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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 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
24
25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
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78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
c6407108 93
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94* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
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99* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 101 is only supported for such old kernels.
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9eb41aab 103* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 104 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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105 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
106 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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107 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
108
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109* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
110 baseline is 5.8.
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112* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
113 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
114
3345802c 115* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 116 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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118* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
119
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120* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
121
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122* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
123 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
124 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
125
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126Features:
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128* gpt-auto-generator: generate device names via /dev/disk/by-diskseq/ to pin
129 the medium
130
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131* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
132 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
133 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
134 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
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136* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
137 lines. THen, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
138 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
139 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
140
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141* fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
142 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
143 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
144 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
145 which isn't quite the same.
146
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147* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
148 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
149 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
150 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
151 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
152
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153* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
154 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
155 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
156 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
157 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
158
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159* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
160
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161* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
162 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
163 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
164 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
165
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166* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
167
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168* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
169 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
170
171* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
172 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
173 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
174
6d040d84 175* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 176 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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178* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
179 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
180 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
181 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
182 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
183 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
184 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
185 usual.
186
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187* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
188
189* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
190
191* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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193* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
194 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
195 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
196 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
197 sockaddr.
198
199* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
200 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
201 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
202 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
203 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
204 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
205 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
206 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
207 try to use inode from there.
208
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209* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
210 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
211
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212* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
213 extensions
214
215* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
216 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
217 for the root fs or /usr/.
218
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219* extend systemd-measure with an --append= mode when signing expected PCR
220 measurements. In this mode the tool should read an existing signature JSON
221 object (which primarily contains an array with the actual signature data),
222 and then append the new signature to it instead of writing out an entirely
223 JSON object. Usecase: it might make sense to to sign a UKI's expected PCRs
224 with different keys for different boot phases. i.e. use keypair X for signing
225 the expected PCR in the initrd boot phase and keypair Y for signing the
226 expected PCR in the main boot phase. Via the --append logic we could merge
227 these signatures into one object, and then include the result in the UKI.
228 Then, if you bind a LUKS volume to public key X it really only can be
229 unlocked during early boot, and you bind a LUKS volume to public key Y it
bcf04e9b 230 really only can be unlocked during later boot, and so on.
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232* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
233 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
234 combination thereof.
235
236* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
237 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
238 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
239 ahead of time.
240
241* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
242 aforementioned purpose.
243
244* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
245 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
246
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247* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
248 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
249 to figure out:
250 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
251 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
252 subsequent boots?
253
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254* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
255 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
256 inspiration from IMA log)
257
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258* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
259 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
260 out to our tools.
261
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262* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
263 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
264 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
265 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
266 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
267 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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268 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
269 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
270 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
271 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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273* move discoverable partition spec and boot loader spec over to uapi group
274
275* maybe measure UUIDs of important mounted file systems (after mount, via the
276 new ioctls to query them) into PCR 15? Add "x-systemd.measure-pcr=" or so for
277 this that pulls in a per mount service?
278
279* measure /etc/machine-id during early boot into PCR 15?
280
281* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
282 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
283 used)
284
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285* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
286 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
287 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
288 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
289 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
290
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291* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
292 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
293 how PCR values we manage came to
294 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
295
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296* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
297 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
298 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
299 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 300 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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301 should win over vendor defaults.
302
303* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
304 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
305 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
306 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
307 command lines.
308
309* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
310 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
311 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
312
313* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
314 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
315
316* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
317 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
318 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
319 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
320 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
321 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
322
323* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
324 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
325 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
326
327* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
328
329* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
330 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
331 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
332 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
333
334* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
335 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
336 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
337 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
338 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
339 only one for each OS.
340
341* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
342 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 343 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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344 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
345 boot, for the next.
346
347* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
348 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
349
350* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
351 similar behind it, instead of http.
352
353* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
354 boot, or on first boot.
