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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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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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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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94* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
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99* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 101 is only supported for such old kernels.
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103* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
9eb41aab 106* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
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112* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
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115* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
3345802c 118* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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121* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
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123* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
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127* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
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130Features:
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132* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
133 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
134 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
135
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136* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
137 that hwdb patters can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
138 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
139 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
140 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
141 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
142
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143* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
144 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
145 way noone can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
146 used transiently, never persistently.
147
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148* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
149 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
150 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
151 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
152 based on lo_file_name.
153
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154* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
155
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156* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
157 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
158 cursors as they happen.
159
160* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
161 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
162 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
163 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
164 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
165 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
166 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
167 activation-by-message id and similar.
168
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169* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
170 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
171 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
172 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
173
174* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
175 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
176 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
177 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
178 similar behaviour for system services, too.
179
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180* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
181 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
182 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
183
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184* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
185
186* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
187 localed, oomd, timedated.
188
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189* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
190 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
191 info of the newest entry of the specificy boot (as identified by the boot
192 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
193 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
194 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
195 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
196 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
197 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
198
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199* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
200 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
201 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
202
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203* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
204 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
205 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
206 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
207 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
208 signed by U.
209 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
210 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
211 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
212 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
213 next boot
214 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
215 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
216 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
217 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
218 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
219 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
220 later boot.
221 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
222 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
223 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
224 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
225 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
226
227* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
228 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
229 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
230 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
231 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
232 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
233 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
234 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
235 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
236 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
237 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
238 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
239 access.
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241* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
242 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
243 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
244 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
245 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 246 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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247 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
248 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
249 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
250 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
251
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252* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
253 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
254
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255* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
256 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
257 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
258 for all umh processes.
259
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260* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
261 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
262
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263* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
264 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
265 resize.
266
267* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
268 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
269
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270* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
271 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
272 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
273 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
274 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
275 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
276
277* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
278 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
30fd9a2d 279 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
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280 records, to be able to order them.
281
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282* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
283 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
284 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
285 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
286 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
287 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
288 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
289 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
290 system actually reset.
291
292* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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293 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
294 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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296* systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
297 image policy by default
298
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299* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
300 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
301 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
302 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
303
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1c904337 305 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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306 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
307 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
308
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309* fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
310 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
311 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
312 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
313 which isn't quite the same.
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315* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
316 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
317 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
318 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
319 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
320
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321* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
322 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
323 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
324 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
325 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
326
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327* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
328
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329* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
330 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
331 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
332 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
333
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334* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
335
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336* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
337 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
338
339* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
340 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
341 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
342
6d040d84 343* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 344 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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346* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
347 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
348 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
349 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
350 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
351 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
352 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
353 usual.
354
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355* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
356
357* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
358
359* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
360
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361* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
362 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
363 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
364 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
365 sockaddr.
366
367* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
368 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
369 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
370 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
371 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
372 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
373 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
374 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
375 try to use inode from there.
376
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377* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
378 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
379
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380* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
381 extensions
382
383* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
384 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
385 for the root fs or /usr/.
386
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387* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
388 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
389 combination thereof.
390
391* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
392 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
393 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
394 ahead of time.
395
396* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
397 aforementioned purpose.
398
399* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
400 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
401
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402* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
403 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
404 to figure out:
405 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
406 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
407 subsequent boots?
408
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409* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
410 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
411 inspiration from IMA log)
412
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413* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
414 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
415 out to our tools.
416
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417* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
418 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
419 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
420 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
421 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
422 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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423 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
424 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
425 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
426 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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428* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
429 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
430 used)
431
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432* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
433 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
434 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
435 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
436 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
437
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438* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
439 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
440 how PCR values we manage came to
441 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
442
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443* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
444 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
445 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
446 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 447 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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448 should win over vendor defaults.
449
450* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
451 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
452 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
453 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
454 command lines.
455
456* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
457 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
458 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
459
460* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
461 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
462
463* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
464 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
465 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
466 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
467 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
468 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
469
470* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
471 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
472 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
473
474* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
475
476* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
477 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
478 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
479 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
480
481* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
482 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
483 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
484 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
485 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
486 only one for each OS.
487
488* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
489 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 490 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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492 boot, for the next.
493
494* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
495 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
496
497* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
498 similar behind it, instead of http.
499
500* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
501 boot, or on first boot.
