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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
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78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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94* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
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99* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 101 is only supported for such old kernels.
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103* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
9eb41aab 106* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
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112* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
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115* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
3345802c 118* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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121* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
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123* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
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127* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
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130Features:
131
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132* set MS_NOSYMFOLLOW for ESP and XBOOTLDR mounts both in gpt-generator and in
133 dissect.c
134
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135* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
136
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137* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
138 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
139 cursors as they happen.
140
141* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
142 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
143 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
144 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
145 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
146 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
147 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
148 activation-by-message id and similar.
149
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150* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
151 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
152 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
153 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
154
155* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
156 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
157 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
158 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
159 similar behaviour for system services, too.
160
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161* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
162 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
163 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
164
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165* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
166
167* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
168 localed, oomd, timedated.
169
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170* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
171 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
172 info of the newest entry of the specificy boot (as identified by the boot
173 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
174 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
175 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
176 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
177 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
178 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
179
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180* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
181 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
182 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
183
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184* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
185 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
186 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
187 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
188 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
189 signed by U.
190 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
191 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
192 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
193 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
194 next boot
195 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
196 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
197 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
198 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
199 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
200 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
201 later boot.
202 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
203 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
204 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
205 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
206 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
207
208* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
209 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
210 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
211 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
212 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
213 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
214 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
215 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
216 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
217 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
218 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
219 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
220 access.
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222* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
223 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
224 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
225 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
226 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 227 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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228 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
229 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
230 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
231 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
232
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233* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
234 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
235
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236* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
237 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
238 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
239 for all umh processes.
240
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241* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
242 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
243
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244* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
245 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
246 resize.
247
248* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
249 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
250
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251* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
252 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
253 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
254 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
255 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
256 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
257
258* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
259 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
30fd9a2d 260 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
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261 records, to be able to order them.
262
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263* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
264 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
265 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
266 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
267 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
268 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
269 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
270 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
271 system actually reset.
272
273* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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274 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
275 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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277* systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
278 image policy by default
279
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280* systemd-dissect: maybe add "--attach" and "--detach" verbs which
281 synchronously attach a DDI to a loopback device but not actually mount them.
282
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283* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
284 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
285 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
286 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
287
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1c904337 289 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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290 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
291 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
292
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293* fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
294 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
295 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
296 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
297 which isn't quite the same.
298
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299* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
300 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
301 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
302 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
303 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
304
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305* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
306 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
307 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
308 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
309 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
310
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311* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
312
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313* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
314 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
315 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
316 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
317
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318* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
319
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320* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
321 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
322
323* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
324 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
325 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
326
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4cb8a25b 328 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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330* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
331 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
332 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
333 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
334 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
335 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
336 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
337 usual.
338
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339* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
340
341* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
342
343* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
344
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345* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
346 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
347 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
348 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
349 sockaddr.
350
351* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
352 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
353 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
354 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
355 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
356 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
357 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
358 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
359 try to use inode from there.
360
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361* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
362 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
363
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364* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
365 extensions
366
367* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
368 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
369 for the root fs or /usr/.
370
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371* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
372 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
373 combination thereof.
374
375* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
376 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
377 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
378 ahead of time.
379
380* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
381 aforementioned purpose.
382
383* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
384 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
385
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386* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
387 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
388 to figure out:
389 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
390 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
391 subsequent boots?
392
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393* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
394 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
395 inspiration from IMA log)
396
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397* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
398 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
399 out to our tools.
400
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401* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
402 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
403 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
404 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
405 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
406 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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407 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
408 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
409 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
410 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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412* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
413 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
414 used)
415
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416* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
417 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
418 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
419 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
420 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
421
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422* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
423 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
424 how PCR values we manage came to
425 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
426
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427* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
428 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
429 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
430 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 431 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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432 should win over vendor defaults.
433
434* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
435 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
436 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
437 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
438 command lines.
439
440* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
441 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
442 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
443
444* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
445 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
446
447* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
448 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
449 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
450 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
451 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
452 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
453
454* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
455 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
456 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
457
458* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
459
460* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
461 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
462 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
463 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
464
465* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
466 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
467 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
468 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
469 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
470 only one for each OS.
471
472* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
473 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 474 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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475 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
476 boot, for the next.
477
478* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
479 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
480
481* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
482 similar behind it, instead of http.
483
484* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
485 boot, or on first boot.
486
487* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
488 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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491 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
492 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
493 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
494 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
495 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
496 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
497 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
498 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
499 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
500 until users are allowed to log in).
