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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
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77* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
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80* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
81 calls instead.
82
83* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
84
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85Deprecations and removals:
86
87* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
88 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
89
90* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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92* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
93 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
94 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
95 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
96
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97* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
98 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 99 is only supported for such old kernels.
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9eb41aab 101* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 102 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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103 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
104 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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105 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
106
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107* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
108 baseline is 5.8.
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110* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
111 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
112
3345802c 113* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 114 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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116* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
117
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118* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
119
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120Features:
121
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122* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
123 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
124 how PCR values we manage came to
125 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
126
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127* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
128 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
129 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
130 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 131 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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132 should win over vendor defaults.
133
134* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
135 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
136 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
137 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
138 command lines.
139
140* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
141 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
142 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
143
144* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
145 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
146
147* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
148 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
149 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
150 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
151 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
152 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
153
154* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
155 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
156 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
157
158* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
159
160* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
161 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
162 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
163 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
164
165* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
166 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
167 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
168 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
169 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
170 only one for each OS.
171
172* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
173 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 174 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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175 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
176 boot, for the next.
177
178* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
179 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
180
181* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
182 similar behind it, instead of http.
183
184* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
185 boot, or on first boot.
186
187* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
188 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
189
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190* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
191 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
192 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
193 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
194 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
195 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
196 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
197 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
198 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
199 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
200 until users are allowed to log in).
201
202* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
203 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
204
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205* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
206 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
207 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
208 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
209 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
210 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
211 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
212 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
213 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
214 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
215 automatically invalidated outside of it.
216
217* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
218 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
219 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
220 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
221 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 222 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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223 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
224 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
225 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
226 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
227 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
228 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
229 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
230 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
231 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
232 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
233 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
234 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
235 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
236 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
237 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
238
239* Always measure the LUKS rootfs volume key into PCR 15, and derive the machine
240 ID from it securely. This would then allow us to bind secrets a specific
241 system securely.
242
243* nspawn: maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image=
244 hash into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and
245 partake in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside
246 of control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
247 host TPM.
248
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249* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
250 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
251
252* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
253 instead of manual blocking.
254
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255* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
256 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
257
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258* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
259 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
260 supplied password.
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262* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
263 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
264 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
265 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
266
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267* systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
268 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
269 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
270 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
271
272* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
273 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
274 automatically derived from --private-key=).
275
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276* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
277
278* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
279
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280* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
281 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
282 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
283
284* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
285 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
286 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
287 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
288 partition with a portable service partition in one.
289
290* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
291 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
292 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
293 modules
294
295* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
296 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
297 a new name with a built-in config?
298
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299* gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
300 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
301
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302* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
303 maybe on kernel command line:
304 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
305 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
306
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307* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
308 hash type, etc)
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310* chase_symlinks(): take inspiraton from path_extract_filename() and return
311 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
312
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313* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
314 but final node is not a directory
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316* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
317 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
318
319* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
320 non-VFAT fs is used.
321
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322* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
323
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324* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
325 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
326
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327* pick up creds from EFI vars
328
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329* sd-stub/sd-boot: write RNG seed to LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID config
330 table as well. (and possibly drop our efi var). Current kernels will pick up
331 the seed from there already, if EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL is not implemented by
332 firmware.
333
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334* sd-boot: include domain specific hash string in hash function for random seed
335 plus sizes of everything. also include DMI/SMBIOS blob
336
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337* sd-stub: invoke random seed logic the same way as in sd-boot, except if
338 random seed EFI variable is already set. That way, the variable set will be
339 set in all cases: if you just use sd-stub, or just sd-boot, or both.
340
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341* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
342 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
343 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
344 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
345 affect PCR values.
346
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347* systemd-measure tool:
348 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
c0a74f62 349
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350* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
351 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
352
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353* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
354 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
355
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356* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
357 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
358
359* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
360 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
361
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362* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
363 maybe some other stuff and boots it
364
e1b45a75 365* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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366 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
367 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
368 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
369 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
370 use it.
371
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372* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
373 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
374
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375* PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
376 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
377 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
378
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379* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
380 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
381 what it was signed.
382
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383* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
384 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
385 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
386 be safely written to disk, then.
