends.)
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467* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
468 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
469 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 470 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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471 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
472 directly to host service manager.
473
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474* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
475 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
476 configure socket address.
477
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478* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
479 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
480
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481* sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
482 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
483 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
484
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485* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
486
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487* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
488 no api to query the device id
489
490* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
491 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
492 also be queried.
493
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494* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
495 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
496 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
497 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
498
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499* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
500 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
501 latter).
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503* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
504
505* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
506
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507* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
508 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
509 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
510 generated by GNU sha256sums.
511
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512* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
513 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
514 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
515 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
516 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
517 UEFI HTTP boot.
518
519* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
520 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
521 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
522 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
523 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
524 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
525 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
526 hence cheap for enumeration.
527
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528* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
529 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
530 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
531
532* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
533 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
534 pre-built kernels.
535
536* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
537
538* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
539 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
540 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
541 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
542 comprehensively.
543
544* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
545 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
546 words: show partition labels).
547
548* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
549 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
550 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
551 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
552
553* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
554 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
555 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 556 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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557 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
558 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
559 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
560
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561* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
562
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565* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
566
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567* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
568 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
569 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
570 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
571 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
572 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
573 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
574 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
575 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
576 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
577
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578* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
579 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
580 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
581 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
582 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
583 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
584 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
585 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
586 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
587 an NTP sync is acquired.
588
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590 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
591 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
592 call it at the end only
593
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594* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
595 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
596
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597* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
598 jobs, units
599
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600* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
601
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602* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
603 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
604
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605* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
606
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607* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
608 json package metadata, and use that when logging
609
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610* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
611
612* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
613 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
614
615* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
616 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
617
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618* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
619 internal clock.
620
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624* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
625 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
626
627* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
628 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
629 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
630 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
631
632* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
633 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
634
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635* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
636 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
637 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
638
639* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
640 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
641 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
642 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
643 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
644 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
645 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
646 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
647 thread:
648 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
649 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
650 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
651 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
652 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
653 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
654
655* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
656 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
657 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
658
659* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
660 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
661 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
662 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
663 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
664 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
665 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
666 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
667 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
668 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
669 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
670 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
671 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
672 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
673 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
674
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675* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
676 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
677 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
678 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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679 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
680 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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682* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
683 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
684 dep in the base OS image)
685
686* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 687 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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689* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
690 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
691 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
692 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
693 on-disk storage.
694
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695* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
696 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
697 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
698 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
699 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
700
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701* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
702 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
703 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
704 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
705 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
706 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
707 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
708
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709* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
710 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
711 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
712 externally and provide to us on demand only.
713
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714* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
715 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
716 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
717 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
718 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
719 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
720 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
721 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
722
723* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
724 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
725 one.
726
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727* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
728 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
729 into PCR 8)
730
731* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
732 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
733 authentication.
734
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735* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
736 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
737 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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740
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743* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
744 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
745 that images cannot be misused.
746
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178d3ff2 748 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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749 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
750 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
751 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
752
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753* sysupdate:
754 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
755 - support casync as download mechanism
756 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
757 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
758 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
759 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
760 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
761 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
762 override the host's update files.)
763 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
764 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
765 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
766 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
767
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768* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
769
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770* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
771 make dirs appear under right UID.
772
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773* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
774 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
775
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776* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
777 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
778 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
779 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
780 for doing that.
781
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783 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
784 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
785 already have it.
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787* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
788 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
789
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790* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
791 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
792 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
793 socket: connect() to it.
794
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795* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
796
797* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
798 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
799 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
800 /proc/self/fd/3
801
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802* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
803 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
804 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
805
806* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
807 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
808
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809* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
810 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
811
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812* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
813 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
814 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
815 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
816 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
817
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818* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
819
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821 - acquire from EFI variable?
822 - acquire via via ask-password?
823 - acquire creds via keyring?
824 - pass creds via keyring?
825 - pass creds via memfd?
826 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
827 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
828 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
829 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
830 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
831 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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832 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
833 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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835* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
836 firmware indicates there is one.
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838* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
839 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
840 override its hash
841
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842* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
843 and such
844
845* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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847* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
848
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850 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
851
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852* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
853 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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855* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
856
857* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
858 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
859
860* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
861 systemd-makefs.service instead.
862
863* cryptsetup:
864 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
865 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
866
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867* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
868 it happens to be set up alright already.
869
870* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
871
872* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
873 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
874 default.
875
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876* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
877 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
878 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
879 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
880 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
881
08d33656 882* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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884* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
885 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
886
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887* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
888 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
889 temporary dir.
