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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=
24
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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118* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
119
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120Features:
121
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122* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
123
124* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
125 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
126 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
127 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
128 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
129 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
130 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
131 usual.
132
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133* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
134
135* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
136
137* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
138
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139* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
140 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
141 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
142 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
143 sockaddr.
144
145* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
146 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
147 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
148 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
149 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
150 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
151 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
152 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
153 try to use inode from there.
154
155* dissect too: add --with switch that will invoke a command with the image
156 mounted, and as current working directory. Terminate once done.
157
158* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
159 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
160
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161* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
162 extensions
163
164* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
165 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
166 for the root fs or /usr/.
167
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168* extend systemd-measure with an --append= mode when signing expected PCR
169 measurements. In this mode the tool should read an existing signature JSON
170 object (which primarily contains an array with the actual signature data),
171 and then append the new signature to it instead of writing out an entirely
172 JSON object. Usecase: it might make sense to to sign a UKI's expected PCRs
173 with different keys for different boot phases. i.e. use keypair X for signing
174 the expected PCR in the initrd boot phase and keypair Y for signing the
175 expected PCR in the main boot phase. Via the --append logic we could merge
176 these signatures into one object, and then include the result in the UKI.
177 Then, if you bind a LUKS volume to public key X it really only can be
178 unlocked during early boot, and you bind a LUKS volume to public key Y it
bcf04e9b 179 really only can be unlocked during later boot, and so on.
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181* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
182 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
183 combination thereof.
184
185* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
186 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
187 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
188 ahead of time.
189
190* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
191 aforementioned purpose.
192
193* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
194 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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196* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
197 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
198 to figure out:
199 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
200 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
201 subsequent boots?
202
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203* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
204 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
205 inspiration from IMA log)
206
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207* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
208 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
209 out to our tools.
210
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211* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
212 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
213 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
214 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
215 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
216 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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217 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
218 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
219 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
220 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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222* move discoverable partition spec and boot loader spec over to uapi group
223
224* maybe measure UUIDs of important mounted file systems (after mount, via the
225 new ioctls to query them) into PCR 15? Add "x-systemd.measure-pcr=" or so for
226 this that pulls in a per mount service?
227
228* measure /etc/machine-id during early boot into PCR 15?
229
230* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
231 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
232 used)
233
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234* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
235 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
236 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
237 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
238 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
239
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240* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
241 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
242 how PCR values we manage came to
243 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
244
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245* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
246 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
247 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
248 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 249 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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250 should win over vendor defaults.
251
252* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
253 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
254 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
255 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
256 command lines.
257
258* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
259 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
260 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
261
262* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
263 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
264
265* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
266 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
267 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
268 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
269 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
270 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
271
272* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
273 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
274 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
275
276* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
277
278* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
279 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
280 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
281 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
282
283* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
284 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
285 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
286 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
287 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
288 only one for each OS.
289
290* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
291 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 292 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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293 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
294 boot, for the next.
295
296* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
297 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
298
299* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
300 similar behind it, instead of http.
301
302* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
303 boot, or on first boot.
304
305* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
306 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
307
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308* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
309 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
310 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
311 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
312 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
313 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
314 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
315 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
316 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
317 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
318 until users are allowed to log in).
319
320* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
321 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
322
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323* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
324 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
325 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
326 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
327 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
328 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
329 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
330 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
331 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
332 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
333 automatically invalidated outside of it.
334
335* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
336 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
337 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
338 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
339 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 340 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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341 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
342 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
343 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
344 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
345 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
346 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
347 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
348 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
349 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
350 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
351 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
352 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
353 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
354 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
355 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
356
357* Always measure the LUKS rootfs volume key into PCR 15, and derive the machine
358 ID from it securely. This would then allow us to bind secrets a specific
359 system securely.
360
361* nspawn: maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image=
362 hash into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and
363 partake in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside
364 of control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
365 host TPM.