355
356* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
357 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
358
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359* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
360 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
361 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
362 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
363 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
364 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
365 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
366 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
367 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
368 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
369 until users are allowed to log in).
370
371* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
372 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
373
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374* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
375 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
376 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
377 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
378 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
379 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
380 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
381 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
382 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
383 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
384 automatically invalidated outside of it.
385
386* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
387 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
388 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
389 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
390 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 391 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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392 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
393 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
394 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
395 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
396 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
397 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
398 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
399 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
400 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
401 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
402 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
403 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
404 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
405 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
406 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
407
408* Always measure the LUKS rootfs volume key into PCR 15, and derive the machine
409 ID from it securely. This would then allow us to bind secrets a specific
410 system securely.
411
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412* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
413 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
414
415* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
416 instead of manual blocking.
417
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418* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
419 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
420
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421* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
422 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
423 supplied password.
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425* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
426 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
427 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
428 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
429
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430* systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
431 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
432 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
433 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
434
435* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
436 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
437 automatically derived from --private-key=).
438
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439* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
440
441* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
442
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443* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
444 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
445 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
446
447* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
448 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
449 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
450 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
451 partition with a portable service partition in one.
452
453* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
454 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
455 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
456 modules
457
458* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
459 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
460 a new name with a built-in config?
461
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462* gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
463 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
464
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465* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
466 maybe on kernel command line:
467 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
468 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
469
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470* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
471 hash type, etc)
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473* chase_symlinks(): take inspiraton from path_extract_filename() and return
474 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
475
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476* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
477 but final node is not a directory
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479* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
480 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
481
482* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
483 non-VFAT fs is used.
484
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485* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
486
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487* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
488 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
489
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490* pick up creds from EFI vars
491
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492* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
493 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
494 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
495 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
496 affect PCR values.
497
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499 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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501* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
502 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
503
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504* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
505 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
506
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508 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
509
510* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
511 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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514 maybe some other stuff and boots it
515
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518 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
519 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
520 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
521 use it.
522
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523* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
524 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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526* PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
527 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
528 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
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531 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
532 what it was signed.
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535 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
536 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
537 be safely written to disk, then.
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540 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
541 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
542 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
543 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
544 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
545 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
546 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
547 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
548 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
549 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
550 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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553 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
554
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557 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
558 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
559 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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562 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
563 via the credentials logic.
564 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
565 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
566 integrity-generator)
567 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
568 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
569 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
570 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
571 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
572 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
573 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
574 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
575 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
576 file system paths to enable on start.
577 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
578 usr=
579 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
580 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
581 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
582 account one can directly log into.
583 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
584 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
585 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
586 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
587 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
588 pre-built kernels.
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591 runtime state. Then, expose it:
592
593 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
594 about the unit.
595 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
596 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
597 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
598 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
599 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
600 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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603 for this on dbus)
604
605* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
606 what to do if support ended
607
608* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
609 login time, á la motd
610
e1b45a75 611* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 612 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 613 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 614 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 615 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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618 initrd transition. Specifically:
619 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
620 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
621 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
622
623* implement varlink introspection
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626 chase_symlinks() instead
627
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47b86590 629 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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631 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
632 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
633 depending on desired level of persistency.
634
635* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
636 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
637 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
638 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
639 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
640 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
641 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
642 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
643
644* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
645 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
646 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
647 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
648
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650
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654 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
655 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
656 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
657 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
658 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
659 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
660 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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663 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
664 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
665 not unprivileged code.
666
667* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
668 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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671 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
672 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
673 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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676 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
677 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
678 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
679 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
680 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
681 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
682 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
683 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
684
685* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
686 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
687 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
688 order.
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691 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
692 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
693 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
694 whenever they want.
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696* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
697 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
698 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
699
700* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
701 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
702 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
703 acquire.
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706 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
707 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
708 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 709 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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711 IN_IGNORED again)
712
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714 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
715 virtio-fs.