502
503* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
504 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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507 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
508 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
509 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
510 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
511 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
512 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
513 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
514 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
515 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
516 until users are allowed to log in).
517
518* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
519 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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522 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
523 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
524 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
525 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
526 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
527 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
528 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
529 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
530 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
531 automatically invalidated outside of it.
532
533* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
534 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
535 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
536 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
537 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 538 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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540 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
541 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
542 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
543 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
544 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
545 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
546 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
547 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
548 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
549 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
550 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
551 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
552 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
553 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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555* in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
556 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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559 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
560
561* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
562 instead of manual blocking.
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564* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
565 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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568 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
569 supplied password.
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572 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
573 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
574 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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577 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
578 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
579 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
580
581* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
582 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
583 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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586 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
587 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
588
589* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
590 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
591 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
592 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
593 partition with a portable service partition in one.
594
595* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
596 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
597 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
598 modules
599
600* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
601 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
602 a new name with a built-in config?
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605 maybe on kernel command line:
606 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
607 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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610 hash type, etc)
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614
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4e0ceefe 616 but final node is not a directory
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619 non-VFAT fs is used.
620
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622
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624 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
625
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627
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631 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
632 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
633 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
634 affect PCR values.
635
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637 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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639* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
640 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
641
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642* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
643 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
644
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646 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
647
648* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
649 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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652 maybe some other stuff and boots it
653
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656 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
657 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
658 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
659 use it.
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662 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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665 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
666 what it was signed.
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669 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
670 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
671 be safely written to disk, then.
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674 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
675 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
676 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
677 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
678 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
679 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
680 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
681 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
682 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
683 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
684 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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686* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
687 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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690 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
691 via the credentials logic.
692 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
693 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
694 integrity-generator)
695 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
696 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
697 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
698 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
699 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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701 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
702 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
703 file system paths to enable on start.
704 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
705 usr=
706 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
707 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
708 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
709 account one can directly log into.
710 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
711 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
712 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
713 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
714 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
715 pre-built kernels.
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718 runtime state. Then, expose it:
719
720 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
721 about the unit.
722 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
723 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
724 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
725 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
726 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
727 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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730 what to do if support ended
731
732* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 733 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 735* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 736 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 737 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 738 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 739 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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742 initrd transition. Specifically:
743 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
744 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
745 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
746
747* implement varlink introspection
748
d486b26f 749* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 750 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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752 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
753 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
754 depending on desired level of persistency.
755
756* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
757 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 758 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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759 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
760 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
761 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
762 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
763 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
764
765* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
766 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
767 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
768 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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771
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774* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
775 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
776 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
777 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
778 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
779 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
780 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
781 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 782 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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784 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
785 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
786 not unprivileged code.
787
788* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 789 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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792 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
793 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
794 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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797 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
798 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
799 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 800 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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802 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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804 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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806* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
807 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
808 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
809 order.
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812 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
813 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
814 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
815 whenever they want.
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817* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
818 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
819 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
820
821* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
822 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
823 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
824 acquire.
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827 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
828 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
829 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 830 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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832 IN_IGNORED again)
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835 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
836 virtio-fs.
837
838* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 839 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 840 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 841 on verification if in secureboot mode
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843 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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845 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
846 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
847 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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849 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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851 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 852 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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854 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
855 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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858 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
859 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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863 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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866 directly to host service manager.
867
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870 credentials to configure socket address.
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875 no api to query the device id
876
877* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
878 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
879 also be queried.
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882 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
883 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
884 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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886* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
887 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
888 latter).
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890* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
891
892* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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894* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
895 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
896 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
897 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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900 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 901 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
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903 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
904 UEFI HTTP boot.
905
906* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
907 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
908 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
909 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
910 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
911 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
912 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
913 hence cheap for enumeration.
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916
917* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
918 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
919 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
920 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
921 comprehensively.
922
923* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
924 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
925 words: show partition labels).
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928 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
929 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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932 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
933 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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935* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
936
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939* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
940
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941* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
942 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
943 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
944 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
945 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
946 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
947 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
948 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
949 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
950 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
951
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952* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
953 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
954 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
955 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
956 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
957 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
958 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
959 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
960 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
961 an NTP sync is acquired.
962
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963* kernel-install:
964 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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966* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
967 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
968
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969* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
970 jobs, units
971
a57d72ce 972* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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973 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
974 userspace)
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976* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
977
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978* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
979 json package metadata, and use that when logging
980
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982 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
983
984* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
985 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
986
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987* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
988 internal clock.
