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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
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91* generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
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96Deprecations and removals:
97
98* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
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101* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
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106* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 108 is only supported for such old kernels.
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110* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
9eb41aab 113* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
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119* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
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122* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
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125* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
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129* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
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132* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
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134Features:
135
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136* make systemd-pcrphase accessible via varlink so that clients can measure
137 things reasonably freely, and get a proper entry in the TPM event log we
138 maintain, correctly synchronized
139
140* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
141 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
142
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143* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
144 menu.
145
146* extend the various CLI tools we have that output JSON already to also read
147 their command to execute from JSON in varlink format, so that you can fork
148 them off and talk to them fully via varlink.
149
150* add a "varlinkctl" tool that allows interacting with varlink services from
151 the shell. In particular add a "--exec=" switch, which allows specifying a
152 binary to invoke to which to talk via stdin/stdout
153
154* make tools that speak varlink over stdin/stdout trivially sockect
155 activatable. i.e. once bootctl, kernel-install, systemd-measure and similar
156 speak varlink make them available via a .socket unit with Accept=yes, so that
157 they can be talked to via IPC out-of-process
158
159* beef up .service units that are socket activated with Accept=yes with options
160 AllowPeerUser= + AllowPeerGroup= to allow trivially simple access control
161 when invoked via socket as IPC services
162
163* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
164 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
165 snapshot logic
166
167* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
168 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
169 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
170 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstrem OS' kernel and adding
171 a local key to it.
172
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173* PidRef conversion work:
174 - pid_is_unwaited() → pidref_is_unwaited()
175 - pid_is_alive() → pidref_is_alive()
176 - unit_watch_pid() → unit_watch_pidref()
4775b55d 177 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
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178 - exec_spawn()
179 - serialization of control/main pid in service, socket, mount, swap units
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180 - cg_pid_get_unit()
181 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
182 - scope dbus PIDs property needs to gain PIDFDs companion
183
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184* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
185
186* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
187 mode.
188
189* homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
190 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
191 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
192 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
193 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
194 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
195 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
196
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197* add ConditionSecurity=stub-measured or so that checks if we are booted with
198 systemd-stub and its measurements
199
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200* sd-boot should probably measure its configuration file to PCR 5 at boot, as
201 per TCG PC Client Platform Firmware Profile Spec.
202
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203* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for .socket units to "pause" overly
204 busy sockets temporarily. (as a less drastic version of the trigger
205 ratelimit)
206
207* similar, add the same for journal stream clients that log too much
208
209* systemd-mount sould only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
210 to systemd-dissect
211
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212* new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
213 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
214 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
215 run, per PCR
216 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
217 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
218 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
219 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
220 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
221 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
222 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
223 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
224 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
225 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
226 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
227 measurements might not be recognizable.
228 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
229 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
230 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
231 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
232 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
233 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
234 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
235 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
236 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
237 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
238 restricting it to the counter + 1.
239 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
240 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
241 them as singleton in ESP
242 13. increases the counter by one.
243 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
244 .extra
245 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
246 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
247 the counter
248 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
249 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
250 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
251 deterministically swapped out)
252 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
253 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
254 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
255 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
256 policy is generated and counter increased.
257 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
258 downgrades within bounds
259
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260* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
261 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
262 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
263 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
264 control of the attacker.
265
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266* also include packaging metadata (á la
267 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
268 same JSON format.
269
270* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
271 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
272 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
273 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
274 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
275 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
276 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
277 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
278 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
279 newer.
280
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281* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
282 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
283 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
284 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
285 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
286 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
287 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
288 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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290* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
291 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
292 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
293
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294* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
295 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
296 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
297 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 298 independently of any kernel.
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300* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
301 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
302 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
303 requested during switch root.
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305* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
306
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307* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
308 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
309 matched against OS.
310
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311* use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
312 without the other)
313
314* in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
315 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
316 sd-stub, explicitly.
