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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.
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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 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
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78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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94* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
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99* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 101 is only supported for such old kernels.
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103* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
9eb41aab 106* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
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112* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
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115* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
3345802c 118* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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121* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
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123* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
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127* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
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130Features:
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132* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
133 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
134 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
135
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136* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
137 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
138 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
139
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140* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
141 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
142 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
143 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
144 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
145 signed by U.
146 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
147 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
148 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
149 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
150 next boot
151 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
152 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
153 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
154 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
155 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
156 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
157 later boot.
158 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
159 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
160 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
161 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
162 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
163
164* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
165 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
166 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
167 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
168 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
169 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
170 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
171 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
172 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
173 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
174 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
175 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
176 access.
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178* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
179 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
180 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
181 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
182 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 183 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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184 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
185 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
186 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
187 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
188
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189* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
190 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
191
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192* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
193 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
194 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
195 for all umh processes.
196
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197* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
198 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
199
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200* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
201 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
202 resize.
203
204* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
205 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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207* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
208 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
209 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
210 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
211 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
212 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
213
214* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
215 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
30fd9a2d 216 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
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217 records, to be able to order them.
218
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219* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
220 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
221 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
222 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
223 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
224 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
225 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
226 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
227 system actually reset.
228
229* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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230 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
231 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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232
233* systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
234 image policy by default
235
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236* systemd-dissect: maybe add "--attach" and "--detach" verbs which
237 synchronously attach a DDI to a loopback device but not actually mount them.
238
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239* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
240 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
241 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
242 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
243
4cb8a25b 244* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 245 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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246 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
247 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
248
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249* fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
250 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
251 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
252 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
253 which isn't quite the same.
254
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255* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
256 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
257 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
258 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
259 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
260
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261* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
262 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
263 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
264 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
265 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
266
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267* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
268
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269* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
270 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
271 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
272 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
273
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274* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
275
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276* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
277 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
278
279* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
280 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
281 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
282
6d040d84 283* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 284 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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286* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
287 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
288 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
289 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
290 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
291 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
292 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
293 usual.
294
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295* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
296
297* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
298
299* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
300
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301* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
302 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
303 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
304 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
305 sockaddr.
306
307* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
308 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
309 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
310 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
311 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
312 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
313 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
314 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
315 try to use inode from there.
316
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317* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
318 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
319
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320* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
321 extensions
322
323* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
324 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
325 for the root fs or /usr/.
326
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327* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
328 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
329 combination thereof.
330
331* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
332 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
333 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
334 ahead of time.
335
336* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
337 aforementioned purpose.
338
339* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
340 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
341
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342* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
343 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
344 to figure out:
345 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
346 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
347 subsequent boots?
348
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349* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
350 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
351 inspiration from IMA log)
352
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353* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
354 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
355 out to our tools.
356
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357* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
358 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
359 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
360 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
361 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
362 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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363 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
364 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
365 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
366 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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368* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
369 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
370 used)
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372* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
373 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
374 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
375 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
376 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
377
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378* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
379 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
380 how PCR values we manage came to
381 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
382
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383* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
384 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
385 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
386 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 387 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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388 should win over vendor defaults.
389
390* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
391 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
392 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
393 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
394 command lines.
395
396* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
397 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
398 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
399
400* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
401 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
402
403* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
404 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
405 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
406 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
407 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
408 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
409
410* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
411 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
412 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
413
414* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
415
416* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
417 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
418 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
419 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
420
421* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
422 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
423 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
424 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
425 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
426 only one for each OS.
427
428* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
429 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 430 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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431 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
432 boot, for the next.
433
434* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
435 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
436
437* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
438 similar behind it, instead of http.
439
440* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
441 boot, or on first boot.
442
443* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
444 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
445
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446* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
447 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
448 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
449 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
450 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
451 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
452 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
453 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
454 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
455 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
456 until users are allowed to log in).
457
458* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
459 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
460
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461* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
462 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
463 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
464 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
465 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
466 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
467 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
468 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
469 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
470 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
471 automatically invalidated outside of it.
472
473* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
474 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
475 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
476 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
477 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 478 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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479 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
480 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
481 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
482 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
483 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
484 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
485 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
486 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
487 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
488 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
489 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
490 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
491 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
492 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
493 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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496 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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499 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
500
501* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
502 instead of manual blocking.
