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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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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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87* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
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91* generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
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96Deprecations and removals:
97
98* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
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101* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
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106* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 108 is only supported for such old kernels.
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110* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
9eb41aab 113* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
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119* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
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122* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
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125* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
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129* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
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132* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
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134Features:
135
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136* make systemd-pcrphase accessible via varlink so that clients can measure
137 things reasonably freely, and get a proper entry in the TPM event log we
138 maintain, correctly synchronized
139
140* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
141 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
142
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143* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
144 menu.
145
146* extend the various CLI tools we have that output JSON already to also read
147 their command to execute from JSON in varlink format, so that you can fork
148 them off and talk to them fully via varlink.
149
150* add a "varlinkctl" tool that allows interacting with varlink services from
151 the shell. In particular add a "--exec=" switch, which allows specifying a
152 binary to invoke to which to talk via stdin/stdout
153
154* make tools that speak varlink over stdin/stdout trivially sockect
155 activatable. i.e. once bootctl, kernel-install, systemd-measure and similar
156 speak varlink make them available via a .socket unit with Accept=yes, so that
157 they can be talked to via IPC out-of-process
158
159* beef up .service units that are socket activated with Accept=yes with options
160 AllowPeerUser= + AllowPeerGroup= to allow trivially simple access control
161 when invoked via socket as IPC services
162
163* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
164 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
165 snapshot logic
166
167* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
168 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
169 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
170 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstrem OS' kernel and adding
171 a local key to it.
172
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173* PidRef conversion work:
174 - pid_is_unwaited() → pidref_is_unwaited()
175 - pid_is_alive() → pidref_is_alive()
176 - unit_watch_pid() → unit_watch_pidref()
a1f7cdc6 177 - actually wait for POLLIN on piref's pidfd in service logic
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178 - exec_spawn()
179 - serialization of control/main pid in service, socket, mount, swap units
180 - unit_fork_and_watch_rm_rf()
181 - cg_pid_get_unit()
182 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
183 - scope dbus PIDs property needs to gain PIDFDs companion
184
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185* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
186
187* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
188 mode.
189
190* homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
191 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
192 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
193 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
194 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
195 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
196 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
197
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198* add ConditionSecurity=stub-measured or so that checks if we are booted with
199 systemd-stub and its measurements
200
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201* sd-boot should probably measure its configuration file to PCR 5 at boot, as
202 per TCG PC Client Platform Firmware Profile Spec.
203
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204* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for .socket units to "pause" overly
205 busy sockets temporarily. (as a less drastic version of the trigger
206 ratelimit)
207
208* similar, add the same for journal stream clients that log too much
209
210* systemd-mount sould only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
211 to systemd-dissect
212
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213* new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
214 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
215 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
216 run, per PCR
217 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
218 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
219 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
220 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
221 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
222 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
223 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
224 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
225 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
226 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
227 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
228 measurements might not be recognizable.
229 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
230 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
231 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
232 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
233 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
234 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
235 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
236 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
237 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
238 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
239 restricting it to the counter + 1.
240 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
241 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
242 them as singleton in ESP
243 13. increases the counter by one.
244 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
245 .extra
246 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
247 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
248 the counter
249 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
250 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
251 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
252 deterministically swapped out)
253 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
254 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
255 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
256 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
257 policy is generated and counter increased.
258 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
259 downgrades within bounds
260
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261* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
262 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
263 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
264 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
265 control of the attacker.
266
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267* also include packaging metadata (á la
268 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
269 same JSON format.
270
271* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
272 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
273 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
274 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
275 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
276 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
277 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
278 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
279 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
280 newer.
281
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282* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
283 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
284 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
285 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
286 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
287 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
288 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
289 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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291* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
292 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
293 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
294
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295* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
296 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
297 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
298 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 299 independently of any kernel.
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301* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
302 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
303 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
304 requested during switch root.
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306* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
307
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308* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
309 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
310 matched against OS.
311
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312* use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
313 without the other)
314
315* in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
316 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
317 sd-stub, explicitly.