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318* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
319 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
320 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
321
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322* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
323 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
324 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
325 namespaces)
326
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327* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
328 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
329
330* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
331 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
332 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
333
f447b741 334* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 335 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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336 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
337 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
338 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
339 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
340
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341* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
342 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 343 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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344 used transiently, never persistently.
345
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346* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
347 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
348 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
349 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
350 based on lo_file_name.
351
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352* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
353
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354* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
355 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
356 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
357 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
358 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
359 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
360 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
361 activation-by-message id and similar.
362
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363* .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
364
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365* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
366 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
367 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
368 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
369
370* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
371 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
372 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
373 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
374 similar behaviour for system services, too.
375
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376* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
377 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
378 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
379
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380* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
381
382* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
383 localed, oomd, timedated.
384
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385* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
386 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
387 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
388 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
389 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
390 signed by U.
391 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
392 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
393 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
394 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
395 next boot
396 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
397 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
398 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
399 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
400 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
401 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
402 later boot.
403 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
404 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
405 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
406 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
407 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
408
409* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
410 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
411 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
412 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
413 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
414 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 415 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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416 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
417 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
418 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
419 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
420 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
421 access.
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423* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
424 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
425 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
426 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
427 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 428 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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429 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
430 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
431 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
432 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
433
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434* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
435 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
436
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437* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
438 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
439 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
440 for all umh processes.
441
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442* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
443 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
444
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445* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
446 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
447 resize.
448
449* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
450 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
451
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452* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
453 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
454 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
455 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
456 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
457 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
458 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
459 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
460 system actually reset.
461
462* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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463 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
464 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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466* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
467 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
468 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
469 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
470
4cb8a25b 471* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 472 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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473 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
474 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
475
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476* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
477 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
478 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
479 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
480 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
481
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482* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
483 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
484 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
485 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
486 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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491 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
492 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
493 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
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496 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
497
498* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
499 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
500 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
501
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4cb8a25b 503 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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505* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
506 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
507 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
508 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
509 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
510 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
511 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
512 usual.
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515
516* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
517
518* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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521 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
522 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
523 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
524 sockaddr.
525
526* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
527 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
528 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
529 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
530 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
531 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
532 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
533 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
534 try to use inode from there.
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537 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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540 extensions
541
542* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
543 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
544 for the root fs or /usr/.
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547 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
548 combination thereof.
549
550* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
551 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
552 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
553 ahead of time.
554
555* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
556 aforementioned purpose.
557
558* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
559 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
560
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562 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
563 to figure out:
564 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
565 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
566 subsequent boots?
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569 credentials. usecase: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
570 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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573 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
574 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
575 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
576 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
577 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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579 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
580 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
581 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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584 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
585 used)
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588 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
589 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
590 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
591 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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594 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
595 how PCR values we manage came to
596 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
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599 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
600 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
601 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 602 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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606 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
607 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
608
609* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
610 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
611
612* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
613 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
614 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
615 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
616 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
617 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
618
619* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
620 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
621 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
622
623* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
624
625* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
626 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
627 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
628 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
629
630* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
631 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
632 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
633 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
634 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
635 only one for each OS.
636
637* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
638 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 639 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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640 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
641 boot, for the next.
642
643* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
644 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
645
646* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
647 similar behind it, instead of http.
648
649* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
650 boot, or on first boot.
651
652* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
653 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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656 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
657 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
658 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
659 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
660 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
661 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
662 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
663 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
664 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
665 until users are allowed to log in).
666
667* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
668 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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671 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
672 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
b60e0f57 673 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-confext
674 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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676 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
677 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 678 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
679 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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681
682* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
683 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
684 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
685 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
686 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 687 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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689 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 690 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
691 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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693 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
694 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 695 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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697 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
698 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
699 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 700 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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702 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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705 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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708 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
709
710* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
711 instead of manual blocking.
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714 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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717 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
718 supplied password.
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721 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
722 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
723 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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726 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
727 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
728 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
729
730* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
731 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
732 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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735 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
736 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
737
738* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
739 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
740 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
741 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
742 partition with a portable service partition in one.
743
744* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
745 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
746 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
747 modules
748
b60e0f57 749* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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751 a new name with a built-in config?