890
891* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
892 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
893
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894* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
895 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
896
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897* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
898
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899* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
900
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901* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
902
903* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
904
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905* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
906 when it exits
907
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908* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
909 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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910 - p11-kit-trust (always)
911 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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913 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
914 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
915 since they are so basic and our defaults)
916 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
917 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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919* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
920 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
921 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
922
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923* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
924 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
925
a6e1018d 926* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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927 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
928 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
612d3a68 929 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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931* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
932
933* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
934 specific service
935
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936* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
937 exists and responds.
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939* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
940 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
941 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
942
91fc013f 943* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 944 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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7e8facb3 946* unify on openssl:
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947 - kill gnutls support in resolved
948 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
949 gnutls
950 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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952* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
953 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
954
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955* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
956 realname substr searches in varlink API
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958* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
959
2a4be3c5 960* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 961
f1eb0ccd 962* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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964* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
965 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
966 initrd had set.
967
173c7873 968* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 969 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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970 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
971 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
972 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
973 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
974
975* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
976 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
977 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
978
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979* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
980 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
981 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
982 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
983 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
984 source.
985
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986* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
987 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
988 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
989
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990* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
991
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992* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
993 the hibernation
994
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995* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
996 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
997 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
998 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
999 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1000 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1001 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1002 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1003 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1004 hibernation mode. (see
1005 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1006 section 10.2.2.8 and
1007 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1008 at the end).
1009
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1010* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1011 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1012
c6526b8d 1013* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1015* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1016 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1017 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1018 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1019 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1020 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1021 exec().
1022
1023* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1024
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1025* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1026 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1027
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1028* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1029 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1030
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1031* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1032 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1033 root.
1034
1035* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1036 is issued.
1037
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1038* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1039
1040* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1041
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1042* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1043 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1044 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1045
d238709c 1046* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1047 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1048 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1049
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1050* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1051
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1052* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1053 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1054
06898123 1055* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1056 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1057 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1058 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1059
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1060* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1061
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1062* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1063 log.c and sd-journal-send
1064
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1065* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1066
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1067* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1068
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1069* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1070 non-zero "tries done" count
1071
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1072* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1073 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1074 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1075 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1076 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1077 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1078 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1079 CODE_FILE.
1080
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1081* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1082 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1083 some explanatory text online.
1084
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1085* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1086
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1087* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1088 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1089
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1090* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1091 Specifically:
1092
1093 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1094 properly)
e83419d0 1095 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1096 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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1098* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1099 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1100
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1101* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1102 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1103 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1104 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1106* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1107
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1108* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1109
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1110* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1111 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1112
5da19043 1113* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1114 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1116* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1117 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1118 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1119 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1120 unlinked from any dir.
1121
bd1b3f75 1122* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1124* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1125
1126* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1127
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1128* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1129 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1130 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1131 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1132 should reflink the image file itself.
1133
1134 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1135 specific paths only like this.
1136
53c70a27 1137* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1138 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1139 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1140 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1141 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1142
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1143* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1144
1145* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1146
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1147* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1148 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1149
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1150* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1151 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1152 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1153 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1154 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1155 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1156 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1157 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1158
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1159* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1160 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1161
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1162* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1163
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1164* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1165 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1166
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1167* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1168 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1169
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1170* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1171 only when used. Add unit tests.
1172
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1173* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1174 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1175
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1176* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1177 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1178 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1179 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1180 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1181
899feb72 1182* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1184* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1185 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1186 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1187
5f7ecd61 1188* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1189
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1190* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1191 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1192
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1193* blog about fd store and restartable services
1194
1195* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1196
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1197* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1198 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1199
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1200* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1201 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1202 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1203 ID is available.
1204
1205* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1206 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1207 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1208
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1209* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1210 parameters
1211
63a185dc 1212* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1213 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1214 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1215 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1216 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1217 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1218 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1219
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1220* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1221 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1222
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1223* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1224 about it in the resource log message
1225
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1226* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1227 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1228 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1229
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1230* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1231 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1232
1233 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1234
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1235* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1236 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1237 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1238
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1239* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1240 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1241
1242* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1243 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1244 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1245 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1246 natural habitat.
1247
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1248* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1249
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1250* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1251 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1252 relative to the configured default value.
1253
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1254* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1255
04397464 1256* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1258* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1259
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1260* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1261
04397464 1262* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1263
04397464 1264* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1265
04397464 1266* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1267
8ce9b83a 1268* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1269
1270* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1271 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1272 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1273
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1274* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1275 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1276
e40a326c 1277* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1278
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1279* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1280 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1281 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1282 mapping to work.
1283
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1284* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1285
1286* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1287
1288* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1289
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1290* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1291 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1292
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1293* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1294 reload the unit file anyway
1295
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1296* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1297
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1298* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1299
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1300* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1301 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1302
f9bf1b8f 1303* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1304 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1305 specifications.
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1307* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1308
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1309* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1310
a2088fd0 1311* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1312 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1313 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1314 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1316* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1317
931bc195 1318* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1319
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1320* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1321 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1322 state.
