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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* 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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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
22
23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
25* register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27* zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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32* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36* write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
f461a28d 74* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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75 calls instead.
76
77* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
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79* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
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83* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
b3e199ce 87* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
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92* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
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95Deprecations and removals:
96
97* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
b3e199ce 100* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
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105* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 107 is only supported for such old kernels.
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109* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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121* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
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124* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
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128* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
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131* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
132
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133Features:
134
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135* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
136 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
137 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
138 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
139
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140* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
141 64bit mount ids
142
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143* Add an alias to systemd-run maybe called "uid0" or so, which tries to mimic
144 the sudo/su command lines to some level, but is backed by transient services,
145 and proper security isolate/tty forwarding. This would then allow us to run
146 systems with NNP turned on reasonably nicely. To make this extra nice and
147 pretty, in ptyfwd rewrite every NL we pass through so that it resets the bg
148 color to some reddish tone, and erase the whole coming line first, so that
149 the background color indicates when operating with privileges and when not.
150
151* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
152 interfaces nspawn creates
153
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154* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
155 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
156 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
157 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
158
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159* extend mime database with mime types for:
160 - journal files
161 - credential files
162 - hwdb files
163 - catalog files
164
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165* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
166 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
167 volume key.
168
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169* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
170 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
171 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
172 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
173 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
174 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
175 specified images.
176
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177* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
178 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
179 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
180
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181* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
182 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
183 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
184
185* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
186 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
187 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
188
189* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
190 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
191
192* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
193 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
194
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195* systemd-pcrextend:
196 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
197 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
198 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 199 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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200 PCRs.
201
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202* vmspawn:
203 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
204 - register with machined
205 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
206 - support --directory= via virtiofs
207 - sd_notify support
208 - --ephemeral support
209 - --read-only support
210 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
211 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
212 suspend key presses.
213 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
214 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
215 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
216
217* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
218
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219* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
220
221* storagetm:
222 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
223 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
224 operate in device mode
225 - add NVMe authentication
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227* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
228 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
229 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
230 nvme-oF
231
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232* pcrlock:
233 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
234 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
235 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
236 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
237 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
238 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
239 pass it via initrd to OS
240 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
241 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
242 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
243 /run?
244 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
245 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
246 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
247 for pre-built images
248
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249* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
250 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
251 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
252 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
253 add a field identifying the project.
254
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255* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
256 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
257 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
258 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
259 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
260
261* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
262 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
263 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
264 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
265
266* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
267 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
268 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
269
270* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
271 systems.
272
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273* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
274 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
275 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
276 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
277 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
278 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
279 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 280 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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281 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
282 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
283 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
284 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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286* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
287 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
288 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
289 sysext
290
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291* in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
292 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
293 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
294 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
295 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
296
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297* add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
298 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
299 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
300 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
301 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
302 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
303 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
304 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
305
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306* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
307 other programs via IPC:
308 - bootctl
309 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
310 - coredumpcl
311 - systemd-bless-boot
312 - systemd-measure
313 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
314 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
315 - systemd-dissect
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316 - systemd-sysupdate
317 - systemd-analyze
ed272a9f 318 - systemd-pcrlock (to allow fwupd to relax policy)
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319 - kernel-install
320
321* Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
322 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
323
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324* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
325 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
326 via "systemctl status".
327
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328* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
329 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 330 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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332* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
333 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
334
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335* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
336 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
337
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338* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
339 menu.
340
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341* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
342 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
343 sockets.
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345* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
346 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
347 -c owner?).
348
349* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
350 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
351 migratable between PCs)
352
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353* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
354 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
355 snapshot logic
356
357* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
358 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
359 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 360 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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361 a local key to it.
362
a1f7cdc6 363* PidRef conversion work:
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364 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
365 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
366 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 367 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 368 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 369 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 370 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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371 - sd_bus_creds
372 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
373 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
374 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
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376* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
377
378* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
379 mode.
