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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=
24
25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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94* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
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99* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 101 is only supported for such old kernels.
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103* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
9eb41aab 106* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
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112* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
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115* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
3345802c 118* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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121* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
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123* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
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127* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
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130Features:
131
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132* use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
133 without the other)
134
135* in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
136 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
137 sd-stub, explicitly.
138
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139* open up creds for uses in generators, and document clearly that encrypted
140 creds are only supported if strictly tpm bound, but not when using the host
141 secret (as that is only avilable if /var/ is around.
142
143* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
144 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
145 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
146 namespaces)
147
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148* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
149 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
150
151* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
152 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
153 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
154
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155* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
156 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
157 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
158
f447b741 159* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 160 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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161 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
162 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
163 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
164 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
165
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166* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
167 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 168 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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169 used transiently, never persistently.
170
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171* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
172 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
173 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
174 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
175 based on lo_file_name.
176
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177* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
178
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179* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
180 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
181 cursors as they happen.
182
183* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
184 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
185 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
186 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
187 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
188 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
189 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
190 activation-by-message id and similar.
191
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192* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
193 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
194 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
195 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
196
197* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
198 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
199 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
200 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
201 similar behaviour for system services, too.
202
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203* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
204 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
205 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
206
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207* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
208
209* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
210 localed, oomd, timedated.
211
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212* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
213 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
94d82b59 214 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
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215 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
216 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
217 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
218 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
219 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
220 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
221
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222* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
223 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
224 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
225
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226* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
227 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
228 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
229 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
230 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
231 signed by U.
232 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
233 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
234 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
235 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
236 next boot
237 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
238 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
239 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
240 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
241 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
242 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
243 later boot.
244 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
245 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
246 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
247 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
248 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
249
250* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
251 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
252 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
253 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
254 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
255 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
256 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
257 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
258 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
259 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
260 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
261 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
262 access.
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264* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
265 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
266 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
267 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
268 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 269 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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270 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
271 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
272 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
273 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
274
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275* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
276 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
277
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278* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
279 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
280 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
281 for all umh processes.
282
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283* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
284 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
285
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286* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
287 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
288 resize.
289
290* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
291 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
292
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293* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
294 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
295 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
296 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
297 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
298 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
299
300* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
301 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
30fd9a2d 302 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
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303 records, to be able to order them.
304
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305* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
306 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
307 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
308 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
309 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
310 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
311 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
312 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
313 system actually reset.
314
315* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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316 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
317 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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319* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
320 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
321 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
322 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
323
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1c904337 325 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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326 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
327 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
328
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329* fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
330 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
331 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
332 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
333 which isn't quite the same.
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335* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
336 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
337 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
338 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
339 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
340
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341* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
342 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
343 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
344 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
345 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
346
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347* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
348
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349* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
350 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
351 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
352 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
353
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354* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
355
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356* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
357 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
358
359* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
360 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
361 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
362
6d040d84 363* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 364 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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366* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
367 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
368 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
369 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
370 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
371 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
372 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
373 usual.
374
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375* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
376
377* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
378
379* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
380
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381* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
382 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
383 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
384 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
385 sockaddr.
386
387* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
388 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
389 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
390 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
391 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
392 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
393 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
394 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
395 try to use inode from there.
396
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397* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
398 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
399
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400* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
401 extensions
402
403* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
404 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
405 for the root fs or /usr/.
406
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407* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
408 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
409 combination thereof.
410
411* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
412 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
413 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
414 ahead of time.
415
416* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
417 aforementioned purpose.
418
419* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
420 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
421
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422* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
423 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
424 to figure out:
425 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
426 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
427 subsequent boots?
428
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429* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
430 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
431 inspiration from IMA log)
432
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433* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
434 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
435 out to our tools.
436
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437* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
438 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
439 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
440 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
441 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
442 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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443 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
444 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
445 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
446 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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448* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
449 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
450 used)
451
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452* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
453 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
454 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
455 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
456 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
457
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458* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
459 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
460 how PCR values we manage came to
461 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
462
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463* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
464 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
465 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
466 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 467 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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468 should win over vendor defaults.
469
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470* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
471 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
472 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
473
474* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
475 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
476
477* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
478 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
479 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
480 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
481 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
482 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
483
484* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
485 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
486 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
487
488* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
489
490* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
491 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
492 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
493 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
494
495* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
496 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
497 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
498 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
499 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
500 only one for each OS.