387
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388* systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
389 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
390 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
391 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
392 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
393 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
394 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
395 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
396 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
397 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
398 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
399 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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401* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
402 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
403
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405 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
406 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
407 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
408 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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410* Process credentials in:
411 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
412 via the credentials logic.
413 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
414 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
415 integrity-generator)
416 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
417 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
418 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
419 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
420 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
421 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
422 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
423 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
424 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
425 file system paths to enable on start.
426 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
427 usr=
428 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
429 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
430 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
431 account one can directly log into.
432 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
433 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
434 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
435 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
436 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
437 pre-built kernels.
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439* define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
440 runtime state. Then, expose it:
441
442 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
443 about the unit.
444 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
445 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
446 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
447 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
448 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
449 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
450
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451* show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
452 for this on dbus)
453
454* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
455 what to do if support ended
456
457* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
458 login time, á la motd
459
e1b45a75 460* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 461 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 462 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 463 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 464 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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466* mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
467 initrd transition. Specifically:
468 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
469 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
470 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
471
472* implement varlink introspection
473
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474* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
475 chase_symlinks() instead
476
d486b26f 477* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 478 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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479 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
480 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
481 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
482 depending on desired level of persistency.
483
484* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
485 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
486 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
487 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
488 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
489 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
490 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
491 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
492
493* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
494 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
495 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
496 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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499
500* ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
501 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
502
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506 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
507 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
508 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
509 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
510 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
511 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
512 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 513 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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515 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
516 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
517 not unprivileged code.
518
519* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
520 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
521
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523 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
524 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
525 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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528 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
529 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
530 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
531 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
532 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
533 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
534 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
535 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
536
537* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
538 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
539 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
540 order.
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543 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
544 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
545 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
546 whenever they want.
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548* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
549 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
550 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
551
552* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
553 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
554 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
555 acquire.
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558 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
559 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
560 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 561 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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562 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
563 IN_IGNORED again)
564
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566 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
567 virtio-fs.
568
569* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 570 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 571 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 572 on verification if in secureboot mode
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573 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
574 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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576 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
577 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
578 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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580 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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582 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 583 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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585 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
586 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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589 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
590 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
591 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
592 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
593 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
594 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
595 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
596 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
597 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
598 service runtime logic quite substantially.
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601 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
602 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
603
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606 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
607 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
608 friends.)
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611 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
612 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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615 directly to host service manager.
616
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618 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
619 configure socket address.
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622 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
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625 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
626 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
627
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631 no api to query the device id
632
633* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
634 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
635 also be queried.
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638 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
639 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
640 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
641
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642* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
643 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
644 latter).
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646* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
647
648* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
649
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650* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
651 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
652 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
653 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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656 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
657 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
658 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
659 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
660 UEFI HTTP boot.
661
662* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
663 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
664 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
665 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
666 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
667 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
668 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
669 hence cheap for enumeration.
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672
673* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
674 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
675 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
676 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
677 comprehensively.
678
679* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
680 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
681 words: show partition labels).
682
683* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
684 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
685 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
686 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
687
688* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
689 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
690 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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693 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
694 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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697
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700* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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703 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
704 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
705 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
706 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
707 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
708 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
709 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
710 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
711 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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714 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
715 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
716 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
717 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
718 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
719 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
720 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
721 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
722 an NTP sync is acquired.
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725 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
726 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
727 call it at the end only
728
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730 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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733 jobs, units
734
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737 userspace)
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742 json package metadata, and use that when logging
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745
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748
749* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
750 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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753 internal clock.
754
1ccfb792 755* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 756 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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758* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
759 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
760
761* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
762 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
763 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
764 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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767 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
768 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
769
770* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
771 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
772 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
773 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
774 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
775 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
776 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
777 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
778 thread:
779 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
780 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
781 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
782 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
783 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
784 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
785
786* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
787 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
788 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
789
790* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
791 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
792 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
793 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
794 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
795 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
796 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
797 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
798 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
799 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
800 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
801 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
802 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
803 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
804 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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807 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
808 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
809 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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811 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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813* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
814 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
815 dep in the base OS image)
816
817* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
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820* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
821 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
822 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
823 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
824 on-disk storage.