380
3a9e659a 381* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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382 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
383 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
384 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
385 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
386 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
387 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
388
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389* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
390 too much
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fcdd21ec 392* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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393 to systemd-dissect
394
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395* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
396 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
397 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
398 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
399 control of the attacker.
400
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401* also include packaging metadata (á la
402 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
403 same JSON format.
404
405* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
406 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
407 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
408 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
409 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
410 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
411 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
412 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
413 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
414 newer.
415
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416* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
417 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
418 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
419 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
420 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
421 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
422 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
423 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
424
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425* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
426 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
427 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
428
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429* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
430 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
431 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
432 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 433 independently of any kernel.
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435* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
436 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
437 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
438 requested during switch root.
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440* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
441
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442* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
443 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
444 matched against OS.
445
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446* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
447 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
448 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
449
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450* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
451 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
452 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
453 namespaces)
454
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455* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
456 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
457
458* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
459 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
460 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
461
f447b741 462* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 463 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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464 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
465 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
466 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
467 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
468
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469* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
470 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 471 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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472 used transiently, never persistently.
473
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474* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
475 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
476 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
477 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
478 based on lo_file_name.
479
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480* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
481
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482* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
483 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
484 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
485 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
486 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
487 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
488 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
489 activation-by-message id and similar.
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492
512f2da5 493* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 494 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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496 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
497
498* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
499 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
500 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
501 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
502 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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505 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
506 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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511 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
512 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
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515 localed, oomd, timedated.
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518 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
519 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
520 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
521 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
522 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 523 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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525 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
526 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
527 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
528 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
529 access.
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532 posix_spawn().
533
534* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
535 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
536 through nspawn.
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539 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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542 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
543 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
544 for all umh processes.
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547 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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550 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
551 resize.
552
553* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
554 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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557 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
558 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
559 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
560 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
561 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
562 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
563 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
564 system actually reset.
565
566* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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568 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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571 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
572 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
573 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
574
4cb8a25b 575* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 576 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 577 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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581 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
582 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
583 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
584 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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587 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
588 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
589 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
590 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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595 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 596 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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598
084ecae5 599* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 600 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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602* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
603 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
604 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
605
6d040d84 606* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 607 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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609* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
610 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
611 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
612 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
613 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
614 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
615 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
616 usual.
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619
620* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
621
622* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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625 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
626 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
627 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
628 sockaddr.
629
630* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
631 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
632 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
633 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
634 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
635 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
636 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
637 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
638 try to use inode from there.
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641 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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644 extensions
645
646* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
647 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
648 for the root fs or /usr/.
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651 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
652 combination thereof.
653
654* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
655 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
656 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
657 ahead of time.
658
659* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
660 aforementioned purpose.
661
662* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
663 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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666 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
667 to figure out:
668 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
669 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
670 subsequent boots?
671
dbc62e59 672* provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
7227dd81 673 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
dbc62e59 674 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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677 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
678 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
679 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
680 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
681 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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683 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
684 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
685 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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688 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
689 used)
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692 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
693 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
694 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
695 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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698 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
699 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
700 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 701 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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705 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
706 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
707
708* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
709 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
710
711* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
712 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
713 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
714 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
715 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
716 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
717
718* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
719 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
720 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
721
722* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
723
724* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
725 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 726 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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728
729* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
730 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
731 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
732 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
733 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
734 only one for each OS.
735
736* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
737 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 738 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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740 boot, for the next.
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743 similar behind it, instead of http.
744
745* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
746 boot, or on first boot.
747
748* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
749 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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752 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
753 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
754 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
755 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
756 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
757 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
758 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
759 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
760 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
761 until users are allowed to log in).
762
763* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
764 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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767 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
768 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 769 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 770 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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772 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
773 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 774 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
775 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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777
778* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
779 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
780 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
781 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 782 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 783 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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785 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 786 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
787 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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789 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
790 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 791 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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793 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
794 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
795 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 796 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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798 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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801 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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804 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
805
806* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
807 instead of manual blocking.
