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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:
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136* in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
137 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
138 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
139 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
140 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
141
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142* add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
143 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
144 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
145 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
146 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
147 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
148 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
149 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
150
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151* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
152 other programs via IPC:
153 - bootctl
154 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
155 - coredumpcl
156 - systemd-bless-boot
157 - systemd-measure
158 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
159 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
160 - systemd-dissect
161 - systemd-sysext
162 - systemd-sysupdate
163 - systemd-analyze
164 - kernel-install
165
166* Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
167 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
168
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169* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
170 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
171 via "systemctl status".
172
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173* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
174 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 175 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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176
177* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
178 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
179
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180* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
181 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
182
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183* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
184 menu.
185
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186* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
187 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
188 sockets.
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190* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
191 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
192 -c owner?).
193
194* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
195 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
196 migratable between PCs)
197
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198* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
199 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
200 snapshot logic
201
202* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
203 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
204 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 205 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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206 a local key to it.
207
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208* PidRef conversion work:
209 - pid_is_unwaited() → pidref_is_unwaited()
210 - pid_is_alive() → pidref_is_alive()
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211 - is_kernel_thread() → pidref_is_kernel_thread()
212 - pid_is_my_child() → pidref_is_my_child()
d94dc50c 213 - get_process_uid() → pidref_get_uid()
4775b55d 214 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
a1f7cdc6 215 - exec_spawn()
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216 - cg_pid_get_unit()
217 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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218 - sd_bus_creds
219 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
220 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
221 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
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223* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
224
225* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
226 mode.
227
228* homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
229 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
230 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
231 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
232 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
233 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
234 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
235
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236* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for .socket units to "pause" overly
237 busy sockets temporarily. (as a less drastic version of the trigger
238 ratelimit)
239
240* similar, add the same for journal stream clients that log too much
241
fcdd21ec 242* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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243 to systemd-dissect
244
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245* new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
246 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
247 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
248 run, per PCR
249 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
250 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
251 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
252 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
253 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
254 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
255 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
256 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
257 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
258 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
259 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
260 measurements might not be recognizable.
261 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
262 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
263 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
264 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
265 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
266 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
267 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
268 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
269 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
270 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
271 restricting it to the counter + 1.
272 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
273 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
274 them as singleton in ESP
275 13. increases the counter by one.
276 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
277 .extra
278 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
279 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
280 the counter
281 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
282 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
283 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
284 deterministically swapped out)
285 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
286 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
287 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
288 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
289 policy is generated and counter increased.
290 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
291 downgrades within bounds
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293* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
294 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
295 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
296 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
297 control of the attacker.
298
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299* also include packaging metadata (á la
300 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
301 same JSON format.
302
303* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
304 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
305 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
306 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
307 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
308 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
309 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
310 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
311 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
312 newer.
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314* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
315 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
316 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
317 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
318 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
319 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
320 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
321 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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323* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
324 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
325 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
326
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327* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
328 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
329 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
330 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 331 independently of any kernel.
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333* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
334 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
335 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
336 requested during switch root.
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338* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
339
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340* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
341 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
342 matched against OS.
343
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344* use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
345 without the other)
346
347* in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
348 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
349 sd-stub, explicitly.
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351* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
352 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
353 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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355* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
356 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
357 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
358 namespaces)
359
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360* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
361 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
362
363* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
364 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
365 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
366
f447b741 367* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 368 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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369 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
370 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
371 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
372 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
373
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374* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
375 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 376 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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377 used transiently, never persistently.
378
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379* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
380 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
381 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
382 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
383 based on lo_file_name.
384
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385* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
386
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387* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
388 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
389 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
390 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
391 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
392 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
393 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
394 activation-by-message id and similar.
395
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396* .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
397
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398* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
399 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
400 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
401 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
402
403* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
404 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
405 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
406 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
407 similar behaviour for system services, too.
408
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409* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
410 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
411 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
412
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413* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
414
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415* udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
416 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
417 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
418
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419* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
420 localed, oomd, timedated.