366
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367* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
368 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
369
370* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
371 instead of manual blocking.
372
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373* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
374 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
375
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376* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
377 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
378 supplied password.
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380* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
381 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
382 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
383 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
384
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385* systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
386 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
387 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
388 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
389
390* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
391 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
392 automatically derived from --private-key=).
393
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394* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
395
396* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
397
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398* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
399 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
400 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
401
402* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
403 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
404 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
405 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
406 partition with a portable service partition in one.
407
408* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
409 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
410 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
411 modules
412
413* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
414 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
415 a new name with a built-in config?
416
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417* gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
418 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
419
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420* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
421 maybe on kernel command line:
422 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
423 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
424
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425* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
426 hash type, etc)
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428* chase_symlinks(): take inspiraton from path_extract_filename() and return
429 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
430
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431* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
432 but final node is not a directory
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434* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
435 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
436
437* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
438 non-VFAT fs is used.
439
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440* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
441
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442* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
443 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
444
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445* pick up creds from EFI vars
446
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447* sd-stub/sd-boot: write RNG seed to LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID config
448 table as well. (and possibly drop our efi var). Current kernels will pick up
449 the seed from there already, if EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL is not implemented by
450 firmware.
451
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452* sd-boot: include domain specific hash string in hash function for random seed
453 plus sizes of everything. also include DMI/SMBIOS blob
454
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455* sd-stub: invoke random seed logic the same way as in sd-boot, except if
456 random seed EFI variable is already set. That way, the variable set will be
457 set in all cases: if you just use sd-stub, or just sd-boot, or both.
458
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459* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
460 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
461 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
462 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
463 affect PCR values.
464
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465* systemd-measure tool:
466 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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468* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
469 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
470
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471* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
472 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
473
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474* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
475 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
476
477* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
478 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
479
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480* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
481 maybe some other stuff and boots it
482
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484 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
485 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
486 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
487 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
488 use it.
489
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490* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
491 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
492
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493* PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
494 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
495 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
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498 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
499 what it was signed.
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502 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
503 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
504 be safely written to disk, then.
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507 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
508 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
509 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
510 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
511 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
512 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
513 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
514 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
515 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
516 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
517 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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520 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
521
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524 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
525 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
526 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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529 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
530 via the credentials logic.
531 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
532 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
533 integrity-generator)
534 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
535 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
536 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
537 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
538 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
539 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
540 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
541 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
542 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
543 file system paths to enable on start.
544 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
545 usr=
546 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
547 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
548 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
549 account one can directly log into.
550 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
551 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
552 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
553 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
554 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
555 pre-built kernels.
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558 runtime state. Then, expose it:
559
560 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
561 about the unit.
562 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
563 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
564 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
565 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
566 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
567 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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570 for this on dbus)
571
572* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
573 what to do if support ended
574
575* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
576 login time, á la motd
577
e1b45a75 578* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 579 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 580 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 581 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 582 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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585 initrd transition. Specifically:
586 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
587 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
588 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
589
590* implement varlink introspection
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593 chase_symlinks() instead
594
d486b26f 595* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 596 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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598 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
599 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
600 depending on desired level of persistency.
601
602* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
603 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
604 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
605 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
606 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
607 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
608 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
609 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
610
611* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
612 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
613 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
614 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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617
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621 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
622 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
623 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
624 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
625 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
626 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
627 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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630 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
631 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
632 not unprivileged code.
633
634* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
635 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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638 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
639 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
640 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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643 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
644 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
645 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
646 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
647 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
648 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
649 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
650 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
651
652* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
653 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
654 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
655 order.
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658 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
659 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
660 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
661 whenever they want.
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663* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
664 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
665 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
666
667* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
668 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
669 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
670 acquire.
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673 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
674 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
675 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 676 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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678 IN_IGNORED again)
679
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681 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
682 virtio-fs.