989
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990* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
991 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
992
993* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
994 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
995 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
996 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
997
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998* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
999 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1000 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1001
1002* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1003 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1004 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1005 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1006 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1007 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1008 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1009 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1010 thread:
1011 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1012 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1013 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1014 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1015 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1016 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1017
1018* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1019 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1020 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1021
1022* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1023 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1024 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1025 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1026 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1027 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1028 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1029 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1030 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1031 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1032 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1033 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1034 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1035 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1036 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1037
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1039 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1040 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1041 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1042 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1043 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1045* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1046 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1048
1049* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 1050 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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1052* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1053 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1054 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1055 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1056 on-disk storage.
1057
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1059 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1060 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1061 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1062 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1063
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1064* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1065 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1066 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1067
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1068* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1069 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1070 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1071 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1072 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1073 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1074 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1075
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1076* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1077 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1078 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1079 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1080
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1081* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1082 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1083 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1084 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1085 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1086 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1087 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1088 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1089
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1090 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1091 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1092 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 1093 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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1094 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1095 take --image= that take the same short string.
1096
3fc0688d 1097* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1098 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1099 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1100 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1101 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1102 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1103 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1104 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1105 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1106 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1107 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1109* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1110 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1111 authentication.
1112
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1113* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1114 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1115 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1118
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1121* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1122 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1123 that images cannot be misused.
1124
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178d3ff2 1126 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1127 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1128 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1129 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1130
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1132 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1133 - support casync as download mechanism
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1134 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1135 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1136 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1137 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1138 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1139 override the host's update files.)
1140 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1141 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1142 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1143 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1144
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1145* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1146
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1147* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1148 make dirs appear under right UID.
1149
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1150* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1151 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1152
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1153* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1154 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1155 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1156 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1157 for doing that.
1158
24063ba1 1159* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1160 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1161 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1162 already have it.
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1164* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1165 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1166
1c904337 1167* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1169* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1170 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1171 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1172 /proc/self/fd/3
1173
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1174* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1175 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1176 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1177
1178* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1179 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1180
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1181* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1182 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1183
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1184* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1185 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1186 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1187 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1188 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1190* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1191
199b097d 1192* credentials system:
199b097d 1193 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1194 - acquire via ask-password?
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1195 - acquire creds via keyring?
1196 - pass creds via keyring?
1197 - pass creds via memfd?
1198 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1199 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1200 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1201 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1202 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1203 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1204 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1205 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1207* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1208 firmware indicates there is one.
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1210* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1211 and such
1212
1213* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1214
02c914ef 1215* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1216
7d7c75f1 1217* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1218 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1219
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1220* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1221 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1222
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1223* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1224
1225* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1226 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1227
1228* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1229 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1230
1231* cryptsetup:
1232 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1233 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1234
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1235* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1236 it happens to be set up alright already.
1237
1238* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1239
1240* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1241 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1242 default.
1243
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1244* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1245 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1246 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1247 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1248 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1249
08d33656 1250* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1251
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1252* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1253 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1254
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1255* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1256 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1257 temporary dir.
1258
f461a28d 1259* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1260 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1261
f461a28d 1262* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1263 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1264
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1265* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1266
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1267* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1268
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1269* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1270
1271* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1272
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1273* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1274 when it exits
1275
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1276* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1277 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1278 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1279 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1280 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1281 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1282 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1283 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1284 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1285
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1286* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1287 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1288 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1289
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1290* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1291 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1292
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1293* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1294
1295* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1296 specific service
1297
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1298* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1299 exists and responds.
1300
91fc013f 1301* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1302 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1303
7e8facb3 1304* unify on openssl:
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1305 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1306 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1307 gnutls
1308 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1310* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1311 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1312
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1313* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1314 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1316* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1317
2a4be3c5 1318* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1319
f1eb0ccd 1320* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1322* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1323 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1324 initrd had set.
1325
173c7873 1326* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1327 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1328 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1329 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1330 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1331 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1332
1333* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1334 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1335 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1336
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1337* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1338 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1339 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1340 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1341 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1342 source.
1343
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1344* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1345 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1346 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1347
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1348* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1349
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1350* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1351 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1352 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1353 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1354 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1355 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1356 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1357 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1358 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1359 hibernation mode. (see
1360 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1361 section 10.2.2.8 and
1362 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1363 at the end).