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319* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
320 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
321 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
322
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323* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
324 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
325 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
326 namespaces)
327
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328* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
329 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
330
331* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
332 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
333 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
334
f447b741 335* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 336 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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337 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
338 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
339 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
340 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
341
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342* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
343 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 344 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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345 used transiently, never persistently.
346
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347* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
348 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
349 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
350 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
351 based on lo_file_name.
352
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353* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
354
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355* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
356 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
357 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
358 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
359 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
360 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
361 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
362 activation-by-message id and similar.
363
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364* .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
365
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366* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
367 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
368 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
369 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
370
371* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
372 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
373 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
374 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
375 similar behaviour for system services, too.
376
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377* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
378 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
379 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
380
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381* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
382
383* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
384 localed, oomd, timedated.
385
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386* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
387 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
388 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
389 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
390 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
391 signed by U.
392 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
393 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
394 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
395 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
396 next boot
397 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
398 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
399 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
400 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
401 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
402 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
403 later boot.
404 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
405 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
406 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
407 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
408 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
409
410* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
411 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
412 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
413 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
414 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
415 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 416 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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417 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
418 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
419 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
420 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
421 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
422 access.
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424* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
425 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
426 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
427 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
428 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 429 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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430 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
431 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
432 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
433 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
434
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435* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
436 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
437
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438* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
439 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
440 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
441 for all umh processes.
442
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443* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
444 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
445
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446* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
447 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
448 resize.
449
450* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
451 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
452
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453* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
454 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
455 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
456 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
457 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
458 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
459 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
460 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
461 system actually reset.
462
463* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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464 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
465 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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467* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
468 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
469 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
470 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
471
4cb8a25b 472* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 473 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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474 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
475 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
476
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477* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
478 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
479 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
480 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
481 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
482
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483* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
484 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
485 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
486 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
487 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
488
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492 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
493 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
494 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
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497 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
498
499* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
500 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
501 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
502
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4cb8a25b 504 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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506* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
507 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
508 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
509 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
510 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
511 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
512 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
513 usual.
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516
517* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
518
519* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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522 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
523 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
524 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
525 sockaddr.
526
527* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
528 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
529 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
530 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
531 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
532 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
533 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
534 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
535 try to use inode from there.
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538 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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541 extensions
542
543* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
544 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
545 for the root fs or /usr/.
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548 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
549 combination thereof.
550
551* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
552 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
553 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
554 ahead of time.
555
556* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
557 aforementioned purpose.
558
559* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
560 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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563 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
564 to figure out:
565 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
566 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
567 subsequent boots?
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570 credentials. usecase: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
571 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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574 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
575 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
576 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
577 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
578 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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580 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
581 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
582 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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585 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
586 used)
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589 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
590 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
591 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
592 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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595 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
596 how PCR values we manage came to
597 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
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600 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
601 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
602 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 603 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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605
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607 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
608 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
609
610* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
611 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
612
613* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
614 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
615 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
616 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
617 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
618 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
619
620* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
621 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
622 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
623
624* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
625
626* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
627 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
628 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
629 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
630
631* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
632 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
633 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
634 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
635 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
636 only one for each OS.
637
638* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
639 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 640 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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642 boot, for the next.
643
644* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
645 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
646
647* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
648 similar behind it, instead of http.
649
650* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
651 boot, or on first boot.
652
653* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
654 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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657 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
658 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
659 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
660 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
661 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
662 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
663 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
664 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
665 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
666 until users are allowed to log in).
667
668* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
669 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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672 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
673 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
b60e0f57 674 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-confext
675 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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677 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
678 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 679 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
680 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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682
683* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
684 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
685 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
686 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
687 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 688 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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690 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 691 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
692 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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694 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
695 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 696 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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698 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
699 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
700 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 701 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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703 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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706 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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709 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
710
711* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
712 instead of manual blocking.
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715 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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718 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
719 supplied password.
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722 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
723 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
724 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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727 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
728 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
729 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
730
731* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
732 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
733 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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736 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
737 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
738
739* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
740 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
741 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
742 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
743 partition with a portable service partition in one.
