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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
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77* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
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80* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
81 calls instead.
82
83* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
84
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85Deprecations and removals:
86
87* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
88 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
89
90* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
c6407108 91
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92* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
93 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
94 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
95 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
96
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97* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
98 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 99 is only supported for such old kernels.
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9eb41aab 101* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 102 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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103 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
104 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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105 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
106
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107* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
108 baseline is 5.8.
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110* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
111 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
112
3345802c 113* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 114 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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116* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
117
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118* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
119
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120Features:
121
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122* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
123 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
124 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
125 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
126
127* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
128 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
129 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
130
131* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
132 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
133 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
134 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
135 partition with a portable service partition in one.
136
137* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
138 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
139 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
140 modules
141
142* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
143 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
144 a new name with a built-in config?
145
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146* gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
147 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
148
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149* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
150 maybe on kernel command line:
151 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
152 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
153
154* tmpfiles: currently if we fail to create an inode, we stat it first, and only
155 then O_PATH open it. Reverse that.
156
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157* during the initrd → host transition measure a fixed value into TPM PCR 11
158 (where we already measure the UKI into), so that unlock policies for disk
159 enryption/credential encryption can be put together that only work in the
160 initrd or only on the host (or both).
161
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162* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
163 hash type, etc)
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165* chase_symlinks(): take inspiraton from path_extract_filename() and return
166 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
167
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168* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
169 but final node is not a directory
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170
171* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
172 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
173
174* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
175 non-VFAT fs is used.
176
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177* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
178
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179* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
180 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
181
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182* pick up creds from EFI vars
183
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184* sd-stub/sd-boot: write RNG seed to LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID config
185 table as well. (and possibly drop our efi var). Current kernels will pick up
186 the seed from there already, if EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL is not implemented by
187 firmware.
188
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189* sd-boot: include domain specific hash string in hash function for random seed
190 plus sizes of everything. also include DMI/SMBIOS blob
191
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192* sd-stub: invoke random seed logic the same way as in sd-boot, except if
193 random seed EFI variable is already set. That way, the variable set will be
194 set in all cases: if you just use sd-stub, or just sd-boot, or both.
195
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196* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
197 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
198 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
199 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
200 affect PCR values.
201
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202* systemd-measure tool:
203 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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205* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
206 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
207
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208* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
209 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
210
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211* sd-device: add an API for opening a child device, given a device object
212
213* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
214 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
215
216* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
217 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
218
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219* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
220 maybe some other stuff and boots it
221
e1b45a75 222* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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223 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
224 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
225 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
226 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
227 use it.
228
229* portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
230 file system paths to enable on start.
231
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232* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
233 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
234
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235* PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
236 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
237 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
238
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239* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
240 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
241 what it was signed.
242
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243* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
244 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
245 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
246 be safely written to disk, then.
247
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248* systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
249 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
250 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
251 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
252 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
253 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
254 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
255 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
256 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
257 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
258 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
259 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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261* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
262 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
263
8c776523 264* bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
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265 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
266 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
267 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
268 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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270* networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
271 via the credentials logic.
272
e1b45a75 273* fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
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274 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
275 integrity-generator)
276
277* getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
278
279* run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
280
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281* resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
282 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
283 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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284 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
285
286* repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
287
1d5f14ef 288* tmpfiles: add snippet that provisions /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from credential
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290* timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
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292* define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
293 runtime state. Then, expose it:
294
295 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
296 about the unit.
297 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
298 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
299 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
300 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
301 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
302 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
303
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304* show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
305 for this on dbus)
306
307* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
308 what to do if support ended
309
310* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
311 login time, á la motd
312
e1b45a75 313* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 314 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 315 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 316 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 317 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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319* make tmpfiles read lines from creds, so that we can provision SSH host keys
320 via creds. Similar: sysusers, sysctl, homed
321
322* mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
323 initrd transition. Specifically:
324 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
325 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
326 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
327
328* implement varlink introspection
329
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330* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
331 chase_symlinks() instead
332
d486b26f 333* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 334 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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335 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
336 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
337 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
338 depending on desired level of persistency.