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810 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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813 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
814 supplied password.
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817 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
818 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
819 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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822 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
823 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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826* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
827 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
828 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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831 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
832 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
833
834* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
835 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
836 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 837 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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839
840* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
841 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
842 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
843 modules
844
b60e0f57 845* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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847 a new name with a built-in config?
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850 maybe on kernel command line:
851 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
852 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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855 hash type, etc)
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859
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4e0ceefe 861 but final node is not a directory
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864 non-VFAT fs is used.
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869 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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876 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
877 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
878 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
879 affect PCR values.
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882 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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885 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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888 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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891 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
892
893* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
894 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
895
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898 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
899 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
900 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
901 use it.
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904 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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907 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
908 what it was signed.
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911 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
912 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
913 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
914 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
915 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
916 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
917 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
918 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
919 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
920 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
921 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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924 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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927 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
928 via the credentials logic.
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930 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
931 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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933 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
934 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
935 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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936 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
937 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
938 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
939 file system paths to enable on start.
940 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
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943 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
944 pre-built kernels.
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947 runtime state. Then, expose it:
948
949 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
950 about the unit.
951 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
952 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
953 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
954 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
955 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
956 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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959 what to do if support ended
960
961* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 962 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 964* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 965 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 966 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 967 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 968 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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971 initrd transition. Specifically:
972 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
973 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
974 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
975
d486b26f 976* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 977 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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979 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
980 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
981 depending on desired level of persistency.
982
983* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
984 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 985 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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987 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
988 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
989 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
990 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
991
992* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
993 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
994 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
995 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
996
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998
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1000
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1002 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1003 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1004 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1006 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1007 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1008 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1009 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1011 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1012 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1013 not unprivileged code.
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1016 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1017 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1018 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1021 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1022 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1023 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1024 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1025 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1026 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1028 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1030* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1031 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1032 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1033 order.
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1036 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1037 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1040 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1041 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1042 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1043 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1045 IN_IGNORED again)
1046
5b06ad51 1047* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1048 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1050 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1051 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1052 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1053 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1054 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1055 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1057 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1058 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1061 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1062 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1063
03ede612 1064* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1066 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1067 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1069 directly to host service manager.
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1071* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1072 no api to query the device id
1073
1074* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1075 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1076 also be queried.
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1078* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1079 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1080 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1081 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1084 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1085 latter).
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1087* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1088
1089* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1090
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1091* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1092 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1093 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1094 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1095
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1097 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1098 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1099 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1100 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1102
1103* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1104 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1105 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1106 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1108 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1109 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1110 hence cheap for enumeration.
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1113
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1114* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1115 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1116 words: show partition labels).
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1119 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1120 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1121 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1122 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1123 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1124 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1125
e4f92a62 1126* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1128* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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1130* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1131 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1132 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1133 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1134 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1135 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1136 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1137 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1138 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1139 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1140
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1142 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1143
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1145 jobs, units
1146
a57d72ce 1147* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1149 userspace)
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1154 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1155
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1158
1159* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1160 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1163 internal clock.
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1165* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1166 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1167
1168* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1169 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1170 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1171 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1174 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1175 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1176
1177* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1178 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1179 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1180 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1181 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1182 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1183 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1184 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1185 thread:
1186 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1187 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1188 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1189 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1190 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1191 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1192
1193* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1194 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1195 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1196
1197* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1198 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1199 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1200 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1201 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1202 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1203 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1204 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1205 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1206 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1207 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1208 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1209 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1210 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1211 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1214 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1215 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1216 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1217 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1218 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1220* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1221 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1223
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1225 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1226 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1227 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1228 on-disk storage.
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1231 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1232 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1233 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1234 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1235
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1237 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1238 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1240* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1241 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1242 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1243 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1244 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1245 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1246 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1248* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1249 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1250 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1251 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1252
3fc0688d 1253* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1254 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1255 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1256 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1257 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1258 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1259 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1260 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1261 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1262 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1263 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1266 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1267 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1270
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1273* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1274 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1275 that images cannot be misused.