716
717* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 718 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 719 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 720 on verification if in secureboot mode
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722 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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724 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
725 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
726 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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727 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
728 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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730 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 731 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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733 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
734 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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737 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
738 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
739 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
740 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
741 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
742 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
743 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
744 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
745 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
746 service runtime logic quite substantially.
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749 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
750 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
751
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754 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
755 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
756 friends.)
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759 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
760 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 761 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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763 directly to host service manager.
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766 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
767 configure socket address.
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772 no api to query the device id
773
774* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
775 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
776 also be queried.
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779 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
780 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
781 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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784 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
785 latter).
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787* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
788
789* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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791* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
792 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
793 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
794 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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797 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
798 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
799 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
800 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
801 UEFI HTTP boot.
802
803* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
804 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
805 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
806 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
807 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
808 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
809 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
810 hence cheap for enumeration.
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813
814* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
815 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
816 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
817 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
818 comprehensively.
819
820* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
821 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
822 words: show partition labels).
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825 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
826 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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829 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
830 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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833
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836* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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839 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
840 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
841 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
842 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
843 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
844 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
845 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
846 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
847 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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850 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
851 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
852 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
853 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
854 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
855 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
856 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
857 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
858 an NTP sync is acquired.
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861 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
862 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
863 call it at the end only
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866 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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869 jobs, units
870
a57d72ce 871* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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873 userspace)
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878 json package metadata, and use that when logging
879
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882
883* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
884 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
885
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886* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
887 internal clock.
888
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889* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
890 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
891
892* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
893 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
894 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
895 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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898 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
899 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
900
901* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
902 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
903 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
904 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
905 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
906 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
907 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
908 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
909 thread:
910 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
911 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
912 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
913 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
914 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
915 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
916
917* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
918 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
919 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
920
921* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
922 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
923 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
924 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
925 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
926 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
927 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
928 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
929 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
930 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
931 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
932 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
933 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
934 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
935 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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938 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
939 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
940 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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942 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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944* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
945 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
946 dep in the base OS image)
947
948* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 949 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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950
951* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
952 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
953 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
954 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
955 on-disk storage.
956
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957* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
958 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
959 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
960 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
961 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
962
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963* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
964 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
965 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
966 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
967 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
968 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
969 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
970
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971* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
972 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
973 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
974 externally and provide to us on demand only.
975
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976* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
977 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
978 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
979 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
980 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
981 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
982 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
983 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
984
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985 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
986 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
987 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 988 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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989 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
990 take --image= that take the same short string.
991
3fc0688d 992* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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993 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
994 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
995 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
996 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
997 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
998 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
999 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1000 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1001 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1002 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1004* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1005 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1006 authentication.
1007
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1008* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1009 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1010 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1012* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1013
63a185dc 1014* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1016* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1017 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1018 that images cannot be misused.
1019
aca8ecc3 1020* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1021 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1022 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1023 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1024 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1025
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1026* sysupdate:
1027 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1028 - support casync as download mechanism
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1029 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1030 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1031 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1032 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1033 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1034 override the host's update files.)
1035 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1036 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1037 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1038 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1039
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1040* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1041
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1042* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1043 make dirs appear under right UID.
1044
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1045* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1046 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1047
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1048* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1049 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1050 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1051 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1052 for doing that.
1053
24063ba1 1054* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1055 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1056 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1057 already have it.
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1059* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1060 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1061
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1062* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
1063 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
1064 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
1065 socket: connect() to it.
1066
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1067* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1068
1069* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1070 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1071 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1072 /proc/self/fd/3
1073
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1074* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1075 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1076 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1077
1078* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1079 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1080
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1081* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1082 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1083
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1084* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1085 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1086 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1087 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1088 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1089
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1090* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1091
199b097d 1092* credentials system:
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1093 - acquire from EFI variable?
1094 - acquire via via ask-password?
1095 - acquire creds via keyring?