339
340* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
341 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
342 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
343 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
344 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
345 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
346 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
347 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
348
349* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
350 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
351 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
352 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
353
354* make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
355 usr=
356
357* add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
358
359* ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
360 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
361
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362* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
363
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364* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
365 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
366 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
367 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
368 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
369 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
370 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
371 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 372 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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373 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
374 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
375 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
376 not unprivileged code.
377
378* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
379 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
380
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381* maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
382 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
383 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
384 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
385
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386* systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential sysemd.homed.register
387 or so with JSON user records to automatically register if not registered yet.
388 Usecase: deploy a system, and add an account one can directly log into.
389
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390* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
391 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
392 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
393 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
394 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
395 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
396 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
397 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
398 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
399
400* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
401 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
402 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
403 order.
404
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405* TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
406 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
407 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
408 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
409 whenever they want.
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411* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
412 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
413 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
414
415* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
416 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
417 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
418 acquire.
419
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420* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
421 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
422 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
423 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 424 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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425 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
426 IN_IGNORED again)
427
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428* systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
429 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
430 virtio-fs.
431
432* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 433 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 434 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 435 on verification if in secureboot mode
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436 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
437 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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438 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
439 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
440 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
441 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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442 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
443 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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444 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
445 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 446 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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447 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
448 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
449 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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451* Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
452 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
453 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
454 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
455 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
456 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
457 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
458 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
459 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
460 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
461 service runtime logic quite substantially.
462
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463* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
464 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
465 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
466
598e4315 467* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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468 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
469 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
470 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
471 friends.)
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473* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
474 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
475 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 476 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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477 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
478 directly to host service manager.
479
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480* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
481 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
482 configure socket address.
483
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484* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
485 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
486
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487* sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
488 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
489 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
490
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491* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
492
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493* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
494 no api to query the device id
495
496* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
497 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
498 also be queried.
499
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500* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
501 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
502 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
503 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
504
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505* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
506 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
507 latter).
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509* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
510
511* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
512
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513* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
514 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
515 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
516 generated by GNU sha256sums.
517
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518* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
519 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
520 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
521 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
522 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
523 UEFI HTTP boot.
524
525* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
526 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
527 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
528 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
529 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
530 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
531 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
532 hence cheap for enumeration.
533
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534* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
535 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
536 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
537
538* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
539 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
540 pre-built kernels.
541
542* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
543
544* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
545 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
546 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
547 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
548 comprehensively.
549
550* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
551 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
552 words: show partition labels).
553
554* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
555 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
556 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
557 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
558
559* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
560 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
561 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 562 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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563 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
564 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
565 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
566
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567* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
568
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571* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
572
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573* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
574 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
575 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
576 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
577 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
578 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
579 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
580 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
581 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
582 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
583
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584* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
585 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
586 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
587 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
588 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
589 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
590 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
591 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
592 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
593 an NTP sync is acquired.
594
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596 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
597 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
598 call it at the end only
599
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600* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
601 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
602
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603* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
604 jobs, units
605
a57d72ce 606* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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607 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
608 userspace)
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610* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
611
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612* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
613 json package metadata, and use that when logging
614
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615* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
616
617* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
618 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
619
620* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
621 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
622
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624 internal clock.
625
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f08e143c 627 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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629* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
630 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
631
632* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
633 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
634 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
635 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
636
637* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
638 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
639
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640* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
641 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
642 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
643
644* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
645 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
646 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
647 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
648 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
649 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
650 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
651 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
652 thread:
653 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
654 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
655 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
656 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
657 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
658 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
659
660* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
661 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
662 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
663
664* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
665 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
666 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
667 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
668 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
669 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
670 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
671 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
672 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
673 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
674 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
675 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
676 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
677 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
678 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
679
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680* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
681 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
682 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
683 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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684 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
685 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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687* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
688 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
689 dep in the base OS image)
690
691* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 692 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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694* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
695 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
696 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
697 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
698 on-disk storage.
699
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700* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
701 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
702 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
703 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
704 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
705
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706* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
707 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
708 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
709 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
710 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
711 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
712 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
713
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714* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
715 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
716 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
717 externally and provide to us on demand only.
718
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719* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
720 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
721 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
722 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
723 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
724 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
725 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
726 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
727
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728 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
729 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
730 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 731 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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732 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
733 take --image= that take the same short string.