683
684* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 685 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 686 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 687 on verification if in secureboot mode
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689 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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691 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
692 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
693 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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695 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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697 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 698 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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700 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
701 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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704 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
705 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
706 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
707 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
708 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
709 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
710 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
711 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
712 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
713 service runtime logic quite substantially.
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716 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
717 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
718
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721 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
722 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
723 friends.)
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726 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
727 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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730 directly to host service manager.
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733 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
734 configure socket address.
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737 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
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740 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
741 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
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746 no api to query the device id
747
748* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
749 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
750 also be queried.
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753 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
754 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
755 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
756
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757* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
758 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
759 latter).
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761* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
762
763* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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766 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
767 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
768 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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771 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
772 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
773 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
774 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
775 UEFI HTTP boot.
776
777* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
778 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
779 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
780 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
781 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
782 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
783 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
784 hence cheap for enumeration.
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787
788* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
789 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
790 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
791 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
792 comprehensively.
793
794* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
795 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
796 words: show partition labels).
797
798* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
799 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
800 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
801 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
802
803* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
804 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
805 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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808 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
809 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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812
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815* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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818 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
819 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
820 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
821 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
822 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
823 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
824 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
825 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
826 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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829 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
830 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
831 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
832 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
833 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
834 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
835 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
836 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
837 an NTP sync is acquired.
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840 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
841 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
842 call it at the end only
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845 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
846
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848 jobs, units
849
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852 userspace)
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857 json package metadata, and use that when logging
858
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860
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863
864* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
865 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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868 internal clock.
869
1ccfb792 870* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
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874 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
875
876* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
877 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
878 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
879 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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881* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
882 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
883 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
884
885* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
886 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
887 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
888 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
889 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
890 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
891 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
892 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
893 thread:
894 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
895 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
896 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
897 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
898 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
899 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
900
901* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
902 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
903 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
904
905* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
906 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
907 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
908 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
909 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
910 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
911 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
912 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
913 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
914 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
915 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
916 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
917 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
918 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
919 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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922 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
923 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
924 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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926 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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928* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
929 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
930 dep in the base OS image)
931
932* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
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935* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
936 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
937 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
938 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
939 on-disk storage.
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942 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
943 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
944 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
945 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
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948 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
949 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
950 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
951 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
952 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
953 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
954
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955* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
956 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
957 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
958 externally and provide to us on demand only.
959
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960* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
961 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
962 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
963 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
964 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
965 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
966 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
967 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
968
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969 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
970 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
971 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 972 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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973 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
974 take --image= that take the same short string.
975
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976* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
977 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
978 one.
979
3fc0688d 980* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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981 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
982 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
983 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
984 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
985 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
986 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
987 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
988 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
989 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
990 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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991
992* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
993 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
994 authentication.
995
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996* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
997 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
998 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1000* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1001
63a185dc 1002* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1004* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1005 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1006 that images cannot be misused.
1007
aca8ecc3 1008* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1009 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1010 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1011 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1012 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1013
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1014* sysupdate:
1015 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1016 - support casync as download mechanism
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1017 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1018 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1019 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1020 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1021 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1022 override the host's update files.)
1023 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1024 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1025 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1026 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1027
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1028* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1029
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1030* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1031 make dirs appear under right UID.
1032
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1033* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1034 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1035
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1036* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1037 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1038 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1039 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1040 for doing that.
1041
24063ba1 1042* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1043 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1044 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1045 already have it.
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1047* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1048 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1049
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1050* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
1051 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
1052 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
1053 socket: connect() to it.
1054
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1055* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1056
1057* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1058 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1059 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1060 /proc/self/fd/3
1061
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1062* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1063 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1064 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1065
1066* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1067 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1068
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1069* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1070 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1071
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1072* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1073 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1074 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1075 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1076 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1077
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1078* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1079
199b097d 1080* credentials system:
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1081 - acquire from EFI variable?
1082 - acquire via via ask-password?
