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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
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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25* register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27* zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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32* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36* write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
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f461a28d 74* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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75 calls instead.
76
77* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
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79* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
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83* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
b3e199ce 87* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
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92* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
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95Deprecations and removals:
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97* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
b3e199ce 100* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
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105* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 107 is only supported for such old kernels.
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109* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
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9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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121* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
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124* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
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128* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
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131Features:
132
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133* expose the handoff timestamp fully via the D-Bus properties that contain
134 ExecStatus information
135
136* properly serialize the ExecStatus data from all ExecCommand objects
137 associated with services, sockets, mounts and swaps. Currently, the data is
138 flushed out on reload, which is quite a limitation.
139
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140* Clean up "reboot argument" handling, i.e. set it through some IPC service
141 instead of directly via /run/, so that it can be sensible set remotely.
142
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143* userdb: add concept for user "aliases", to cover for cases where you can log
144 in under the name lennart@somenetworkfsserver, and it would automatically
145 generate a local user, and from the one both names can be used to allow
146 logins into the same account.
147
148* systemd-tpm2-support: add a some logic that detects if system is in DA
149 lockout mode, and queries the user for TPM recovery PIN then.
150
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151* systemd-repart should probably enable btrfs' "temp_fsid" feature for all file
152 systems it creates, as we have no interest in RAID for repart, and it should
153 make sure that we can mount them trivially everywhere.
154
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155* systemd-nspawn should get the same SSH key support that vmspawn now has.
156
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157* insert the new pidfs inode number as a third field into PidRef, so that
158 PidRef are reasonably serializable without having to pass around fds.
159
160* systemd-analyze smbios11 to dump smbios type 11 vendor strings
161
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162* move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
163 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
fcaa5105 164 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
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165 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
166
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167* vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
168 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
169 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
170 which uses 32bit words).
171
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172* In vmspawn/nspawn/machined wait for X_SYSTEMD_UNIT_ACTIVE=ssh-active.target
173 and X_SYSTEMD_SIGNAL_LEVEL=2 as indication whether/when SSH and the POSIX
174 signals are available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for
175 that). Report as property for the machine.
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177* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
178 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
179 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
180 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
181 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
182 as primary way into the container.
183
184* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
185 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
186 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
187 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
188 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
189 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
190 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
191 it for the invoking user.
192
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193* make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
194 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
195 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
196 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
197 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
198
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199* machined: allow running in a per-user instance too, to allow unpriv
200 systemd-nspawn and systemd-vmspawn do something useful. (Alternatively: open
201 up system machined to unpriv client's registering their machines, and enforce
202 they come with some prefix or suffix that clarifies they are the
203 user's. i.e. when a user registers a machine it must be called
204 foobar.<username> or so.).
205
206* importd/…: define per-user dirs for container/VM images too.
207
666a348d 208* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
630023e2 209 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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211* importd/importctl
212 - import generator
213 - port tar handling to libarchive
214 - add varlink interface
215 - download images into .v/ dirs
216
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217* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
218 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
219 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
220
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221* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
222 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
223 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
224 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
225 exit code propagation
226
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227* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
228 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
229 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
230 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
231 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
232
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233* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
234
10e3f15a 235* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 236 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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237 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
238 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
239
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240* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
241 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
242 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
243 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
244
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245* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
246 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
247
248* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
249
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250* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
251 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
252 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
253 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
254 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
255 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
256
257* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
258 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
259 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
260
261* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
262 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
263
264* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 265 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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266 actually works too when run with user privs.
267
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268* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
269 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
270 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
271 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
272
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273* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
274 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
275
276* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
277 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
278 and unix-export dir of containers.
279
73d8041c 280* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 281 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
7aed4343 282 run0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
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284* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
285 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
286 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
287 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
288
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289* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
290 64bit mount ids
291
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292* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
293 interfaces nspawn creates
294
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295* mountfsd/nsresourced
296 - userdb: maybe allow callers to map one uid to their own uid
297 - bpflsm: allow writes if resulting UID on disk would be userns' owner UID
298 - make encrypted DDIs work (password…)
299 - add API for creating a new file system from scratch (together with some
300 dm-integrity/HMAC key). Should probably work using systemd-repart (access
301 via varlink).
