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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
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91* generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
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96Deprecations and removals:
97
98* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
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101* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
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106* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 108 is only supported for such old kernels.
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110* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
9eb41aab 113* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
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119* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
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122* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
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125* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
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129* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
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132* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
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134Features:
135
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136* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
137 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
138 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
139 sysext
140
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141* in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
142 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
143 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
144 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
145 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
146
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147* add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
148 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
149 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
150 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
151 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
152 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
153 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
154 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
155
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156* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
157 other programs via IPC:
158 - bootctl
159 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
160 - coredumpcl
161 - systemd-bless-boot
162 - systemd-measure
163 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
164 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
165 - systemd-dissect
166 - systemd-sysext
167 - systemd-sysupdate
168 - systemd-analyze
169 - kernel-install
170
171* Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
172 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
173
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174* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
175 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
176 via "systemctl status".
177
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178* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
179 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 180 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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182* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
183 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
184
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185* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
186 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
187
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188* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
189 menu.
190
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191* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
192 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
193 sockets.
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195* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
196 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
197 -c owner?).
198
199* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
200 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
201 migratable between PCs)
202
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203* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
204 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
205 snapshot logic
206
207* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
208 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
209 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 210 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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211 a local key to it.
212
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213* PidRef conversion work:
214 - pid_is_unwaited() → pidref_is_unwaited()
215 - pid_is_alive() → pidref_is_alive()
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216 - is_kernel_thread() → pidref_is_kernel_thread()
217 - pid_is_my_child() → pidref_is_my_child()
d94dc50c 218 - get_process_uid() → pidref_get_uid()
4775b55d 219 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
a1f7cdc6 220 - exec_spawn()
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221 - cg_pid_get_unit()
222 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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223 - sd_bus_creds
224 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
225 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
226 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
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228* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
229
230* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
231 mode.
232
233* homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
234 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
235 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
236 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
237 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
238 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
239 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
240
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241* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for .socket units to "pause" overly
242 busy sockets temporarily. (as a less drastic version of the trigger
243 ratelimit)
244
245* similar, add the same for journal stream clients that log too much
246
fcdd21ec 247* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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248 to systemd-dissect
249
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250* new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
251 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
252 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
253 run, per PCR
254 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
255 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
256 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
257 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
258 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
259 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
260 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
261 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
262 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
263 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
264 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
265 measurements might not be recognizable.
266 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
267 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
268 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
269 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
270 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
271 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
272 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
273 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
274 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
275 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
276 restricting it to the counter + 1.
277 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
278 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
279 them as singleton in ESP
280 13. increases the counter by one.
281 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
282 .extra
283 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
284 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
285 the counter
286 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
287 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
288 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
289 deterministically swapped out)
290 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
291 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
292 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
293 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
294 policy is generated and counter increased.
295 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
296 downgrades within bounds
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298* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
299 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
300 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
301 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
302 control of the attacker.
303
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304* also include packaging metadata (á la
305 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
306 same JSON format.
307
308* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
309 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
310 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
311 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
312 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
313 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
314 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
315 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
316 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
317 newer.
318
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319* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
320 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
321 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
322 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
323 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
324 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
325 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
326 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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328* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
329 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
330 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
331
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332* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
333 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
334 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
335 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 336 independently of any kernel.
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338* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
339 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
340 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
341 requested during switch root.
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343* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
344
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345* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
346 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
347 matched against OS.
348
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349* use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
350 without the other)
351
352* in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
353 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
354 sd-stub, explicitly.
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356* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
357 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
358 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
359
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360* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
361 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
362 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
363 namespaces)
364
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365* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
366 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
367
368* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
369 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
370 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
371
f447b741 372* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 373 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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374 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
375 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
376 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
377 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
378
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379* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
380 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 381 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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382 used transiently, never persistently.
383
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384* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
385 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
386 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
387 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
388 based on lo_file_name.
389
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390* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
391
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392* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
393 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
394 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
395 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
396 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
397 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
398 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
399 activation-by-message id and similar.