1364
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1365* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1366 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1367
c6526b8d 1368* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1370* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1371 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1372 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1373 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1374 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1375 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1376 exec().
1377
1378* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1379
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1380* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1381 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1382
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1383* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1384 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1385
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1386* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1387 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1388 root.
1389
1390* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1391 is issued.
1392
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1393* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1394
1395* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1396
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1397* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1398 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1399 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1400
d238709c 1401* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1402 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1403 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1404
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1405* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1406
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1407* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1408 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1409
06898123 1410* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1411 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1412 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1413 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1414
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1415* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1416
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1417* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1418 log.c and sd-journal-send
1419
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1420* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1421
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1422* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1423
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1424* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1425 non-zero "tries done" count
1426
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1427* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1428 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1429 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1430 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1431 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1432 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1433 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1434 CODE_FILE.
1435
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1436* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1437 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1438 some explanatory text online.
1439
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1440* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1441
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1442* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1443 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1444
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1445* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1446 Specifically:
1447
1448 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1449 properly)
e83419d0 1450 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1451 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1452
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1453* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1454 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1455
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1456* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1457 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1458 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1459 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1460
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1461* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1462
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1463* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1464
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1465* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1466 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1467
5da19043 1468* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1469 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1471* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1472 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1473 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1474 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1475 unlinked from any dir.
1476
bd1b3f75 1477* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1478
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1479* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1480
1481* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1482
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1483* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1484 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1485 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1486 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1487 should reflink the image file itself.
1488
1489 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1490 specific paths only like this.
1491
53c70a27 1492* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1493 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1494 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1495 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1496 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1497
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1498* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1499
1500* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1501
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1502* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1503 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1504
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1505* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1506 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1507 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1508 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1509 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1510 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1511 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1512 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1513
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1514* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1515 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1516
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1517* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1518
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1519* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1520 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1521
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1522* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1523 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1524
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1525* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1526 only when used. Add unit tests.
1527
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1528* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1529 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1530
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1531* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1532 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1533 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1534 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1535 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1536
899feb72 1537* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1538
5f7ecd61 1539* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1540
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1541* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1542 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1543
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1544* blog about fd store and restartable services
1545
1546* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1547
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1548* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1549 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1550
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1551* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1552 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1553 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1554 ID is available.
1555
1556* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1557 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1558 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1559
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1560* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1561 parameters
1562
63a185dc 1563* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1564 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1565 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1566 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1567 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1568 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1569 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1570
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1571* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1572 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1573
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1574* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1575 about it in the resource log message
1576
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1577* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1578 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1579 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1580
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1581* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1582 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1583
1584 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1585
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1586* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1587 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1588 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1589
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1590* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1591 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1592
1593* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1594 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1595 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1596 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1597 natural habitat.
1598
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1599* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1600 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1602* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1603 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1604 relative to the configured default value.
1605
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1606* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1607
04397464 1608* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1609
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1610* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1611
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1612* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1613
04397464 1614* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1615
04397464 1616* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1617
04397464 1618* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1619
8ce9b83a 1620* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1621
1622* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1623 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1624 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1625
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1626* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1627 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1628
e40a326c 1629* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1630
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1631* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1632 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1633 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1634 mapping to work.
1635
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1636* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1637
1638* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1639
1640* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1641
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1642* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1643 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1644
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1645* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1646 reload the unit file anyway
1647
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1648* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1649
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1650* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1651
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1652* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1653 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1654
f9bf1b8f 1655* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1656 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1657 specifications.
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1659* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1660
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1661* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1662
a2088fd0 1663* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1664 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1665 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1666 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1668* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1669
931bc195 1670* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1671
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1672* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1673 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1674 state.
41d6f3bf 1675 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1677* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1678 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1679 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1680 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1681 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1682
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1683* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1684
d2f81fb0 1685* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1686 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1687
0a86c1a9 1688* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1689 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1690
e031c227 1691* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1692 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1693
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1694* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1695
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1696* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1697 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1698
25e773ee 1699* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1700
720652b3 1701* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1702
720652b3 1703* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1704
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1705* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1706
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1707* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1708 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1709
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1710* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1711
9d6db739 1712* resolved:
9d6db739 1713 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1714 - service registration
1715 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1716 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1717 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1718 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1719 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1720 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1721 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1722 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1723
e25b5a8d 1724* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1725
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1726* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1727
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1728* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1729
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1730* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1731
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1732* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1733
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1734* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1735 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1736
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1737* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1738
6a3f892a 1739* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1740 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1741 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1742
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1743* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1744 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1745 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1746
f9bf1b8f 1747* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1748
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1749* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1750 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1751 for ReusePort=
1752
f38afcd0 1753* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1754 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1755 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1756 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1757 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1758 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1759 the hierarchies of child processes
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1760- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1761 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1762
f38afcd0 1763* transient units:
f38afcd0 1764 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1765
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1766* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1767
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1768* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1769
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1770* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1771
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1772* 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
1773
7f79cd71 1774* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1775
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1776* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1777 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1778 path anyway.