1083 - acquire creds via keyring?
1084 - pass creds via keyring?
1085 - pass creds via memfd?
1086 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1087 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1088 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1089 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1090 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1091 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1092 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1093 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
199b097d 1094
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1095* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1096 firmware indicates there is one.
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1098* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1099 and such
1100
1101* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1102
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1103* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1104
7d7c75f1 1105* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1106 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1107
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1108* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1109 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1110
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1111* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1112
1113* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1114 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1115
1116* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1117 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1118
1119* cryptsetup:
1120 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1121 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1122
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1123* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1124 it happens to be set up alright already.
1125
1126* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1127
1128* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1129 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1130 default.
1131
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1132* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1133 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1134 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1135 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1136 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1137
08d33656 1138* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1139
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1140* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1141 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1142
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1143* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1144 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1145 temporary dir.
1146
1147* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1148 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1149
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1150* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1151 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1152
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1153* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1154
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1155* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1156
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1157* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1158
1159* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1160
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1161* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1162 when it exits
1163
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1164* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1165 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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1166 - p11-kit-trust (always)
1167 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1168 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1169 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1170 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1171 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1172 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1173 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1174
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1175* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1176 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1177 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1178
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1179* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1180 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1181
a6e1018d 1182* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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1183 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
1184 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
612d3a68 1185 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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1187* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1188
1189* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1190 specific service
1191
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1192* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1193 exists and responds.
1194
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1195* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1196 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1197 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1198
91fc013f 1199* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1200 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1201
7e8facb3 1202* unify on openssl:
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1203 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1204 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1205 gnutls
1206 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
492f91d8 1207
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1208* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1209 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1210
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1211* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1212 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1213
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1214* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1215
2a4be3c5 1216* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1217
f1eb0ccd 1218* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1219
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1220* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1221 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1222 initrd had set.
1223
173c7873 1224* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1225 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1226 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1227 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1228 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1229 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1230
1231* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1232 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1233 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1234
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1235* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1236 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1237 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1238 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1239 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1240 source.
1241
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1242* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1243 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1244 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1245
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1246* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1247
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1248* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1249 the hibernation
1250
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1251* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1252 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1253 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1254 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1255 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1256 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1257 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1258 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1259 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1260 hibernation mode. (see
1261 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1262 section 10.2.2.8 and
1263 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1264 at the end).
1265
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1266* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1267 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1268
c6526b8d 1269* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1270
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1271* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1272 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1273 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1274 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1275 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1276 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1277 exec().
1278
1279* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1280
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1281* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1282 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1283
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1284* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1285 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1286
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1287* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1288 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1289 root.
1290
1291* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1292 is issued.
1293
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1294* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1295
1296* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1297
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1298* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1299 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1300 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1301
d238709c 1302* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1303 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1304 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1305
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1306* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1307
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1308* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1309 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1310
06898123 1311* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1312 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1313 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1314 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1315
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1316* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1317
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1318* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1319 log.c and sd-journal-send
1320
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1321* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1322
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1323* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1324
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1325* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1326 non-zero "tries done" count
1327
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1328* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1329 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1330 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1331 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1332 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1333 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1334 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1335 CODE_FILE.
1336
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1337* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1338 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1339 some explanatory text online.
1340
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1341* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1342
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1343* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1344 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1345
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1346* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1347 Specifically:
1348
1349 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1350 properly)
e83419d0 1351 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1352 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1353
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1354* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1355 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1356
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1357* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1358 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1359 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1360 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1361
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1362* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1363
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1364* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1365
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1366* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1367 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1368
5da19043 1369* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1370 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1372* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1373 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1374 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1375 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1376 unlinked from any dir.
1377
bd1b3f75 1378* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1380* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1381
1382* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1383
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1384* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1385 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1386 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1387 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1388 should reflink the image file itself.
1389
1390 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1391 specific paths only like this.