400
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401* .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
402
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403* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
404 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
405 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
406 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
407
408* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
409 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
410 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
411 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
412 similar behaviour for system services, too.
413
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414* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
415 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
416 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
417
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418* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
419
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420* udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
421 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
422 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
423
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424* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
425 localed, oomd, timedated.
426
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427* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
428 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
429 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
430 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
431 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
432 signed by U.
433 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
434 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
435 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
436 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
437 next boot
438 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
439 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
440 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
441 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
442 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
443 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
444 later boot.
445 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
446 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
447 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
448 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
449 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
450
451* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
452 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
453 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
454 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
455 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
456 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 457 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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458 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
459 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
460 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
461 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
462 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
463 access.
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465* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
466 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
467 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
468 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
469 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 470 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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471 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
472 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
473 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
474 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
475
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476* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
477 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
478
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479* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
480 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
481 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
482 for all umh processes.
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485 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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488 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
489 resize.
490
491* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
492 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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495 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
496 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
497 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
498 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
499 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
500 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
501 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
502 system actually reset.
503
504* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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506 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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509 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
510 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
511 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
512
4cb8a25b 513* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 514 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 515 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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519 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
520 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
521 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
522 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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525 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
526 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
527 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
528 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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533 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 534 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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536
084ecae5 537* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 538 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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540* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
541 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
542 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
543
6d040d84 544* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 545 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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547* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
548 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
549 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
550 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
551 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
552 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
553 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
554 usual.
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557
558* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
559
560* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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563 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
564 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
565 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
566 sockaddr.
567
568* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
569 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
570 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
571 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
572 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
573 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
574 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
575 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
576 try to use inode from there.
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579 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
580
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582 extensions
583
584* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
585 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
586 for the root fs or /usr/.
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589 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
590 combination thereof.
591
592* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
593 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
594 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
595 ahead of time.
596
597* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
598 aforementioned purpose.
599
600* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
601 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
602
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604 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
605 to figure out:
606 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
607 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
608 subsequent boots?
609
dbc62e59 610* provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
7227dd81 611 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
dbc62e59 612 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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615 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
616 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
617 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
618 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
619 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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621 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
622 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
623 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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626 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
627 used)
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630 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
631 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
632 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
633 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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636 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
637 how PCR values we manage came to
638 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
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641 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
642 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
643 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 644 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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646
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648 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
649 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
650
651* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
652 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
653
654* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
655 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
656 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
657 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
658 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
659 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
660
661* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
662 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
663 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
664
665* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
666
667* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
668 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 669 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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671
672* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
673 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
674 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
675 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
676 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
677 only one for each OS.
678
679* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
680 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 681 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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683 boot, for the next.
684
685* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
686 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
687
688* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
689 similar behind it, instead of http.
690
691* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
692 boot, or on first boot.
693
694* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
695 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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698 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
699 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
700 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
701 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
702 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
703 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
704 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
705 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
706 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
707 until users are allowed to log in).
708
709* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
710 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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713 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
714 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 715 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 716 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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718 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
719 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 720 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
721 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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723
724* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
725 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
726 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
727 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 728 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 729 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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731 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 732 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
733 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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735 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
736 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 737 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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739 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
740 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
741 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 742 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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744 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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747 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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750 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
751
752* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
753 instead of manual blocking.
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756 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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759 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
760 supplied password.
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763 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
764 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
765 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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768 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
769 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
fcdd21ec 770 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
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772* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
773 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
774 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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777 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
778 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
779
780* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
781 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
782 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 783 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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785
786* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
787 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
788 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
789 modules
790
b60e0f57 791* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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793 a new name with a built-in config?
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796 maybe on kernel command line:
797 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
798 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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801 hash type, etc)
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805
f461a28d 806* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 807 but final node is not a directory
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810 non-VFAT fs is used.
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815 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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822 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
823 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
824 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
825 affect PCR values.