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827 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
828 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
829 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
830 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
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833 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
834 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
835 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
836 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
837 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
838 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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841 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
842 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
843 externally and provide to us on demand only.
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846 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
847 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
848 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
849 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
850 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
851 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
852 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
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855 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
856 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 857 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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858 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
859 take --image= that take the same short string.
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862 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
863 one.
864
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867 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
868 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
869 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
870 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
871 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
872 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
873 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
874 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
875 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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877* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
878 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
879 authentication.
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882 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
883 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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886
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890 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
891 that images cannot be misused.
892
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896 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
897 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
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900 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
901 - support casync as download mechanism
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903 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
904 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
905 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
906 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
907 override the host's update files.)
908 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
909 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
910 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
911 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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916 make dirs appear under right UID.
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919 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
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922 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
923 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
924 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
925 for doing that.
926
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929 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
930 already have it.
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933 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
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936 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
937 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
938 socket: connect() to it.
939
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940* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
941
942* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
943 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
944 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
945 /proc/self/fd/3
946
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947* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
948 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
949 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
950
951* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
952 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
953
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954* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
955 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
956
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957* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
958 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
959 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
960 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
961 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
962
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963* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
964
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966 - acquire from EFI variable?
967 - acquire via via ask-password?
968 - acquire creds via keyring?
969 - pass creds via keyring?
970 - pass creds via memfd?
971 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
972 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
973 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
974 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
975 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
976 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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977 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
978 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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980* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
981 firmware indicates there is one.
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983* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
984 and such
985
986* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 987
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988* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
989
7d7c75f1 990* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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991 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
992
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993* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
994 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 995
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996* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
997
998* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
999 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1000
1001* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1002 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1003
1004* cryptsetup:
1005 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1006 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1007
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1008* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1009 it happens to be set up alright already.
1010
1011* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1012
1013* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1014 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1015 default.
1016
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1017* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1018 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1019 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1020 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1021 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1022
08d33656 1023* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1025* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1026 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1027
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1028* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1029 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1030 temporary dir.
1031
1032* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1033 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1034
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1035* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1036 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1037
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1038* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1039
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1040* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1041
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1042* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1043
1044* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1045
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1046* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1047 when it exits
1048
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1049* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1050 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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1051 - p11-kit-trust (always)
1052 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1053 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1054 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1055 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1056 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1057 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1058 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1059
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1060* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1061 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1062 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1063
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1064* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1065 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1066
a6e1018d 1067* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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1068 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
1069 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
612d3a68 1070 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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1072* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1073
1074* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1075 specific service
1076
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1077* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1078 exists and responds.
1079
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1080* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1081 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1082 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1083
91fc013f 1084* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1085 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1086
7e8facb3 1087* unify on openssl:
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1088 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1089 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1090 gnutls
1091 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
492f91d8 1092
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1093* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1094 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1095
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1096* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1097 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1098
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1099* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1100
2a4be3c5 1101* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1102
f1eb0ccd 1103* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1104
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1105* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1106 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1107 initrd had set.
1108
173c7873 1109* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1110 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1111 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1112 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1113 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1114 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1115
1116* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1117 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1118 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1119
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1120* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1121 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1122 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1123 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1124 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1125 source.
1126
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1127* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1128 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1129 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1130
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1131* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1132
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1133* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1134 the hibernation
1135
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1136* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1137 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1138 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1139 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1140 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1141 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1142 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1143 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1144 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1145 hibernation mode. (see
1146 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1147 section 10.2.2.8 and
1148 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1149 at the end).
1150
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1151* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1152 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1153
c6526b8d 1154* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1155
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1156* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1157 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1158 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1159 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1160 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1161 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1162 exec().
1163
1164* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1165
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1166* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1167 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1168
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1169* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1170 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1171
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1172* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1173 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1174 root.
1175
1176* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1177 is issued.
1178
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1179* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1180
1181* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1182
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1183* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1184 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1185 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1186
d238709c 1187* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1188 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1189 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1190
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1191* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1192
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1193* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1194 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1195
06898123 1196* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1197 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1198 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1199 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1200
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1201* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1202
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1203* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1204 log.c and sd-journal-send
1205
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1206* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1207
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1208* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1209
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1210* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1211 non-zero "tries done" count
1212
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1213* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1214 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1215 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1216 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1217 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1218 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1219 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1220 CODE_FILE.