302 - add api to make an existing file "trusted" via dm-integry/HMAC key
303 - port: portabled
304 - port: tmpfiles, sysusers and similar
305 - lets see if we can make runtime bind mounts into unpriv nspawn work
306
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307* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
308 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
309 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
310 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
311
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312* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
313 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
314 volume key.
315
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316* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
317 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
318 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
319 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
320 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
321 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
322 specified images.
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324* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
325 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
326 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
327
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328* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
329 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
330 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
331
332* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
333 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
334 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
335
336* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
337 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
338
339* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
340 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
341
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342* systemd-pcrextend:
343 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
344 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
345 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 346 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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347 PCRs.
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46859471 349* vmspawn:
46859471 350 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
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351 - sd_notify support
352 - --ephemeral support
353 - --read-only support
354 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
355 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
356 suspend key presses.
357 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
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358 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
359
360* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
361
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362* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
363
364* storagetm:
365 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
366 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
367 operate in device mode
368 - add NVMe authentication
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370* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
371 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
372 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
373 nvme-oF
374
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375* pcrlock:
376 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
377 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
378 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
379 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
380 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
381 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
382 pass it via initrd to OS
383 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
384 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
385 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
386 /run?
387 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
388 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
389 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
390 for pre-built images
391
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392* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
393 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
394 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
395 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
396 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
397
398* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
399 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
400 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
401 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
402
403* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
404 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
405 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
406
407* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
408 systems.
409
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410* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
411 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
412 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
413 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
414 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
415 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
416 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 417 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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418 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
419 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
420 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
421 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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423* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
424 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
425 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
426 sysext
427
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428* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
429 other programs via IPC:
430 - bootctl
431 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
432 - coredumpcl
433 - systemd-bless-boot
434 - systemd-measure
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435 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
436 - systemd-dissect
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437 - systemd-sysupdate
438 - systemd-analyze
439 - kernel-install
f277d99c 440 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
3d1831b9 441
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442* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
443 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
444 via "systemctl status".
445
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446* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
447 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 448 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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450* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
451 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
452
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453* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
454 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
455
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456* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
457 menu.
458
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459* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
460 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
461 sockets.
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463* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
464 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 465 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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467* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
468 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
469 migratable between PCs)
470
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471* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
472 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
473 snapshot logic
474
475* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
476 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
477 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 478 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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479 a local key to it.
480
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482 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
483 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
484 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 485 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 486 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 487 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 488 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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490 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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494* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
495 mode.
496
3a9e659a 497* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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499 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
500 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
501 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
502 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
503 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
504
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506 too much
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510
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512 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
513 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
514 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
515 control of the attacker.
516
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518 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
519 same JSON format.
520
521* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
522 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
523 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
524 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
525 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
526 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
527 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
528 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
529 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
530 newer.
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533 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
534 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
535 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
536 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
537 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
538 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
539 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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542 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
543 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
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546 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
547 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
548 requested during switch root.
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551
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553 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
554 matched against OS.
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557 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
558 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
559
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561 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
562 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
563 namespaces)
564
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566 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
567
568* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
569 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
570 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
571
f447b741 572* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 573 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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575 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
576 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
577 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
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580 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 581 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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583
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585 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
586 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
587 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
588 based on lo_file_name.
589
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591 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 592 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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594
595* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
596 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
597 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
598 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
599 creating versions like these automatically).
600
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602
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604 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
605 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
606 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
607 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
608 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
609 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
610 activation-by-message id and similar.
611
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613
512f2da5 614* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 615 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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617 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
618
619* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
620 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
621 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
622 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
623 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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626 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
627 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
628
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630
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632 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
633 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
634
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636 localed, oomd, timedated.
637
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639 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
640 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
641 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
642 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
643 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 644 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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646 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
647 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
648 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
649 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
650 access.
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653 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
654 through nspawn.
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657 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
658
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660 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
661 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
662 for all umh processes.
663
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665 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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668 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
669 resize.
670
671* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
672 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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675 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
676 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
677 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
678 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
679 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
680 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
681 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
682 system actually reset.