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828 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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831 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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834 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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837 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
838
839* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
840 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
841
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844 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
845 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
846 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
847 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
848 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
849 ACPI resume events.
9f3a3ac7 850
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853 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
854 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
855 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
856 use it.
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859 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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862 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
863 what it was signed.
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866 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
867 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
868 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
869 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
870 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
871 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
872 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
873 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
874 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
875 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
876 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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879 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
880
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882 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
883 via the credentials logic.
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885 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
886 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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888 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
889 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
890 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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892 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
893 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
894 file system paths to enable on start.
895 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
896 usr=
897 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
898 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
7227dd81 899 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
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902 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
903 pre-built kernels.
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906 runtime state. Then, expose it:
907
908 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
909 about the unit.
910 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
911 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
912 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
913 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
914 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
915 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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918 what to do if support ended
919
920* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 921 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 923* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 924 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 925 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 926 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 927 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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930 initrd transition. Specifically:
931 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
932 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
933 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
934
d486b26f 935* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 936 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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938 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
939 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
940 depending on desired level of persistency.
941
942* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
943 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 944 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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946 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
947 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
948 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
949 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
950
951* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
952 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
953 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
954 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
955
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957
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959
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961 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
962 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 963 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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965 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
966 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
967 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 968 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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970 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
971 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
972 not unprivileged code.
973
974* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 975 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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978 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
979 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
980 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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983 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
984 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
985 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 986 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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988 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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990 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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992* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
993 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
994 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
995 order.
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998 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
999 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
1000 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
1001 whenever they want.
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1003* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1004 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1005 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1008 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1009 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1010 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1011 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1013 IN_IGNORED again)
1014
5b06ad51 1015* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1016 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1018 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1019 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1020 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1021 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1022 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1023 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1025 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1026 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1029 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1030 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1031
03ede612 1032* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1034 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1035 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1037 directly to host service manager.
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1039* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1040 no api to query the device id
1041
1042* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1043 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1044 also be queried.
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1047 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1048 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1049 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1052 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1053 latter).
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1055* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1056
1057* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1058
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1059* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1060 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1061 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1062 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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1065 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1066 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1067 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1068 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1070
1071* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1072 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1073 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1074 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1076 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1077 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1078 hence cheap for enumeration.
1079
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1083 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1084 words: show partition labels).
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1087 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1088 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1089 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1091 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1092 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1093
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1095
e4f92a62 1096* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1098* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1099
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1100* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1101 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1102 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1103 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1104 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1105 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1106 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1107 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1108 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1109 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1110
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1112 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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1115 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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1118 jobs, units
1119
a57d72ce 1120* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1122 userspace)
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1127 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1128
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1131
1132* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1133 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1136 internal clock.
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1138* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1139 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1140
1141* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1142 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1143 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1144 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1147 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1148 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1149
1150* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1151 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1152 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1153 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1154 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1155 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1156 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1157 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1158 thread:
1159 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1160 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1161 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1162 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1163 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1164 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1165
1166* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1167 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1168 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1169
1170* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1171 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1172 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1173 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1174 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1175 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1176 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1177 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1178 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1179 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1180 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1181 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1182 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1183 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1184 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1187 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1188 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1189 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1190 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1191 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1193* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1194 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1196
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1198 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1199 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1200 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1201 on-disk storage.
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1204 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1205 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1206 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1207 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1208
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1210 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1211 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1214 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1215 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1216 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1217 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1218 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1219 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1222 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1223 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1224 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1225
3fc0688d 1226* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1227 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1228 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1229 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1230 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1231 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1232 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1233 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1234 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1235 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1236 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1239 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1240 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1243
63a185dc 1244* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1246* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1247 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1248 that images cannot be misused.
1249
aca8ecc3 1250* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1251 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1252 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1253 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1254 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1255
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1257 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1258 - support casync as download mechanism
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1259 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1260 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1261 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1262 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1263 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1264 override the host's update files.)