1096 - pass creds via keyring?
1097 - pass creds via memfd?
1098 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1099 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1100 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1101 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1102 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1103 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1104 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1105 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
199b097d 1106
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1107* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1108 firmware indicates there is one.
07eabc2b 1109
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1110* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1111 and such
1112
1113* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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1115* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1116
7d7c75f1 1117* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1118 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1119
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1120* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1121 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1122
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1123* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1124
1125* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1126 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1127
1128* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1129 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1130
1131* cryptsetup:
1132 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1133 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1134
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1135* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1136 it happens to be set up alright already.
1137
1138* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1139
1140* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1141 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1142 default.
1143
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1144* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1145 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1146 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1147 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1148 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1149
08d33656 1150* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1151
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1152* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1153 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1154
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1155* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1156 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1157 temporary dir.
1158
1159* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1160 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1161
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1162* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1163 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1164
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1165* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1166
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1167* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1168
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1169* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1170
1171* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1172
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1173* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1174 when it exits
1175
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1176* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1177 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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1178 - p11-kit-trust (always)
1179 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1180 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1181 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1182 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1183 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1184 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1185 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1186
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1187* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1188 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1189 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1190
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1191* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1192 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1193
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1194* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1195
1196* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1197 specific service
1198
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1199* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1200 exists and responds.
1201
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1202* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1203 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1204 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1205
91fc013f 1206* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1207 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1208
7e8facb3 1209* unify on openssl:
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1210 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1211 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1212 gnutls
1213 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
492f91d8 1214
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1215* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1216 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1217
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1218* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1219 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1220
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1221* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1222
2a4be3c5 1223* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1224
f1eb0ccd 1225* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1226
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1227* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1228 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1229 initrd had set.
1230
173c7873 1231* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1232 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1233 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1234 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1235 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1236 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1237
1238* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1239 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1240 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1241
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1242* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1243 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1244 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1245 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1246 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1247 source.
1248
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1249* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1250 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1251 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1252
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1253* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1254
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1255* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1256 the hibernation
1257
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1258* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1259 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1260 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1261 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1262 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1263 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1264 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1265 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1266 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1267 hibernation mode. (see
1268 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1269 section 10.2.2.8 and
1270 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1271 at the end).
1272
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1273* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1274 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1275
c6526b8d 1276* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1277
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1278* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1279 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1280 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1281 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1282 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1283 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1284 exec().
1285
1286* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1287
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1288* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1289 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1290
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1291* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1292 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1293
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1294* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1295 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1296 root.
1297
1298* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1299 is issued.
1300
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1301* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1302
1303* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1304
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1305* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1306 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1307 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1308
d238709c 1309* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1310 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1311 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1312
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1313* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1314
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1315* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1316 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1317
06898123 1318* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1319 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1320 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1321 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1323* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1324
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1325* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1326 log.c and sd-journal-send
1327
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1328* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1329
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1330* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1331
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1332* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1333 non-zero "tries done" count
1334
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1335* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1336 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1337 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1338 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1339 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1340 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1341 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1342 CODE_FILE.
1343
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1344* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1345 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1346 some explanatory text online.
1347
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1348* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1349
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1350* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1351 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1352
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1353* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1354 Specifically:
1355
1356 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1357 properly)
e83419d0 1358 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1359 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1360
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1361* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1362 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1363
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1364* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1365 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1366 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1367 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1368
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1369* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1370
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1371* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1372
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1373* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1374 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1375
5da19043 1376* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1377 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1379* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1380 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1381 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1382 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1383 unlinked from any dir.
1384
bd1b3f75 1385* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1387* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1388
1389* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1390
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1391* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1392 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1393 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1394 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1395 should reflink the image file itself.
1396
1397 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1398 specific paths only like this.