744
745* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
746 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
747 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
748 modules
749
b60e0f57 750* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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752 a new name with a built-in config?
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755 maybe on kernel command line:
756 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
757 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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760 hash type, etc)
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764
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4e0ceefe 766 but final node is not a directory
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769 non-VFAT fs is used.
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773* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
774 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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781 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
782 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
783 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
784 affect PCR values.
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787 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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790 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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793 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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796 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
797
798* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
799 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
800
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803 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
804 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
805 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
806 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
807 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
808 ACPI resume events.
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812 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
813 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
814 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
815 use it.
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818 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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821 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
822 what it was signed.
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825 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
826 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
827 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
828 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
829 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
830 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
831 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
832 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
833 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
834 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
835 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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838 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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841 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
842 via the credentials logic.
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844 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
845 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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847 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
848 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
849 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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851 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
852 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
853 file system paths to enable on start.
854 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
855 usr=
856 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
857 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
858 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
859 account one can directly log into.
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861 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
862 pre-built kernels.
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865 runtime state. Then, expose it:
866
867 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
868 about the unit.
869 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
870 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
871 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
872 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
873 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
874 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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877 what to do if support ended
878
879* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 880 login time, à la motd
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9c18b363 883 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 884 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 885 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 886 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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889 initrd transition. Specifically:
890 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
891 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
892 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
893
894* implement varlink introspection
895
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47b86590 897 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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899 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
900 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
901 depending on desired level of persistency.
902
903* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
904 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 905 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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906 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
907 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
908 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
909 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
910 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
911
912* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
913 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
914 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
915 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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922 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
923 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
924 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
925 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
926 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
927 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
928 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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931 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
932 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
933 not unprivileged code.
934
935* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
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939 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
940 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
941 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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944 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
945 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
946 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 947 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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949 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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950 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
951 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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953* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
954 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
955 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
956 order.
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959 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
960 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
961 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
962 whenever they want.
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964* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
965 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
966 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
967
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969 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
970 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
971 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 972 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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973 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
974 IN_IGNORED again)
975
5b06ad51 976* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 977 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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978 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
979 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
980 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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981 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
982 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 983 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 984 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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985 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
986 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
987 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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990 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
991 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 992
03ede612 993* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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995 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 996 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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997 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
998 directly to host service manager.
999
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1001 no api to query the device id
1002
1003* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1004 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1005 also be queried.
1006
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1008 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1009 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1010 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1012* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1013 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1014 latter).
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1016* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1017
1018* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1019
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1020* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1021 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1022 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1023 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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1026 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1027 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
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1028 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1029 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1030 UEFI HTTP boot.
1031
1032* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1033 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1034 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1035 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1036 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1037 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1038 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1039 hence cheap for enumeration.
1040
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1042
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1043* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1044 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1045 words: show partition labels).
1046
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1048 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1049 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 1050 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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1052 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1053 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1054
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1056
e4f92a62 1057* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1059* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1060
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1061* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1062 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1063 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1064 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1065 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1066 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1067 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1068 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1069 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1070 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1071
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1073 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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1075* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1076 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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1078* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1079 jobs, units
1080
a57d72ce 1081* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1083 userspace)
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1088 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1089
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1092
1093* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1094 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1097 internal clock.
1098
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1099* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1100 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1101
1102* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1103 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1104 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1105 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1108 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1109 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1110
1111* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1112 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1113 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1114 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1115 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1116 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1117 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1118 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1119 thread:
1120 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1121 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1122 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1123 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1124 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1125 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1126
1127* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1128 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1129 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1130
1131* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1132 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1133 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1134 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1135 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1136 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1137 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1138 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1139 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1140 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1141 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1142 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1143 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1144 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1145 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1148 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1149 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1150 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1151 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1152 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1154* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1155 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1157
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1159 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1160 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1161 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1162 on-disk storage.