1265 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1266 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1267 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1268 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1270* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1271
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1272* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1273 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1275* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1276 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1277
24063ba1 1278* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1280 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1281 already have it.
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1284 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1285
1c904337 1286* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1288* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1289 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1290 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1291 /proc/self/fd/3
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1294 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1295 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1296
1297* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1298 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1300* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1301 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1303* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1304 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1305 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1306 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1307 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1310
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199b097d 1312 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1313 - acquire via ask-password?
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1315 - pass creds via keyring?
1316 - pass creds via memfd?
1317 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1318 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1319 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1320 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1321 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1322 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1324 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1327 firmware indicates there is one.
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1330 and such
1331
1332* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1334* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1335
7d7c75f1 1336* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1340 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1343
1344* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1345 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1346
1347* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1348 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1349
1350* cryptsetup:
1351 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1352 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1353
08d33656 1354* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1357 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1358
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1361
f461a28d 1362* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1363 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1364
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1365* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1366
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1367* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1368
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1369* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1370
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1371* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1372 when it exits
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1374* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1375 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1376 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1377 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1378 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1379 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1380 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1381 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1382 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1383
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1384* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1385 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1386 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1387
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1388* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1389 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1390
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1391* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1392
1393* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1394 specific service
1395
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1396* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1397 exists and responds.
1398
91fc013f 1399* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1400 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1401
7e8facb3 1402* unify on openssl:
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1403 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1404 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1405 gnutls
1406 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1408* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1409 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1410
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1411* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1412 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1414* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1415
2a4be3c5 1416* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1417
f1eb0ccd 1418* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1420* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1421 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1422 initrd had set.
1423
173c7873 1424* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1425 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1426 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1427 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1428 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1429 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1430
1431* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1432 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1433 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1434
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1435* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1436 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1437 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1438 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1439 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1440 source.
1441
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1442* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1443 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1444 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1445
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1446* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1447
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1448* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1449 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1450 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1451 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1452 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1453 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1454 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1455 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1456 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1457 hibernation mode. (see
1458 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1459 section 10.2.2.8 and
1460 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1461 at the end).
1462
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1463* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1464 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1465
c6526b8d 1466* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1467
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1468* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1469 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1470 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1471 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1472 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1473 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1474 exec().
1475
1476* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1477
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1478* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1479 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1480
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1481* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1482 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1483
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1484* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1485 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1486 root.
1487
1488* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1489 is issued.
1490
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1491* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1492
1493* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1494
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1495* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1496 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1497 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1498
d238709c 1499* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1500 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1501 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1502
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1503* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1504
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1505* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1506 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1507
06898123 1508* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1509 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1510 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1511 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1512
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1513* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1514
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1515* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1516
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1517* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1518 non-zero "tries done" count
1519
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1520* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1521 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1522 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1523 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1524 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1525 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1526 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1527 CODE_FILE.
1528
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1529* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1530 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1531 some explanatory text online.
1532
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1533* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1534
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1535* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1536 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1537
d1797c42 1538* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1539
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1540* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1541 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1542
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1543* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1544 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1545 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1546 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1548* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1549
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1550* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1551
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1552* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1553 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1554
5da19043 1555* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1556 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1558* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1559 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1560 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1561 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1562 unlinked from any dir.
1563
bd1b3f75 1564* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1566* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1567
1568* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1569
53c70a27 1570* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1571 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1572 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1573 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1574 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1575
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1576* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1577
1578* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1579
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1580* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1581 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1582
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1583* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1584 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1585 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1586 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1587 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1588 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1589 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1590 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1591
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1592* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1593 for root, but only then.
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1595* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1596 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1597
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1598* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1599 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1600
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1601* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1602 only when used. Add unit tests.
1603
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1604* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1605 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1606
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1607* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1608 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1609 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1610 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1611 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1612
899feb72 1613* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1614
5f7ecd61 1615* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1617* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1618 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1619
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1620* blog about fd store and restartable services
1621
1622* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1623
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1624* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1625 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1626
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1627* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1628 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1629 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1630 ID is available.