1221
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1222* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1223 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1224 some explanatory text online.
1225
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1226* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1227
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1228* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1229 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1230
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1231* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1232 Specifically:
1233
1234 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1235 properly)
e83419d0 1236 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1237 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1238
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1239* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1240 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1241
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1242* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1243 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1244 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1245 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1246
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1247* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1248
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1249* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1250
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1251* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1252 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1253
5da19043 1254* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1255 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1257* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1258 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1259 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1260 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1261 unlinked from any dir.
1262
bd1b3f75 1263* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1265* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1266
1267* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1268
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1269* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1270 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1271 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1272 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1273 should reflink the image file itself.
1274
1275 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1276 specific paths only like this.
1277
53c70a27 1278* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1279 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1280 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1281 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1282 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1283
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1284* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1285
1286* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1287
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1288* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1289 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1290
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1291* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1292 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1293 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1294 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1295 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1296 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1297 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1298 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1299
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1300* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1301 for root, but only then.
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1303* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1304
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1305* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1306 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1307
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1308* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1309 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1310
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1311* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1312 only when used. Add unit tests.
1313
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1314* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1315 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1316
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1317* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1318 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1319 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1320 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1321 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1322
899feb72 1323* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1325* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1326 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1327 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1328
5f7ecd61 1329* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1331* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1332 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1333
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1334* blog about fd store and restartable services
1335
1336* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1337
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1338* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1339 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1340
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1341* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1342 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1343 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1344 ID is available.
1345
1346* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1347 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1348 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1349
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1350* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1351 parameters
1352
63a185dc 1353* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1354 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1355 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1356 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1357 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1358 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1359 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1361* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1362 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1363
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1364* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1365 about it in the resource log message
1366
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1367* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1368 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1369 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1370
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1371* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1372 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1373
1374 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1375
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1376* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1377 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1378 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1379
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1380* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1381 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1382
1383* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1384 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1385 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1386 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1387 natural habitat.
1388
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1389* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1390 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1392* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1393 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1394 relative to the configured default value.
1395
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1396* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1397
04397464 1398* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1400* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1401
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1402* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1403
04397464 1404* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1405
04397464 1406* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1407
04397464 1408* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1409
8ce9b83a 1410* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1411
1412* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1413 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1414 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1415
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1416* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1417 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1418
e40a326c 1419* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1420
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1421* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1422 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1423 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1424 mapping to work.
1425
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1426* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1427
1428* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1429
1430* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1431
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1432* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1433 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1434
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1435* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1436 reload the unit file anyway
1437
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1438* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1439
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1440* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1441
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1442* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1443 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1444
f9bf1b8f 1445* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1446 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1447 specifications.
de7399eb 1448
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1449* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1450
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1451* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1452
a2088fd0 1453* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1454 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1455 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1456 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1457
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1458* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1459
931bc195 1460* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1461
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1462* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1463 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1464 state.
41d6f3bf 1465 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1466
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1467* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1468 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1469 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1470 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1471 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1472
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1473* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1474
d2f81fb0 1475* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1476 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1477
0a86c1a9 1478* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1479 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1480
e031c227 1481* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1482 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1483
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1484* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1485
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1486* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1487 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1488
25e773ee 1489* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1490
720652b3 1491* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1492
720652b3 1493* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1494
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1495* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1496
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1497* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1498 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1499
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1500* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1501
9d6db739 1502* resolved:
9d6db739 1503 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1504 - service registration
1505 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1506 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1507 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1508 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1509 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1510 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1511 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1512 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1513
e25b5a8d 1514* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1515
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1516* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1517
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1518* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1519
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1520* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1521
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1522* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1523
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1524* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1525 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1526
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1527* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1528
6a3f892a 1529* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1530 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1531 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1532
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1533* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1534 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1535 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1536
f9bf1b8f 1537* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1538
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1539* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1540 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1541 for ReusePort=
1542
f38afcd0 1543* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1544 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1545 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1546 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1547 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1548 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1549 the hierarchies of child processes
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1550- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1551 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1552
f38afcd0 1553* transient units:
f38afcd0 1554 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1555
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1556* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1557
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1558* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1559
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1560* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1561
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1562* 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
1563
7f79cd71 1564* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1565
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1566* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1567 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1568 path anyway.