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1165 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1166 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1167 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1168 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1169
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1170* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1171 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1172 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1174* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1175 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1176 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1177 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1178 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1179 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1180 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1183 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1184 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1185 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1186
3fc0688d 1187* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1188 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1189 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1190 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1191 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1192 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1193 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1194 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1195 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1196 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1197 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1200 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1201 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1204
63a185dc 1205* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1207* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1208 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1209 that images cannot be misused.
1210
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178d3ff2 1212 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1213 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1214 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1215 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1216
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1218 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1219 - support casync as download mechanism
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1220 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1221 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1222 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1223 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1224 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1225 override the host's update files.)
1226 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1227 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1228 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1229 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1230
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1231* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1232
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1233* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1234 make dirs appear under right UID.
1235
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1236* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1237 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1238
24063ba1 1239* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1240 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1241 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1242 already have it.
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1244* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1245 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1246
1c904337 1247* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1249* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1250 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1251 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1252 /proc/self/fd/3
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1254* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1255 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1256 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1257
1258* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1259 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1260
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1261* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1262 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1264* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1265 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1266 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1267 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1268 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1270* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1271
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199b097d 1273 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1274 - acquire via ask-password?
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1275 - acquire creds via keyring?
1276 - pass creds via keyring?
1277 - pass creds via memfd?
1278 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1279 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1280 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1281 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1282 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1283 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1284 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1285 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1287* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1288 firmware indicates there is one.
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1290* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1291 and such
1292
1293* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1295* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
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7d7c75f1 1297* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1299
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1300* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1301 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1303* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1304
1305* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1306 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1307
1308* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1309 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1310
1311* cryptsetup:
1312 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1313 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1314
08d33656 1315* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1317* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1318 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1319
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1321 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1322
f461a28d 1323* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1324 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1325
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1326* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1327
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1328* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1329
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1330* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1331
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1332* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1333 when it exits
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1335* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1336 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1337 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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1340 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1341 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1342 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1343 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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1345* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1346 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1347 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1348
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1349* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1350 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1351
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1352* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1353
1354* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1355 specific service
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1357* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1358 exists and responds.
1359
91fc013f 1360* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1361 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1362
7e8facb3 1363* unify on openssl:
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1364 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1365 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1366 gnutls
1367 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1369* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1370 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1371
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1372* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1373 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1375* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1376
2a4be3c5 1377* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1378
f1eb0ccd 1379* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1381* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1382 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1383 initrd had set.
1384
173c7873 1385* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1386 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1387 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1388 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1389 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1390 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1391
1392* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1393 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1394 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1395
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1396* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1397 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1398 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1399 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1400 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1401 source.
1402
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1403* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1404 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1405 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1406
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1407* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1408
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1409* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1410 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1411 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1412 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1413 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1414 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1415 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1416 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1417 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1418 hibernation mode. (see
1419 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1420 section 10.2.2.8 and
1421 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1422 at the end).
1423
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1425 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1426
c6526b8d 1427* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1429* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1430 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1431 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1432 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1433 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1434 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1435 exec().
1436
1437* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1438
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1439* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1440 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1441
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1442* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1443 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1444
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1445* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1446 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1447 root.
1448
1449* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1450 is issued.
1451
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1452* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1453
1454* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1455
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1456* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1457 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1458 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1459
d238709c 1460* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1461 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1462 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1463
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1464* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1465
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1466* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1467 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1468
06898123 1469* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1470 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1471 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1472 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1474* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1475
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1476* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1477
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1478* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1479 non-zero "tries done" count
1480
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1481* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1482 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1483 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1484 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1485 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1486 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1487 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1488 CODE_FILE.
1489
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1490* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1491 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1492 some explanatory text online.
1493
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1494* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1495
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1496* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1497 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1498
d1797c42 1499* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1501* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1502 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1503
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1504* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1505 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1506 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1507 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1509* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1510
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1511* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1512
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1513* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1514 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1515
5da19043 1516* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1517 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1519* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1520 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1521 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1522 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1523 unlinked from any dir.
1524
bd1b3f75 1525* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1527* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1528
1529* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1530
53c70a27 1531* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1532 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1533 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1534 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1535 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1536
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1537* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1538
1539* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1540
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1541* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1542 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1543
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1544* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1545 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1546 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1547 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1548 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1549 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1550 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1551 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1552
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1553* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1554 for root, but only then.