1399
53c70a27 1400* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1401 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1402 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1403 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1404 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1405
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1406* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1407
1408* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1409
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1410* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1411 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1412
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1413* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1414 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1415 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1416 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1417 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1418 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1419 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1420 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1421
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1422* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1423 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1424
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1425* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1426
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1427* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1428 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1429
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1430* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1431 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1432
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1433* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1434 only when used. Add unit tests.
1435
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1436* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1437 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1438
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1439* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1440 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1441 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1442 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1443 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1444
899feb72 1445* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1447* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1448 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1449 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1450
5f7ecd61 1451* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1453* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1454 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1455
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1456* blog about fd store and restartable services
1457
1458* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1459
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1460* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1461 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1462
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1463* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1464 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1465 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1466 ID is available.
1467
1468* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1469 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1470 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1471
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1472* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1473 parameters
1474
63a185dc 1475* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1476 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1477 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1478 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1479 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1480 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1481 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1483* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1484 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1485
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1486* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1487 about it in the resource log message
1488
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1489* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1490 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1491 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1492
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1493* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1494 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1495
1496 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1497
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1498* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1499 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1500 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1501
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1502* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1503 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1504
1505* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1506 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1507 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1508 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1509 natural habitat.
1510
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1511* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1512 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1514* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1515 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1516 relative to the configured default value.
1517
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1518* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1519
04397464 1520* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1522* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1523
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1524* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1525
04397464 1526* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1527
04397464 1528* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1529
04397464 1530* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1531
8ce9b83a 1532* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1534* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1535 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1536 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1537
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1538* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1539 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1540
e40a326c 1541* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1542
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1543* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1544 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1545 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1546 mapping to work.
1547
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1548* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1549
1550* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1551
1552* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1553
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1554* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1555 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1556
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1557* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1558 reload the unit file anyway
1559
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1560* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1561
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1562* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1563
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1564* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1565 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1566
f9bf1b8f 1567* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1568 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1569 specifications.
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1571* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1572
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1573* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1574
a2088fd0 1575* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1576 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1577 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1578 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1580* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1581
931bc195 1582* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1583
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1584* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1585 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1586 state.
41d6f3bf 1587 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1589* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1590 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1591 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1592 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1593 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1594
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1595* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1596
d2f81fb0 1597* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1598 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1599
0a86c1a9 1600* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1601 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1602
e031c227 1603* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1604 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1605
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1606* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1607
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1608* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1609 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1610
25e773ee 1611* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1612
720652b3 1613* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1614
720652b3 1615* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1616
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1617* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1618
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1619* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1620 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1621
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1622* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1623
9d6db739 1624* resolved:
9d6db739 1625 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1626 - service registration
1627 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1628 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1629 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1630 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1631 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1632 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1633 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1634 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1635
e25b5a8d 1636* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1637
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1638* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1639
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1640* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1641
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1642* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1643
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1644* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1645
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1646* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1647 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1649* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1650
6a3f892a 1651* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1652 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1653 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1654
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1655* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1656 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1657 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1658
f9bf1b8f 1659* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1660
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1661* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1662 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1663 for ReusePort=
1664
f38afcd0 1665* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1666 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1667 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1668 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1669 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1670 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1671 the hierarchies of child processes
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1672- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1673 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1674
f38afcd0 1675* transient units:
f38afcd0 1676 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1677
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1678* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1679
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1680* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1681
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1682* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1683
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1684* 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
1685
7f79cd71 1686* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1687
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1688* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1689 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1690 path anyway.
1691
04397464 1692* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1693
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1694* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1695
1696* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1697
07eabc2b 1698* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1699
07eabc2b 1700* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1701
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1702* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1703
1704* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1705 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1706 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1707
1708* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1709 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1710
1711* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1712
1713* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1714
1715* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1716
1717* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1718 needs to be auto-respawned?
1719
1720* pid1:
1721 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1722 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1723 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1724 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1725 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1726 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1727 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1728 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1729 - move PAM code into its own binary
1730 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1731 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1732 - Support --test based on current system state
1733 - 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().