1276
aca8ecc3 1277* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1278 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1279 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1280 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1281 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1282
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1284 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1285 - support casync as download mechanism
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1286 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1287 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1288 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1289 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1290 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1291 host's update files.)
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1292 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1293 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1294 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1295 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1298
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1299* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1300 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1302* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1303 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1304
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1307 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1308 already have it.
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1311 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1312
1c904337 1313* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1315* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1316 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1317 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1318 /proc/self/fd/3
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1321 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1322 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1323
1324* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1325 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1327* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1328 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1330* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1331 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1332 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1333 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1334 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1337
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199b097d 1339 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1340 - acquire via ask-password?
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1342 - pass creds via keyring?
1343 - pass creds via memfd?
1344 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1345 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1346 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1347 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1348 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1349 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1351 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1354 firmware indicates there is one.
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1357 and such
1358
1359* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1361* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1362
7d7c75f1 1363* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1365
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1366* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1367 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1370
1371* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1372 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1373
1374* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1375 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1376
1377* cryptsetup:
1378 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1379 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1380
08d33656 1381* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1383* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1384 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1385
f461a28d 1386* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1388
f461a28d 1389* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1390 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1391
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1392* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1393
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1394* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1395
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1396* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1397
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1398* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1399 when it exits
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1401* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1402 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1403 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1404 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1406 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1407 since they are so basic and our defaults)
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1409* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1410 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1411 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1412
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1413* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1414 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1415
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1416* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1417
1418* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1419 specific service
1420
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1421* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1422 exists and responds.
1423
91fc013f 1424* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1425 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1426
7e8facb3 1427* unify on openssl:
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1428 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1429 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1430 gnutls
1431 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1433* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1434 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1435
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1436* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1437 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1439* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1440
2a4be3c5 1441* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1442
f1eb0ccd 1443* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1445* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1446 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1447 initrd had set.
1448
173c7873 1449* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1450 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1451 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1452 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1453 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1454 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1455
1456* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1457 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1458 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1459
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1460* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1461 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1462 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1463 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1464 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1465 source.
1466
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1467* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1468 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1469 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1470
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1471* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1472
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1473* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1474 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1475
c6526b8d 1476* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1478* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1479 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1480 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1481 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1482 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1483 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1484 exec().
1485
1486* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1487
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1488* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1489 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1490
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1491* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1492 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1493
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1494* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1495 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1496 root.
1497
1498* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1499 is issued.
1500
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1501* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1502
1503* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1504
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1505* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1506 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1507 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1508
d238709c 1509* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1510 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1511 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1512
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1513* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1514
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1515* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1516 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1517
06898123 1518* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1519 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1520 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1521 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1523* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1524
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1525* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1526
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1527* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1528 non-zero "tries done" count
1529
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1530* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1531 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1532 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1533 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1534 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1535 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1536 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1537 CODE_FILE.
1538
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1539* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1540 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1541 some explanatory text online.
1542
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1543* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1544
d1797c42 1545* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1547* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1548 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1549
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1550* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1551 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1552 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1553 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1555* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1556
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1557* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1558
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1559* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1560 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1561
5da19043 1562* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1563 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1565* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1566 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1567 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1568 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1569 unlinked from any dir.
1570
bd1b3f75 1571* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1573* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1574
1575* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1576
53c70a27 1577* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1578 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1579 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1580 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1581 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1582
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1583* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1584
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1585* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1586 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1587
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1588* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1589 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1590 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1591 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1592 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1593 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1594 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1595 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1596
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1597* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1598 for root, but only then.
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1600* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1601 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1602
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1603* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1604 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1605
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1606* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1607 only when used. Add unit tests.