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754 maybe on kernel command line:
755 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
756 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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759 hash type, etc)
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763
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4e0ceefe 765 but final node is not a directory
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768 non-VFAT fs is used.
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771
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773 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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780 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
781 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
782 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
783 affect PCR values.
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786 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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789 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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792 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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795 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
796
797* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
798 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
799
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802 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
803 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
804 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
805 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
806 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
807 ACPI resume events.
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811 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
812 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
813 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
814 use it.
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817 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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820 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
821 what it was signed.
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824 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
825 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
826 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
827 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
828 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
829 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
830 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
831 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
832 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
833 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
834 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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837 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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840 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
841 via the credentials logic.
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843 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
844 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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846 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
847 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
848 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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850 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
851 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
852 file system paths to enable on start.
853 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
854 usr=
855 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
856 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
857 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
858 account one can directly log into.
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860 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
861 pre-built kernels.
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864 runtime state. Then, expose it:
865
866 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
867 about the unit.
868 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
869 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
870 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
871 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
872 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
873 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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876 what to do if support ended
877
878* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 879 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 881* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 882 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 883 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 884 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 885 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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888 initrd transition. Specifically:
889 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
890 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
891 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
892
893* implement varlink introspection
894
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47b86590 896 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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898 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
899 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
900 depending on desired level of persistency.
901
902* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
903 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 904 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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906 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
907 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
908 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
909 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
910
911* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
912 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
913 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
914 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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921 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
922 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
923 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
924 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
925 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
926 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
927 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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930 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
931 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
932 not unprivileged code.
933
934* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
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938 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
939 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
940 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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943 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
944 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
945 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 946 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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948 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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950 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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952* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
953 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
954 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
955 order.
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958 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
959 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
960 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
961 whenever they want.
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963* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
964 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
965 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
966
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968 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
969 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
970 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 971 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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972 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
973 IN_IGNORED again)
974
5b06ad51 975* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 976 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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977 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
978 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
979 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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980 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
981 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 982 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 983 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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984 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
985 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
986 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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989 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
990 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 991
03ede612 992* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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994 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 995 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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996 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
997 directly to host service manager.
998
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1000 no api to query the device id
1001
1002* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1003 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1004 also be queried.
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1007 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1008 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1009 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1011* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1012 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1013 latter).
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1015* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1016
1017* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1018
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1019* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1020 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1021 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1022 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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1024* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1025 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1026 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
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1027 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1028 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1029 UEFI HTTP boot.
1030
1031* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1032 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1033 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1034 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1035 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1036 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1037 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1038 hence cheap for enumeration.
1039
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1041
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1042* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1043 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1044 words: show partition labels).
1045
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1047 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1048 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 1049 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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1051 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1052 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1053
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1055
e4f92a62 1056* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1058* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1059
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1060* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1061 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1062 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1063 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1064 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1065 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1066 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1067 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1068 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1069 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1070
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1072 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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1074* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1075 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1076
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1077* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1078 jobs, units
1079
a57d72ce 1080* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1081 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1082 userspace)
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1086* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1087 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1088
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1091
1092* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1093 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1095* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1096 internal clock.
1097
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1098* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1099 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1100
1101* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1102 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1103 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1104 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1107 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1108 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1109
1110* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1111 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1112 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1113 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1114 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1115 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1116 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1117 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1118 thread:
1119 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1120 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1121 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1122 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1123 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1124 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1125
1126* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1127 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1128 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1129
1130* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1131 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1132 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1133 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1134 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1135 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1136 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1137 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1138 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1139 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1140 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1141 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1142 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1143 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1144 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1145
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1147 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1148 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1149 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1150 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1151 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1153* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1154 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1156
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1158 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1159 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1160 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1161 on-disk storage.
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1164 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1165 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1166 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1167 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1168
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1169* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1170 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1171 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1173* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1174 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1175 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1176 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1177 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1178 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1179 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1182 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1183 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1184 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1185
3fc0688d 1186* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1187 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1188 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1189 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1190 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1191 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1192 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1193 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1194 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1195 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1196 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1199 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1200 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1203
63a185dc 1204* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1206* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1207 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1208 that images cannot be misused.