1392
53c70a27 1393* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1394 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1395 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1396 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1397 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1398
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1399* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1400
1401* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1402
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1403* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1404 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1405
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1406* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1407 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1408 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1409 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1410 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1411 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1412 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1413 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1414
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1415* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1416 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1417
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1418* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1419
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1420* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1421 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1422
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1423* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1424 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1425
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1426* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1427 only when used. Add unit tests.
1428
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1429* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1430 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1431
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1432* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1433 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1434 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1435 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1436 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1437
899feb72 1438* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1440* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1441 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1442 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1443
5f7ecd61 1444* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1445
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1446* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1447 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1448
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1449* blog about fd store and restartable services
1450
1451* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1452
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1453* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1454 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1455
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1456* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1457 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1458 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1459 ID is available.
1460
1461* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1462 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1463 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1464
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1465* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1466 parameters
1467
63a185dc 1468* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1469 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1470 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1471 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1472 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1473 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1474 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1475
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1476* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1477 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1478
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1479* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1480 about it in the resource log message
1481
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1482* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1483 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1484 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1485
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1486* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1487 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1488
1489 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1490
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1491* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1492 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1493 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1494
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1495* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1496 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1497
1498* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1499 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1500 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1501 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1502 natural habitat.
1503
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1504* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1505 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1506
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1507* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1508 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1509 relative to the configured default value.
1510
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1511* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1512
04397464 1513* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1515* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1516
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1517* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1518
04397464 1519* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1520
04397464 1521* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1522
04397464 1523* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1524
8ce9b83a 1525* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1526
1527* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1528 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1529 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1530
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1531* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1532 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1533
e40a326c 1534* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1535
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1536* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1537 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1538 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1539 mapping to work.
1540
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1541* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1542
1543* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1544
1545* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1546
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1547* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1548 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1549
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1550* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1551 reload the unit file anyway
1552
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1553* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1554
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1555* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1556
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1557* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1558 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1559
f9bf1b8f 1560* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1561 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1562 specifications.
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1564* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1565
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1566* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1567
a2088fd0 1568* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1569 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1570 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1571 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1573* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1574
931bc195 1575* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1576
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1577* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1578 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1579 state.
41d6f3bf 1580 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1582* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1583 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1584 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1585 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1586 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1587
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1588* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1589
d2f81fb0 1590* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1591 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1592
0a86c1a9 1593* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1594 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1595
e031c227 1596* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1597 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1598
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1599* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1600
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1601* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1602 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1603
25e773ee 1604* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1605
720652b3 1606* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1607
720652b3 1608* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1609
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1610* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1611
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1612* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1613 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1614
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1615* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1616
9d6db739 1617* resolved:
9d6db739 1618 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1619 - service registration
1620 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1621 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1622 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1623 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1624 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1625 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1626 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1627 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1628
e25b5a8d 1629* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1630
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1631* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1632
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1633* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1634
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1635* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1636
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1637* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1638
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1639* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1640 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1641
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1642* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1643
6a3f892a 1644* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1645 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1646 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1647
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1648* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1649 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1650 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1651
f9bf1b8f 1652* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1653
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1654* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1655 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1656 for ReusePort=
1657
f38afcd0 1658* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1659 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1660 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1661 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1662 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1663 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1664 the hierarchies of child processes
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1665- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1666 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1667
f38afcd0 1668* transient units:
f38afcd0 1669 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1670
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1671* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1672
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1673* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1674
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1675* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1676
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1677* 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
1678
7f79cd71 1679* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1680
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1681* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1682 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1683 path anyway.
1684
04397464 1685* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1686
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1687* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1688
1689* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1690
07eabc2b 1691* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1692
07eabc2b 1693* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1694
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1695* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1696
1697* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1698 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1699 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1700
1701* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1702 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1703
1704* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1705
1706* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1707
1708* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1709
1710* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1711 needs to be auto-respawned?