501
502* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
503 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 504 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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506 boot, for the next.
507
508* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
509 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
510
511* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
512 similar behind it, instead of http.
513
514* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
515 boot, or on first boot.
516
517* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
518 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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521 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
522 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
523 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
524 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
525 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
526 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
527 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
528 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
529 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
530 until users are allowed to log in).
531
532* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
533 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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536 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
537 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
b60e0f57 538 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-confext
539 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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541 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
542 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 543 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
544 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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546
547* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
548 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
549 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
550 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
551 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 552 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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554 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 555 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
556 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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558 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
559 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 560 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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562 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
563 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
564 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 565 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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567 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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570 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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573 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
574
575* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
576 instead of manual blocking.
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579 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
580
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582 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
583 supplied password.
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586 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
587 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
588 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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591 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
592 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
593 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
594
595* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
596 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
597 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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600 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
601 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
602
603* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
604 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
605 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
606 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
607 partition with a portable service partition in one.
608
609* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
610 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
611 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
612 modules
613
b60e0f57 614* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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616 a new name with a built-in config?
617
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619 maybe on kernel command line:
620 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
621 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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624 hash type, etc)
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628
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4e0ceefe 630 but final node is not a directory
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633 non-VFAT fs is used.
634
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635* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
636
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637* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
638 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
639
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645 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
646 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
647 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
648 affect PCR values.
649
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651 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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654 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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657 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
658
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660 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
661
662* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
663 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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666 maybe some other stuff and boots it
667
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670 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
671 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
672 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
673 use it.
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676 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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679 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
680 what it was signed.
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683 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
684 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
685 be safely written to disk, then.
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688 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
689 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
690 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
691 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
692 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
693 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
694 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
695 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
696 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
697 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
698 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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701 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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704 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
705 via the credentials logic.
706 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
707 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
708 integrity-generator)
709 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
710 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
711 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
712 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
713 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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715 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
716 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
717 file system paths to enable on start.
718 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
719 usr=
720 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
721 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
722 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
723 account one can directly log into.
724 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
725 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
726 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
727 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
728 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
729 pre-built kernels.
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732 runtime state. Then, expose it:
733
734 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
735 about the unit.
736 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
737 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
738 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
739 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
740 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
741 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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744 what to do if support ended
745
746* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 747 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 749* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 750 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 751 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 752 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 753 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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756 initrd transition. Specifically:
757 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
758 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
759 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
760
761* implement varlink introspection
762
d486b26f 763* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 764 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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766 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
767 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
768 depending on desired level of persistency.
769
770* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
771 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 772 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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774 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
775 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
776 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
777 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
778
779* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
780 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
781 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
782 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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785
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789 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
790 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
791 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
792 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
793 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
794 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
795 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 796 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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798 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
799 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
800 not unprivileged code.
801
802* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 803 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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806 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
807 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
808 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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811 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
812 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
813 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 814 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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816 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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818 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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820* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
821 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
822 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
823 order.
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826 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
827 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
828 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
829 whenever they want.
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831* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
832 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
833 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
834
835* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
836 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
837 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
838 acquire.
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841 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
842 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
843 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 844 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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846 IN_IGNORED again)
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849 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
850 virtio-fs.
851
852* for vendor-built signed initrds:
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855 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
856 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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858 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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860 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 861 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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863 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
864 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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867 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
868 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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872 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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875 directly to host service manager.
876
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879 credentials to configure socket address.
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884 no api to query the device id
885
886* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
887 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
888 also be queried.
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891 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
892 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
893 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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896 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
897 latter).
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899* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
900
901* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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904 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
905 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
906 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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909 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 910 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
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912 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
913 UEFI HTTP boot.
914
915* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
916 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
917 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
918 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
919 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
920 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
921 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
922 hence cheap for enumeration.
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927 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
928 words: show partition labels).
929
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931 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
932 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 933 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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934 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
935 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
936 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
937
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938* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
939
e4f92a62 940* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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942* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
943
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944* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
945 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
946 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
947 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
948 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
949 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
950 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
951 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
952 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
953 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
954
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955* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
956 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
957 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
958 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
959 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
960 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
961 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
962 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
963 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
964 an NTP sync is acquired.