1209
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178d3ff2 1211 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1212 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1213 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1214 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1215
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1217 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1218 - support casync as download mechanism
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1219 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1220 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1221 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1222 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1223 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1224 override the host's update files.)
1225 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1226 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1227 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1228 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1229
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1230* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1231
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1232* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1233 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1235* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1236 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1237
24063ba1 1238* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1240 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1241 already have it.
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1243* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1244 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1245
1c904337 1246* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1248* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1249 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1250 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1251 /proc/self/fd/3
1252
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1253* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1254 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1255 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1256
1257* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1258 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1259
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1260* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1261 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1262
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1263* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1264 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1265 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1266 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1267 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1269* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1270
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199b097d 1272 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1273 - acquire via ask-password?
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1275 - pass creds via keyring?
1276 - pass creds via memfd?
1277 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1278 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1279 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1280 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1281 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1282 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1284 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1286* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1287 firmware indicates there is one.
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1289* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1290 and such
1291
1292* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1294* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1295
7d7c75f1 1296* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1298
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1299* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1300 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1303
1304* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1305 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1306
1307* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1308 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1309
1310* cryptsetup:
1311 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1312 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1313
08d33656 1314* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1317 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1318
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1321
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1323 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1324
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1325* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1326
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1327* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1328
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1329* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1330
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1331* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1332 when it exits
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1335 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1336 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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1339 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1340 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1341 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1342 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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1344* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1345 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1346 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1347
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1348* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1349 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1350
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1351* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1352
1353* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1354 specific service
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1356* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1357 exists and responds.
1358
91fc013f 1359* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1360 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1361
7e8facb3 1362* unify on openssl:
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1363 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1364 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1365 gnutls
1366 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1368* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1369 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1370
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1371* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1372 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1374* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1375
2a4be3c5 1376* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1377
f1eb0ccd 1378* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1380* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1381 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1382 initrd had set.
1383
173c7873 1384* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1385 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1386 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1387 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1388 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1389 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1390
1391* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1392 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1393 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1394
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1395* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1396 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1397 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1398 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1399 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1400 source.
1401
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1402* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1403 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1404 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1405
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1406* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1407
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1408* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1409 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1410 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1411 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1412 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1413 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1414 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1415 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1416 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1417 hibernation mode. (see
1418 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1419 section 10.2.2.8 and
1420 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1421 at the end).
1422
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1423* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1424 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1425
c6526b8d 1426* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1428* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1429 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1430 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1431 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1432 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1433 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1434 exec().
1435
1436* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1437
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1438* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1439 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1440
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1441* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1442 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1443
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1444* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1445 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1446 root.
1447
1448* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1449 is issued.
1450
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1451* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1452
1453* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1454
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1455* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1456 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1457 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1458
d238709c 1459* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1460 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1461 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1462
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1463* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1464
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1465* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1466 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1467
06898123 1468* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1469 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1470 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1471 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1473* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1474
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1475* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1476
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1477* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1478 non-zero "tries done" count
1479
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1480* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1481 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1482 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1483 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1484 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1485 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1486 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1487 CODE_FILE.
1488
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1489* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1490 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1491 some explanatory text online.
1492
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1493* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1494
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1495* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1496 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1497
d1797c42 1498* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1499
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1500* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1501 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1502
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1503* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1504 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1505 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1506 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1508* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1509
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1510* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1511
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1512* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1513 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1514
5da19043 1515* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1516 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1518* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1519 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1520 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1521 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1522 unlinked from any dir.
1523
bd1b3f75 1524* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1526* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1527
1528* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1529
53c70a27 1530* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1531 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1532 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1533 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1534 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1535
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1536* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1537
1538* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1539
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1540* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1541 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1542
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1543* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1544 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1545 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1546 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1547 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1548 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1549 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1550 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1551
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1552* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1553 for root, but only then.