734
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735* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
736 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
737 one.
738
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739* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
740 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
741 into PCR 8)
742
743* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
744 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
745 authentication.
746
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747* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
748 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
749 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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752
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755* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
756 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
757 that images cannot be misused.
758
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178d3ff2 760 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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761 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
762 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
763 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
764
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766 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
767 - support casync as download mechanism
768 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
769 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
770 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
771 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
772 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
773 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
774 override the host's update files.)
775 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
776 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
777 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
778 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
779
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780* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
781
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782* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
783 make dirs appear under right UID.
784
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785* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
786 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
787
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788* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
789 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
790 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
791 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
792 for doing that.
793
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795 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
796 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
797 already have it.
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799* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
800 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
801
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802* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
803 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
804 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
805 socket: connect() to it.
806
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807* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
808
809* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
810 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
811 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
812 /proc/self/fd/3
813
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814* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
815 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
816 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
817
818* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
819 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
820
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821* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
822 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
823
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824* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
825 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
826 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
827 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
828 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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830* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
831
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834 - acquire via via ask-password?
835 - acquire creds via keyring?
836 - pass creds via keyring?
837 - pass creds via memfd?
838 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
839 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
840 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
841 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
842 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
843 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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844 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
845 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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847* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
848 firmware indicates there is one.
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850* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
851 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
852 override its hash
853
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854* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
855 and such
856
857* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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859* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
860
7d7c75f1 861* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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862 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
863
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864* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
865 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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868
869* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
870 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
871
872* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
873 systemd-makefs.service instead.
874
875* cryptsetup:
876 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
877 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
878
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879* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
880 it happens to be set up alright already.
881
882* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
883
884* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
885 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
886 default.
887
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888* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
889 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
890 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
891 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
892 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
893
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896* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
897 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
898
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899* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
900 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
901 temporary dir.
902
903* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
904 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
905
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906* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
907 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
908
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909* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
910
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911* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
912
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913* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
914
915* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
916
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917* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
918 when it exits
919
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921 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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923 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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925 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
926 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
927 since they are so basic and our defaults)
928 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
929 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
930
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931* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
932 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
933 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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935* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
936 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
937
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939 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
940 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
612d3a68 941 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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943* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
944
945* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
946 specific service
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948* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
949 exists and responds.
950
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951* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
952 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
953 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
954
91fc013f 955* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 956 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 957
7e8facb3 958* unify on openssl:
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959 - kill gnutls support in resolved
960 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
961 gnutls
962 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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964* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
965 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
966
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967* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
968 realname substr searches in varlink API
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970* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
971
2a4be3c5 972* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 973
f1eb0ccd 974* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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976* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
977 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
978 initrd had set.
979
173c7873 980* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 981 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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982 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
983 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
984 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
985 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
986
987* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
988 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
989 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
990
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991* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
992 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
993 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
994 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
995 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
996 source.
997
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998* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
999 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1000 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1001
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1002* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1003
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1004* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1005 the hibernation
1006
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1007* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1008 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1009 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1010 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1011 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1012 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1013 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1014 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1015 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1016 hibernation mode. (see
1017 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1018 section 10.2.2.8 and
1019 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1020 at the end).
1021
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1023 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1024
c6526b8d 1025* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1026
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1027* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1028 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1029 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1030 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1031 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1032 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1033 exec().
1034
1035* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1036
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1037* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1038 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1039
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1040* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1041 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1042
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1043* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1044 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1045 root.
1046
1047* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1048 is issued.
1049
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1050* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1051
1052* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1053
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1054* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1055 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1056 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1057
d238709c 1058* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1059 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1060 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1061
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1062* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1063
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1064* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1065 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1066
06898123 1067* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1068 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1069 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1070 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1071
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1072* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1073
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1074* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1075 log.c and sd-journal-send
1076
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1077* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1078
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1079* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1080
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1081* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1082 non-zero "tries done" count
1083
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1084* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1085 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1086 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1087 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1088 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1089 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1090 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1091 CODE_FILE.
1092
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1093* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1094 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1095 some explanatory text online.