1631
1632* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1633 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1634 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1635
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1636* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1637 parameters
1638
63a185dc 1639* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1640 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1641 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1642 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1643 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1644 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1645 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1647* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1648 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1649
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1650* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1651 about it in the resource log message
1652
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1653* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1654 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1655 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1656
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1657* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1658 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1659
1660 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1661
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1662* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1663 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1664 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1665
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1666* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1667 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1668
1669* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1670 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1671 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1672 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1673 natural habitat.
1674
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1675* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1676 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1678* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1679 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1680 relative to the configured default value.
1681
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1682* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1683
04397464 1684* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1686* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1687
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1688* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1689
04397464 1690* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1691
04397464 1692* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1693
04397464 1694* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1695
8ce9b83a 1696* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1698* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1699 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1700 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1701
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1702* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1703 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1704
e40a326c 1705* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1706
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1707* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1708 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1709 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1710 mapping to work.
1711
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1712* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1713
1714* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1715
1716* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1717
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1718* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1719 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1720
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1721* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1722 reload the unit file anyway
1723
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1724* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1725
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1726* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1727
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1728* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1729 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1730
f9bf1b8f 1731* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1732 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1733 specifications.
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1735* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1736
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1737* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1738
a2088fd0 1739* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1740 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1741 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1742 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1744* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1745
931bc195 1746* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1748* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1749 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1750 state.
41d6f3bf 1751 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1753* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1754 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1755 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1756 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1757 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1758
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1759* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1760
d2f81fb0 1761* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1762 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1763
0a86c1a9 1764* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1765 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1766
e031c227 1767* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1768 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1769
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1770* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1771
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1772* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1773 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1774
25e773ee 1775* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1776
720652b3 1777* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1778
720652b3 1779* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1780
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1781* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1782 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1783
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1784* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1785
9d6db739 1786* resolved:
9d6db739 1787 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1788 - service registration
1789 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1790 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1791 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1792 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1793 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1794 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1795 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1796 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1797
e25b5a8d 1798* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1799
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1800* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1801
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1802* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1803
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1804* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1805
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1806* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1807
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1808* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1809 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1812
6a3f892a 1813* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1814 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1815 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1816
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1817* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1818 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1819 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1820
f9bf1b8f 1821* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1824 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1825 for ReusePort=
1826
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f38afcd0 1828 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1829 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1830 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1831 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1832 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1833 the hierarchies of child processes
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1835 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1836
f38afcd0 1837* transient units:
f38afcd0 1838 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1839
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1840* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1841
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1842* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1843
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1844* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1845
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1846* 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
1847
7f79cd71 1848* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1849
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1850* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1851 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1852 path anyway.
1853
04397464 1854* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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1856* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1857
1858* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1859
07eabc2b 1860* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1861
07eabc2b 1862* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1863
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1864* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1865
1866* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1867 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1868 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1869
1870* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1871 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1872
1873* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1874
1875* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1876
1877* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1878
1879* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1880 needs to be auto-respawned?
1881
1882* pid1:
1883 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1884 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1885 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1886 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1887 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
7227dd81 1888 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
41d6f3bf 1889 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1890 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1891 - move PAM code into its own binary
1892 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1893 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1894 - Support --test based on current system state
1895 - 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().
1896 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1897 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1898 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1899 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1900 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1901 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1902 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1903 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1904 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1905 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1906 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1907 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1908
1909* unit files:
1910 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1911 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1912 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1913 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1914 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1915 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1916 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1917 - introduce Type=pid-file
1918 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1919 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1920 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1921
1922* timer units:
63a185dc 1923 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1924 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1925
1926* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1927
1928* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1929
1930* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1931
1932* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1933
07eabc2b 1934* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1935
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1936* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1937
1938* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1939
fff87a35 1940* test/:
20d52ab6 1941 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1942
b5c03638 1943* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1944 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1945 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1946 destination.