41d6f3bf 1323 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1325* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1326 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1327 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1328 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1329 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1330
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1331* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1332
d2f81fb0 1333* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1334 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1335
0a86c1a9 1336* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1337 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1338
e031c227 1339* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1340 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1341
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1342* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1343
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1344* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1345 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1346
25e773ee 1347* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1348
720652b3 1349* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1350
720652b3 1351* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1352
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1353* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1354
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1355* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1356 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1357
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1358* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1359
9d6db739 1360* resolved:
9d6db739 1361 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1362 - service registration
1363 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1364 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1365 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1366 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1367 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1368 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1369 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1370 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1371
e25b5a8d 1372* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1373
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1374* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1375
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1376* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1377
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1378* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1379
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1380* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1381
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1382* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1383 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1384
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1385* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1386
6a3f892a 1387* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1388 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1389 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1390
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1391* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1392 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1393 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1394
f9bf1b8f 1395* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1396
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1397* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1398 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1399 for ReusePort=
1400
f38afcd0 1401* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1402 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1403 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1404 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1405 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1406 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1407 the hierarchies of child processes
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1408- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1409 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1410
f38afcd0 1411* transient units:
f38afcd0 1412 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1413
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1414* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1415
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1416* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1417
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1418* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1419
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1420* rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
1421
7f79cd71 1422* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1423
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1424* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1425 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1426 path anyway.
1427
04397464 1428* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1429
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1430* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1431
1432* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1433
07eabc2b 1434* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1435
07eabc2b 1436* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1437
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1438* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1439
1440* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1441 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1442 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1443
1444* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1445 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1446
1447* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1448
1449* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1450
1451* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1452
1453* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1454 needs to be auto-respawned?
1455
1456* pid1:
1457 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1458 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1459 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1460 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1461 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1462 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1463 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1464 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1465 - move PAM code into its own binary
1466 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1467 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1468 - Support --test based on current system state
1469 - If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
1470 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1471 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1472 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1473 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1474 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1475 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1476 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1477 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1478 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1479 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1480 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1481 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1482
1483* unit files:
1484 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1485 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1486 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1487 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1488 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1489 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1490 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1491 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1492 - introduce Type=pid-file
1493 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1494 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1495 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1496
1497* timer units:
63a185dc 1498 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1499 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1500
1501* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1502
1503* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1504
1505* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1506
1507* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1508
07eabc2b 1509* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1510
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1511* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1512
1513* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1514
fff87a35 1515* test/:
20d52ab6 1516 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1517
b5c03638 1518* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1519 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1520 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1521 destination.
1522
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1523* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1524 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1525
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1526* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1527
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1528* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1529 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1530 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1531
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1532* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1533 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1534
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1535* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1536 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1537 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1538 that automatically.
1539
e5ec62c5 1540* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1541
ccddd104 1542* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1543
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1544* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1545
356ce991 1546* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1547
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1548* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1549
1550* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1551
1552* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1553
1554* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1555
1556* sd-bus:
1557 - EBADSLT handling
1558 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1559 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1560 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
1561 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1562 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1563 - longer term: priority inheritance
1564 - dbus spec updates:
1565 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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LB
1566 - path escaping
1567 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1568
1569* sd-event
1570 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1571 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1572 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1573 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1574 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1575 here:
1576 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1577
1578* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1579 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1580
1581* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1582
1583* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1584
1585* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1586
1587* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1588 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1589 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1590 the host on invocation
1591
1592* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1593 reading/writing files
1594
1595* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1596
1597* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1598 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1599 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1600 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1601 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1602 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1603 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1604
1605* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1606 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1607 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1608 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1609 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1610 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1611 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1612
b44be3ec 1613* EFI:
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1614 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1615 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1616 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1617* bootctl
631427d6 1618 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1619
07eabc2b 1620* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1621
07eabc2b 1622* bootctl:
483091b0 1623 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1624 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1625 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1626 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1627
1628* kernel-install:
1629 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1630
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1631* logind:
1632 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1633 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1634 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1635 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
f38afcd0
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1636 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1637 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1638 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1639 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1640 needs setuid().
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1641 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1642 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1643 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1644 complete.
1645 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1646 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1647 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1648 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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DH
1649 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1650 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1651 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1652 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1653 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1654 relogins
77b19caf 1655 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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ZJS
1656 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1657 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1658 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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LB
1659
1660* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1661
1662* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1663 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1664 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1665
1666* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1667 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1668
b44be3ec 1669* journal:
57f2a947 1670 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1671 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1672 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1673 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1674 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1675 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1676 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1677 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1678 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1679 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1680 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1681 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1682 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
b44be3ec
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1683 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1684 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1685 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1686 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1687 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
1688 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1689 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec
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1690 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1691 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1692 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1693 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1694 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1695 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1696 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1697 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1698 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1699 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1700 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1701 to syslog when it works again.