1779
04397464 1780* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1781
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1782* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1783
1784* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1785
07eabc2b 1786* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1787
07eabc2b 1788* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1789
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1790* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1791
1792* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1793 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1794 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1795
1796* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1797 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1798
1799* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1800
1801* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1802
1803* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1804
1805* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1806 needs to be auto-respawned?
1807
1808* pid1:
1809 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1810 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1811 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1812 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1813 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1814 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1815 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1816 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1817 - move PAM code into its own binary
1818 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1819 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1820 - Support --test based on current system state
1821 - 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().
1822 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1823 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1824 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1825 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1826 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1827 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1828 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1829 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1830 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1831 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1832 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1833 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1834
1835* unit files:
1836 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1837 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1838 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1839 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1840 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1841 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1842 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1843 - introduce Type=pid-file
1844 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1845 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1846 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1847
1848* timer units:
63a185dc 1849 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1850 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1851
1852* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1853
1854* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1855
1856* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1857
1858* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1859
07eabc2b 1860* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1861
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1862* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1863
1864* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1865
fff87a35 1866* test/:
20d52ab6 1867 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1868
b5c03638 1869* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1870 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1871 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1872 destination.
1873
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1874* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1875 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1876
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1877* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1878
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1879* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1880 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1881 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1882
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1883* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1884 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1885
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1886* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1887 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1888 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1889 that automatically.
1890
e5ec62c5 1891* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1892
ccddd104 1893* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1894
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1895* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1896
356ce991 1897* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1898
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1899* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1900
1901* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1902
1903* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1904
1905* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1906
1907* sd-bus:
1908 - EBADSLT handling
1909 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1910 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1911 - 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
1912 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1913 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1914 - longer term: priority inheritance
1915 - dbus spec updates:
1916 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1917 - path escaping
1918 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1919
1920* sd-event
1921 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1922 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1923 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1924 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1925 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1926 here:
1927 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1928
1929* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1930 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1931
1932* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1933
1934* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1935
1936* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1937
b44be3ec 1938* EFI:
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1939 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1940 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1941 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1942* bootctl
631427d6 1943 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1944
07eabc2b 1945* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1946
07eabc2b 1947* bootctl:
483091b0 1948 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1949 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1950 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1951
1952* kernel-install:
1953 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1954
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1955* logind:
1956 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1957 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1958 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1959 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1960 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1961 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1962 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1963 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1964 needs setuid().
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1965 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1966 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1967 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1968 complete.
1969 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1970 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1971 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1972 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1973 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1974 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1975 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1976 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1977 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1978 relogins
77b19caf 1979 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1980 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1981 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1982 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1984* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1985
1986* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1987 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1988 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1989
1990* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1991 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1992
b44be3ec 1993* journal:
57f2a947 1994 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1995 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1996 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1997 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1998 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1999 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2000 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2001 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2002 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2003 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2004 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2005 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2006 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2007 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2008 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2009 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2010 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2011 - 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.
2012 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2013 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2014 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2015 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2016 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2017 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2018 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2019 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2020 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2021 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2022 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2023 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2024 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2025 to syslog when it works again.
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2026 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2027 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2028 journals in.
2029 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2030 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2031 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2032 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2033 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2034 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2035 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2036 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2037 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2038 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2039 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2040 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2041 operation.
2042 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2043 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2044 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2045 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2046 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2047 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2048 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2049 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2050 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2051 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2053* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2054 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2055
2056* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2057 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2058 validated via TPM.
2059
2060* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2061 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2062
2063* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2064 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2065 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2066
2067* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2068 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2069 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2070 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2071 cgroup.
2072
2073* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2074 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2075 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2076 logging.