1608
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1609* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1610 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1611
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1612* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1613 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1614 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1615 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1616 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1617
899feb72 1618* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1619
5f7ecd61 1620* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1622* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1623 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1624
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1625* blog about fd store and restartable services
1626
1627* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1628
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1629* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1630 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1631
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1632* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1633 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1634 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1635 ID is available.
1636
1637* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1638 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1639 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1640
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1641* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1642 parameters
1643
63a185dc 1644* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1645 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1646 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1647 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1648 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1649 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1650 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1652* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1653 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1654
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1655* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1656 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1657 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1658
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1659* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1660 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1661
1662 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1663
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1664* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1665 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1666 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1667
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1668* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1669 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1670
1671* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1672 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1673 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1674 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1675 natural habitat.
1676
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1677* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1678 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1680* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1681 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1682 relative to the configured default value.
1683
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1684* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1685
04397464 1686* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1688* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1689
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1690* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1691
04397464 1692* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1693
04397464 1694* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1695
04397464 1696* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1697
8ce9b83a 1698* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1700* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1701 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1702 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1703
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1704* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1705 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1706
e40a326c 1707* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1709* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1710 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1711 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1712 mapping to work.
1713
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1714* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1715
1716* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1717
1718* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1719
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1720* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1721 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1722
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1723* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1724 reload the unit file anyway
1725
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1726* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1727
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1728* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1729
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1730* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1731 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1732
f9bf1b8f 1733* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1734 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1735 specifications.
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1737* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1738
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1739* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1740
a2088fd0 1741* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1742 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1743 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1744 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1746* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1747
931bc195 1748* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1750* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1751 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1752 state.
41d6f3bf 1753 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1755* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1756 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1757 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1758 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1759 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1760
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1761* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1762
d2f81fb0 1763* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1764 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1765
0a86c1a9 1766* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1767 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1768
e031c227 1769* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1770 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
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1772* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1773
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1774* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1775 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1776
25e773ee 1777* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1778
720652b3 1779* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1780
720652b3 1781* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1782
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1783* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1784 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1785
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1786* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1787
9d6db739 1788* resolved:
9d6db739 1789 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1790 - service registration
1791 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1792 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1793 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1794 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1795 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1796 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1797 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1798 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1799
e25b5a8d 1800* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1801
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1802* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1803
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1804* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1805
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1806* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1807
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1808* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1809
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1810* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1811 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1812
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1813* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1814
6a3f892a 1815* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1816 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1817 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1818
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1819* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1820 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1821 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1822
f9bf1b8f 1823* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1825* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1826 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1827 for ReusePort=
1828
f38afcd0 1829* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1830 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1831 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1832 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1833 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1834 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1835 the hierarchies of child processes
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1836 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1837 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1838
f38afcd0 1839* transient units:
f38afcd0 1840 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1841
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1842* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1843
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1844* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1845
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1846* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1847
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1848* 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
1849
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1850* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1851 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1852 path anyway.
1853
04397464 1854* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1855
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1856* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1857
1858* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1859
07eabc2b 1860* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1861
07eabc2b 1862* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1863
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1864* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1865
1866* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1867 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1868 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1869
1870* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1871 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1872
1873* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1874
1875* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1876
1877* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1878
1879* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1880 needs to be auto-respawned?
1881
1882* pid1:
1883 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1884 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1885 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1886 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1887 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1888 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1889 - move PAM code into its own binary
1890 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1891 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1892 - Support --test based on current system state
1893 - 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().
1894 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1895 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1896 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1897 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1898 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1899 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1900 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1901 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1902 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1903 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1904 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1905 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1906
1907* unit files:
1908 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1909 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1910 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1911 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1912 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1913 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1914 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1915 - introduce Type=pid-file
1916 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1917 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1918 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1919
1920* timer units:
63a185dc 1921 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1922 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1923
1924* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1925
1926* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1927
1928* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1929
1930* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1931
07eabc2b 1932* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1933
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1934* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1935
1936* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1937
fff87a35 1938* test/:
20d52ab6 1939 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1940
b5c03638 1941* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1942 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1943 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1944 destination.