1096
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1097* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1098
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1099* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1100 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1101
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1102* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1103 Specifically:
1104
1105 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1106 properly)
e83419d0 1107 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1108 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1109
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1110* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1111 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1112
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1113* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1114 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1115 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1116 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1118* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1119
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1120* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1121
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1122* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1123 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1124
5da19043 1125* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1126 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1128* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1129 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1130 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1131 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1132 unlinked from any dir.
1133
bd1b3f75 1134* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1136* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1137
1138* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1139
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1140* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1141 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1142 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1143 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1144 should reflink the image file itself.
1145
1146 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1147 specific paths only like this.
1148
53c70a27 1149* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1150 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1151 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1152 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1153 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1154
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1155* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1156
1157* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1158
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1159* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1160 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1161
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1162* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1163 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1164 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1165 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1166 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1167 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1168 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1169 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1170
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1171* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1172 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1173
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1174* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1175
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1176* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1177 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1178
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1179* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1180 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1181
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1182* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1183 only when used. Add unit tests.
1184
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1185* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1186 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1187
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1188* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1189 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1190 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1191 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1192 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1193
899feb72 1194* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1196* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1197 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1198 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1199
5f7ecd61 1200* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1201
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1202* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1203 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1204
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1205* blog about fd store and restartable services
1206
1207* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1208
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1209* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1210 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1211
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1212* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1213 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1214 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1215 ID is available.
1216
1217* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1218 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1219 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1220
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1221* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1222 parameters
1223
63a185dc 1224* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1225 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1226 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1227 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1228 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1229 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1230 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1232* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1233 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1234
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1235* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1236 about it in the resource log message
1237
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1238* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1239 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1240 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1241
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1242* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1243 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1244
1245 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1246
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1247* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1248 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1249 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1250
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1251* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1252 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1253
1254* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1255 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1256 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1257 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1258 natural habitat.
1259
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1260* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1261
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1262* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1263 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1264 relative to the configured default value.
1265
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1266* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1267
04397464 1268* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1270* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1271
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1272* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1273
04397464 1274* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1275
04397464 1276* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1277
04397464 1278* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1279
8ce9b83a 1280* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1281
1282* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1283 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1284 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1285
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1286* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1287 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1288
e40a326c 1289* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1290
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1291* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1292 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1293 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1294 mapping to work.
1295
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1296* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1297
1298* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1299
1300* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1301
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1302* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1303 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1304
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1305* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1306 reload the unit file anyway
1307
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1308* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1309
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1310* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1311
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1312* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1313 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1314
f9bf1b8f 1315* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1316 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1317 specifications.
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1319* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1320
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1321* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1322
a2088fd0 1323* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1324 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1325 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1326 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1328* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1329
931bc195 1330* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1331
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1332* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1333 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1334 state.
41d6f3bf 1335 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1337* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1338 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1339 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1340 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1341 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1342
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1343* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1344
d2f81fb0 1345* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1346 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1347
0a86c1a9 1348* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1349 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1350
e031c227 1351* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1352 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1353
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1354* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1355
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1356* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1357 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1358
25e773ee 1359* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1360
720652b3 1361* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1362
720652b3 1363* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1364
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1365* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1366
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1367* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1368 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1369
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1370* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1371
9d6db739 1372* resolved:
9d6db739 1373 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1374 - service registration
1375 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1376 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1377 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1378 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1379 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1380 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1381 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1382 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1383
e25b5a8d 1384* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1385
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1386* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1387
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1388* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1389
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1390* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1391
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1392* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1393
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1394* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1395 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1397* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1398
6a3f892a 1399* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1400 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1401 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1402
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1403* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1404 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1405 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1406
f9bf1b8f 1407* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1408
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1409* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1410 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1411 for ReusePort=
1412
f38afcd0 1413* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1414 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1415 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1416 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1417 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1418 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1419 the hierarchies of child processes
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1420- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1421 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1422
f38afcd0 1423* transient units:
f38afcd0 1424 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1425
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1426* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1427
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1428* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1429
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1430* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1431
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1432* 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
1433
7f79cd71 1434* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1435
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1436* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1437 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1438 path anyway.
1439
04397464 1440* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1441
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1442* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1443
1444* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1445
07eabc2b 1446* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1447
07eabc2b 1448* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1449
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1450* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1451
1452* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1453 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1454 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1455
1456* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1457 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1458
1459* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1460
1461* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1462
1463* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1464
1465* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1466 needs to be auto-respawned?