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504* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
505 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
506
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508 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
509 supplied password.
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512 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
513 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
514 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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517 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
518 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
519 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
520
521* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
522 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
523 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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525* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
526 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
527 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
528
529* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
530 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
531 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
532 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
533 partition with a portable service partition in one.
534
535* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
536 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
537 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
538 modules
539
540* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
541 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
542 a new name with a built-in config?
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545 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
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548 maybe on kernel command line:
549 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
550 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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553 hash type, etc)
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557
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558* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
559 but final node is not a directory
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561* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
562 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
563
564* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
565 non-VFAT fs is used.
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568
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570 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
571
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575 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
576 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
577 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
578 affect PCR values.
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581 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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584 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
585
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586* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
587 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
588
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589* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
590 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
591
592* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
593 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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596 maybe some other stuff and boots it
597
e1b45a75 598* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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600 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
601 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
602 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
603 use it.
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605* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
606 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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609 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
610 what it was signed.
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613 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
614 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
615 be safely written to disk, then.
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618 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
619 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
620 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
621 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
622 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
623 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
624 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
625 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
626 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
627 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
628 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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631 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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634 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
635 via the credentials logic.
636 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
637 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
638 integrity-generator)
639 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
640 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
641 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
642 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
643 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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645 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
646 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
647 file system paths to enable on start.
648 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
649 usr=
650 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
651 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
652 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
653 account one can directly log into.
654 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
655 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
656 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
657 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
658 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
659 pre-built kernels.
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662 runtime state. Then, expose it:
663
664 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
665 about the unit.
666 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
667 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
668 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
669 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
670 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
671 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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674 what to do if support ended
675
676* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
677 login time, á la motd
678
e1b45a75 679* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 680 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 681 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 682 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 683 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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686 initrd transition. Specifically:
687 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
688 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
689 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
690
691* implement varlink introspection
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694 chase_symlinks() instead
695
d486b26f 696* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 697 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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699 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
700 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
701 depending on desired level of persistency.
702
703* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
704 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 705 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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707 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
708 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
709 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
710 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
711
712* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
713 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
714 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
715 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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718
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722 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
723 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
724 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
725 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
726 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
727 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
728 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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731 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
732 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
733 not unprivileged code.
734
735* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
736 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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739 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
740 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
741 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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744 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
745 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
746 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 747 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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749 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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751 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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753* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
754 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
755 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
756 order.
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758* TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
759 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
760 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
761 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
762 whenever they want.
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764* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
765 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
766 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
767
768* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
769 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
770 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
771 acquire.
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774 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
775 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
776 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 777 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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778 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
779 IN_IGNORED again)
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782 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
783 virtio-fs.
784
785* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 786 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 787 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 788 on verification if in secureboot mode
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790 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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792 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
793 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
794 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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795 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
796 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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798 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 799 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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801 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
802 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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805 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
806 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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808* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
809 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
810 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
811
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814 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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817 directly to host service manager.
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820 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
821 configure socket address.
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826 no api to query the device id
827
828* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
829 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
830 also be queried.
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833 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
834 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
835 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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838 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
839 latter).
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841* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
842
843* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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846 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
847 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
848 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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851 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
852 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
853 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
854 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
855 UEFI HTTP boot.
856
857* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
858 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
859 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
860 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
861 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
862 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
863 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
864 hence cheap for enumeration.
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867
868* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
869 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
870 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
871 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
872 comprehensively.
873
874* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
875 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
876 words: show partition labels).
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879 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
880 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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883 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
884 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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887
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890* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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893 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
894 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
895 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
896 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
897 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
898 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
899 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
900 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
901 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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904 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
905 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
906 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
907 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
908 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
909 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
910 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
911 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
912 an NTP sync is acquired.
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915 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
916 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
917 call it at the end only
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920 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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923 jobs, units
924
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927 userspace)
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932 json package metadata, and use that when logging
933
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936
937* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
938 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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940* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
941 internal clock.
942
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943* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
944 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
945
946* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
947 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
948 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
949 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
950
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951* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
952 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
953 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
954
955* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
956 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
957 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
958 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
959 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
960 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
961 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
962 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
963 thread:
964 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
965 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
966 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
967 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
968 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
969 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
970
971* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
972 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
973 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
974
975* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
976 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
977 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
978 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
979 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
980 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
981 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
982 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
983 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
984 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
985 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
986 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
987 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
988 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
989 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
990
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991* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
992 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
993 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
994 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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995 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
996 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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998* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 999 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1000 dep in the base OS image)
1001
1002* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 1003 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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1005* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1006 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1007 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1008 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1009 on-disk storage.