683
684* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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686 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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689 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
690 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
691 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
692
4cb8a25b 693* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 694 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 695 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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697
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699 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
700 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
701 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
702 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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705 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
706 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
707 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
708 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
709
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711
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713 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 714 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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716
084ecae5 717* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
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720* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
721 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
722 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
723
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4cb8a25b 725 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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727* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
728 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
729 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
730 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
731 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
732 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
733 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
734 usual.
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738* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
739
740* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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743 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
744 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
745 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
746 sockaddr.
747
748* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
749 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
750 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
751 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
752 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
753 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
754 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
755 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
756 try to use inode from there.
757
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759 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
760
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762 extensions
763
764* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
765 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
766 for the root fs or /usr/.
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769 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
770 combination thereof.
771
772* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
773 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
774 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
775 ahead of time.
776
777* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
778 aforementioned purpose.
779
780* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
781 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
782
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784 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
785 to figure out:
786 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
787 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
788 subsequent boots?
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791 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
792 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
793 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
794 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
795 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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797 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
798 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
799 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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802 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
803 used)
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806 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
807 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
808 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
809 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
810
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812 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
813 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
814 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 815 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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817
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819 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
820 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
821
822* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
823 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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826
827* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
828 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 829 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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831
832* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
833 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
834 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
835 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
836 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
837 only one for each OS.
838
839* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
840 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 841 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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842 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
843 boot, for the next.
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846 similar behind it, instead of http.
847
848* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
849 boot, or on first boot.
850
851* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
852 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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855 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
856 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
857 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
858 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
859 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
860 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
861 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
862 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
863 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
864 until users are allowed to log in).
865
866* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
867 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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870 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
871 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 872 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 873 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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875 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
876 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 877 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
878 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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880
881* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
882 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
883 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
884 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 885 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 886 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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888 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 889 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
890 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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892 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
893 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 894 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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896 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
897 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
898 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 899 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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901 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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904 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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907 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
908
909* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
910 instead of manual blocking.
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913 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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916 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
917 supplied password.
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920 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
921 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
922 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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925 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
926 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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929 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
930 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 931 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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933
934* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
935 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
936 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
937 modules
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940 maybe on kernel command line:
941 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
942 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
943
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944* Merge systemd-creds options --uid= (which accepts user names) and --user.
945
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947 hash type, etc)
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951
f461a28d 952* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 953 but final node is not a directory
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955* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
956 non-VFAT fs is used.
957
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958* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
959
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960* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
961 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
962
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963* pick up creds from EFI vars
964
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966
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967* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
968 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
969 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
970 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
971 affect PCR values.
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974 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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977 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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979* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
980 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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983 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
984
985* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
986 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
987
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990 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
991 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
992 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
993 use it.
994
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996 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
997
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998* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
999 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
1000 what it was signed.
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1003 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
1004 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
1005 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
1006 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
1007 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
1008 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
1009 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
1010 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
1011 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
1012 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
1013 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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1016 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1017
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1020 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1021 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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1023 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1024 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1025 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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1027 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1028 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1029 file system paths to enable on start.
1030 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1031 usr=
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1033 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1034 pre-built kernels.
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1037 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1038
1039 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1040 about the unit.
1041 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1042 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1043 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1044 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1045 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1046 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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1049 what to do if support ended
1050
1051* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1052 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 1054* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1055 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1056 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1057 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1058 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1061 initrd transition. Specifically:
1062 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1063 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1064 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1065
d486b26f 1066* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1067 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1069 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1070 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1071 depending on desired level of persistency.
1072
1073* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1074 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1075 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1077 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1078 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1079 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1080 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1081
1082* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1083 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1084 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1085 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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1088
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1089* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1090
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1091* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
1092 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1093 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1094 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1096 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1097 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1098 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1099 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1100 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1101 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1102 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1103 not unprivileged code.
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1106 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1107 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1108 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1111 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1112 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1113 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1114 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1115 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1116 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1118 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1120* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1121 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1122 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1123 order.
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1126 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1127 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1130 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1131 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1132 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1133 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1135 IN_IGNORED again)
1136
5b06ad51 1137* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1138 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1140 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1141 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1142 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1143 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1144 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1145 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1147 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1148 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1151 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1152 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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03ede612 1154* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1156 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1157 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1158 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1159 directly to host service manager.
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1161* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1162 no api to query the device id
1163
1164* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1165 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1166 also be queried.