1467
1468* pid1:
1469 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1470 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1471 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1472 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1473 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1474 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1475 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1476 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1477 - move PAM code into its own binary
1478 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1479 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1480 - Support --test based on current system state
1481 - 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().
1482 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1483 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1484 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1485 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1486 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1487 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1488 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1489 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1490 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1491 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1492 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1493 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1494
1495* unit files:
1496 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1497 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1498 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1499 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1500 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1501 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1502 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1503 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1504 - introduce Type=pid-file
1505 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1506 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1507 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1508
1509* timer units:
63a185dc 1510 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1511 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1512
1513* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1514
1515* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1516
1517* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1518
1519* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1520
07eabc2b 1521* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1522
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1523* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1524
1525* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1526
fff87a35 1527* test/:
20d52ab6 1528 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1529
b5c03638 1530* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1531 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1532 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1533 destination.
1534
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1535* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1536 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1537
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1538* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1539
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1540* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1541 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1542 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1543
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1544* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1545 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1546
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1547* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1548 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1549 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1550 that automatically.
1551
e5ec62c5 1552* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1553
ccddd104 1554* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1555
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1556* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1557
356ce991 1558* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1559
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1560* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1561
1562* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1563
1564* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1565
1566* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1567
1568* sd-bus:
1569 - EBADSLT handling
1570 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1571 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1572 - 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
1573 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1574 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1575 - longer term: priority inheritance
1576 - dbus spec updates:
1577 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1578 - path escaping
1579 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1580
1581* sd-event
1582 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1583 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1584 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1585 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1586 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1587 here:
1588 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1589
1590* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1591 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1592
1593* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1594
1595* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1596
1597* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1598
1599* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1600 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1601 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1602 the host on invocation
1603
1604* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1605 reading/writing files
1606
1607* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1608
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1609* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1610 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1611 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1612 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1613 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1614 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1615 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1616
b44be3ec 1617* EFI:
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1618 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1619 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1620 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1621* bootctl
631427d6 1622 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1623
07eabc2b 1624* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1625
07eabc2b 1626* bootctl:
483091b0 1627 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1628 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1629 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1630
1631* kernel-install:
1632 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1633
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1634* logind:
1635 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1636 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1637 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1638 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1639 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1640 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1641 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1642 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1643 needs setuid().
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1644 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1645 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1646 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1647 complete.
1648 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1649 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1650 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1651 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1652 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1653 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1654 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1655 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1656 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1657 relogins
77b19caf 1658 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1659 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1660 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1661 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1662
1663* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1664
1665* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1666 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1667 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1668
1669* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1670 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1671
b44be3ec 1672* journal:
57f2a947 1673 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1674 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1675 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1676 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1677 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1678 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1679 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1680 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1681 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1682 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1683 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1684 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1685 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1686 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1687 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1688 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1689 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1690 - 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.
1691 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1692 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1693 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1694 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1695 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1696 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1697 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1698 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1699 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1700 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1701 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1702 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1703 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1704 to syslog when it works again.
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1705 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1706 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1707 journals in.
1708 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1709 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1710 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1711 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1712 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1713 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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DH
1714 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1715 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1716 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1717 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1718 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1719 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1720 operation.
1721 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1722 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1723 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1724 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1725 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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DH
1726 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1727 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1728 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1729 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1730 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1731
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1732* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1733 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1734
1735* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1736 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1737 validated via TPM.
1738
1739* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1740 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1741
1742* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1743 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1744 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1745
1746* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1747 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1748 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1749 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1750 cgroup.
1751
1752* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1753 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1754 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1755 logging.
1756
1757* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1758
1759* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1760 from the SIGBUS handler
1761
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1762* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1763 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1764 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1765 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1766
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1767* homed:
1768 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1769 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1770 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1771 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1772 - create on activate?
1773 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1774 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1775 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1776 systemd --user is shut down.
1777 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1778 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1779 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1780 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1781 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1782 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1783 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1784 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1785 - query password from kernel keyring first
1786 - update even if record is "absent"
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1787 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1788 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1789 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1790 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1791 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1792 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1793 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1794 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1795 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1796 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1797 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1798 signature
1799 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1800 and insert a local signature instead.