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1012 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1013 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1014 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1015 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1016
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1017* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1018 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1019 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1021* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1022 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1023 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1024 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1025 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1026 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1027 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1028
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1029* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1030 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1031 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1032 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1033
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1034* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1035 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1036 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1037 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1038 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1039 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1040 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1041 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1042
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1043 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1044 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1045 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 1046 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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1047 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1048 take --image= that take the same short string.
1049
3fc0688d 1050* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1051 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1052 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1053 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1054 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1055 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1056 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1057 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1058 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1059 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1060 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1062* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1063 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1064 authentication.
1065
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1066* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1067 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1068 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1071
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1074* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1075 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1076 that images cannot be misused.
1077
aca8ecc3 1078* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1079 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1080 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1081 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1082 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1083
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1084* sysupdate:
1085 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1086 - support casync as download mechanism
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1087 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1088 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1089 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1090 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1091 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1092 override the host's update files.)
1093 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1094 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1095 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1096 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1097
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1098* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1099
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1100* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1101 make dirs appear under right UID.
1102
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1103* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1104 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1105
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1106* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1107 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1108 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1109 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1110 for doing that.
1111
24063ba1 1112* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1113 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1114 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1115 already have it.
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1117* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1118 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1119
1c904337 1120* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1122* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1123 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1124 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1125 /proc/self/fd/3
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1127* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1128 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1129 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1130
1131* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1132 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1133
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1134* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1135 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1136
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1137* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1138 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1139 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1140 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1141 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1143* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1144
199b097d 1145* credentials system:
199b097d 1146 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1147 - acquire via ask-password?
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1148 - acquire creds via keyring?
1149 - pass creds via keyring?
1150 - pass creds via memfd?
1151 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1152 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1153 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1154 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1155 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1156 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1157 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1158 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1160* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1161 firmware indicates there is one.
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1163* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1164 and such
1165
1166* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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1168* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1169
7d7c75f1 1170* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1171 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1172
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1173* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1174 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1175
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1176* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1177
1178* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1179 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1180
1181* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1182 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1183
1184* cryptsetup:
1185 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1186 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1187
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1188* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1189 it happens to be set up alright already.
1190
1191* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1192
1193* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1194 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1195 default.
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1197* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1198 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1199 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1200 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1201 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1202
08d33656 1203* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1204
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1205* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1206 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1207
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1208* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1209 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1210 temporary dir.
1211
1212* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1213 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1214
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1215* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1216 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1217
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1218* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1219
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1220* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1221
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1222* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1223
1224* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1225
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1226* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1227 when it exits
1228
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1229* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1230 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1231 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1232 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1233 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1234 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1235 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1236 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1237 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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1239* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1240 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1241 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1242
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1243* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1244 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1245
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1246* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1247
1248* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1249 specific service
1250
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1251* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1252 exists and responds.
1253
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1254* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1255 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1256 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1257
91fc013f 1258* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1259 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1260
7e8facb3 1261* unify on openssl:
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1262 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1263 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1264 gnutls
1265 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1267* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1268 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1269
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1270* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1271 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1273* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1274
2a4be3c5 1275* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1276
f1eb0ccd 1277* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1278
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1279* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1280 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1281 initrd had set.
1282
173c7873 1283* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1284 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1285 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1286 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1287 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1288 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1289
1290* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1291 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1292 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1293
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1294* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1295 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1296 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1297 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1298 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1299 source.
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1301* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1302 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1303 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1304
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1305* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1306
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1307* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1308 the hibernation
1309
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1310* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1311 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1312 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1313 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1314 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1315 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1316 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1317 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1318 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1319 hibernation mode. (see
1320 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1321 section 10.2.2.8 and
1322 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1323 at the end).
1324
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1325* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1326 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1327
c6526b8d 1328* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1330* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1331 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1332 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1333 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1334 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1335 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1336 exec().
1337
1338* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1339
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1340* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1341 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1342
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1343* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1344 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1345
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1346* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1347 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1348 root.
1349
1350* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1351 is issued.