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1555* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1556 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1557
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1558* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1559 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1560
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1561* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1562 only when used. Add unit tests.
1563
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1564* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1565 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1566
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1567* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1568 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1569 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1570 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1571 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1572
899feb72 1573* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1574
5f7ecd61 1575* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1576
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1577* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1578 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1579
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1580* blog about fd store and restartable services
1581
1582* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1583
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1584* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1585 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1586
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1587* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1588 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1589 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1590 ID is available.
1591
1592* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1593 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1594 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1595
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1596* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1597 parameters
1598
63a185dc 1599* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1600 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1601 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1602 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1603 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1604 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1605 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1607* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1608 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1609
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1610* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1611 about it in the resource log message
1612
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1613* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1614 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1615 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1616
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1617* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1618 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1619
1620 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1621
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1622* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1623 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1624 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1625
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1626* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1627 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1628
1629* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1630 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1631 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1632 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1633 natural habitat.
1634
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1635* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1636 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1637
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1638* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1639 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1640 relative to the configured default value.
1641
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1642* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1643
04397464 1644* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1646* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1647
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1648* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1649
04397464 1650* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1651
04397464 1652* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1653
04397464 1654* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1655
8ce9b83a 1656* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1657
1658* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1659 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1660 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1661
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1662* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1663 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1664
e40a326c 1665* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1666
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1667* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1668 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1669 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1670 mapping to work.
1671
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1672* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1673
1674* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1675
1676* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1677
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1678* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1679 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1680
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1681* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1682 reload the unit file anyway
1683
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1684* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1685
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1686* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1687
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1688* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1689 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1690
f9bf1b8f 1691* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1692 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1693 specifications.
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1695* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1696
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1697* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1698
a2088fd0 1699* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1700 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1701 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1702 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1704* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1705
931bc195 1706* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1707
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1708* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1709 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1710 state.
41d6f3bf 1711 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1713* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1714 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1715 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1716 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1717 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1718
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1719* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1720
d2f81fb0 1721* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1722 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1723
0a86c1a9 1724* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1725 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1726
e031c227 1727* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1728 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1729
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1730* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1731
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1732* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1733 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1734
25e773ee 1735* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1736
720652b3 1737* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1738
720652b3 1739* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1740
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1741* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1742 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1743
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1744* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1745
9d6db739 1746* resolved:
9d6db739 1747 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1748 - service registration
1749 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1750 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1751 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1752 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1753 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1754 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1755 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1756 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1757
e25b5a8d 1758* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1759
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1760* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1761
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1762* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1763
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1764* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1765
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1766* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1767
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1768* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1769 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1771* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1772
6a3f892a 1773* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1774 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1775 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1776
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1777* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1778 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1779 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1780
f9bf1b8f 1781* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1782
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1783* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1784 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1785 for ReusePort=
1786
f38afcd0 1787* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1788 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1789 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1790 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1791 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1792 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1793 the hierarchies of child processes
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1794- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1795 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1796
f38afcd0 1797* transient units:
f38afcd0 1798 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1799
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1800* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1801
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1802* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1803
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1804* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1805
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1806* 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
1807
7f79cd71 1808* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1809
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1810* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1811 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1812 path anyway.
1813
04397464 1814* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1815
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1816* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1817
1818* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1819
07eabc2b 1820* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1821
07eabc2b 1822* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
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1824* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1825
1826* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1827 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1828 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1829
1830* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1831 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1832
1833* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1834
1835* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1836
1837* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1838
1839* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1840 needs to be auto-respawned?
1841
1842* pid1:
1843 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1844 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1845 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1846 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1847 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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41d6f3bf 1849 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1850 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1851 - move PAM code into its own binary
1852 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1853 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1854 - Support --test based on current system state
1855 - 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().