1801 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1802 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1803 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1804 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1805 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1806 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1807 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1808 easily?
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1809 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1810 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1811 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1812 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1813 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1814 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1815 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1816 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1817 can easily set overall quota for all users
1818 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1819 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1820 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1821 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1822 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1823 large.
07eabc2b 1824
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1825* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1826 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1827 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1828
2df2bb1f 1829* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1831* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1832 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1833 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1834 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1835
1836* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1837
1838* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1839 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1840 something goes wrong on the way.
1841
1842* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1843
1844* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1845 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1846 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1847 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1848
1849* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1850 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1851 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1852 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1853 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1854 automatically.
1855
1856* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1857 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1858
1859* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1860 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1861 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1862 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1863 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1864 fails to apply use the latter.
1865
1866* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1867 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1868
1869* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1870 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1871
1872* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1873 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 1874 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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1876* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1877 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1878
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1879* systemd-repart: add support for GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
1880 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
1881 during boot.
1882
1883* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
1884
b44be3ec 1885* document:
8b8f2591 1886 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1887 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1888 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1889 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1890 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1891 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1892 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1893 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1894 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1895 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1896 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1897 - document root=gpt-auto properly
d01d9197 1898 - GPT_FLAG_GROWFS is not documented at all. GPT_FLAG_* should be documented in Discoverable Partitions.
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1900* systemctl:
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1901 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1902 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1903 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1904 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1905 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1906 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1907 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1908 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1909 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1910 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1911
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1913 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1914 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1915
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1916* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1917 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1918 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1919 output for them.
d2e83c23 1920
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1922 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1923 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1924
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1926 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1927 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1928
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1929* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1930 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1931
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1932* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1933 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1934 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1935 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1936
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1937* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1938 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1939 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1940 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 1941
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1942* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1943
1944* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1945
1946* unit install:
1947 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1948 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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b44be3ec 1950* nspawn:
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1951 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1952 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1953 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1954 from the kernel's logs.
1955 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1956 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1957 interface be missing
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1958 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1959 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1960 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1961 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1962 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1963 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1964 PID 1...
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1965 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1966 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1967
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1968* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1969 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1970 during startup.
1971
1972* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1973 so, freeze the payload too.
1974
1975* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1976 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1977 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1978 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1979 anything like that.
1980
1981* nspawn: support time namespaces
1982
1983* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1984 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1985
1986* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1987 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1988
1989* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1990 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1991 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1992
1993* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1994
1995* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1996
e25b5a8d 1997* machined:
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1998 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1999 removed or added to an existing machine
2000 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2001 difference host, via ssh
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2002 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2003 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2004 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2005 question
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2006 - "machinectl history"
2007 - "machinectl diff"
2008 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2009 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2010
abd55b16 2011* udev:
abd55b16 2012 - move to LGPL
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2013 - kill scsi_id
2014 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2015 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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2016 - re-enable ProtectClock= or set CapabilityBoundingSet= to drop CAP_SYS_TIME
2017 and CAP_WAKE_ALARM (and possibly other unnecessary capabilities?).
2018 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2019
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2020* coredump:
2021 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2022 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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2023 - when using package notes, compact output to one-line-per-module:
2024 libfoo.so, build-id DEADF12340, foo-libs-33.4-1.fc12
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2026* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2027
f38afcd0 2028* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2029 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2030 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2031 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2032 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2033 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2034 - add --test mode
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2035 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2036 project quota
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2038* udev-link-config:
2039 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2040 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2041 on Path= matching
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88e4d1d7 2043* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2044 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2045 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2046
0a4b9a07 2047* networkd:
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2048 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2049 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2050 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2051 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2052 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2053 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2054 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2055 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2056 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2057 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2058 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2059 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2060 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2061 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2062 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2063 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2064 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2065 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
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2067* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2068
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2069* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2070
ac976532 2071* dhcp:
424a8732 2072 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
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2074* dhcp6:
2075 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2076 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2077 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2078 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2079 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2080 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2081 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2082 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2083 or interface down
2084 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2085 this behavior
4a77c53d 2086 - RouteTable= ?