1352
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1353* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1354
1355* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1356
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1357* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1358 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1359 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1360
d238709c 1361* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1362 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1363 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1364
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1365* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1366
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1367* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1368 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1369
06898123 1370* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1371 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1372 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1373 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1375* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1376
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1377* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1378 log.c and sd-journal-send
1379
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1380* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1381
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1382* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1383
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1384* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1385 non-zero "tries done" count
1386
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1387* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1388 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1389 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1390 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1391 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1392 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1393 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1394 CODE_FILE.
1395
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1396* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1397 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1398 some explanatory text online.
1399
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1400* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1401
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1402* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1403 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1404
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1405* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1406 Specifically:
1407
1408 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1409 properly)
e83419d0 1410 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1411 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1412
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1413* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1414 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1415
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1416* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1417 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1418 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1419 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1420
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1421* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1422
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1423* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1424
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1425* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1426 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1427
5da19043 1428* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1429 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1430
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1431* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1432 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1433 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1434 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1435 unlinked from any dir.
1436
bd1b3f75 1437* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1438
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1439* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1440
1441* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1442
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1443* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1444 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1445 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1446 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1447 should reflink the image file itself.
1448
1449 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1450 specific paths only like this.
1451
53c70a27 1452* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1453 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1454 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1455 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1456 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1457
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1458* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1459
1460* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1461
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1462* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1463 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1464
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1465* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1466 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1467 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1468 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1469 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1470 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1471 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1472 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1473
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1474* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1475 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1476
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1477* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1478
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1479* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1480 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1481
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1482* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1483 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1484
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1485* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1486 only when used. Add unit tests.
1487
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1488* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1489 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1490
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1491* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1492 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1493 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1494 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1495 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1496
899feb72 1497* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1499* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1500 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1501 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1502
5f7ecd61 1503* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1504
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1505* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1506 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1507
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1508* blog about fd store and restartable services
1509
1510* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1511
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1512* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1513 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1514
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1515* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1516 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1517 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1518 ID is available.
1519
1520* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1521 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1522 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1523
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1524* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1525 parameters
1526
63a185dc 1527* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1528 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1529 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1530 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1531 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1532 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1533 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1534
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1535* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1536 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1537
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1538* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1539 about it in the resource log message
1540
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1541* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1542 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1543 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1544
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1545* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1546 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1547
1548 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1549
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1550* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1551 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1552 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1553
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1554* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1555 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1556
1557* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1558 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1559 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1560 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1561 natural habitat.
1562
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1563* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1564 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1565
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1566* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1567 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1568 relative to the configured default value.
1569
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1570* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1571
04397464 1572* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1573
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1574* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1575
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1576* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1577
04397464 1578* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1579
04397464 1580* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1581
04397464 1582* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1583
8ce9b83a 1584* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1585
1586* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1587 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1588 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1589
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1590* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1591 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1592
e40a326c 1593* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1594
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1595* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1596 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1597 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1598 mapping to work.
1599
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1600* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1601
1602* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1603
1604* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1605
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1606* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1607 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1608
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1609* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1610 reload the unit file anyway
1611
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1612* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1613
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1614* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1615
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1616* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1617 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1618
f9bf1b8f 1619* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1620 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1621 specifications.
de7399eb 1622
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1623* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1624
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1625* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1626
a2088fd0 1627* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1628 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1629 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1630 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1631
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1632* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1633
931bc195 1634* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1635
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1636* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1637 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1638 state.
41d6f3bf 1639 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1640
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1641* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1642 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1643 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1644 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1645 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1646
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1647* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1648
d2f81fb0 1649* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1650 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1651
0a86c1a9 1652* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1653 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1654
e031c227 1655* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1656 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1657
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1658* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1659
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1660* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1661 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1662
25e773ee 1663* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1664
720652b3 1665* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1666
720652b3 1667* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1668
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1669* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1670
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1671* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1672 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1673
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1674* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1675
9d6db739 1676* resolved:
9d6db739 1677 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1678 - service registration
1679 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1680 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1681 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1682 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1683 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1684 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1685 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1686 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1687
e25b5a8d 1688* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1689
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1690* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1691
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1692* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1693
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1694* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1695
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1696* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1697
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1698* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1699 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1700
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1701* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1702
6a3f892a 1703* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1704 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1705 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1706
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1707* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1708 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1709 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1710
f9bf1b8f 1711* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1712
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1713* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1714 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1715 for ReusePort=
1716
f38afcd0 1717* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1718 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1719 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1720 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1721 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1722 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1723 the hierarchies of child processes
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1724- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1725 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1726
f38afcd0 1727* transient units:
f38afcd0 1728 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1729
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1730* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1731
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1732* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1733
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1734* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1735
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1736* 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
1737
7f79cd71 1738* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1739
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1740* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1741 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1742 path anyway.