1945
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1946* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1947 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1948
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1949* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1950
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1951* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1952 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1953 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1954
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1955* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1956 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1957
7227dd81 1958* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1959 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1960 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1961 that automatically.
1962
e5ec62c5 1963* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1964
ccddd104 1965* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1966
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1967* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1968
356ce991 1969* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1970
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1971* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1972
1973* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1974
1975* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1976
1977* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1978
1979* sd-bus:
1980 - EBADSLT handling
1981 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1982 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1983 - 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
1984 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1985 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1986 - longer term: priority inheritance
1987 - dbus spec updates:
1988 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1989 - path escaping
1990 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1991
1992* sd-event
1993 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1994 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1995 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1996 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1997 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1998 here:
1999 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2000
2001* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2002 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2003
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2004* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2005
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2006* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2007
2008* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2009
2010* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2011
b44be3ec 2012* EFI:
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2013 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2014 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2015 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2016* bootctl
631427d6 2017 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2018
07eabc2b 2019* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2020
07eabc2b 2021* bootctl:
483091b0 2022 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2023 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2024 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2025
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2026* logind:
2027 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2028 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2029 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2030 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2031 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2032 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2033 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2034 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2035 needs setuid().
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2036 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2037 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2038 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2039 complete.
2040 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2041 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2042 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2043 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2044 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2045 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2046 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2047 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2048 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2049 relogins
77b19caf 2050 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2051 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2052 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2053 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2054
2055* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2056
2057* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2058 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2059 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2060
2061* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2062 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2063
b44be3ec 2064* journal:
57f2a947 2065 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2066 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2067 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2068 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2069 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2070 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2071 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2072 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2073 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2074 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2075 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2076 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2077 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2078 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2079 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2080 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2081 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2082 - 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.
2083 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2084 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2085 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2086 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2087 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2088 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2089 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2090 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2091 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2092 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2093 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2094 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2095 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2096 to syslog when it works again.
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2097 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2098 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2099 journals in.
2100 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2101 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2102 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2103 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2104 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2105 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2106 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2107 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2108 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2109 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2110 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2111 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2112 operation.
2113 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2114 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2115 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2116 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2117 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2118 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2119 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2120 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2121 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2122 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2124* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2125 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2126
2127* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2128 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2129 validated via TPM.
2130
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2131* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2132 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2133 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2134
2135* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2136 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2137 cursors as they happen.
2138
2139* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2140 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2141 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2142 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2143 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2144 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2145 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2146 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2147 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2148
2149* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2150 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2151 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2152 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2153 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2155
2156* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2157 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2158 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2159 records, to be able to order them.
2160
2161* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2162 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2163 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2164 be safely written to disk, then.
2165
2166* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2167 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2168 inspiration from IMA log)
2169
2170* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2171 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2172 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2173
2174* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2175 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2176 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2177 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2178 for doing that.
2179
2180* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2181 log.c and sd-journal-send
2182
2183* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2184 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2185 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2186 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2187 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2188 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2189 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2190 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2191 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2192 an NTP sync is acquired.
2193
2194* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2195
2196* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2197 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2198 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2199
2200* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2201 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2202 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2203 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2204 cgroup.
2205
2206* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2207 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2208 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2209 logging.
2210
2211* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2212
2213* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2214 from the SIGBUS handler
2215
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2217 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2218 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2219 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2220
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2222 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2223
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2224* homed:
2225 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2226 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2227 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2228 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2229 - create on activate?
2230 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2231 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2232 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2233 systemd --user is shut down.
2234 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2235 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2236 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2237 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2238 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2239 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2240 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2241 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2242 - query password from kernel keyring first
2243 - update even if record is "absent"
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2244 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2245 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2246 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2247 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2248 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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LB
2249 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2250 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2251 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2252 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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LP
2253 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2254 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2255 signature
2256 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2257 and insert a local signature instead.