1569
04397464 1570* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1571
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1572* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1573
1574* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1575
07eabc2b 1576* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1577
07eabc2b 1578* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1579
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1580* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1581
1582* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1583 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1584 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1585
1586* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1587 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1588
1589* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1590
1591* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1592
1593* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1594
1595* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1596 needs to be auto-respawned?
1597
1598* pid1:
1599 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1600 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1601 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1602 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1603 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1604 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1605 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1606 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1607 - move PAM code into its own binary
1608 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1609 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1610 - Support --test based on current system state
1611 - 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().
1612 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1613 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1614 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1615 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1616 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1617 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1618 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1619 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1620 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1621 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1622 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1623 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1624
1625* unit files:
1626 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1627 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1628 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1629 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1630 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1631 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1632 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1633 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1634 - introduce Type=pid-file
1635 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1636 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1637 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1638
1639* timer units:
63a185dc 1640 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1641 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1642
1643* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1644
1645* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1646
1647* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1648
1649* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1650
07eabc2b 1651* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1652
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1653* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1654
1655* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1656
fff87a35 1657* test/:
20d52ab6 1658 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1659
b5c03638 1660* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1661 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1662 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1663 destination.
1664
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1665* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1666 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1667
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1668* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1669
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1670* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1671 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1672 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1673
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1674* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1675 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1676
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1677* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1678 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1679 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1680 that automatically.
1681
e5ec62c5 1682* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1683
ccddd104 1684* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1685
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1686* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1687
356ce991 1688* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1689
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LB
1690* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1691
1692* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1693
1694* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1695
1696* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1697
1698* sd-bus:
1699 - EBADSLT handling
1700 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1701 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1702 - 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
1703 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1704 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1705 - longer term: priority inheritance
1706 - dbus spec updates:
1707 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1708 - path escaping
1709 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1710
1711* sd-event
1712 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1713 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1714 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1715 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1716 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1717 here:
1718 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1719
1720* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1721 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1722
1723* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1724
1725* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1726
1727* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1728
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1729* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1730 reading/writing files
1731
1732* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1733
b44be3ec 1734* EFI:
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1735 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1736 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1737 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1738* bootctl
631427d6 1739 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1740
07eabc2b 1741* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1742
07eabc2b 1743* bootctl:
483091b0 1744 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1745 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1746 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1747
1748* kernel-install:
1749 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1750
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1751* logind:
1752 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1753 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1754 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1755 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1756 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1757 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1758 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1759 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1760 needs setuid().
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1761 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1762 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1763 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1764 complete.
1765 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1766 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1767 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1768 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1769 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1770 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1771 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1772 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1773 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1774 relogins
77b19caf 1775 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1776 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1777 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1778 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1779
1780* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1781
1782* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1783 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1784 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1785
1786* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1787 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1788
b44be3ec 1789* journal:
57f2a947 1790 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1791 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1792 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1793 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1794 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1795 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1796 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1797 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1798 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1799 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1800 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1801 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1802 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1803 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1804 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1805 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1806 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1807 - 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.
1808 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1809 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1810 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1811 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1812 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1813 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1814 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1815 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1816 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1817 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1818 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1819 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1820 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1821 to syslog when it works again.
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1822 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1823 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1824 journals in.
1825 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1826 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1827 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1828 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1829 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1830 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1831 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1832 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1833 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1834 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1835 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1836 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1837 operation.
1838 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1839 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1840 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1841 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1842 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1843 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1844 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1845 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1846 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1847 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1848
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1849* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1850 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1851
1852* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1853 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1854 validated via TPM.
1855
1856* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1857 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1858
1859* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1860 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1861 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1862
1863* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1864 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1865 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1866 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1867 cgroup.
1868
1869* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1870 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1871 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1872 logging.