1743
04397464 1744* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1745
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1746* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1747
1748* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1749
07eabc2b 1750* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1751
07eabc2b 1752* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1753
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1754* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1755
1756* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1757 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1758 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1759
1760* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1761 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1762
1763* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1764
1765* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1766
1767* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1768
1769* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1770 needs to be auto-respawned?
1771
1772* pid1:
1773 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1774 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1775 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1776 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1777 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1778 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1779 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1780 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1781 - move PAM code into its own binary
1782 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1783 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1784 - Support --test based on current system state
1785 - 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().
1786 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1787 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1788 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1789 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1790 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1791 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1792 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1793 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1794 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1795 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1796 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1797 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1798
1799* unit files:
1800 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1801 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1802 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1803 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1804 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1805 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1806 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1807 - introduce Type=pid-file
1808 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1809 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1810 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1811
1812* timer units:
63a185dc 1813 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1814 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1815
1816* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1817
1818* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1819
1820* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1821
1822* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1823
07eabc2b 1824* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1825
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1826* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1827
1828* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1829
fff87a35 1830* test/:
20d52ab6 1831 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1832
b5c03638 1833* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1834 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1835 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1836 destination.
1837
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1838* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1839 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1840
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1841* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1842
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1843* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1844 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1845 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1846
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1847* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1848 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1849
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1850* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1851 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1852 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1853 that automatically.
1854
e5ec62c5 1855* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1856
ccddd104 1857* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1858
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1859* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1860
356ce991 1861* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1862
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1863* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1864
1865* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1866
1867* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1868
1869* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1870
1871* sd-bus:
1872 - EBADSLT handling
1873 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1874 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1875 - 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
1876 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1877 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1878 - longer term: priority inheritance
1879 - dbus spec updates:
1880 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1881 - path escaping
1882 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1883
1884* sd-event
1885 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1886 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1887 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1888 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1889 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1890 here:
1891 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1892
1893* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1894 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1895
1896* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1897
1898* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1899
1900* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1901
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1902* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1903 reading/writing files
1904
1905* 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
1906
b44be3ec 1907* EFI:
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1908 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1909 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1910 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1911* bootctl
631427d6 1912 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1913
07eabc2b 1914* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1915
07eabc2b 1916* bootctl:
483091b0 1917 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1918 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1919 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1920
1921* kernel-install:
1922 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1923
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1924* logind:
1925 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1926 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1927 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1928 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1929 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1930 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1931 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1932 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1933 needs setuid().
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1934 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1935 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1936 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1937 complete.
1938 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1939 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1940 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1941 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1942 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1943 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1944 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1945 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1946 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1947 relogins
77b19caf 1948 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1949 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1950 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1951 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1952
1953* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1954
1955* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1956 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1957 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1958
1959* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1960 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1961
b44be3ec 1962* journal:
57f2a947 1963 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1964 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1965 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1966 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1967 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1968 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1969 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1970 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1971 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1972 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1973 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1974 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1975 - 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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1976 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1977 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1978 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1979 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1980 - 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.
1981 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1982 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1983 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1984 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1985 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1986 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1987 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1988 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1989 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1990 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1991 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1992 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1993 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1994 to syslog when it works again.
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1995 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1996 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1997 journals in.
1998 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1999 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2000 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2001 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2002 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2003 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2004 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2005 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2006 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2007 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2008 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2009 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2010 operation.
2011 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2012 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2013 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2014 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2015 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2016 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2017 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2018 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2019 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2020 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 2021
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2022* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2023 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2024
2025* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2026 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2027 validated via TPM.
2028
2029* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2030 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2031
2032* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2033 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2034 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2035
2036* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2037 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2038 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2039 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2040 cgroup.
2041
2042* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2043 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2044 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2045 logging.