1947
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1948* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1949 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1950
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1951* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1952
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1954 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1955 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1956
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1957* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1958 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1959
7227dd81 1960* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1961 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1962 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1963 that automatically.
1964
e5ec62c5 1965* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1966
ccddd104 1967* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1968
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1969* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1970
356ce991 1971* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1972
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1973* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1974
1975* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1976
1977* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1978
1979* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1980
1981* sd-bus:
1982 - EBADSLT handling
1983 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1984 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1985 - 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
1986 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1987 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1988 - longer term: priority inheritance
1989 - dbus spec updates:
1990 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1991 - path escaping
1992 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1993
1994* sd-event
1995 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1996 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1997 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1998 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1999 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2000 here:
2001 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2002
2003* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2004 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2005
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2006* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2007
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2008* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2009
2010* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2011
2012* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2013
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2015 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2016 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2017 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2018* bootctl
631427d6 2019 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2020
07eabc2b 2021* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2022
07eabc2b 2023* bootctl:
483091b0 2024 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2025 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2026 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2027
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2028* logind:
2029 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2030 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2031 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2032 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2033 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2034 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2035 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2036 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2037 needs setuid().
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2038 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2039 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2040 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2041 complete.
2042 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2043 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2044 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2045 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2046 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2047 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2048 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2049 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2050 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2051 relogins
77b19caf 2052 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2053 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2054 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2055 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2056
2057* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2058
2059* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2060 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2061 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2062
2063* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2064 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2065
b44be3ec 2066* journal:
57f2a947 2067 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2068 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2069 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2070 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2071 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2072 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2073 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2074 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2075 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2076 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2077 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2078 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2079 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2080 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2081 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2082 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2083 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2084 - 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.
2085 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2086 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2087 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2088 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2089 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2090 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2091 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2092 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2093 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2094 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2095 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2096 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2097 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2098 to syslog when it works again.
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2099 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2100 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2101 journals in.
2102 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2103 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2104 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2105 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2106 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2107 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2108 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2109 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2110 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2111 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2112 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2113 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2114 operation.
2115 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2116 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2117 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2118 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2119 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2120 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2121 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2122 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2123 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2124 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2126* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2127 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2128
2129* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2130 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2131 validated via TPM.
2132
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2134 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2135 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2136
2137* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2138 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2139 cursors as they happen.
2140
2141* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2142 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2143 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2144 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2145 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2146 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2147 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2148 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2149 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2150
2151* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2152 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2153 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2154 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2155 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2157
2158* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2159 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2160 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2161 records, to be able to order them.
2162
2163* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2164 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2165 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2166 be safely written to disk, then.
2167
2168* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2169 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2170 inspiration from IMA log)
2171
2172* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2173 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2174 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2175
2176* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2177 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2178 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2179 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2180 for doing that.
2181
2182* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2183 log.c and sd-journal-send
2184
2185* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2186 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2187 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2188 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2189 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2190 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2191 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2192 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2193 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2194 an NTP sync is acquired.
2195
2196* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2197
2198* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2199 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2200 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2201
2202* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2203 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2204 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2205 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2206 cgroup.
2207
2208* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2209 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2210 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2211 logging.
2212
2213* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2214
2215* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2216 from the SIGBUS handler
2217
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2219 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2220 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2221 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2222
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2224 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2225
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2226* homed:
2227 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2228 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2229 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2230 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2231 - create on activate?
2232 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2233 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2234 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2235 systemd --user is shut down.
2236 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2237 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2238 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2239 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2240 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2241 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2242 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2243 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2244 - query password from kernel keyring first
2245 - update even if record is "absent"
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2246 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2247 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2248 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2249 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2250 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
a11e7c0b
LB
2251 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2252 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2253 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2254 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
9c53de8b
LP
2255 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2256 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2257 signature
2258 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2259 and insert a local signature instead.