501
502* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
503 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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506 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
507 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
508 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
509 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
510 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
511 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
512 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
513 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
514 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
515 automatically invalidated outside of it.
516
517* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
518 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
519 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
520 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
521 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 522 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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524 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
525 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
526 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
527 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
528 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
529 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
530 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
531 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
532 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
533 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
534 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
535 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
536 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
537 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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540 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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543 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
544
545* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
546 instead of manual blocking.
547
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548* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
549 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
550
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552 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
553 supplied password.
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556 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
557 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
558 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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561 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
562 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
563 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
564
565* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
566 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
567 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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570 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
571 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
572
573* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
574 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
575 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
576 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
577 partition with a portable service partition in one.
578
579* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
580 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
581 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
582 modules
583
584* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
585 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
586 a new name with a built-in config?
587
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589 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
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592 maybe on kernel command line:
593 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
594 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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597 hash type, etc)
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6c2d70ce 599* chase_symlinks(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
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601
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602* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
603 but final node is not a directory
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605* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
606 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
607
608* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
609 non-VFAT fs is used.
610
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611* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
612
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613* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
614 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
615
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617
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619 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
620 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
621 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
622 affect PCR values.
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625 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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627* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
628 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
629
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630* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
631 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
632
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633* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
634 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
635
636* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
637 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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640 maybe some other stuff and boots it
641
e1b45a75 642* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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644 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
645 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
646 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
647 use it.
648
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650 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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653 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
654 what it was signed.
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657 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
658 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
659 be safely written to disk, then.
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662 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
663 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
664 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
665 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
666 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
667 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
668 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
669 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
670 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
671 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
672 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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675 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
676
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678 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
679 via the credentials logic.
680 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
681 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
682 integrity-generator)
683 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
684 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
685 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
686 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
687 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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689 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
690 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
691 file system paths to enable on start.
692 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
693 usr=
694 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
695 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
696 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
697 account one can directly log into.
698 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
699 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
700 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
701 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
702 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
703 pre-built kernels.
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706 runtime state. Then, expose it:
707
708 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
709 about the unit.
710 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
711 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
712 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
713 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
714 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
715 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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718 what to do if support ended
719
720* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
721 login time, á la motd
722
e1b45a75 723* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 724 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 725 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 726 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 727 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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730 initrd transition. Specifically:
731 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
732 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
733 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
734
735* implement varlink introspection
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738 chase_symlinks() instead
739
d486b26f 740* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 741 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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743 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
744 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
745 depending on desired level of persistency.
746
747* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
748 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 749 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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751 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
752 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
753 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
754 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
755
756* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
757 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
758 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
759 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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762
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766 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
767 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
768 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
769 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
770 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
771 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
772 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 773 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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775 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
776 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
777 not unprivileged code.
778
779* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
780 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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783 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
784 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
785 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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788 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
789 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
790 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 791 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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793 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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795 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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797* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
798 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
799 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
800 order.
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803 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
804 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
805 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
806 whenever they want.
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808* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
809 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
810 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
811
812* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
813 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
814 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
815 acquire.
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818 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
819 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
820 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 821 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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823 IN_IGNORED again)
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826 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
827 virtio-fs.
828
829* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 830 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 831 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 832 on verification if in secureboot mode
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834 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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836 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
837 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
838 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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840 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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842 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 843 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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845 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
846 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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849 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
850 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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853 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
854 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
855
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858 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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861 directly to host service manager.
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864 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
865 configure socket address.
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870 no api to query the device id
871
872* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
873 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
874 also be queried.
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877 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
878 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
879 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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881* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
882 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
883 latter).
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885* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
886
887* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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889* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
890 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
891 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
892 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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895 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
896 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
897 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
898 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
899 UEFI HTTP boot.
900
901* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
902 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
903 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
904 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
905 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
906 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
907 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
908 hence cheap for enumeration.
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911
912* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
913 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
914 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
915 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
916 comprehensively.
917
918* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
919 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
920 words: show partition labels).
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923 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
924 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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927 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
928 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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931
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934* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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937 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
938 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
939 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
940 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
941 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
942 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
943 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
944 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
945 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
946
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947* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
948 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
949 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
950 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
951 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
952 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
953 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
954 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
955 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
956 an NTP sync is acquired.