421
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422* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
423 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
424 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
425 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
426 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
427 signed by U.
428 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
429 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
430 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
431 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
432 next boot
433 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
434 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
435 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
436 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
437 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
438 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
439 later boot.
440 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
441 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
442 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
443 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
444 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
445
446* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
447 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
448 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
449 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
450 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
451 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 452 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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453 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
454 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
455 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
456 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
457 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
458 access.
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460* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
461 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
462 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
463 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
464 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 465 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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466 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
467 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
468 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
469 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
470
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471* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
472 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
473
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474* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
475 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
476 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
477 for all umh processes.
478
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479* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
480 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
481
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482* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
483 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
484 resize.
485
486* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
487 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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490 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
491 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
492 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
493 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
494 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
495 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
496 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
497 system actually reset.
498
499* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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501 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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504 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
505 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
506 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
507
4cb8a25b 508* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 509 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 510 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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514 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
515 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
516 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
517 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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520 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
521 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
522 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
523 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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526
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528 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 529 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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531
084ecae5 532* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 533 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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535* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
536 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
537 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
538
6d040d84 539* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 540 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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542* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
543 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
544 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
545 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
546 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
547 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
548 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
549 usual.
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552
553* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
554
555* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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558 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
559 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
560 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
561 sockaddr.
562
563* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
564 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
565 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
566 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
567 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
568 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
569 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
570 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
571 try to use inode from there.
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574 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
575
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577 extensions
578
579* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
580 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
581 for the root fs or /usr/.
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584 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
585 combination thereof.
586
587* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
588 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
589 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
590 ahead of time.
591
592* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
593 aforementioned purpose.
594
595* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
596 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
597
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599 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
600 to figure out:
601 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
602 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
603 subsequent boots?
604
dbc62e59 605* provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
7227dd81 606 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
dbc62e59 607 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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610 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
611 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
612 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
613 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
614 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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616 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
617 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
618 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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621 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
622 used)
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625 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
626 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
627 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
628 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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631 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
632 how PCR values we manage came to
633 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
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636 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
637 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
638 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 639 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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641
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643 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
644 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
645
646* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
647 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
648
649* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
650 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
651 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
652 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
653 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
654 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
655
656* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
657 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
658 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
659
660* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
661
662* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
663 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 664 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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666
667* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
668 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
669 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
670 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
671 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
672 only one for each OS.
673
674* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
675 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 676 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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678 boot, for the next.
679
680* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
681 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
682
683* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
684 similar behind it, instead of http.
685
686* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
687 boot, or on first boot.
688
689* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
690 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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693 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
694 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
695 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
696 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
697 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
698 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
699 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
700 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
701 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
702 until users are allowed to log in).
703
704* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
705 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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708 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
709 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 710 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 711 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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713 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
714 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 715 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
716 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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718
719* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
720 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
721 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
722 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 723 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 724 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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726 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 727 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
728 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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730 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
731 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 732 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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734 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
735 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
736 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 737 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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739 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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742 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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745 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
746
747* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
748 instead of manual blocking.
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751 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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754 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
755 supplied password.
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758 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
759 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
760 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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763 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
764 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
fcdd21ec 765 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
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767* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
768 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
769 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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772 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
773 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
774
775* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
776 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
777 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 778 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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780
781* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
782 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
783 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
784 modules
785
b60e0f57 786* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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788 a new name with a built-in config?
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791 maybe on kernel command line:
792 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
793 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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796 hash type, etc)
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800
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4e0ceefe 802 but final node is not a directory
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805 non-VFAT fs is used.
806
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808
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810 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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817 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
818 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
819 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
820 affect PCR values.
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823 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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826 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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829 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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832 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
833
834* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
835 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
836
9f3a3ac7 837* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
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839 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
840 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
841 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
842 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
843 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
844 ACPI resume events.
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848 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
849 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
850 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
851 use it.