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1556* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1557 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1558
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1559* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1560 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1561
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1562* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1563 only when used. Add unit tests.
1564
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1565* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1566 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1567
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1568* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1569 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1570 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1571 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1572 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1573
899feb72 1574* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1575
5f7ecd61 1576* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1577
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1578* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1579 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1580
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1581* blog about fd store and restartable services
1582
1583* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1584
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1585* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1586 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1587
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1588* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1589 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1590 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1591 ID is available.
1592
1593* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1594 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1595 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1596
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1597* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1598 parameters
1599
63a185dc 1600* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1601 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1602 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1603 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1604 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1605 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1606 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1608* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1609 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1610
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1611* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1612 about it in the resource log message
1613
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1614* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1615 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1616 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1617
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1618* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1619 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1620
1621 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1622
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1623* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1624 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1625 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1626
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1627* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1628 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1629
1630* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1631 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1632 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1633 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1634 natural habitat.
1635
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1636* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1637 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1639* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1640 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1641 relative to the configured default value.
1642
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1643* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1644
04397464 1645* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1647* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1648
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1649* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1650
04397464 1651* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1652
04397464 1653* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1654
04397464 1655* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1656
8ce9b83a 1657* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1658
1659* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1660 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1661 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1662
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1663* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1664 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1665
e40a326c 1666* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1667
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1668* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1669 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1670 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1671 mapping to work.
1672
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1673* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1674
1675* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1676
1677* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1678
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1679* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1680 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1681
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1682* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1683 reload the unit file anyway
1684
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1685* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1686
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1687* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1688
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1689* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1690 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1691
f9bf1b8f 1692* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1693 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1694 specifications.
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1696* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1697
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1698* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1699
a2088fd0 1700* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1701 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1702 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1703 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1705* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1706
931bc195 1707* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1708
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1709* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1710 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1711 state.
41d6f3bf 1712 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1714* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1715 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1716 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1717 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1718 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1719
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1720* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1721
d2f81fb0 1722* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1723 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1724
0a86c1a9 1725* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1726 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1727
e031c227 1728* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1729 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1730
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1731* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1732
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1733* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1734 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1735
25e773ee 1736* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1737
720652b3 1738* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1739
720652b3 1740* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1741
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1742* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1743 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1744
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1745* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1746
9d6db739 1747* resolved:
9d6db739 1748 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1749 - service registration
1750 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1751 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1752 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1753 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1754 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1755 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1756 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1757 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1758
e25b5a8d 1759* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1760
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1761* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1762
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1763* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1764
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1765* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1766
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1767* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1768
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1769* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1770 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1771
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1772* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1773
6a3f892a 1774* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1775 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1776 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1777
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1778* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1779 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1780 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1781
f9bf1b8f 1782* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1783
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1784* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1785 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1786 for ReusePort=
1787
f38afcd0 1788* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1789 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1790 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1791 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1792 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1793 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1794 the hierarchies of child processes
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1795- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1796 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1797
f38afcd0 1798* transient units:
f38afcd0 1799 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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1801* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1802
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1803* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1804
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1805* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1806
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1807* 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
1808
7f79cd71 1809* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1810
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1811* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1812 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1813 path anyway.
1814
04397464 1815* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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1817* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1818
1819* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1820
07eabc2b 1821* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1822
07eabc2b 1823* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1824
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1825* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1826
1827* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1828 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1829 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1830
1831* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1832 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1833
1834* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1835
1836* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1837
1838* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1839
1840* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1841 needs to be auto-respawned?
1842
1843* pid1:
1844 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1845 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1846 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1847 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1848 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1849 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1850 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1851 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1852 - move PAM code into its own binary
1853 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1854 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1855 - Support --test based on current system state
1856 - 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().