2077
2078* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2079
2080* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2081 from the SIGBUS handler
2082
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2084 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2085 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2086 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2087
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2088* homed:
2089 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2090 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2091 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2092 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2093 - create on activate?
2094 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2095 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2096 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2097 systemd --user is shut down.
2098 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2099 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2100 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2101 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2102 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2103 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2104 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2105 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2106 - query password from kernel keyring first
2107 - update even if record is "absent"
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2108 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2109 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2110 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2111 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2112 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2113 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2114 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2115 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2116 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2117 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2118 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2119 signature
2120 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2121 and insert a local signature instead.
2122 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2123 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2124 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2125 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2126 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2127 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2128 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2129 easily?
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2130 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2131 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2132 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2133 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2134 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2135 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2136 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2137 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2138 can easily set overall quota for all users
2139 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2140 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2141 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2142 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2143 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2144 large.
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2146* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2147 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2148 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2149
2df2bb1f 2150* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2151
2152* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2153 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2154 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2155 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2156
2157* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2158
2159* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2160 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2161 something goes wrong on the way.
2162
2163* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2164
2165* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2166 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2167 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2168 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2169
2170* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2171 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2172 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2173 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2174 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2175 automatically.
2176
2177* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2178 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2179
2180* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2181 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2182 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2183 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2184 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2185 fails to apply use the latter.
2186
2187* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2188 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2189
2190* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2191 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2192
2193* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2194 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2195 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2196
2197* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2198 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2199
92e72028 2200* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2201 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2202 during boot.
2203
2204* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2205
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8b8f2591 2207 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2208 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2209 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2210 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2211 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2212 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2213 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2214 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2215 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2216 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2217 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2218 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2220* systemctl:
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2221 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2222 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2223 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2224 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2225 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2226 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2227 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2228 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2229 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2230 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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2232* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2233 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2234 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2235
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2236* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2237 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2238 the slices, and the units attached to them.
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2240* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2241 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2242 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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2244* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2245 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
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2247* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2248 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2249 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2250 do, for example)
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2252* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2253 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2254 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2255 returning from the "systemctl stop".
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2257* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2258
2259* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2260
2261* unit install:
2262 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2263 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2264
b44be3ec 2265* nspawn:
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DH
2266 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2267 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2268 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2269 from the kernel's logs.
2270 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2271 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2272 interface be missing
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DH
2273 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2274 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2275 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2276 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2277 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2278 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2279 PID 1...
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DH
2280 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2281 running, remove them when shut down.
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CB
2282 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2283 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2284 startup.
2285 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2286 or so, freeze the payload too.
2287 - support time namespaces
2288 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2289 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2290 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2291 "machinectl shell"
2292 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2293 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2294 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2295 - greater control over selinux label?
2296 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2297 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2298 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2299 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2300 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2301 host TPM.
2302 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2303 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2304 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2305 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2306 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2307 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2308 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2309 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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CB
2310 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2311 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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CB
2312 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2313 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2314 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2315
2316* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2317 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2318 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2319 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2320 anything like that.
2321
e25b5a8d 2322* machined:
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2323 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2324 removed or added to an existing machine
2325 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2326 difference host, via ssh
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DH
2327 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2328 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2329 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2330 question
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DH
2331 - "machinectl history"
2332 - "machinectl diff"
2333 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2334 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2335
abd55b16 2336* udev:
abd55b16 2337 - move to LGPL
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KS
2338 - kill scsi_id
2339 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2340 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2341 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2342 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2343
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DH
2344* coredump:
2345 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2346 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2347 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2348
2349* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2350
f38afcd0 2351* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2352 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2353 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2354 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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DH
2355 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2356 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2357 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2358 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2359 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2360 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2361 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2362 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2363 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2364
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TG
2365* udev-link-config:
2366 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2367 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2368 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2369
88e4d1d7 2370* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2371 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2372 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2373
0a4b9a07 2374* networkd:
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TG
2375 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2376 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2377 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2378 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2379 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2380 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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DH
2381 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2382 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2383 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2384 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2385 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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DH
2386 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2387 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2388 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2389 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2390 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2391 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2392 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2393
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2394* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2395
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ZJS
2396* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2397
ac976532 2398* dhcp:
424a8732 2399 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2400
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PF
2401* dhcp6:
2402 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2403 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2404 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2405 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2406 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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PF
2407 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2408 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2409 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2410 or interface down
2411 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2412 this behavior
4a77c53d 2413 - RouteTable= ?