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854 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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857 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
858 what it was signed.
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861 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
862 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
863 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
864 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
865 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
866 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
867 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
868 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
869 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
870 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
871 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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874 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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877 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
878 via the credentials logic.
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880 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
881 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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883 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
884 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
885 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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887 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
888 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
889 file system paths to enable on start.
890 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
891 usr=
892 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
893 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
7227dd81 894 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
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897 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
898 pre-built kernels.
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901 runtime state. Then, expose it:
902
903 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
904 about the unit.
905 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
906 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
907 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
908 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
909 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
910 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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913 what to do if support ended
914
915* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 916 login time, à la motd
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9c18b363 919 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 920 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 921 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 922 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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925 initrd transition. Specifically:
926 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
927 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
928 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
929
d486b26f 930* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 931 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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933 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
934 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
935 depending on desired level of persistency.
936
937* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
938 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 939 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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941 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
942 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
943 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
944 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
945
946* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
947 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
948 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
949 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
950
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952
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953* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
954
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956 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
957 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 958 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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960 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
961 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
962 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 963 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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965 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
966 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
967 not unprivileged code.
968
969* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 970 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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973 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
974 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
975 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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978 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
979 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
980 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 981 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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983 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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985 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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987* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
988 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
989 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
990 order.
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993 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
994 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
995 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
996 whenever they want.
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998* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
999 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1000 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1003 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1004 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1005 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1006 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1007 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1008 IN_IGNORED again)
1009
5b06ad51 1010* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1011 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1012 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1013 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1014 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1016 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1017 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1018 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1020 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1021 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1024 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1025 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1026
03ede612 1027* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1029 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1030 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1031 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1032 directly to host service manager.
1033
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1034* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1035 no api to query the device id
1036
1037* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1038 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1039 also be queried.
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1042 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1043 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1044 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1047 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1048 latter).
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1050* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1051
1052* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1053
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1054* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1055 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1056 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1057 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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1060 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1061 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1062 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1063 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1065
1066* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1067 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1068 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1069 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1070 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1071 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1072 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1073 hence cheap for enumeration.
1074
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1076
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1077* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1078 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1079 words: show partition labels).
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1082 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1083 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1084 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1086 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1087 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1088
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1090
e4f92a62 1091* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1093* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1094
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1095* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1096 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1097 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1098 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1099 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1100 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1101 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1102 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1103 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1104 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1105
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1107 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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1110 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1111
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1113 jobs, units
1114
a57d72ce 1115* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1117 userspace)
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1122 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1123
d1666bde 1124* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1126
1127* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1128 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1131 internal clock.
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1133* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1134 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1135
1136* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1137 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1138 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1139 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1142 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1143 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1144
1145* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1146 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1147 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1148 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1149 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1150 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1151 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1152 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1153 thread:
1154 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1155 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1156 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1157 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1158 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1159 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1160
1161* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1162 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1163 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1164
1165* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1166 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1167 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1168 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1169 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1170 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1171 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1172 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1173 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1174 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1175 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1176 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1177 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1178 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1179 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1182 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1183 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1184 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1185 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1186 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1188* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1189 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1191
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1193 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1194 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1195 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1196 on-disk storage.
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1199 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1200 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1201 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1202 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1203
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1204* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1205 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1206 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1208* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1209 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1210 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1211 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1212 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1213 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1214 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1217 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1218 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1219 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1220
3fc0688d 1221* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1222 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1223 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1224 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1225 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1226 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1227 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1228 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1229 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1230 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1231 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1234 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1235 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1238
63a185dc 1239* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1241* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1242 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1243 that images cannot be misused.
1244
aca8ecc3 1245* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1246 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1247 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1248 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1249 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1250
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1252 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1253 - support casync as download mechanism
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1254 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1255 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1256 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1257 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1258 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1259 override the host's update files.)
1260 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1261 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1262 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1263 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1265* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1266
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1267* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1268 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1270* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1271 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1272
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1275 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1276 already have it.