1167
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1168* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1169 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1170 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1171 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1173* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1174 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1175 latter).
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1177* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1178
1179* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1180
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1181* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1182 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1183 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1184 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1185
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1187 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1188 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1189 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1190 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1192
1193* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1194 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1195 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1196 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1198 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1199 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1200 hence cheap for enumeration.
1201
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1202* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1203
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1204* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1205 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1206 words: show partition labels).
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1208* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1209 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1210 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1211 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1213 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1214 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1215
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1216* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1217
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1218* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1219 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1220 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1221 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1222 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1223 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1224 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1225 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1226 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1227 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1228
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1229* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1230 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1231
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1232* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1233 jobs, units
1234
a57d72ce 1235* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1236 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1237 userspace)
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1240
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1241* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1242 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1243
d1666bde 1244* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1246
1247* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1248 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1250* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1251 internal clock.
1252
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1253* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1254 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1255
1256* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1257 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1258 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1259 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1261* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1262 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1263 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
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1266 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1268 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1269 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1270 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1271 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1274 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1275 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1276 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1277 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1278 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1280* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1281 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1283
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1285 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1286 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1287 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1288 on-disk storage.
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1291 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1292 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1293 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1294 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1295
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1297 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1298 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1301 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1302 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1303 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1304
3fc0688d 1305* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1307 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1308 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1309 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1310 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1311 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1312 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1313 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1314 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1315 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1318 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1319 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1322
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1326 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1327 that images cannot be misused.
1328
aca8ecc3 1329* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1330 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1332 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1333 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1334
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1336 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1337 - support casync as download mechanism
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1339 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1340 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1341 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1343 host's update files.)
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1345 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1346 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1347 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1350
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1351* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1352 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1354* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1355 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1356
24063ba1 1357* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1359 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1360 already have it.
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1363 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1364
1c904337 1365* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1367* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1368 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1369 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1370 /proc/self/fd/3
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1372* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1373 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1374 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1375
1376* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1377 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1379* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1380 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1381
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1382* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1383 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1384 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1385 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1386 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1387
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1389
199b097d 1390* credentials system:
199b097d 1391 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1392 - acquire via ask-password?
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1394 - pass creds via keyring?
1395 - pass creds via memfd?
1396 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
199b097d 1397 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1398 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1399 wireguard)
1400 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1401 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1402
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1403* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1404 and such
1405
1406* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1407
02c914ef 1408* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1409
7d7c75f1 1410* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1412
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1413* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1414 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1417
1418* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1419 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1420
1421* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1422 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1423
1424* cryptsetup:
1425 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1426 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1427
08d33656 1428* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1430* Figure out naming of verbs in systemd-analyze: we have (singular) capability,
1431 exit-status, but (plural) filesystems, architectures.
1432
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1434 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1435
f461a28d 1436* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1438
f461a28d 1439* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1440 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1441
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1442* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1443
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1444* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1445
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1446* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1447 when it exits
1448
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1449* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1450 o turn into dlopen() deps:
a52dc0b6 1451 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
cdfd8537 1452 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
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1454* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1455 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1456 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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1458* systemd-path: Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum, mapping to
1459 $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
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1461* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1462
1463* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1464 specific service
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1466* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1467 exists and responds.
1468
91fc013f 1469* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1470 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1471
7e8facb3 1472* unify on openssl:
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1474 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1475 gnutls
1476 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1478* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1479 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1480
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1481* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1482 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1484* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1485
2a4be3c5 1486* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1487
f1eb0ccd 1488* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1490* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1491 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1492 initrd had set.
1493
173c7873 1494* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1495 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1496 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1497 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1498 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1499 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1500
1501* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1502 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1503 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1504
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1506 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1507 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1508 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1509 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1510 source.
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1512* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1513 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1514 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1515
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1516* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1517
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1518* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1519 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1520
c6526b8d 1521* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1523* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1524 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1525 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1526 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1527 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1528 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1529 exec().
1530
1531* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1532
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1533* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1534 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1535
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1536* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1537 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1538
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1539* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1540 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1541 root.
1542
1543* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1544 is issued.