1857 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1858 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1859 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1860 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1861 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1862 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1863 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1864 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1865 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1866 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1867 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1868 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1869
1870* unit files:
1871 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1872 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1873 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1874 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1875 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1876 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1877 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1878 - introduce Type=pid-file
1879 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1880 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1881 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1882
1883* timer units:
63a185dc 1884 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1885 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1886
1887* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1888
1889* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1890
1891* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1892
1893* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1894
07eabc2b 1895* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1896
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1897* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1898
1899* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1900
fff87a35 1901* test/:
20d52ab6 1902 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1903
b5c03638 1904* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1905 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1906 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1907 destination.
1908
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1909* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1910 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1911
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1912* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1913
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1914* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1915 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1916 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1917
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1918* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1919 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1920
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1921* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1922 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1923 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1924 that automatically.
1925
e5ec62c5 1926* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1927
ccddd104 1928* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1929
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1930* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1931
356ce991 1932* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1933
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1934* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1935
1936* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1937
1938* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1939
1940* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1941
1942* sd-bus:
1943 - EBADSLT handling
1944 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1945 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1946 - 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
1947 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1948 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1949 - longer term: priority inheritance
1950 - dbus spec updates:
1951 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1952 - path escaping
1953 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1954
1955* sd-event
1956 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1957 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1958 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1959 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1960 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1961 here:
1962 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1963
1964* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1965 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1966
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1968
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1969* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1970
1971* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1972
1973* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1974
b44be3ec 1975* EFI:
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1976 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1977 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1978 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1979* bootctl
631427d6 1980 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1981
07eabc2b 1982* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1983
07eabc2b 1984* bootctl:
483091b0 1985 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1986 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1987 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 1988
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1989* logind:
1990 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1991 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1992 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1993 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1994 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1995 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1996 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1997 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1998 needs setuid().
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1999 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2000 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2001 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2002 complete.
2003 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2004 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2005 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2006 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2007 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2008 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2009 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2010 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2011 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2012 relogins
77b19caf 2013 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2014 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2015 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2016 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2018* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2019
2020* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2021 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2022 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2023
2024* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2025 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2026
b44be3ec 2027* journal:
57f2a947 2028 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2029 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2030 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2031 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2032 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2033 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2034 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2035 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2036 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2037 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2038 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2039 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2040 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2041 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2042 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2043 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2044 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2045 - 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.
2046 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2047 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2048 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2049 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2050 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2051 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2052 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2053 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2054 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2055 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2056 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2057 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2058 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2059 to syslog when it works again.
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2060 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2061 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2062 journals in.
2063 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2064 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2065 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2066 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2067 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2068 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2069 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2070 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2071 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2072 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2073 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2074 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2075 operation.
2076 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2077 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2078 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2079 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2080 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2081 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2082 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2083 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2084 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2085 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2087* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2088 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2089
2090* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2091 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2092 validated via TPM.
2093
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2095 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2096 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2097
2098* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2099 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2100 cursors as they happen.
2101
2102* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2103 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2104 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2105 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2106 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2107 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2108 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2109 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2110 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2111
2112* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2113 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2114 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2115 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2116 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2118
2119* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2120 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2121 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2122 records, to be able to order them.
2123
2124* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2125 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2126 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2127 be safely written to disk, then.
2128
2129* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2130 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2131 inspiration from IMA log)
2132
2133* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2134 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2135 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2136
2137* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2138 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2139 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2140 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2141 for doing that.
2142
2143* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2144 log.c and sd-journal-send
2145
2146* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2147 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2148 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2149 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2150 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2151 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2152 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2153 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2154 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2155 an NTP sync is acquired.
2156
2157* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2158
2159* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2160 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2161 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2162
2163* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2164 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2165 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2166 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2167 cgroup.
2168
2169* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2170 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2171 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2172 logging.
2173
2174* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2175
2176* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2177 from the SIGBUS handler
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2180 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2181 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2182 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2183
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2185 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2186
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2187* homed:
2188 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2189 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2190 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2191 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2192 - create on activate?
2193 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2194 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2195 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2196 systemd --user is shut down.