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1278* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1279 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1280
1c904337 1281* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1283* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1284 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1285 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1286 /proc/self/fd/3
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1289 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1290 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1291
1292* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1293 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1295* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1296 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1298* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1299 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1300 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1301 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1302 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1305
199b097d 1306* credentials system:
199b097d 1307 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1308 - acquire via ask-password?
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1310 - pass creds via keyring?
1311 - pass creds via memfd?
1312 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1313 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1314 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1315 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1316 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1317 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1319 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1322 firmware indicates there is one.
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1325 and such
1326
1327* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1329* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
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7d7c75f1 1331* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1333
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1334* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1335 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1338
1339* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1340 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1341
1342* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1343 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1344
1345* cryptsetup:
1346 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1347 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1348
08d33656 1349* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1352 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1353
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1356
f461a28d 1357* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1358 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1359
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1360* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1361
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1362* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1363
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1364* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1365
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1366* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1367 when it exits
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1369* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1370 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1371 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1372 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1373 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1374 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1375 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1376 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1377 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1378
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1379* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1380 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1381 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1382
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1383* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1384 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1385
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1386* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1387
1388* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1389 specific service
1390
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1391* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1392 exists and responds.
1393
91fc013f 1394* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1395 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1396
7e8facb3 1397* unify on openssl:
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1398 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1399 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1400 gnutls
1401 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1403* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1404 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1405
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1406* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1407 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1409* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1410
2a4be3c5 1411* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1412
f1eb0ccd 1413* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1415* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1416 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1417 initrd had set.
1418
173c7873 1419* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1420 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1421 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1422 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1423 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1424 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1425
1426* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1427 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1428 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1429
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1430* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1431 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1432 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1433 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1434 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1435 source.
1436
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1437* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1438 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1439 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1440
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1441* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1442
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1443* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1444 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1445 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1446 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1447 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1448 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1449 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1450 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1451 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1452 hibernation mode. (see
1453 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1454 section 10.2.2.8 and
1455 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1456 at the end).
1457
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1458* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1459 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1460
c6526b8d 1461* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1462
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1463* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1464 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1465 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1466 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1467 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1468 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1469 exec().
1470
1471* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1472
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1473* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1474 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1475
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1476* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1477 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1478
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1479* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1480 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1481 root.
1482
1483* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1484 is issued.
1485
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1486* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1487
1488* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1489
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1490* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1491 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1492 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1493
d238709c 1494* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1495 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1496 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1497
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1498* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1499
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1500* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1501 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1502
06898123 1503* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1504 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1505 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1506 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1507
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1508* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1509
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1510* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1511
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1512* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1513 non-zero "tries done" count
1514
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1515* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1516 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1517 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1518 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1519 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1520 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1521 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1522 CODE_FILE.
1523
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1524* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1525 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1526 some explanatory text online.
1527
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1528* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1529
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1530* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1531 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1532
d1797c42 1533* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1534
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1535* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1536 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1537
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1538* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1539 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1540 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1541 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1543* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1544
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1545* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1546
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1547* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1548 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1549
5da19043 1550* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1551 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1553* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1554 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1555 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1556 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1557 unlinked from any dir.
1558
bd1b3f75 1559* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1560
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1561* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1562
1563* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1564
53c70a27 1565* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1566 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1567 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1568 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1569 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1570
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1571* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1572
1573* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1574
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1575* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1576 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1577
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1578* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1579 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1580 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1581 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1582 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1583 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1584 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1585 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1586
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1587* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1588 for root, but only then.
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1590* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1591 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1592
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1593* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1594 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1595
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1596* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1597 only when used. Add unit tests.
1598
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1599* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1600 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1601
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1602* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1603 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1604 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1605 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1606 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1607
899feb72 1608* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1609
5f7ecd61 1610* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1612* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1613 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1614
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1615* blog about fd store and restartable services
1616
1617* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1618
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1619* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1620 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1621
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1622* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1623 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1624 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1625 ID is available.