2260 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2261 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2262 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2263 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2264 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2265 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2266 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2267 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2268 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2269 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2270 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2271 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2272 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2273 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2274 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2275 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2276 can easily set overall quota for all users
2277 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2278 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2279 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2280 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
f1a147f2
LP
2281 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2282 large.
07eabc2b 2283
07eabc2b
LB
2284* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2285 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2286 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2287
2df2bb1f 2288* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
07eabc2b
LB
2289
2290* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2291 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2292 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2293 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2294
2295* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2296
2297* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2298 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2299 something goes wrong on the way.
2300
2301* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2302
2303* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2304 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2305 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2306 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2307
2308* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2309 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2310 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2311 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2312 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2313 automatically.
2314
2315* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2316 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2317
2318* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2319 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2320 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2321 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2322 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2323 fails to apply use the latter.
2324
2325* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2326 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2327
2328* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2329 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2330
2331* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2332 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2333 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
07eabc2b
LB
2334
2335* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2336 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2337
92e72028 2338* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2339 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2340 during boot.
2341
2342* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2343
b44be3ec 2344* document:
8b8f2591 2345 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
2346 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2347 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2348 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2349 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2350 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2351 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2352 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2353 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2354 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2355 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2356 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2357
2358* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2359 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2360 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2361 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2362 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2363 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2364 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2365 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2366 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2367 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2368 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2369
07eabc2b
LB
2370* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2371 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2372 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2373
07eabc2b
LB
2374* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2375 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2376 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2377
07eabc2b
LB
2378* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2379 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2380 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2381
07eabc2b
LB
2382* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2383 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2384
07eabc2b
LB
2385* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2386 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2387 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2388 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2389
07eabc2b
LB
2390* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2391 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2392 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2393 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2394
07eabc2b
LB
2395* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2396
2397* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2398
2399* unit install:
2400 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2401 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2402
b44be3ec 2403* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2404 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2405 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2406 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2407 from the kernel's logs.
2408 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2409 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2410 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2411 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2412 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2413 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2414 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2415 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2416 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2417 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2418 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2419 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2420 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2421 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2422 startup.
2423 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2424 or so, freeze the payload too.
2425 - support time namespaces
2426 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2427 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2428 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2429 "machinectl shell"
2430 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2431 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2432 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2433 - greater control over selinux label?
2434 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2435 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2436 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2437 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2438 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2439 host TPM.
2440 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2441 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2442 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2443 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2444 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2445 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2446 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2447 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2448 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2449 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2450 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2451 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2452 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2453
2454* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2455 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2456 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2457 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2458 anything like that.
2459
e25b5a8d 2460* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2461 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2462 removed or added to an existing machine
2463 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2464 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2465 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2466 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2467 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2468 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2469 - "machinectl history"
2470 - "machinectl diff"
2471 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2472 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2473
abd55b16 2474* udev:
abd55b16 2475 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2476 - kill scsi_id
2477 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2478 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2479 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2480 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2481
e25b5a8d
DH
2482* coredump:
2483 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2484 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2485 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2486
2487* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2488
f38afcd0 2489* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2490 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2491 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2492 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2493 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2494 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2495 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2496 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2497 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2498 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2499 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2500 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2501 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2502
af6f0d42
TG
2503* udev-link-config:
2504 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2505 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2506 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2507
88e4d1d7 2508* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2509 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2510 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2511
0a4b9a07 2512* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2513 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2514 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2515 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2516 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2517 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2518 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2519 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2520 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2521 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2522 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2523 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2524 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2525 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2526 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2527 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2528 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2529 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2530 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2531
07eabc2b
LB
2532* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2533
d5e172d2
ZJS
2534* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2535
ac976532 2536* dhcp:
424a8732 2537 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2538
37d8b536
PF
2539* dhcp6:
2540 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2541 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2542 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2543 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2544 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2545 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2546 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2547 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2548 or interface down
2549 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2550 this behavior
4a77c53d 2551 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2552
2553* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2554 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2555 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)