1856 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1857 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1858 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1859 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1860 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1861 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1862 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1863 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1864 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1865 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1866 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1867 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1868
1869* unit files:
1870 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1871 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1872 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1873 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1874 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1875 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1876 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1877 - introduce Type=pid-file
1878 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1879 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1880 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1881
1882* timer units:
63a185dc 1883 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1884 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1885
1886* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1887
1888* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1889
1890* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1891
1892* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1893
07eabc2b 1894* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1895
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1896* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1897
1898* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1899
fff87a35 1900* test/:
20d52ab6 1901 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1902
b5c03638 1903* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1904 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1905 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1906 destination.
1907
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1908* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1909 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1910
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1911* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1912
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1914 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1915 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1916
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1917* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1918 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1919
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1920* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1921 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1922 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1923 that automatically.
1924
e5ec62c5 1925* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1926
ccddd104 1927* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1928
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1929* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1930
356ce991 1931* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1932
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1933* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1934
1935* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1936
1937* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1938
1939* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1940
1941* sd-bus:
1942 - EBADSLT handling
1943 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1944 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1945 - 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
1946 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1947 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1948 - longer term: priority inheritance
1949 - dbus spec updates:
1950 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1951 - path escaping
1952 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1953
1954* sd-event
1955 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1956 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1957 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1958 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1959 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1960 here:
1961 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1962
1963* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1964 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1965
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1966* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1967
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1968* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1969
1970* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1971
1972* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1973
b44be3ec 1974* EFI:
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1975 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1976 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1977 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1978* bootctl
631427d6 1979 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1980
07eabc2b 1981* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1982
07eabc2b 1983* bootctl:
483091b0 1984 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1985 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1986 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 1987
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1988* logind:
1989 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1990 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1991 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1992 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1993 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1994 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1995 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1996 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1997 needs setuid().
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1998 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1999 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2000 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2001 complete.
2002 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2003 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2004 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2005 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2006 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2007 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2008 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2009 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2010 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2011 relogins
77b19caf 2012 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2013 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2014 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2015 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2017* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2018
2019* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2020 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2021 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2022
2023* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2024 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2025
b44be3ec 2026* journal:
57f2a947 2027 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2028 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2029 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2030 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2031 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2032 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2033 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2034 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2035 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2036 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2037 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2038 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2039 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2040 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2041 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2042 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2043 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2044 - 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.
2045 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2046 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2047 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2048 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2049 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2050 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2051 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2052 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2053 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2054 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2055 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2056 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2057 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2058 to syslog when it works again.
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2059 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2060 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2061 journals in.
2062 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2063 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2064 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2065 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2066 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2067 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2068 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2069 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2070 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2071 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2072 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2073 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2074 operation.
2075 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2076 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2077 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2078 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2079 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2080 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2081 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2082 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2083 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2084 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2086* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2087 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2088
2089* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2090 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2091 validated via TPM.
2092
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2094 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2095 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2096
2097* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2098 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2099 cursors as they happen.
2100
2101* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2102 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2103 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2104 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2105 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2106 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2107 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2108 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2109 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2110
2111* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2112 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2113 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2114 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2115 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2117
2118* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2119 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2120 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2121 records, to be able to order them.
2122
2123* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2124 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2125 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2126 be safely written to disk, then.
2127
2128* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2129 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2130 inspiration from IMA log)
2131
2132* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2133 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2134 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2135
2136* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2137 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2138 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2139 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2140 for doing that.
2141
2142* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2143 log.c and sd-journal-send
2144
2145* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2146 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2147 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2148 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2149 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2150 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2151 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2152 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2153 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2154 an NTP sync is acquired.
2155
2156* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2157
2158* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2159 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2160 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2161
2162* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2163 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2164 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2165 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2166 cgroup.
2167
2168* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2169 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2170 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2171 logging.
2172
2173* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2174
2175* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2176 from the SIGBUS handler
2177
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2179 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2180 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2181 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2182
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2184 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2185
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2186* homed:
2187 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2188 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2189 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2190 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2191 - create on activate?
2192 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2193 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2194 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2195 systemd --user is shut down.
2196 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2197 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2198 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2199 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2200 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2201 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2202 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2203 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2204 - query password from kernel keyring first
2205 - update even if record is "absent"
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2206 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2207 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2208 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2209 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2210 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2211 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2212 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2213 doesn't mean user B sees it
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2215 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2216 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2217 signature
2218 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2219 and insert a local signature instead.