965
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967 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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969* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
970 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
971
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972* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
973 jobs, units
974
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976 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
977 userspace)
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979* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
980
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981* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
982 json package metadata, and use that when logging
983
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986
987* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
988 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
989
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990* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
991 internal clock.
992
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993* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
994 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
995
996* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
997 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
998 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
999 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1002 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1003 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1004
1005* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1006 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1007 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1008 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1009 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1010 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1011 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1012 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1013 thread:
1014 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1015 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1016 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1017 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1018 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1019 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1020
1021* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1022 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1023 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1024
1025* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1026 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1027 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1028 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1029 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1030 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1031 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1032 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1033 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1034 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1035 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1036 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1037 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1038 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1039 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1040
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1042 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1043 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1044 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1045 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1046 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1048* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1049 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1051
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1052* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1053 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1054 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1055 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1056 on-disk storage.
1057
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1059 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1060 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1061 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1062 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1063
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1064* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1065 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1066 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1067
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1068* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1069 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1070 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1071 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1072 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1073 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1074 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1075
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1076* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1077 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1078 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1079 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1080
3fc0688d 1081* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1082 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1083 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1084 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1085 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1086 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1087 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1088 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1089 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1090 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1091 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1094 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1095 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1098
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1101* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1102 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1103 that images cannot be misused.
1104
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178d3ff2 1106 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1107 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1108 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1109 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1110
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1111* sysupdate:
1112 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1113 - support casync as download mechanism
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1114 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1115 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1116 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1117 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1118 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1119 override the host's update files.)
1120 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1121 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1122 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1123 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1124
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1125* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1126
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1127* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1128 make dirs appear under right UID.
1129
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1130* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1131 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1132
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1133* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1134 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1135 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1136 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1137 for doing that.
1138
24063ba1 1139* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1140 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1141 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1142 already have it.
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1145 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1146
1c904337 1147* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1149* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1150 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1151 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1152 /proc/self/fd/3
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1154* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1155 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1156 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1157
1158* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1159 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1160
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1161* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1162 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1163
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1164* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1165 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1166 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1167 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1168 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1170* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1171
199b097d 1172* credentials system:
199b097d 1173 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1174 - acquire via ask-password?
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1175 - acquire creds via keyring?
1176 - pass creds via keyring?
1177 - pass creds via memfd?
1178 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1179 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1180 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1181 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1182 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1183 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1184 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1185 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1187* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1188 firmware indicates there is one.
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1190* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1191 and such
1192
1193* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1194
02c914ef 1195* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1196
7d7c75f1 1197* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1198 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1199
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1200* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1201 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1203* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1204
1205* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1206 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1207
1208* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1209 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1210
1211* cryptsetup:
1212 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1213 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1214
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1215* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1216 it happens to be set up alright already.
1217
1218* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1219
1220* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1221 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1222 default.
1223
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1224* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1225 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1226 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1227 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1228 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1229
08d33656 1230* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1232* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1233 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1234
f461a28d 1235* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1236 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1237
f461a28d 1238* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1239 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1240
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1241* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1242
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1243* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1244
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1245* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1246
1247* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1248
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1249* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1250 when it exits
1251
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1252* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1253 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1254 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1255 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1257 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1258 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1259 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1260 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1261
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1262* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1263 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1264 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1265
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1266* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1267 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1268
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1269* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1270
1271* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1272 specific service
1273
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1274* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1275 exists and responds.
1276
91fc013f 1277* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1278 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1279
7e8facb3 1280* unify on openssl:
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1281 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1282 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1283 gnutls
1284 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1286* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1287 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1288
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1289* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1290 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1292* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1293
2a4be3c5 1294* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1295
f1eb0ccd 1296* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1298* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1299 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1300 initrd had set.
1301
173c7873 1302* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1303 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1304 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1305 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1306 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1307 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1308
1309* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1310 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1311 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1312
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1313* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1314 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1315 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1316 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1317 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1318 source.
1319
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1320* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1321 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1322 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1323
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1324* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1325
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1326* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1327 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1328 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1329 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1330 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1331 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1332 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1333 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1334 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1335 hibernation mode. (see
1336 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1337 section 10.2.2.8 and
1338 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1339 at the end).
1340
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1341* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1342 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1343
c6526b8d 1344* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1346* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1347 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1348 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1349 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1350 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1351 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1352 exec().