1734 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1735 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1736 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1737 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1738 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1739 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1740 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1741 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1742 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1743 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1744 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1745 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1746
1747* unit files:
1748 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1749 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1750 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1751 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1752 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1753 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1754 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1755 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1756 - introduce Type=pid-file
1757 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1758 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1759 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1760
1761* timer units:
63a185dc 1762 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1763 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1764
1765* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1766
1767* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1768
1769* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1770
1771* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1772
07eabc2b 1773* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1774
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1775* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1776
1777* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1778
fff87a35 1779* test/:
20d52ab6 1780 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1781
b5c03638 1782* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1783 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1784 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1785 destination.
1786
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1787* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1788 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1789
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1790* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1791
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1792* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1793 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1794 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1795
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1796* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1797 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1798
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1799* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1800 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1801 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1802 that automatically.
1803
e5ec62c5 1804* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1805
ccddd104 1806* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1807
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1808* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1809
356ce991 1810* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1811
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1812* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1813
1814* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1815
1816* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1817
1818* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1819
1820* sd-bus:
1821 - EBADSLT handling
1822 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1823 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1824 - 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
1825 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1826 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1827 - longer term: priority inheritance
1828 - dbus spec updates:
1829 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1830 - path escaping
1831 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1832
1833* sd-event
1834 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1835 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1836 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1837 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1838 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1839 here:
1840 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1841
1842* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1843 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1844
1845* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1846
1847* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1848
1849* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1850
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1851* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1852 reading/writing files
1853
1854* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1855
b44be3ec 1856* EFI:
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1857 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1858 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1859 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1860* bootctl
631427d6 1861 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1862
07eabc2b 1863* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1864
07eabc2b 1865* bootctl:
483091b0 1866 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1867 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1868 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1869
1870* kernel-install:
1871 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1872
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1873* logind:
1874 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1875 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1876 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1877 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1878 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1879 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1880 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1881 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1882 needs setuid().
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1883 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1884 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1885 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1886 complete.
1887 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1888 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1889 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1890 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1891 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1892 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1893 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1894 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1895 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1896 relogins
77b19caf 1897 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1898 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1899 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1900 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1901
1902* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1903
1904* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1905 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1906 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1907
1908* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1909 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1910
b44be3ec 1911* journal:
57f2a947 1912 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1913 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1914 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1915 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1916 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1917 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1918 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1919 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1920 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1921 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1922 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1923 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1924 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1925 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1926 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1927 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1928 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1929 - 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.
1930 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1931 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1932 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1933 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1934 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1935 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1936 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1937 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1938 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1939 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1940 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1941 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1942 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1943 to syslog when it works again.
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1944 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1945 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1946 journals in.
1947 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1948 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1949 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1950 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1951 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1952 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1953 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1954 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1955 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1956 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1957 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1958 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1959 operation.
1960 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1961 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1962 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1963 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1964 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1965 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1966 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1967 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1968 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1969 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1970
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1971* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1972 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1973
1974* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1975 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1976 validated via TPM.
1977
1978* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1979 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1980
1981* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1982 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1983 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1984
1985* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1986 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1987 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1988 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1989 cgroup.
1990
1991* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1992 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1993 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1994 logging.
1995
1996* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1997
1998* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1999 from the SIGBUS handler
2000
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2002 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2003 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2004 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2005
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2006* homed:
2007 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2008 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2009 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2010 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2011 - create on activate?
2012 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2013 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2014 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2015 systemd --user is shut down.
2016 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2017 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2018 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2019 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2020 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2021 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2022 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2023 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2024 - query password from kernel keyring first
2025 - update even if record is "absent"
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2026 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2027 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2028 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2029 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2030 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2031 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2032 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2033 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2034 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2035 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2036 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2037 signature
2038 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2039 and insert a local signature instead.