2258 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2259 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2260 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2261 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2262 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2263 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2264 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2265 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2266 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2267 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2268 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2269 can easily set overall quota for all users
2270 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2271 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2272 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2273 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
f1a147f2
LP
2274 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2275 large.
cff559ec
LP
2276 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2277 home dir
07eabc2b 2278
07eabc2b
LB
2279* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2280 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2281 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2282
2df2bb1f 2283* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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LB
2284
2285* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2286 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2287 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2288 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2289
2290* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2291
2292* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2293 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2294 something goes wrong on the way.
2295
07eabc2b
LB
2296* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2297 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2298 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2299 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2300
2301* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2302 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2303 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2304 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2305 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2306 automatically.
2307
2308* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2309 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2310
2311* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2312 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2313 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2314 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2315 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2316 fails to apply use the latter.
2317
2318* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2319 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2320
2321* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2322 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2323
2324* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2325 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2326 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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LB
2327
2328* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2329 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2330
92e72028 2331* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2332 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2333 during boot.
2334
2335* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2336
b44be3ec 2337* document:
8b8f2591 2338 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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LP
2339 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2340 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2341 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2342 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2343 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2344 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2345 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2346 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2347 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2348 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2349 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2350
2351* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2352 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2353 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2354 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2355 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2356 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2357 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2358 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2359 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2360 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2361 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2362
07eabc2b
LB
2363* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2364 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2365 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2366
07eabc2b
LB
2367* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2368 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2369 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2370
07eabc2b
LB
2371* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2372 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2373 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2374
07eabc2b
LB
2375* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2376 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2377
07eabc2b
LB
2378* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2379 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2380 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2381 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2382
07eabc2b
LB
2383* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2384 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2385 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2386 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2387
07eabc2b
LB
2388* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2389
2390* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2391
2392* unit install:
2393 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2394 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2395
b44be3ec 2396* nspawn:
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DH
2397 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2398 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2399 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2400 from the kernel's logs.
2401 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2402 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2403 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2404 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2405 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2406 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2407 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2408 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2409 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2410 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2411 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2412 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2413 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2414 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2415 startup.
2416 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2417 or so, freeze the payload too.
2418 - support time namespaces
2419 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2420 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2421 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2422 "machinectl shell"
2423 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2424 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2425 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2426 - greater control over selinux label?
2427 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2428 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2429 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2430 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2431 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2432 host TPM.
2433 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2434 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2435 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2436 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2437 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2438 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2439 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2440 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2441 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2442 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2443 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2444 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2445 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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LB
2446
2447* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2448 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2449 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2450 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2451 anything like that.
2452
e25b5a8d 2453* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2454 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2455 removed or added to an existing machine
2456 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2457 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2458 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2459 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2460 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2461 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2462 - "machinectl history"
2463 - "machinectl diff"
2464 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2465 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2466
abd55b16 2467* udev:
abd55b16 2468 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2469 - kill scsi_id
2470 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2471 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2472 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2473 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2474
e25b5a8d
DH
2475* coredump:
2476 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2477 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2478 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2479
2480* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2481
f38afcd0 2482* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2483 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2484 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2485 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2486 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2487 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2488 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2489 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2490 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2491 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2492 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2493 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2494 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2495
af6f0d42
TG
2496* udev-link-config:
2497 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2498 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2499 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2500
88e4d1d7 2501* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2502 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2503 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2504
0a4b9a07 2505* networkd:
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TG
2506 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2507 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2508 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2509 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2510 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2511 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2512 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2513 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2514 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2515 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2516 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2517 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2518 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2519 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2520 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2521 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2522 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2523 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2524
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LB
2525* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2526
d5e172d2
ZJS
2527* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2528
ac976532 2529* dhcp:
424a8732 2530 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2531
37d8b536
PF
2532* dhcp6:
2533 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2534 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2535 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2536 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2537 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2538 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2539 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2540 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2541 or interface down
2542 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2543 this behavior
4a77c53d 2544 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2545
2546* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2547 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2548 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)