1626
1627* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1628 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1629 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1630
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1631* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1632 parameters
1633
63a185dc 1634* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1635 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1636 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1637 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1638 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1639 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1640 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1642* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1643 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1644
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1645* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1646 about it in the resource log message
1647
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1648* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1649 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1650 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1651
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1652* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1653 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1654
1655 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1656
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1657* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1658 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1659 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1660
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1661* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1662 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1663
1664* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1665 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1666 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1667 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1668 natural habitat.
1669
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1670* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1671 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1673* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1674 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1675 relative to the configured default value.
1676
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1677* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1678
04397464 1679* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1680
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1681* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1682
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1683* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1684
04397464 1685* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1686
04397464 1687* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1688
04397464 1689* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1690
8ce9b83a 1691* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1692
1693* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1694 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1695 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1696
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1697* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1698 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1699
e40a326c 1700* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1701
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1702* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1703 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1704 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1705 mapping to work.
1706
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1707* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1708
1709* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1710
1711* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1712
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1713* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1714 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1715
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1716* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1717 reload the unit file anyway
1718
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1719* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1720
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1721* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1722
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1723* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1724 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1725
f9bf1b8f 1726* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1727 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1728 specifications.
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1730* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1731
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1732* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1733
a2088fd0 1734* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1735 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1736 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1737 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1738
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1739* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1740
931bc195 1741* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1743* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1744 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1745 state.
41d6f3bf 1746 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1748* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1749 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1750 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1751 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1752 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1753
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1754* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1755
d2f81fb0 1756* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1757 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1758
0a86c1a9 1759* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1760 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1761
e031c227 1762* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1763 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1764
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1765* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1766
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1767* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1768 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1769
25e773ee 1770* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1771
720652b3 1772* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1773
720652b3 1774* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1775
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1776* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1777 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1778
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1779* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1780
9d6db739 1781* resolved:
9d6db739 1782 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1783 - service registration
1784 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1785 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1786 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1787 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1788 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1789 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1790 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1791 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1792
e25b5a8d 1793* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1794
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1795* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1796
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1797* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1798
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1799* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1800
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1801* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1802
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1803* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1804 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1806* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1807
6a3f892a 1808* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1809 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1810 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1811
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1813 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1814 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1815
f9bf1b8f 1816* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1819 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1820 for ReusePort=
1821
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f38afcd0 1823 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1824 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1825 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1826 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1827 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1828 the hierarchies of child processes
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1830 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1831
f38afcd0 1832* transient units:
f38afcd0 1833 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1834
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1835* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1836
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1837* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1838
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1839* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1840
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1841* 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
1842
7f79cd71 1843* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1844
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1845* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1846 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1847 path anyway.
1848
04397464 1849* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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1851* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1852
1853* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1854
07eabc2b 1855* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1856
07eabc2b 1857* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1858
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1859* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1860
1861* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1862 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1863 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1864
1865* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1866 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1867
1868* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1869
1870* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1871
1872* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1873
1874* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1875 needs to be auto-respawned?
1876
1877* pid1:
1878 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1879 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1880 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1881 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1882 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
7227dd81 1883 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
41d6f3bf 1884 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1885 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1886 - move PAM code into its own binary
1887 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1888 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1889 - Support --test based on current system state
1890 - 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().
1891 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1892 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1893 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1894 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1895 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1896 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1897 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1898 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1899 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1900 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1901 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1902 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1903
1904* unit files:
1905 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1906 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1907 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1908 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1909 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1910 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1911 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1912 - introduce Type=pid-file
1913 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1914 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1915 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1916
1917* timer units:
63a185dc 1918 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1919 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1920
1921* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1922
1923* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1924
1925* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1926
1927* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1928
07eabc2b 1929* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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1931* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1932
1933* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1934
fff87a35 1935* test/:
20d52ab6 1936 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1937
b5c03638 1938* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1939 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1940 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1941 destination.