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LP
1702 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1703 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1704 journals in.
1705 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1706 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1707 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1708 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1709 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1710 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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DH
1711 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1712 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1713 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1714 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1715 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1716 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1717 operation.
1718 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1719 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1720 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1721 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1722 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
e25b5a8d
DH
1723 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1724 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1725 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1726 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1727 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1728
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1729* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1730 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1731
1732* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1733 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1734 validated via TPM.
1735
1736* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1737 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1738
1739* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1740 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1741 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1742
1743* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1744 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1745 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1746 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1747 cgroup.
1748
1749* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1750 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1751 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1752 logging.
1753
1754* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1755
1756* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1757 from the SIGBUS handler
1758
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1759* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1760 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1761 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1762 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1763
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1764* homed:
1765 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1766 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1767 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1768 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1769 - create on activate?
1770 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1771 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1772 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1773 systemd --user is shut down.
1774 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1775 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1776 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1777 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1778 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1779 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1780 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1781 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1782 - query password from kernel keyring first
1783 - update even if record is "absent"
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1784 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1785 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1786 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1787 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1788 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1789 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1790 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1791 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1792 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1793 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1794 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1795 signature
1796 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1797 and insert a local signature instead.
1798 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1799 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1800 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1801 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1802 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1803 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1804 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1805 easily?
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1806 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1807 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1808 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1809 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1810 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1811 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1812 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1813 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1814 can easily set overall quota for all users
1815 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1816 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1817 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1818 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1819 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1820 large.
07eabc2b 1821
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1822* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1823 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1824 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1825
2df2bb1f 1826* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1828* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1829 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1830 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1831 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1832
1833* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1834
1835* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1836 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1837 something goes wrong on the way.
1838
1839* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1840
1841* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1842 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1843 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1844 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1845
1846* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1847 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1848 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1849 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1850 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1851 automatically.
1852
1853* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1854 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1855
1856* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1857 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1858 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1859 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1860 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1861 fails to apply use the latter.
1862
1863* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1864 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1865
1866* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1867 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1868
1869* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1870 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1871
1872* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1873 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1874
b44be3ec 1875* document:
8b8f2591 1876 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1877 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1878 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1879 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1880 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1881 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1882 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1883 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1884 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1885 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1886 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1887 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1889* systemctl:
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1891 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1892 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1893 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1894 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1895 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1896 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1897 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1898 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1899 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1900
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1902 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1903 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1904
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1905* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1906 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1907 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1908 output for them.
d2e83c23 1909
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1910* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1911 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1912 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1913
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1914* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1915 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1916 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1917
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1918* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1919 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1920
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1921* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1922 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1923 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1924 do, for example)
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1927 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1928 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1929 returning from the "systemctl stop".
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1931* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1932
1933* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1934
1935* unit install:
1936 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1937 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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b44be3ec 1939* nspawn:
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1941 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1942 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1943 from the kernel's logs.
1944 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1945 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1946 interface be missing
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1947 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1948 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1949 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1950 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1951 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1952 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1953 PID 1...
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1954 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1955 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1956
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1957* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1958 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1959 during startup.
1960
1961* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1962 so, freeze the payload too.
1963
1964* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1965 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1966 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1967 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1968 anything like that.
1969
1970* nspawn: support time namespaces
1971
1972* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1973 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1974
1975* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1976 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1977
1978* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1979 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1980 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1981
1982* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1983
1984* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1985
e25b5a8d 1986* machined:
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1987 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1988 removed or added to an existing machine
1989 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1990 difference host, via ssh
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1991 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1992 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1993 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1994 question
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1995 - "machinectl history"
1996 - "machinectl diff"
1997 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1998 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1999
abd55b16 2000* udev:
abd55b16 2001 - move to LGPL
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2003 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2004 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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2006* coredump:
2007 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2008 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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2010* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2011
f38afcd0 2012* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2013 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2014 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2015 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2016 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2017 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2018 - add --test mode
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2019 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2020 project quota
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2022* udev-link-config:
2023 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2024 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2025 on Path= matching
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88e4d1d7 2027* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2028 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2029 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2030
0a4b9a07 2031* networkd:
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2032 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2033 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2034 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2035 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2036 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2037 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2038 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2039 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2040 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2041 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2042 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2043 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2044 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2045 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2046 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2047 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2048 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2049 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
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2051* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2052
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2053* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2054
ac976532 2055* dhcp:
424a8732 2056 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
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2058* dhcp6:
2059 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2060 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2061 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2062 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2063 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2064 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2065 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2066 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2067 or interface down
2068 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2069 this behavior
4a77c53d 2070 - RouteTable= ?