1545
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1546* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1547
1548* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1549
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1550* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1551 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1552 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1553
d238709c 1554* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1555 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1556 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1557
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1558* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1559
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1560* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1561 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1562
06898123 1563* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1564 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1565 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1566 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1568* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1569
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1570* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1571
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1572* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1573 non-zero "tries done" count
1574
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1575* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1576 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1577 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1578 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1579 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1580 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1581 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1582 CODE_FILE.
1583
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1584* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1585 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1586 some explanatory text online.
1587
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1588* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1589
d1797c42 1590* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1592* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1593 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1594
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1595* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1596 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1597 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1598 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1600* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1601
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1602* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1603 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1604
5da19043 1605* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1606 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1608* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1609 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1610 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1611 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1612 unlinked from any dir.
1613
bd1b3f75 1614* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1616* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1617
1618* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1619
53c70a27 1620* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1621 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1622 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1623 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1624 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1625
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1626* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1627
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1628* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1629 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1630
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1631* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1632 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1633 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1634 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1635 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1636 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1637 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1638 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1639
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1640* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1641 for root, but only then.
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1643* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1644 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1645
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1646* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1647 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1648
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1649* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1650 only when used. Add unit tests.
1651
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1652* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1653 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1654
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1655* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1656 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1657 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1658 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1659 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1660
899feb72 1661* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1662
5f7ecd61 1663* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1665* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1666 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1667
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1668* blog about fd store and restartable services
1669
1670* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1671
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1672* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1673 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
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1675* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1676 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1677 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1678 ID is available.
1679
1680* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1681 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1682 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1683
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1684* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1685 parameters
1686
63a185dc 1687* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1688 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1689 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1690 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1691 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1692 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1693 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1695* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1696 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1697
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1698* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1699 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1700 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1701
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1702* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1703 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1704
1705 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1706
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1707* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1708 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1709 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1710
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1711* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1712 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1713
1714* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1715 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1716 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1717 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1718 natural habitat.
1719
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1720* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1721 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1723* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1724 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1725 relative to the configured default value.
1726
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1727* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1728
04397464 1729* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1731* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
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1733* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1734
04397464 1735* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1736
04397464 1737* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1738
04397464 1739* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1740
8ce9b83a 1741* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1743* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1744 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1745 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1746
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1747* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1748 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1749
e40a326c 1750* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1752* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1753 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1754 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1755 mapping to work.
1756
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1757* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1758
1759* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1760
1761* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1762
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1763* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1764 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1765
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1766* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1767 reload the unit file anyway
1768
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1769* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1770
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1771* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1772
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1773* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1774 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1775
f9bf1b8f 1776* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1777 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1778 specifications.
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1780* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1781
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1782* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1783
a2088fd0 1784* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1785 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1786 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1787 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1789* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1790
931bc195 1791* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1793* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1794 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1795 state.
41d6f3bf 1796 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1798* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1799 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1800 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1801 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1802 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
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1805
d2f81fb0 1806* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1807 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1808
0a86c1a9 1809* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1810 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1811
e031c227 1812* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1813 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1814
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1815* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1816
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1817* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1818 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1819
25e773ee 1820* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1821
720652b3 1822* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1823
720652b3 1824* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1825
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1826* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1827 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1828
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1829* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1830
9d6db739 1831* resolved:
9d6db739 1832 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1833 - service registration
1834 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1835 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1836 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1837 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1838 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1839 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1840 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1841 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1842
e25b5a8d 1843* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1844
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1845* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1846
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1847* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1848
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1849* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1850
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1851* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1852
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1853* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1854 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1855
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1856* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1857
6a3f892a 1858* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1859 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1860 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1861
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1862* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1863 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1864 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1865
f9bf1b8f 1866* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1867
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1868* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1869 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1870 for ReusePort=
1871
f38afcd0 1872* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1873 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1874 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1875 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1876 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1877 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1878 the hierarchies of child processes
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1879 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1880 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1881
f38afcd0 1882* transient units:
f38afcd0 1883 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1884
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1885* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1886
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1887* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1888
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1889* 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
1890
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1891* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1892 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1893 path anyway.
1894
04397464 1895* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1896
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1897* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1898
07eabc2b 1899* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1900
07eabc2b 1901* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1902
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1903* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1904
1905* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1906 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1907 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1908
1909* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1910 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1911
1912* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1913
1914* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1915
1916* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1917
1918* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1919 needs to be auto-respawned?