1712
1713* pid1:
1714 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1715 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1716 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1717 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1718 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1719 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1720 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1721 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1722 - move PAM code into its own binary
1723 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1724 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1725 - Support --test based on current system state
1726 - 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().
1727 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1728 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1729 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1730 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1731 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1732 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1733 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1734 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1735 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1736 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1737 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1738 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1739
1740* unit files:
1741 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1742 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1743 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1744 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1745 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1746 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1747 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1748 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1749 - introduce Type=pid-file
1750 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1751 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1752 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1753
1754* timer units:
63a185dc 1755 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1756 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1757
1758* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1759
1760* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1761
1762* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1763
1764* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1765
07eabc2b 1766* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1767
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1768* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1769
1770* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1771
fff87a35 1772* test/:
20d52ab6 1773 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1774
b5c03638 1775* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1776 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1777 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1778 destination.
1779
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1780* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1781 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1782
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1783* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1784
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1785* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1786 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1787 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1788
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1789* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1790 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1791
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1792* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1793 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1794 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1795 that automatically.
1796
e5ec62c5 1797* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1798
ccddd104 1799* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1800
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1801* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1802
356ce991 1803* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1804
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1805* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1806
1807* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1808
1809* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1810
1811* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1812
1813* sd-bus:
1814 - EBADSLT handling
1815 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1816 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1817 - 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
1818 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1819 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1820 - longer term: priority inheritance
1821 - dbus spec updates:
1822 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1823 - path escaping
1824 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1825
1826* sd-event
1827 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1828 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1829 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1830 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1831 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1832 here:
1833 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1834
1835* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1836 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1837
1838* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1839
1840* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1841
1842* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1843
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1844* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1845 reading/writing files
1846
1847* 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
1848
b44be3ec 1849* EFI:
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1850 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1851 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1852 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1853* bootctl
631427d6 1854 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1855
07eabc2b 1856* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1857
07eabc2b 1858* bootctl:
483091b0 1859 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1860 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1861 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1862
1863* kernel-install:
1864 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1865
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1866* logind:
1867 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1868 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1869 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1870 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1871 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1872 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1873 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1874 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1875 needs setuid().
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1876 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1877 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1878 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1879 complete.
1880 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1881 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1882 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1883 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1884 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1885 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1886 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1887 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1888 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1889 relogins
77b19caf 1890 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1891 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1892 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1893 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1894
1895* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1896
1897* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1898 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1899 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1900
1901* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1902 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1903
b44be3ec 1904* journal:
57f2a947 1905 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1906 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1907 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1908 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1909 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1910 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1911 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1912 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1913 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1914 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1915 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1916 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1917 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1918 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1919 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1920 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1921 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1922 - 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.
1923 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1924 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1925 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1926 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1927 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1928 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1929 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1930 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1931 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1932 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1933 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1934 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1935 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1936 to syslog when it works again.
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1937 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1938 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1939 journals in.
1940 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1941 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1942 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1943 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1944 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1945 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1946 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1947 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1948 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1949 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1950 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1951 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1952 operation.
1953 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1954 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1955 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1956 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1957 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1958 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1959 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1960 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1961 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1962 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1963
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1964* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1965 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1966
1967* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1968 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1969 validated via TPM.
1970
1971* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1972 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1973
1974* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1975 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1976 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1977
1978* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1979 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1980 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1981 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1982 cgroup.
1983
1984* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1985 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1986 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1987 logging.
1988
1989* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1990
1991* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1992 from the SIGBUS handler
1993
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1995 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1996 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1997 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1998
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1999* homed:
2000 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2001 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2002 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2003 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2004 - create on activate?
2005 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2006 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2007 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2008 systemd --user is shut down.
2009 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2010 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2011 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2012 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2013 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2014 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2015 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2016 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2017 - query password from kernel keyring first
2018 - update even if record is "absent"
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2019 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2020 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2021 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2022 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2023 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2024 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2025 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2026 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2027 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2028 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2029 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2030 signature
2031 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2032 and insert a local signature instead.