2197 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2198 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2199 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2200 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2201 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2202 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2203 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2204 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2205 - query password from kernel keyring first
2206 - update even if record is "absent"
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2207 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2208 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2209 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2210 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2211 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2212 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2213 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2214 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2215 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2216 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2217 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2218 signature
2219 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2220 and insert a local signature instead.
2221 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2222 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2223 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2224 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2225 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2226 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2227 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2228 easily?
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2229 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2230 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2231 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2232 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2233 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2234 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2235 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2236 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2237 can easily set overall quota for all users
2238 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2239 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2240 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2241 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2242 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2243 large.
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2245* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2246 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2247 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2248
2df2bb1f 2249* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2250
2251* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2252 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2253 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2254 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2255
2256* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2257
2258* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2259 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2260 something goes wrong on the way.
2261
2262* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2263
2264* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2265 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2266 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2267 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2268
2269* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2270 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2271 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2272 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2273 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2274 automatically.
2275
2276* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2277 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2278
2279* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2280 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2281 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2282 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2283 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2284 fails to apply use the latter.
2285
2286* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2287 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2288
2289* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2290 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2291
2292* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2293 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2294 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2295
2296* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2297 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2298
92e72028 2299* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2300 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2301 during boot.
2302
2303* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2304
b44be3ec 2305* document:
8b8f2591 2306 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2307 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2308 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2309 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2310 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2311 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2312 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2313 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2314 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2315 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2316 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2317 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2318
2319* systemctl:
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2320 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2321 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2322 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2323 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2324 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2325 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2326 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2327 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2328 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2329 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2330
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2331* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2332 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2333 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2334
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2335* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2336 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2337 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2338
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2339* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2340 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2341 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2342
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2343* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2344 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2345
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2346* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2347 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2348 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2349 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2350
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2351* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2352 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2353 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2354 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2355
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2356* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2357
2358* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2359
2360* unit install:
2361 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2362 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2363
b44be3ec 2364* nspawn:
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2365 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2366 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2367 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2368 from the kernel's logs.
2369 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2370 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2371 interface be missing
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2372 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2373 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2374 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2375 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2376 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2377 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2378 PID 1...
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2379 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2380 running, remove them when shut down.
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2381 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2382 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2383 startup.
2384 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2385 or so, freeze the payload too.
2386 - support time namespaces
2387 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2388 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2389 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2390 "machinectl shell"
2391 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2392 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2393 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2394 - greater control over selinux label?
2395 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2396 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2397 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2398 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2399 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2400 host TPM.
2401 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2402 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2403 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2404 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2405 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2406 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2407 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2408 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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2409 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2410 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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2411 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2412 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2413 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2414
2415* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2416 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2417 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2418 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2419 anything like that.
2420
e25b5a8d 2421* machined:
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2422 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2423 removed or added to an existing machine
2424 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2425 difference host, via ssh
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2426 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2427 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2428 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2429 question
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2430 - "machinectl history"
2431 - "machinectl diff"
2432 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2433 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2434
abd55b16 2435* udev:
abd55b16 2436 - move to LGPL
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2437 - kill scsi_id
2438 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2439 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2440 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2441 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2442
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2443* coredump:
2444 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2445 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2446 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2447
2448* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2449
f38afcd0 2450* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2451 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2452 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2453 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2454 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2455 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2456 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2457 - add --test mode
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2458 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2459 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2460 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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ZJS
2461 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2462 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2463
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2464* udev-link-config:
2465 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2466 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2467 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2468
88e4d1d7 2469* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2470 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2471 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2472
0a4b9a07 2473* networkd:
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2474 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2475 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2476 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2477 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2478 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2479 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2480 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2481 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2482 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2483 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2484 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2485 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2486 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2487 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2488 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2489 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2490 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2491 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2492
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2493* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2494
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ZJS
2495* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2496
ac976532 2497* dhcp:
424a8732 2498 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2499
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2500* dhcp6:
2501 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2502 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2503 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2504 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2505 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2506 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2507 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2508 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2509 or interface down
2510 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2511 this behavior
4a77c53d 2512 - RouteTable= ?
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2513
2514* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2515 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2516 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)