1920
1921* pid1:
1922 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1923 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1924 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1925 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1926 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1927 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1928 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1929 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1930 - Support --test based on current system state
1931 - 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().
1932 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1933 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1934 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1935 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1936 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1937 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1938 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1939 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1940 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1941 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1942 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1943 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1944
1945* unit files:
1946 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1947 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1948 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1949 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1950 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1951 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1952 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1953 - introduce Type=pid-file
1954 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1955 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1956 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1957
1958* timer units:
63a185dc 1959 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1960 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1961
1962* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1963
1964* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1965
1966* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1967
1968* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1969
07eabc2b 1970* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1971
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1972* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1973
fff87a35 1974* test/:
20d52ab6 1975 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1976
b5c03638 1977* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1978 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1979 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1980 destination.
1981
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1982* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1983 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1984
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1985* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1986
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1987* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1988 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1989 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1990
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1991* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1992 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1993
7227dd81 1994* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1995 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1996 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1997 that automatically.
1998
e5ec62c5 1999* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 2000
ccddd104 2001* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 2002
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2003* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
2004
356ce991 2005* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 2006
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2007* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2008
2009* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2010
2011* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2012
2013* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2014
2015* sd-bus:
2016 - EBADSLT handling
2017 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2018 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2019 - 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
2020 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2021 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2022 - longer term: priority inheritance
2023 - dbus spec updates:
2024 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2025 - path escaping
2026 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2027
2028* sd-event
2029 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2030 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2031 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2032 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2033 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2034 here:
2035 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2036
2037* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2038 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2039
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2040* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2041
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LB
2042* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2043
2044* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2045
2046* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2047
b44be3ec 2048* EFI:
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2049 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2050 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2051 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2052* bootctl
631427d6 2053 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2054
07eabc2b 2055* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2056
07eabc2b 2057* bootctl:
483091b0 2058 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2059 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2060 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2061
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2062* logind:
2063 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2064 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2065 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2066 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2067 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2068 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2069 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2070 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2071 needs setuid().
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2072 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2073 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2074 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2075 complete.
2076 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2077 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2078 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2079 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2080 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2081 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2082 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2083 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2084 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2085 relogins
77b19caf 2086 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2087 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2088 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2089 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2090
2091* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2092
2093* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2094 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2095 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2096
2097* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2098 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2099
b44be3ec 2100* journal:
57f2a947 2101 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2102 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2103 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2104 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2105 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2106 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2107 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2108 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2109 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2110 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2111 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2112 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2113 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2114 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2115 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2116 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2117 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2118 - 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.
2119 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2120 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2121 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2122 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2123 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2124 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2125 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2126 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2127 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2128 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2129 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2130 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2131 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2132 to syslog when it works again.
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2133 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2134 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2135 journals in.
2136 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2137 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2138 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2139 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2140 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2141 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2142 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2143 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2144 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2145 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2146 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2147 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2148 operation.
2149 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2150 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2151 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2152 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2153 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2154 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2155 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2156 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2157 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2158 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 2159
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2160* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2161 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2162
2163* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2164 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2165 validated via TPM.
2166
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2168 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2169 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2170
2171* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2172 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2173 cursors as they happen.
2174
2175* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2176 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2177 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2178 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2179 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2180 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2181 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2182 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2183 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2184
2185* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2186 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2187 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2188 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2189 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2191
2192* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2193 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2194 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2195 records, to be able to order them.
2196
2197* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2198 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2199 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2200 be safely written to disk, then.
2201
2202* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2203 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2204 inspiration from IMA log)
2205
2206* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2207 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2208 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2209
2210* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2211 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2212 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2213 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2214 for doing that.
2215
2216* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2217 log.c and sd-journal-send
2218
2219* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2220 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2221 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2222 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2223 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2224 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2225 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2226 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2227 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2228 an NTP sync is acquired.
2229
2230* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2231
2232* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2233 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2234 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2235
2236* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2237 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2238 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2239 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2240 cgroup.
2241
2242* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2243 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2244 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2245 logging.
2246
2247* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2248
2249* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2250 from the SIGBUS handler
2251
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ZJS
2252* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2253 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2254 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2255 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2256
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2257* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2258 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2259
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LB
2260* homed:
2261 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2262 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2263 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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LB
2264 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2265 - create on activate?