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958* kernel-install:
959 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
960 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
961 call it at the end only
962
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963* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
964 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
965
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966* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
967 jobs, units
968
a57d72ce 969* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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970 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
971 userspace)
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973* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
974
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975* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
976 json package metadata, and use that when logging
977
d1666bde 978* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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979 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
980
981* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
982 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
983
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984* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
985 internal clock.
986
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987* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
988 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
989
990* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
991 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
992 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
993 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
994
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995* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
996 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
997 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
998
999* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1000 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1001 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1002 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1003 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1004 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1005 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1006 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1007 thread:
1008 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1009 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1010 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1011 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1012 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1013 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1014
1015* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1016 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1017 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1018
1019* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1020 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1021 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1022 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1023 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1024 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1025 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1026 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1027 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1028 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1029 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1030 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1031 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1032 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1033 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1034
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1036 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1037 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1038 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1039 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1040 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1042* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1043 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1044 dep in the base OS image)
1045
1046* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 1047 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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1049* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1050 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1051 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1052 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1053 on-disk storage.
1054
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1056 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1057 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1058 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1059 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1060
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1061* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1062 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1063 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1065* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1066 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1067 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1068 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1069 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1070 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1071 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1072
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1073* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1074 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1075 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1076 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1077
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1078* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1079 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1080 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1081 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1082 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1083 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1084 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1085 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1086
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1087 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1088 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1089 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 1090 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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1091 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1092 take --image= that take the same short string.
1093
3fc0688d 1094* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1095 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1096 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1097 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1098 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1099 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1100 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1101 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1102 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1103 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1104 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1106* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1107 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1108 authentication.
1109
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1110* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1111 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1112 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1115
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1118* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1119 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1120 that images cannot be misused.
1121
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178d3ff2 1123 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1124 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1125 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1126 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1127
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1128* sysupdate:
1129 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1130 - support casync as download mechanism
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1131 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1132 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1133 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1134 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1135 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1136 override the host's update files.)
1137 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1138 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1139 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1140 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1141
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1142* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1143
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1144* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1145 make dirs appear under right UID.
1146
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1147* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1148 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1149
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1150* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1151 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1152 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1153 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1154 for doing that.
1155
24063ba1 1156* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1157 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1158 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1159 already have it.
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1161* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1162 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1163
1c904337 1164* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1166* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1167 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1168 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1169 /proc/self/fd/3
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1171* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1172 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1173 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1174
1175* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1176 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1177
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1178* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1179 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1180
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1181* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1182 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1183 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1184 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1185 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1187* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1188
199b097d 1189* credentials system:
199b097d 1190 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1191 - acquire via ask-password?
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1193 - pass creds via keyring?
1194 - pass creds via memfd?
1195 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1196 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1197 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1198 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1199 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1200 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1201 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1202 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1204* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1205 firmware indicates there is one.
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1207* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1208 and such
1209
1210* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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1212* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1213
7d7c75f1 1214* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1215 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1216
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1217* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1218 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1219
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1220* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1221
1222* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1223 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1224
1225* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1226 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1227
1228* cryptsetup:
1229 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1230 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1231
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1232* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1233 it happens to be set up alright already.
1234
1235* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1236
1237* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1238 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1239 default.
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1241* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1242 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1243 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1244 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1245 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1246
08d33656 1247* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1248
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1249* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1250 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1251
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1252* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1253 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1254 temporary dir.
1255
1256* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1257 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1258
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1259* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1260 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1261
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1262* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1263
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1264* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1265
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1266* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1267
1268* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1269
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1270* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1271 when it exits
1272
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1273* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1274 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1275 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1276 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1277 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1278 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1279 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1280 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1281 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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1283* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1284 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1285 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1286
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1287* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1288 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1289
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1290* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1291
1292* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1293 specific service
1294
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1295* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1296 exists and responds.
1297
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1298* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1299 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1300 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1301
91fc013f 1302* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1303 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1304
7e8facb3 1305* unify on openssl:
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1306 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1307 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1308 gnutls
1309 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1311* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1312 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1313
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1314* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1315 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1317* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1318
2a4be3c5 1319* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1320
f1eb0ccd 1321* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1323* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1324 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1325 initrd had set.
1326
173c7873 1327* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1328 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1329 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1330 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1331 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1332 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1333
1334* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1335 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1336 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1337
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1338* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1339 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1340 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1341 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1342 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1343 source.
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1345* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1346 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1347 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1348
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1349* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1350
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1351* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1352 the hibernation
1353
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1354* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1355 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1356 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1357 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1358 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1359 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1360 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1361 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1362 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1363 hibernation mode. (see
1364 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1365 section 10.2.2.8 and
1366 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1367 at the end).