2040 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2041 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2042 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2043 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2044 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2045 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2046 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2047 easily?
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2048 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2049 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2050 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2051 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2052 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2053 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2054 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2055 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2056 can easily set overall quota for all users
2057 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2058 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2059 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2060 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2061 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2062 large.
07eabc2b 2063
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2064* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2065 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2066 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2067
2df2bb1f 2068* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2069
2070* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2071 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2072 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2073 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2074
2075* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2076
2077* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2078 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2079 something goes wrong on the way.
2080
2081* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2082
2083* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2084 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2085 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2086 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2087
2088* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2089 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2090 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2091 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2092 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2093 automatically.
2094
2095* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2096 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2097
2098* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2099 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2100 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2101 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2102 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2103 fails to apply use the latter.
2104
2105* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2106 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2107
2108* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2109 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2110
2111* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2112 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2113 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2114
2115* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2116 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2117
92e72028 2118* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2119 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2120 during boot.
2121
2122* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2123
b44be3ec 2124* document:
8b8f2591 2125 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2126 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2127 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2128 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2129 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2130 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2131 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2132 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2133 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2134 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2135 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2136 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2137
2138* systemctl:
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2139 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2140 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2141 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2142 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2143 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2144 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2145 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2146 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2147 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2148 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2149
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2150* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2151 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2152 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2153
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2154* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2155 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2156 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2157 output for them.
d2e83c23 2158
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2159* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2160 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2161 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2162
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2163* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2164 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2165 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2166
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2167* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2168 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2169
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2170* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2171 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2172 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2173 do, for example)
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2175* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2176 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2177 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2178 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2179
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2180* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2181
2182* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2183
2184* unit install:
2185 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2186 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2187
b44be3ec 2188* nspawn:
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2189 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2190 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2191 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2192 from the kernel's logs.
2193 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2194 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2195 interface be missing
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2196 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2197 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2198 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2199 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2200 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2201 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2202 PID 1...
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2203 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2204 running, remove them when shut down.
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2205 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2206 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2207 startup.
2208 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2209 or so, freeze the payload too.
2210 - support time namespaces
2211 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2212 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2213 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2214 "machinectl shell"
2215 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2216 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2217 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2218 - greater control over selinux label?
2219 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2220 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2221 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2222 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2223 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2224 host TPM.
2225 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2226 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2227 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2228 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2229 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2230 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2231 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2232 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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2233 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2234 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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2235 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2236 or two sockets.
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2237
2238* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2239 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2240 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2241 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2242 anything like that.
2243
e25b5a8d 2244* machined:
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2245 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2246 removed or added to an existing machine
2247 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2248 difference host, via ssh
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2249 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2250 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2251 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2252 question
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2253 - "machinectl history"
2254 - "machinectl diff"
2255 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2256 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2257
abd55b16 2258* udev:
abd55b16 2259 - move to LGPL
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2260 - kill scsi_id
2261 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2262 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2263 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2264 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2265
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2266* coredump:
2267 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2268 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2269 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2270
2271* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2272
f38afcd0 2273* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2274 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2275 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2276 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2277 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2278 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2279 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2280 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2281 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2282 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
1258097c 2283
af6f0d42
TG
2284* udev-link-config:
2285 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2286 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2287 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2288
88e4d1d7 2289* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2290 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2291 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2292
0a4b9a07 2293* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2294 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2295 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2296 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2297 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2298 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2299 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2300 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2301 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2302 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2303 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2304 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2305 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2306 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2307 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2308 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2309 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2310 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2311 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2312
07eabc2b
LB
2313* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2314
d5e172d2
ZJS
2315* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2316
ac976532 2317* dhcp:
424a8732 2318 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2319
37d8b536
PF
2320* dhcp6:
2321 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2322 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2323 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2324 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2325 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2326 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2327 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2328 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2329 or interface down
2330 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2331 this behavior
4a77c53d 2332 - RouteTable= ?