2220 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2221 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2222 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2223 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2224 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2225 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2226 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2227 easily?
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2228 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2229 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2230 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2231 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2232 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2233 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2234 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2235 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2236 can easily set overall quota for all users
2237 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2238 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2239 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2240 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2241 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2242 large.
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2244* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2245 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2246 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2247
2df2bb1f 2248* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2250* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2251 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2252 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2253 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2254
2255* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2256
2257* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2258 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2259 something goes wrong on the way.
2260
2261* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2262
2263* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2264 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2265 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2266 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2267
2268* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2269 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2270 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2271 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2272 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2273 automatically.
2274
2275* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2276 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2277
2278* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2279 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2280 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2281 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2282 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2283 fails to apply use the latter.
2284
2285* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2286 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2287
2288* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2289 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2290
2291* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2292 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2293 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2294
2295* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2296 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2297
92e72028 2298* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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ZJS
2299 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2300 during boot.
2301
2302* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2303
b44be3ec 2304* document:
8b8f2591 2305 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2306 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2307 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2308 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2309 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2310 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2311 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2312 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2313 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2314 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2315 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2316 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2317
2318* systemctl:
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2319 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2320 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2321 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2322 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2323 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2324 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2325 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2326 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2327 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2328 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2329
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2330* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2331 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2332 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2333
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2334* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2335 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2336 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2337
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2338* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2339 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2340 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2341
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2342* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2343 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2344
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LB
2345* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2346 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2347 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2348 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2349
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LB
2350* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2351 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2352 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2353 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2354
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2355* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2356
2357* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2358
2359* unit install:
2360 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2361 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2362
b44be3ec 2363* nspawn:
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2364 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2365 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2366 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2367 from the kernel's logs.
2368 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2369 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2370 interface be missing
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DH
2371 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2372 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2373 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2374 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2375 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2376 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2377 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
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2378 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2379 running, remove them when shut down.
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CB
2380 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2381 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2382 startup.
2383 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2384 or so, freeze the payload too.
2385 - support time namespaces
2386 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2387 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2388 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2389 "machinectl shell"
2390 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2391 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2392 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2393 - greater control over selinux label?
2394 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2395 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2396 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2397 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2398 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2399 host TPM.
2400 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2401 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2402 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2403 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2404 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2405 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2406 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2407 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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2408 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2409 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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2410 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2411 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2412 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2413
2414* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2415 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2416 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2417 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2418 anything like that.
2419
e25b5a8d 2420* machined:
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2421 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2422 removed or added to an existing machine
2423 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2424 difference host, via ssh
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2425 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2426 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2427 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2428 question
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DH
2429 - "machinectl history"
2430 - "machinectl diff"
2431 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2432 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2433
abd55b16 2434* udev:
abd55b16 2435 - move to LGPL
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2436 - kill scsi_id
2437 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2438 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2439 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2440 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2441
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2442* coredump:
2443 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2444 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2445 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2446
2447* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2448
f38afcd0 2449* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2450 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2451 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2452 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2453 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2454 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2455 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2456 - add --test mode
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2457 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2458 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2459 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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ZJS
2460 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2461 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2462
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2463* udev-link-config:
2464 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2465 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2466 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2467
88e4d1d7 2468* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2469 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2470 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2471
0a4b9a07 2472* networkd:
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2473 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2474 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2475 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2476 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2477 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2478 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2479 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2480 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2481 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2482 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2483 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
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2484 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2485 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2486 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2487 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2488 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2489 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2490 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2491
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2492* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2493
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ZJS
2494* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2495
ac976532 2496* dhcp:
424a8732 2497 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2498
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2499* dhcp6:
2500 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2501 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2502 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2503 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2504 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2505 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2506 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2507 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2508 or interface down
2509 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2510 this behavior
4a77c53d 2511 - RouteTable= ?
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2512
2513* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2514 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2515 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)