1942
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1943* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1944 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1945
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1946* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1947
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1948* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1949 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1950 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1951
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1952* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1953 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1954
7227dd81 1955* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1956 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1957 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1958 that automatically.
1959
e5ec62c5 1960* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1961
ccddd104 1962* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1963
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1964* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1965
356ce991 1966* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1967
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1968* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1969
1970* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1971
1972* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1973
1974* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1975
1976* sd-bus:
1977 - EBADSLT handling
1978 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1979 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1980 - 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
1981 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1982 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1983 - longer term: priority inheritance
1984 - dbus spec updates:
1985 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1986 - path escaping
1987 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1988
1989* sd-event
1990 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1991 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1992 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1993 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1994 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1995 here:
1996 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1997
1998* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1999 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2000
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2002
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2003* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2004
2005* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2006
2007* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2008
b44be3ec 2009* EFI:
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2010 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2011 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2012 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2013* bootctl
631427d6 2014 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2015
07eabc2b 2016* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2017
07eabc2b 2018* bootctl:
483091b0 2019 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2020 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2021 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2022
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2023* logind:
2024 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2025 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2026 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2027 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2028 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2029 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2030 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2031 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2032 needs setuid().
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2033 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2034 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2035 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2036 complete.
2037 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2038 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2039 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2040 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2041 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2042 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2043 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2044 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2045 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2046 relogins
77b19caf 2047 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2048 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2049 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2050 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2051
2052* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2053
2054* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2055 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2056 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2057
2058* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2059 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2060
b44be3ec 2061* journal:
57f2a947 2062 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2063 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2064 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2065 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2066 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2067 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2068 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2069 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2070 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2071 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2072 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2073 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2074 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2075 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2076 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2077 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2078 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2079 - 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.
2080 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2081 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2082 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2083 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2084 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2085 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2086 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2087 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2088 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2089 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2090 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2091 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2092 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2093 to syslog when it works again.
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2094 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2095 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2096 journals in.
2097 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2098 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2099 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2100 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2101 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2102 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2103 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2104 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2105 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2106 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2107 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2108 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2109 operation.
2110 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2111 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2112 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2113 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2114 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2115 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2116 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2117 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2118 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2119 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2121* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2122 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2123
2124* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2125 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2126 validated via TPM.
2127
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2129 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2130 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2131
2132* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2133 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2134 cursors as they happen.
2135
2136* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2137 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2138 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2139 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2140 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2141 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2142 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2143 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2144 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2145
2146* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2147 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2148 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2149 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2150 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2152
2153* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2154 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2155 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2156 records, to be able to order them.
2157
2158* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2159 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2160 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2161 be safely written to disk, then.
2162
2163* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2164 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2165 inspiration from IMA log)
2166
2167* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2168 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2169 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2170
2171* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2172 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2173 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2174 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2175 for doing that.
2176
2177* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2178 log.c and sd-journal-send
2179
2180* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2181 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2182 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2183 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2184 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2185 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2186 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2187 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2188 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2189 an NTP sync is acquired.
2190
2191* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2192
2193* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2194 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2195 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2196
2197* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2198 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2199 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2200 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2201 cgroup.
2202
2203* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2204 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2205 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2206 logging.
2207
2208* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2209
2210* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2211 from the SIGBUS handler
2212
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2214 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2215 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2216 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2217
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2219 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2220
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2221* homed:
2222 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2223 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2224 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2225 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2226 - create on activate?
2227 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2228 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2229 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2230 systemd --user is shut down.
2231 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2232 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2233 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2234 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2235 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2236 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2237 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2238 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2239 - query password from kernel keyring first
2240 - update even if record is "absent"
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2241 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2242 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2243 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2244 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2245 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2246 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2247 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2248 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2249 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
9c53de8b
LP
2250 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2251 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2252 signature
2253 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2254 and insert a local signature instead.