1873
1874* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1875
1876* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1877 from the SIGBUS handler
1878
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1880 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1881 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1882 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1883
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1884* homed:
1885 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1886 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1887 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1888 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1889 - create on activate?
1890 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1891 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1892 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1893 systemd --user is shut down.
1894 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1895 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1896 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1897 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1898 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1899 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1900 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1901 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1902 - query password from kernel keyring first
1903 - update even if record is "absent"
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1904 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1905 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1906 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1907 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1908 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1909 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1910 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1911 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1912 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1913 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1914 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1915 signature
1916 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1917 and insert a local signature instead.
1918 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1919 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1920 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1921 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1922 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1923 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1924 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1925 easily?
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1926 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1927 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1928 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1929 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1930 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1931 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1932 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1933 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1934 can easily set overall quota for all users
1935 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1936 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1937 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1938 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1939 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1940 large.
07eabc2b 1941
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1942* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1943 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1944 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1945
2df2bb1f 1946* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1947
1948* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1949 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1950 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1951 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1952
1953* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1954
1955* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1956 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1957 something goes wrong on the way.
1958
1959* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1960
1961* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1962 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1963 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1964 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1965
1966* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1967 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1968 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1969 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1970 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1971 automatically.
1972
1973* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1974 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1975
1976* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1977 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1978 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1979 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1980 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1981 fails to apply use the latter.
1982
1983* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1984 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1985
1986* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1987 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1988
1989* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1990 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 1991 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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1992
1993* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1994 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1995
92e72028 1996* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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1997 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
1998 during boot.
1999
2000* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2001
b44be3ec 2002* document:
8b8f2591 2003 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2004 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2005 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2006 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2007 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2008 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2009 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2010 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2011 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2012 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2013 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2014 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2016* systemctl:
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2017 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2018 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2019 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2020 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2021 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2022 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2023 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2024 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2025 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2026 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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2028* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2029 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2030 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2031
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2032* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2033 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2034 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2035 output for them.
d2e83c23 2036
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2037* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2038 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2039 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2040
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2041* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2042 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2043 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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2045* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2046 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2047
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2048* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2049 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2050 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2051 do, for example)
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2053* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2054 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2055 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2056 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2057
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2058* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2059
2060* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2061
2062* unit install:
2063 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2064 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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2067 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2068 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2069 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2070 from the kernel's logs.
2071 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2072 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2073 interface be missing
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2074 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2075 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2076 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2077 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2078 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2079 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2080 PID 1...
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2081 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2082 running, remove them when shut down.
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2084* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
2085 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
2086 during startup.
2087
2088* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
2089 so, freeze the payload too.
2090
2091* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2092 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2093 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2094 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2095 anything like that.
2096
2097* nspawn: support time namespaces
2098
2099* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
2100 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2101
2102* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
2103 fallback in "machinectl shell"
2104
2105* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
2106 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
2107 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2108
2109* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
2110
2111* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2112
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2114 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2115 removed or added to an existing machine
2116 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2117 difference host, via ssh
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2118 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2119 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2120 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2121 question
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2122 - "machinectl history"
2123 - "machinectl diff"
2124 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2125 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2126
abd55b16 2127* udev:
abd55b16 2128 - move to LGPL
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2129 - kill scsi_id
2130 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2131 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2132 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2133 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2134
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2135* coredump:
2136 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2137 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2138 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2139
2140* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2141
f38afcd0 2142* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2143 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2144 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2145 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2146 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2147 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2148 - add --test mode
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2149 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2150 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2151 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
1258097c 2152
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2153* udev-link-config:
2154 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2155 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2156 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2157
88e4d1d7 2158* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2159 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2160 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2161
0a4b9a07 2162* networkd:
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2163 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2164 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2165 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2166 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2167 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2168 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2169 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2170 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2171 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2172 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2173 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2174 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2175 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2176 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2177 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2178 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2179 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2180 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
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2182* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2183
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2184* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2185
ac976532 2186* dhcp:
424a8732 2187 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2188
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2189* dhcp6:
2190 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2191 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2192 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2193 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2194 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2195 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2196 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2197 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2198 or interface down
2199 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2200 this behavior
4a77c53d 2201 - RouteTable= ?