1353
1354* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1355
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1356* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1357 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1358
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1359* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1360 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1361
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1362* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1363 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1364 root.
1365
1366* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1367 is issued.
1368
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1369* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1370
1371* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1372
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1373* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1374 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1375 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1376
d238709c 1377* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1378 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1379 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1380
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1381* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1382
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1383* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1384 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1385
06898123 1386* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1387 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1388 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1389 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1391* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1392
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1393* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1394 log.c and sd-journal-send
1395
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1396* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1397
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1398* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1399
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1400* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1401 non-zero "tries done" count
1402
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1403* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1404 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1405 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1406 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1407 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1408 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1409 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1410 CODE_FILE.
1411
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1412* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1413 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1414 some explanatory text online.
1415
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1416* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1417
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1418* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1419 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1420
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1421* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1422 Specifically:
1423
1424 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1425 properly)
e83419d0 1426 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1427 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1428
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1429* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1430 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1431
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1432* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1433 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1434 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1435 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1436
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1437* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1438
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1439* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1440
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1441* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1442 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1443
5da19043 1444* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1445 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1446
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1447* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1448 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1449 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1450 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1451 unlinked from any dir.
1452
bd1b3f75 1453* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1454
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1455* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1456
1457* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1458
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1459* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1460 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1461 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1462 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1463 should reflink the image file itself.
1464
1465 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1466 specific paths only like this.
1467
53c70a27 1468* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1469 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1470 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1471 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1472 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1473
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1474* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1475
1476* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1477
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1478* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1479 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1480
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1481* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1482 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1483 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1484 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1485 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1486 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1487 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1488 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1489
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1490* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1491 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1492
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1493* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1494 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1495
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1496* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1497 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1498
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1499* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1500 only when used. Add unit tests.
1501
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1502* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1503 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1504
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1505* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1506 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1507 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1508 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1509 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1510
899feb72 1511* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1512
5f7ecd61 1513* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1514
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1515* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1516 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1517
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1518* blog about fd store and restartable services
1519
1520* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1521
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1522* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1523 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1524
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1525* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1526 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1527 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1528 ID is available.
1529
1530* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1531 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1532 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1533
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1534* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1535 parameters
1536
63a185dc 1537* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1538 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1539 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1540 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1541 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1542 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1543 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1544
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1545* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1546 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1547
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1548* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1549 about it in the resource log message
1550
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1551* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1552 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1553 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1554
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1555* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1556 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1557
1558 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1559
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1560* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1561 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1562 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1563
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1564* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1565 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1566
1567* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1568 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1569 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1570 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1571 natural habitat.
1572
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1573* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1574 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1575
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1576* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1577 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1578 relative to the configured default value.
1579
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1580* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1581
04397464 1582* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1583
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1584* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1585
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1586* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1587
04397464 1588* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1589
04397464 1590* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1591
04397464 1592* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1593
8ce9b83a 1594* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1595
1596* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1597 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1598 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1599
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1600* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1601 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1602
e40a326c 1603* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1604
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1605* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1606 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1607 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1608 mapping to work.
1609
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1610* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1611
1612* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1613
1614* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1615
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1616* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1617 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1618
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1619* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1620 reload the unit file anyway
1621
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1622* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1623
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1624* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1625
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1626* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1627 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1628
f9bf1b8f 1629* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1630 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1631 specifications.
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1633* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1634
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1635* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1636
a2088fd0 1637* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1638 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1639 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1640 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1641
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1642* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1643
931bc195 1644* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1645
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1646* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1647 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1648 state.
41d6f3bf 1649 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1650
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1651* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1652 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1653 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1654 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1655 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1656
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1657* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1658
d2f81fb0 1659* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1660 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1661
0a86c1a9 1662* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1663 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1664
e031c227 1665* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1666 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1667
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1668* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1669
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1670* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1671 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1672
25e773ee 1673* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1674
720652b3 1675* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1676
720652b3 1677* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1678
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1679* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1680
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1681* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1682 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1683
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1684* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1685
9d6db739 1686* resolved:
9d6db739 1687 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1688 - service registration
1689 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1690 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1691 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1692 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1693 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1694 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1695 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1696 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1697
e25b5a8d 1698* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1699
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1700* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1701
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1702* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1703
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1704* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1705
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1706* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1707
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1708* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1709 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1710
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1711* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1712
6a3f892a 1713* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1714 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1715 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1716
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1717* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1718 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1719 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1720
f9bf1b8f 1721* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1722
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1723* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1724 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1725 for ReusePort=
1726
f38afcd0 1727* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1728 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1729 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1730 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1731 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1732 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1733 the hierarchies of child processes
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1734- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1735 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1736
f38afcd0 1737* transient units:
f38afcd0 1738 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1739
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1740* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1741
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1742* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1743
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1744* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1745
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1746* 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
1747
7f79cd71 1748* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1749
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1750* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1751 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1752 path anyway.