1368
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1369* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1370 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1371
c6526b8d 1372* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1374* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1375 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1376 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1377 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1378 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1379 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1380 exec().
1381
1382* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1383
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1384* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1385 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1386
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1387* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1388 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1389
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1390* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1391 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1392 root.
1393
1394* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1395 is issued.
1396
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1397* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1398
1399* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1400
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1401* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1402 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1403 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1404
d238709c 1405* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1406 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1407 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1408
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1409* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1410
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1411* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1412 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1413
06898123 1414* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1415 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1416 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1417 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1418
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1419* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1420
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1421* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1422 log.c and sd-journal-send
1423
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1424* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1425
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1426* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1427
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1428* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1429 non-zero "tries done" count
1430
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1431* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1432 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1433 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1434 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1435 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1436 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1437 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1438 CODE_FILE.
1439
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1440* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1441 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1442 some explanatory text online.
1443
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1444* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1445
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1446* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1447 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1448
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1449* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1450 Specifically:
1451
1452 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1453 properly)
e83419d0 1454 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1455 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1456
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1457* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1458 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1459
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1460* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1461 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1462 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1463 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1464
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1465* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1466
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1467* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1468
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1469* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1470 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1471
5da19043 1472* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1473 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1474
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1475* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1476 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1477 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1478 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1479 unlinked from any dir.
1480
bd1b3f75 1481* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1482
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1483* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1484
1485* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1486
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1487* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1488 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1489 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1490 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1491 should reflink the image file itself.
1492
1493 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1494 specific paths only like this.
1495
53c70a27 1496* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1497 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1498 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1499 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1500 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1501
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1502* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1503
1504* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1505
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1506* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1507 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1508
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1509* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1510 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1511 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1512 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1513 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1514 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1515 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1516 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1517
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1518* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1519 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1520
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1521* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1522
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1523* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1524 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1525
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1526* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1527 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1528
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1529* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1530 only when used. Add unit tests.
1531
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1532* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1533 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1534
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1535* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1536 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1537 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1538 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1539 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1540
899feb72 1541* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1542
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1543* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1544 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1545 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1546
5f7ecd61 1547* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1548
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1549* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1550 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1551
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1552* blog about fd store and restartable services
1553
1554* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1555
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1556* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1557 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1558
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1559* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1560 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1561 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1562 ID is available.
1563
1564* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1565 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1566 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1567
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1568* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1569 parameters
1570
63a185dc 1571* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1572 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1573 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1574 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1575 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1576 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1577 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1578
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1579* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1580 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1581
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1582* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1583 about it in the resource log message
1584
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1585* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1586 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1587 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1588
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1589* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1590 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1591
1592 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1593
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1594* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1595 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1596 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1597
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1598* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1599 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1600
1601* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1602 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1603 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1604 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1605 natural habitat.
1606
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1607* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1608 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1609
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1610* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1611 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1612 relative to the configured default value.
1613
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1614* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1615
04397464 1616* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1617
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1618* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1619
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1620* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1621
04397464 1622* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1623
04397464 1624* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1625
04397464 1626* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1627
8ce9b83a 1628* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1629
1630* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1631 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1632 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1633
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1634* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1635 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1636
e40a326c 1637* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1638
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1639* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1640 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1641 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1642 mapping to work.
1643
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1644* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1645
1646* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1647
1648* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1649
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1650* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1651 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1652
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1653* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1654 reload the unit file anyway
1655
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1656* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1657
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1658* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1659
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1660* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1661 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1662
f9bf1b8f 1663* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1664 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1665 specifications.
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1667* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1668
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1669* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1670
a2088fd0 1671* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1672 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1673 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1674 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1675
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1676* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1677
931bc195 1678* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1679
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1680* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1681 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1682 state.