2033 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2034 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2035 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2036 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2037 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2038 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2039 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2040 easily?
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2041 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2042 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2043 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2044 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2045 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2046 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2047 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2048 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2049 can easily set overall quota for all users
2050 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2051 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2052 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2053 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2054 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2055 large.
07eabc2b 2056
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2057* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2058 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2059 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2060
2df2bb1f 2061* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2062
2063* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2064 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2065 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2066 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2067
2068* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2069
2070* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2071 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2072 something goes wrong on the way.
2073
2074* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2075
2076* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2077 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2078 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2079 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2080
2081* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2082 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2083 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2084 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2085 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2086 automatically.
2087
2088* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2089 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2090
2091* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2092 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2093 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2094 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2095 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2096 fails to apply use the latter.
2097
2098* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2099 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2100
2101* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2102 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2103
2104* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2105 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2106 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2107
2108* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2109 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2110
92e72028 2111* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2112 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2113 during boot.
2114
2115* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2116
b44be3ec 2117* document:
8b8f2591 2118 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2119 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2120 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2121 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2122 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2123 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2124 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2125 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2126 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2127 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2128 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2129 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2130
2131* systemctl:
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2132 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2133 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2134 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2135 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2136 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2137 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2138 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2139 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2140 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2141 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2142
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2143* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2144 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2145 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2146
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2147* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2148 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2149 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2150 output for them.
d2e83c23 2151
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2152* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2153 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2154 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2155
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2156* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2157 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2158 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2159
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2160* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2161 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2162
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2163* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2164 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2165 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2166 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2167
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2168* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2169 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2170 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2171 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2172
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2173* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2174
2175* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2176
2177* unit install:
2178 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2179 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2180
b44be3ec 2181* nspawn:
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2182 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2183 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2184 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2185 from the kernel's logs.
2186 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2187 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2188 interface be missing
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2189 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2190 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2191 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2192 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2193 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2194 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2195 PID 1...
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2196 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2197 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 2198
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2199* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
2200 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
2201 during startup.
2202
2203* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
2204 so, freeze the payload too.
2205
2206* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2207 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2208 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2209 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2210 anything like that.
2211
2212* nspawn: support time namespaces
2213
2214* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
2215 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2216
2217* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
2218 fallback in "machinectl shell"
2219
2220* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
2221 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
2222 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2223
2224* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
2225
2226* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2227
e25b5a8d 2228* machined:
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2229 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2230 removed or added to an existing machine
2231 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2232 difference host, via ssh
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2233 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2234 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2235 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2236 question
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2237 - "machinectl history"
2238 - "machinectl diff"
2239 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2240 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2241
abd55b16 2242* udev:
abd55b16 2243 - move to LGPL
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2244 - kill scsi_id
2245 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2246 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2247 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2248 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2249
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2250* coredump:
2251 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2252 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2253 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2254
2255* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2256
f38afcd0 2257* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2258 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2259 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2260 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2261 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2262 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2263 - add --test mode
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2264 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2265 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2266 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
1258097c 2267
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2268* udev-link-config:
2269 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2270 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2271 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2272
88e4d1d7 2273* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2274 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2275 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2276
0a4b9a07 2277* networkd:
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2278 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2279 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2280 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2281 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2282 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2283 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2284 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2285 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2286 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2287 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2288 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2289 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2290 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2291 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2292 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2293 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2294 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2295 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2296
07eabc2b
LB
2297* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2298
d5e172d2
ZJS
2299* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2300
ac976532 2301* dhcp:
424a8732 2302 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2303
37d8b536
PF
2304* dhcp6:
2305 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2306 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2307 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2308 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2309 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2310 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2311 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2312 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2313 or interface down
2314 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2315 this behavior
4a77c53d 2316 - RouteTable= ?