1753
04397464 1754* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1755
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1756* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1757
1758* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1759
07eabc2b 1760* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1761
07eabc2b 1762* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1763
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1764* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1765
1766* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1767 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1768 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1769
1770* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1771 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1772
1773* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1774
1775* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1776
1777* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1778
1779* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1780 needs to be auto-respawned?
1781
1782* pid1:
1783 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1784 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1785 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1786 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1787 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1788 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1789 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1790 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1791 - move PAM code into its own binary
1792 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1793 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1794 - Support --test based on current system state
1795 - 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().
1796 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1797 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1798 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1799 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1800 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1801 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1802 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1803 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1804 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1805 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1806 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1807 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1808
1809* unit files:
1810 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1811 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1812 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1813 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1814 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1815 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1816 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1817 - introduce Type=pid-file
1818 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1819 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1820 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1821
1822* timer units:
63a185dc 1823 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1824 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1825
1826* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1827
1828* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1829
1830* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1831
1832* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1833
07eabc2b 1834* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1835
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1836* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1837
1838* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1839
fff87a35 1840* test/:
20d52ab6 1841 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1842
b5c03638 1843* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1844 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1845 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1846 destination.
1847
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1848* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1849 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1850
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1851* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1852
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1853* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1854 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1855 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1856
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1857* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1858 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1859
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1860* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1861 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1862 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1863 that automatically.
1864
e5ec62c5 1865* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1866
ccddd104 1867* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1868
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1869* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1870
356ce991 1871* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1872
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1873* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1874
1875* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1876
1877* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1878
1879* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1880
1881* sd-bus:
1882 - EBADSLT handling
1883 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1884 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1885 - 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
1886 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1887 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1888 - longer term: priority inheritance
1889 - dbus spec updates:
1890 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1891 - path escaping
1892 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1893
1894* sd-event
1895 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1896 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1897 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1898 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1899 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1900 here:
1901 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1902
1903* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1904 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1905
1906* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1907
1908* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1909
1910* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1911
b44be3ec 1912* EFI:
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1913 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1914 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1915 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1916* bootctl
631427d6 1917 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1918
07eabc2b 1919* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1920
07eabc2b 1921* bootctl:
483091b0 1922 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1923 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1924 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 1925
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1926* logind:
1927 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1928 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1929 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1930 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1931 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1932 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1933 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1934 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1935 needs setuid().
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1936 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1937 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1938 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1939 complete.
1940 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1941 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1942 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1943 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1944 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1945 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1946 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1947 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1948 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1949 relogins
77b19caf 1950 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1951 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1952 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1953 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1954
1955* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1956
1957* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1958 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1959 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1960
1961* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1962 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1963
b44be3ec 1964* journal:
57f2a947 1965 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1966 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1967 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1968 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1969 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1970 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1971 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1972 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1973 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1974 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1975 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1976 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1977 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 1978 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 1979 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1980 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1981 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1982 - 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.
1983 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1984 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1985 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1986 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1987 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1988 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1989 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1990 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1991 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1992 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1993 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1994 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1995 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1996 to syslog when it works again.
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1997 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1998 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1999 journals in.
2000 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2001 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2002 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2003 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2004 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2005 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2006 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2007 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2008 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2009 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2010 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2011 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2012 operation.
2013 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2014 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2015 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2016 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2017 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2018 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2019 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2020 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2021 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2022 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2024* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2025 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2026
2027* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2028 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2029 validated via TPM.
2030
2031* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2032 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2033
2034* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2035 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2036 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2037
2038* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2039 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2040 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2041 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2042 cgroup.
2043
2044* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2045 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2046 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2047 logging.