41d6f3bf 1683 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1684
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1685* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1686 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1687 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1688 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1689 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1690
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1691* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1692
d2f81fb0 1693* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1694 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1695
0a86c1a9 1696* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1697 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1698
e031c227 1699* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1700 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1701
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1702* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1703
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1704* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1705 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1706
25e773ee 1707* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1708
720652b3 1709* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1710
720652b3 1711* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1712
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1713* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1714
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1715* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1716 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1717
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1718* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1719
9d6db739 1720* resolved:
9d6db739 1721 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1722 - service registration
1723 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1724 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1725 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1726 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1727 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1728 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1729 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1730 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1731
e25b5a8d 1732* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1733
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1734* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1735
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1736* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1737
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1738* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1739
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1740* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1741
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1742* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1743 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1744
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1745* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1746
6a3f892a 1747* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1748 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1749 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1750
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1751* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1752 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1753 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1754
f9bf1b8f 1755* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1756
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1757* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1758 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1759 for ReusePort=
1760
f38afcd0 1761* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1762 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1763 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1764 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1765 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1766 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1767 the hierarchies of child processes
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1768- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1769 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1770
f38afcd0 1771* transient units:
f38afcd0 1772 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1773
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1774* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1775
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1776* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1777
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1778* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1779
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1780* 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
1781
7f79cd71 1782* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1783
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1784* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1785 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1786 path anyway.
1787
04397464 1788* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1789
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1790* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1791
1792* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1793
07eabc2b 1794* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1795
07eabc2b 1796* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1797
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1798* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1799
1800* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1801 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1802 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1803
1804* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1805 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1806
1807* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1808
1809* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1810
1811* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1812
1813* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1814 needs to be auto-respawned?
1815
1816* pid1:
1817 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1818 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1819 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1820 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1821 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1822 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1823 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1824 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1825 - move PAM code into its own binary
1826 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1827 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1828 - Support --test based on current system state
1829 - 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().
1830 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1831 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1832 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1833 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1834 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1835 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1836 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1837 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1838 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1839 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1840 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1841 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1842
1843* unit files:
1844 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1845 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1846 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1847 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1848 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1849 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1850 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1851 - introduce Type=pid-file
1852 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1853 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1854 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1855
1856* timer units:
63a185dc 1857 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1858 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1859
1860* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1861
1862* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1863
1864* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1865
1866* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1867
07eabc2b 1868* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1869
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1870* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1871
1872* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1873
fff87a35 1874* test/:
20d52ab6 1875 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1876
b5c03638 1877* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1878 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1879 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1880 destination.
1881
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1882* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1883 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1884
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1885* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1886
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1887* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1888 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1889 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1890
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1891* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1892 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1893
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1894* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1895 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1896 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1897 that automatically.
1898
e5ec62c5 1899* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1900
ccddd104 1901* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1902
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1903* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1904
356ce991 1905* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1906
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1907* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1908
1909* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1910
1911* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1912
1913* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1914
1915* sd-bus:
1916 - EBADSLT handling
1917 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1918 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1919 - 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
1920 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1921 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1922 - longer term: priority inheritance
1923 - dbus spec updates:
1924 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1925 - path escaping
1926 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1927
1928* sd-event
1929 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1930 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1931 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1932 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1933 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1934 here:
1935 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1936
1937* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1938 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1939
1940* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1941
1942* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1943
1944* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1945
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1946* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1947 reading/writing files
1948
1949* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1950
b44be3ec 1951* EFI:
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1952 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1953 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1954 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1955* bootctl
631427d6 1956 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1957
07eabc2b 1958* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1959
07eabc2b 1960* bootctl:
483091b0 1961 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1962 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1963 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1964
1965* kernel-install:
1966 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1967
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1968* logind:
1969 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1970 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1971 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1972 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1973 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1974 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1975 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1976 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1977 needs setuid().
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1978 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1979 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1980 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1981 complete.
1982 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1983 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1984 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1985 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1986 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1987 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1988 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1989 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1990 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1991 relogins
77b19caf 1992 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1993 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1994 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1995 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1997* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1998
1999* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2000 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2001 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2002
2003* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2004 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2005
b44be3ec 2006* journal:
57f2a947 2007 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2008 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2009 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2010 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2011 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2012 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2013 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2014 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2015 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2016 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2017 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2018 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2019 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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2020 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2021 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2022 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2023 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2024 - 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.
2025 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2026 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2027 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2028 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2029 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2030 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2031 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2032 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2033 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2034 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2035 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2036 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2037 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2038 to syslog when it works again.
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2039 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2040 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2041 journals in.
2042 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2043 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2044 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2045 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2046 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2047 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2048 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2049 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2050 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2051 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2052 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2053 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2054 operation.
2055 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2056 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2057 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2058 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2059 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2060 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2061 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2062 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2063 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2064 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2066* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2067 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2068
2069* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2070 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2071 validated via TPM.
2072
2073* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2074 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2075
2076* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2077 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2078 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2079
2080* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2081 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2082 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2083 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2084 cgroup.
2085
2086* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2087 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2088 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2089 logging.