2266 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2267 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2268 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2269 systemd --user is shut down.
2270 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2271 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2272 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2273 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2274 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2275 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2276 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2277 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
07eabc2b
LB
2278 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2279 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2280 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2281 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2282 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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LB
2283 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2284 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2285 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2286 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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LP
2287 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2288 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2289 signature
2290 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2291 and insert a local signature instead.
2292 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2293 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2294 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2295 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2296 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2297 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2298 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2299 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2300 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2301 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2302 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2303 can easily set overall quota for all users
2304 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2305 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2306 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2307 home dir
07eabc2b 2308
07eabc2b
LB
2309* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2310 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2311 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2312
2df2bb1f 2313* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
07eabc2b
LB
2314
2315* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2316 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2317 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2318 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2319
2320* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2321
2322* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2323 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2324 something goes wrong on the way.
2325
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LB
2326* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2327 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2328 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2329 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2330
2331* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2332 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2333 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2334 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2335 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2336 automatically.
2337
2338* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2339 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2340
2341* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2342 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2343 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2344 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2345 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2346 fails to apply use the latter.
2347
2348* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2349 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2350
2351* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2352 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2353
2354* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2355 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2356 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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LB
2357
2358* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2359 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2360
92e72028 2361* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2362 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2363 during boot.
2364
2365* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2366
b44be3ec 2367* document:
8b8f2591 2368 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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LP
2369 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2370 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2371 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2372 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2373 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2374 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2375 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2376 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2377 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2378 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2379 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2380
2381* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2382 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2383 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2384 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2385 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2386 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2387 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2388
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LB
2389* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2390 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2391 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2392
07eabc2b
LB
2393* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2394 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2395 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2396
07eabc2b
LB
2397* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2398 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2399 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2400
07eabc2b
LB
2401* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2402 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2403
07eabc2b
LB
2404* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2405 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2406 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2407 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2408
07eabc2b
LB
2409* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2410 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2411 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2412 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2413
07eabc2b
LB
2414* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2415
2416* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2417
2418* unit install:
2419 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2420 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2421
b44be3ec 2422* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2423 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2424 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2425 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2426 from the kernel's logs.
2427 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2428 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2429 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2430 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2431 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2432 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2433 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2434 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2435 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2436 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2437 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2438 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2439 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2440 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2441 startup.
2442 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2443 or so, freeze the payload too.
2444 - support time namespaces
2445 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2446 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2447 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2448 "machinectl shell"
2449 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2450 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2451 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2452 - greater control over selinux label?
2453 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2454 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2455 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2456 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2457 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2458 host TPM.
2459 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2460 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2461 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2462 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2463 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2464 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2465 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2466 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2467 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2468 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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CB
2469 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2470 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2471 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b 2472
e25b5a8d 2473* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2474 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2475 removed or added to an existing machine
2476 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2477 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2478 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2479 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2480 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2481 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2482 - "machinectl history"
2483 - "machinectl diff"
2484 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2485 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2486
abd55b16 2487* udev:
abd55b16 2488 - move to LGPL
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KS
2489 - kill scsi_id
2490 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2491 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2492 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2493 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2494
e25b5a8d
DH
2495* coredump:
2496 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2497 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2498 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2499
2500* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2501
f38afcd0 2502* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2503 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2504 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2505 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2506 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2507 calls follow symlinks.
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ZJS
2508 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2509 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2510 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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ZJS
2511 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2512 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2513 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2514
af6f0d42
TG
2515* udev-link-config:
2516 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2517 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2518 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2519
88e4d1d7 2520* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2521 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2522 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2523
0a4b9a07 2524* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2525 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2526 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2527 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2528 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2529 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2530 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2531 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2532 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2533 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2534 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2535 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2536 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2537 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2538 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2539 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2540 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2541 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2542 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2543
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LB
2544* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2545
d5e172d2
ZJS
2546* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2547
ac976532 2548* dhcp:
424a8732 2549 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2550
37d8b536
PF
2551* dhcp6:
2552 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2553 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2554 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2555 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2556 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2557 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2558 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2559 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2560 or interface down
2561 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2562 this behavior
4a77c53d 2563 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
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2564
2565* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2566 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2567 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)