2048
2049* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2050
2051* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2052 from the SIGBUS handler
2053
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2055 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2056 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2057 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2058
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2059* homed:
2060 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2061 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2062 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2063 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2064 - create on activate?
2065 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2066 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2067 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2068 systemd --user is shut down.
2069 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2070 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2071 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2072 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2073 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2074 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2075 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2076 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2077 - query password from kernel keyring first
2078 - update even if record is "absent"
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2079 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2080 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2081 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2082 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2083 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2084 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2085 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2086 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2087 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2088 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2089 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2090 signature
2091 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2092 and insert a local signature instead.
2093 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2094 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2095 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2096 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2097 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2098 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2099 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2100 easily?
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2101 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2102 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2103 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2104 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2105 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2106 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2107 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2108 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2109 can easily set overall quota for all users
2110 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2111 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2112 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2113 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2114 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2115 large.
07eabc2b 2116
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2117* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2118 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2119 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2120
2df2bb1f 2121* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2122
2123* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2124 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2125 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2126 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2127
2128* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2129
2130* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2131 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2132 something goes wrong on the way.
2133
2134* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2135
2136* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2137 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2138 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2139 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2140
2141* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2142 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2143 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2144 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2145 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2146 automatically.
2147
2148* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2149 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2150
2151* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2152 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2153 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2154 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2155 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2156 fails to apply use the latter.
2157
2158* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2159 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2160
2161* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2162 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2163
2164* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2165 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2166 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2167
2168* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2169 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2170
92e72028 2171* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2172 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2173 during boot.
2174
2175* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2176
b44be3ec 2177* document:
8b8f2591 2178 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2179 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2180 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2181 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2182 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2183 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2184 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2185 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2186 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2187 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2188 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2189 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2190
2191* systemctl:
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2192 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2193 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2194 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2195 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2196 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2197 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2198 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2199 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2200 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2201 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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2203* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2204 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2205 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2206
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2207* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2208 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2209 the slices, and the units attached to them.
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2211* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2212 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2213 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2214
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2215* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2216 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2217
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2218* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2219 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2220 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2221 do, for example)
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2223* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2224 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2225 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2226 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2227
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2228* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2229
2230* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2231
2232* unit install:
2233 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2234 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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2237 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2238 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2239 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2240 from the kernel's logs.
2241 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2242 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2243 interface be missing
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2244 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2245 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2246 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2247 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2248 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2249 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2250 PID 1...
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2251 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2252 running, remove them when shut down.
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2253 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2254 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2255 startup.
2256 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2257 or so, freeze the payload too.
2258 - support time namespaces
2259 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2260 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2261 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2262 "machinectl shell"
2263 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2264 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2265 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2266 - greater control over selinux label?
2267 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2268 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2269 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2270 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2271 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2272 host TPM.
2273 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2274 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2275 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2276 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2277 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2278 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2279 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2280 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2281 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2282 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2283 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2284 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2285 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2286
2287* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2288 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2289 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2290 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2291 anything like that.
2292
e25b5a8d 2293* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2294 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2295 removed or added to an existing machine
2296 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2297 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2298 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2299 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2300 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2301 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2302 - "machinectl history"
2303 - "machinectl diff"
2304 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2305 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2306
abd55b16 2307* udev:
abd55b16 2308 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2309 - kill scsi_id
2310 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2311 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2312 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2313 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2314
e25b5a8d
DH
2315* coredump:
2316 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2317 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2318 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2319
2320* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2321
f38afcd0 2322* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2323 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2324 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2325 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2326 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2327 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2328 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2329 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2330 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2331 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2332 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2333 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2334 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2335
af6f0d42
TG
2336* udev-link-config:
2337 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2338 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2339 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2340
88e4d1d7 2341* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2342 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2343 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2344
0a4b9a07 2345* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2346 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2347 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2348 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2349 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2350 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2351 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2352 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2353 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2354 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2355 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2356 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2357 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2358 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2359 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2360 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2361 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2362 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2363 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2364
07eabc2b
LB
2365* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2366
d5e172d2
ZJS
2367* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2368
ac976532 2369* dhcp:
424a8732 2370 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2371
37d8b536
PF
2372* dhcp6:
2373 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2374 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2375 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2376 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2377 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2378 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2379 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2380 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2381 or interface down
2382 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2383 this behavior
4a77c53d 2384 - RouteTable= ?