2090
2091* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2092
2093* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2094 from the SIGBUS handler
2095
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2097 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2098 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2099 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2100
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2101* homed:
2102 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2103 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2104 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2105 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2106 - create on activate?
2107 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2108 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2109 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2110 systemd --user is shut down.
2111 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2112 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2113 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2114 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2115 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2116 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2117 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2118 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2119 - query password from kernel keyring first
2120 - update even if record is "absent"
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2121 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2122 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2123 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2124 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2125 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2126 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2127 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2128 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2129 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2130 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2131 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2132 signature
2133 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2134 and insert a local signature instead.
2135 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2136 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2137 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2138 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2139 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2140 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2141 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2142 easily?
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2143 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2144 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2145 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2146 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2147 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2148 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2149 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2150 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2151 can easily set overall quota for all users
2152 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2153 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2154 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2155 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2156 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2157 large.
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2159* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2160 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2161 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2162
2df2bb1f 2163* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2164
2165* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2166 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2167 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2168 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2169
2170* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2171
2172* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2173 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2174 something goes wrong on the way.
2175
2176* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2177
2178* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2179 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2180 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2181 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2182
2183* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2184 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2185 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2186 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2187 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2188 automatically.
2189
2190* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2191 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2192
2193* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2194 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2195 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2196 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2197 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2198 fails to apply use the latter.
2199
2200* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2201 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2202
2203* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2204 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2205
2206* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2207 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2208 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2209
2210* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2211 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2212
92e72028 2213* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2214 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2215 during boot.
2216
2217* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2218
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8b8f2591 2220 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2221 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2222 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2223 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2224 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2225 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2226 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2227 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2228 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2229 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2230 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2231 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2232
2233* systemctl:
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2234 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2235 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2236 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2237 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2238 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2239 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2240 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2241 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2242 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2243 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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2245* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2246 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2247 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2248
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2249* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2250 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2251 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2252 output for them.
d2e83c23 2253
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2254* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2255 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2256 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2257
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2258* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2259 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2260 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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2262* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2263 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2264
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LB
2265* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2266 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2267 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2268 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2269
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LB
2270* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2271 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2272 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2273 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2274
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LB
2275* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2276
2277* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2278
2279* unit install:
2280 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2281 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2282
b44be3ec 2283* nspawn:
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2284 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2285 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2286 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2287 from the kernel's logs.
2288 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2289 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2290 interface be missing
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DH
2291 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2292 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2293 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2294 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2295 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2296 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2297 PID 1...
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2298 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2299 running, remove them when shut down.
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CB
2300 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2301 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2302 startup.
2303 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2304 or so, freeze the payload too.
2305 - support time namespaces
2306 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2307 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2308 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2309 "machinectl shell"
2310 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2311 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2312 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2313 - greater control over selinux label?
2314 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2315 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2316 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2317 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2318 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2319 host TPM.
2320 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2321 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2322 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2323 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2324 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2325 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2326 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2327 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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CB
2328 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2329 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2330 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2331 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2332 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2333
2334* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2335 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2336 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2337 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2338 anything like that.
2339
e25b5a8d 2340* machined:
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2341 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2342 removed or added to an existing machine
2343 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2344 difference host, via ssh
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DH
2345 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2346 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2347 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2348 question
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DH
2349 - "machinectl history"
2350 - "machinectl diff"
2351 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2352 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2353
abd55b16 2354* udev:
abd55b16 2355 - move to LGPL
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KS
2356 - kill scsi_id
2357 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2358 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2359 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2360 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2361
e25b5a8d
DH
2362* coredump:
2363 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2364 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2365 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2366
2367* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2368
f38afcd0 2369* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2370 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2371 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2372 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2373 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2374 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2375 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2376 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2377 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2378 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2379 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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2380 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2381 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2382
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2383* udev-link-config:
2384 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2385 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2386 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2387
88e4d1d7 2388* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2389 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2390 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2391
0a4b9a07 2392* networkd:
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2393 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2394 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2395 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2396 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2397 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2398 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2399 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2400 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2401 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2402 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2403 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2404 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2405 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2406 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2407 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2408 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2409 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2410 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2411
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2412* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2413
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ZJS
2414* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2415
ac976532 2416* dhcp:
424a8732 2417 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2418
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2419* dhcp6:
2420 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2421 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2422 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2423 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2424 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2425 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2426 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2427 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2428 or interface down
2429 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2430 this behavior
4a77c53d 2431 - RouteTable= ?