2046
2047* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2048
2049* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2050 from the SIGBUS handler
2051
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2053 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2054 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2055 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2056
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2057* homed:
2058 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2059 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2060 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2061 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2062 - create on activate?
2063 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2064 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2065 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2066 systemd --user is shut down.
2067 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2068 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2069 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2070 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2071 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2072 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2073 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2074 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2075 - query password from kernel keyring first
2076 - update even if record is "absent"
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2077 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2078 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2079 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2080 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2081 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2082 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2083 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2084 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2085 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2086 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2087 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2088 signature
2089 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2090 and insert a local signature instead.
2091 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2092 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2093 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2094 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2095 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2096 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2097 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2098 easily?
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2099 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2100 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2101 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2102 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2103 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2104 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2105 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2106 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2107 can easily set overall quota for all users
2108 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2109 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2110 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2111 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2112 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2113 large.
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2115* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2116 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2117 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2118
2df2bb1f 2119* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2120
2121* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2122 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2123 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2124 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2125
2126* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2127
2128* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2129 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2130 something goes wrong on the way.
2131
2132* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2133
2134* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2135 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2136 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2137 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2138
2139* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2140 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2141 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2142 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2143 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2144 automatically.
2145
2146* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2147 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2148
2149* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2150 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2151 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2152 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2153 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2154 fails to apply use the latter.
2155
2156* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2157 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2158
2159* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2160 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2161
2162* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2163 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2164 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2165
2166* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2167 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2168
92e72028 2169* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2170 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2171 during boot.
2172
2173* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2174
b44be3ec 2175* document:
8b8f2591 2176 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2177 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2178 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2179 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2180 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2181 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2182 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2183 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2184 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2185 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2186 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2187 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2188
2189* systemctl:
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2190 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2191 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2192 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2193 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2194 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2195 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2196 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2197 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2198 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2199 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2200
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2201* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2202 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2203 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2204
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2205* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2206 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2207 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2208 output for them.
d2e83c23 2209
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2210* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2211 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2212 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2213
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2214* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2215 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2216 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2217
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2218* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2219 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2220
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2221* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2222 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2223 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2224 do, for example)
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2226* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2227 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2228 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2229 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2230
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2231* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2232
2233* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2234
2235* unit install:
2236 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2237 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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2240 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2241 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2242 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2243 from the kernel's logs.
2244 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2245 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2246 interface be missing
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2247 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2248 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2249 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2250 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2251 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2252 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2253 PID 1...
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2254 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2255 running, remove them when shut down.
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2256 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2257 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2258 startup.
2259 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2260 or so, freeze the payload too.
2261 - support time namespaces
2262 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2263 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2264 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2265 "machinectl shell"
2266 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2267 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2268 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2269 - greater control over selinux label?
2270 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2271 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2272 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2273 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2274 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2275 host TPM.
2276 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2277 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2278 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2279 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2280 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2281 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2282 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2283 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2284 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2285 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2286 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2287 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2288 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2289
2290* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2291 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2292 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2293 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2294 anything like that.
2295
e25b5a8d 2296* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2297 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2298 removed or added to an existing machine
2299 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2300 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2301 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2302 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2303 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2304 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2305 - "machinectl history"
2306 - "machinectl diff"
2307 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2308 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2309
abd55b16 2310* udev:
abd55b16 2311 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2312 - kill scsi_id
2313 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2314 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2315 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2316 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2317
e25b5a8d
DH
2318* coredump:
2319 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2320 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2321 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2322
2323* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2324
f38afcd0 2325* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2326 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2327 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2328 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2329 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2330 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2331 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2332 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2333 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2334 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2335 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2336 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2337 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2338
af6f0d42
TG
2339* udev-link-config:
2340 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2341 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2342 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2343
88e4d1d7 2344* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2345 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2346 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2347
0a4b9a07 2348* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2349 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2350 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2351 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2352 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2353 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2354 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2355 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2356 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2357 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2358 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2359 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2360 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2361 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2362 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2363 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2364 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2365 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2366 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2367
07eabc2b
LB
2368* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2369
d5e172d2
ZJS
2370* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2371
ac976532 2372* dhcp:
424a8732 2373 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2374
37d8b536
PF
2375* dhcp6:
2376 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2377 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2378 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2379 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2380 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2381 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2382 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2383 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2384 or interface down
2385 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2386 this behavior
4a77c53d 2387 - RouteTable= ?