2255 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2256 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2257 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2258 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2259 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2260 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2261 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2262 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2263 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2264 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2265 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2266 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2267 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2268 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2269 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2270 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2271 can easily set overall quota for all users
2272 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2273 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2274 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2275 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
f1a147f2
LP
2276 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2277 large.
07eabc2b 2278
07eabc2b
LB
2279* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2280 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2281 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2282
2df2bb1f 2283* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
07eabc2b
LB
2284
2285* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2286 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2287 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2288 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2289
2290* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2291
2292* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2293 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2294 something goes wrong on the way.
2295
2296* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2297
2298* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2299 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2300 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2301 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2302
2303* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2304 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2305 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2306 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2307 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2308 automatically.
2309
2310* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2311 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2312
2313* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2314 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2315 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2316 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2317 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2318 fails to apply use the latter.
2319
2320* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2321 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2322
2323* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2324 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2325
2326* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2327 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2328 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
07eabc2b
LB
2329
2330* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2331 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2332
92e72028 2333* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2334 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2335 during boot.
2336
2337* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2338
b44be3ec 2339* document:
8b8f2591 2340 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
2341 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2342 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2343 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2344 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2345 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2346 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2347 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2348 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2349 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2350 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2351 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2352
2353* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2354 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2355 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2356 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2357 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2358 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2359 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2360 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2361 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2362 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2363 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2364
07eabc2b
LB
2365* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2366 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2367 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2368
07eabc2b
LB
2369* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2370 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2371 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2372
07eabc2b
LB
2373* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2374 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2375 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2376
07eabc2b
LB
2377* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2378 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2379
07eabc2b
LB
2380* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2381 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2382 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2383 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2384
07eabc2b
LB
2385* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2386 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2387 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2388 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2389
07eabc2b
LB
2390* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2391
2392* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2393
2394* unit install:
2395 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2396 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2397
b44be3ec 2398* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2399 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2400 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2401 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2402 from the kernel's logs.
2403 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2404 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2405 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2406 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2407 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2408 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2409 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2410 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2411 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2412 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2413 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2414 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2415 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2416 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2417 startup.
2418 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2419 or so, freeze the payload too.
2420 - support time namespaces
2421 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2422 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2423 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2424 "machinectl shell"
2425 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2426 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2427 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2428 - greater control over selinux label?
2429 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2430 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2431 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2432 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2433 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2434 host TPM.
2435 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2436 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2437 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2438 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2439 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2440 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2441 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2442 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2443 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2444 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2445 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2446 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2447 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2448
2449* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2450 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2451 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2452 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2453 anything like that.
2454
e25b5a8d 2455* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2456 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2457 removed or added to an existing machine
2458 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2459 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2460 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2461 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2462 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2463 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2464 - "machinectl history"
2465 - "machinectl diff"
2466 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2467 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2468
abd55b16 2469* udev:
abd55b16 2470 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2471 - kill scsi_id
2472 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2473 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2474 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2475 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2476
e25b5a8d
DH
2477* coredump:
2478 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2479 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2480 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2481
2482* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2483
f38afcd0 2484* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2485 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2486 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2487 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2488 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2489 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2490 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2491 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2492 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2493 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2494 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2495 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2496 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2497
af6f0d42
TG
2498* udev-link-config:
2499 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2500 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2501 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2502
88e4d1d7 2503* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2504 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2505 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2506
0a4b9a07 2507* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2508 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2509 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2510 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2511 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2512 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2513 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2514 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2515 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2516 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2517 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2518 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2519 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2520 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2521 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2522 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2523 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2524 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2525 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2526
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LB
2527* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2528
d5e172d2
ZJS
2529* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2530
ac976532 2531* dhcp:
424a8732 2532 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2533
37d8b536
PF
2534* dhcp6:
2535 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2536 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2537 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2538 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2539 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2540 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2541 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2542 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2543 or interface down
2544 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2545 this behavior
4a77c53d 2546 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2547
2548* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2549 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2550 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)