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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
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77* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
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80Features:
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82* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
83 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
84 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
85 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
86 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
87 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
88 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
89 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
90 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
91
92* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
93 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
94 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
95 order.
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97* TPM2: add auth policy for signed PCR values to make updates easy. i.e. do
98 what tpm2_policyauthorize tool does. To be truly useful scheme needs to be a
99 bit more elaborate though: policy probably must take some nvram based
100 generation counter into account that can only monotonically increase and can
101 be used to invalidate old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to
102 old signed PCR sets whenever they want. Usecase: encrypt the rootfs with LUKS
103 with a key that can only be unlocked via a pristine pre-built Fedora
104 kernel+initrd.
105
106* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
107 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
108 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
109
110* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
111 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
112 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
113 acquire.
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115* Add ConditionCredentialExists= or so, that allows conditionalizing services
116 depending on whether a specific system credential is set. Usecase: a service
117 similar to the ssh keygen service that installs any SSH host key supplied via
118 system credentials into /etc/ssh.
119
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120* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
121 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
122 is only supported for such old kernels
123
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124* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
125 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
126 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
127 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 128 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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129 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
130 IN_IGNORED again)
131
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132* sd-stub: set efi var indicating stub features, i.e. whether they pick up
133 creds, sysexts and so on. similar to existing variable of sd-boot
134
135* sd-stub: set efi vars declaring TPM PCRs we measured creds/cmdline + sysext
136 into (even if we hardcode them)
137
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138* systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
139 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
140 virtio-fs.
141
142* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 143 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 144 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 145 on verification if in secureboot mode
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146 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
147 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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148 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
149 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
150 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
151 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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152 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
153 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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154 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
155 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 156 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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157 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
158 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
159 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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160 - sd-stub should measure the kernel/initrd/… into a separate PCR, so that we
161 have one PCR we can bind the encrypted creds to that is not effected by
162 anything else but what we drop in via kernel-install, i.e. by earlier EFI
163 code running (i.e. like PCR 4)
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165* Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
166 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
167 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
168 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
169 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
170 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
171 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
172 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
173 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
174 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
175 service runtime logic quite substantially.
176
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177* get_color_mode() should probably check the $COLORTERM environment variable
178 which most terminal environments appear to set.
179
180* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
181 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
182 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
183
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185 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
186 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
187 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
188 friends.)
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190* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
191 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
192 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 193 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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194 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
195 directly to host service manager.
196
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197* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
198 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
199 configure socket address.
200
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201* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
202 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
203
204* sd-boot: hash data from GetNextHighMonotonicCount() into updated random seed,
205 so that we might even open up up the random seed logic to non-SecureBoot
206 systems?
207
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208* sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
209 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
210 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
211
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212* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
213
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214* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
215 no api to query the device id
216
217* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
218 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
219 also be queried.
220
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221* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
222 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
223 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
224 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
225
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226* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
227 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
228 latter).
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230* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
231
232* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
233
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234* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
235 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
236 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
237 generated by GNU sha256sums.
238
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239* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
240 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
241 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
242 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
243 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
244 UEFI HTTP boot.
245
246* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
247 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
248 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
249 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
250 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
251 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
252 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
253 hence cheap for enumeration.
254
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255* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
256 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
257 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
258
259* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
260 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
261 pre-built kernels.
262
263* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
264
265* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
266 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
267 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
268 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
269 comprehensively.
270
271* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
272 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
273 words: show partition labels).
274
275* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
276 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
277 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
278 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
279
280* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
281 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
282 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 283 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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284 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
285 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
286 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
287
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288* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
289
e4f92a62 290* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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292* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
293
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294* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
295 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
296 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
297 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
298 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
299 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
300 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
301 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
302 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
303 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
304
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305* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
306 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
307 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
308 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
309 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
310 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
311 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
312 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
313 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
314 an NTP sync is acquired.
315
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316* kernel-install:
317 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
318 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
319 call it at the end only
320
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321* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
322 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
323
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324* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
325 jobs, units
326
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327* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
328
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329* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
330 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
331
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332* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
333
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334* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
335 json package metadata, and use that when logging
336
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337* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
338
339* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
340 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
341
342* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
343 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
344
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345* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
346 internal clock.
347
1ccfb792 348* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 349 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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351* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
352 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
353
354* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
355 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
356 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
357 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
358
359* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
360 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
361
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362* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
363 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
364 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
365
366* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
367 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
368 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
369 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
370 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
371 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
372 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
373 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
374 thread:
375 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
376 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
377 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
378 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
379 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
380 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
381
382* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
383 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
384 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
385
386* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
387 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
388 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
389 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
390 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
391 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
392 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
393 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
394 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
395 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
396 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
397 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
398 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
399 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
400 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
401
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402* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
403 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
404 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
405 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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406 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
407 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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409* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
410 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
411 dep in the base OS image)
412
413* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
414 sysext pickup logic.
415
416* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
417 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
418 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
419 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
420 on-disk storage.
421
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422* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
423 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
424 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
425 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
426 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
427
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428* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
429 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
430 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
431 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
432 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
433 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
434 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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436* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
437 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
438 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
439 externally and provide to us on demand only.
440
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441* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
442 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
443 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
444 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
445 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
446 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
447 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
448 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
449
450* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
451 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
452 one.
453
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454* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
455 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
456 into PCR 8)
457
458* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
459 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
460 authentication.
461
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462* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
463 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
464 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
465
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466* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
467
63a185dc 468* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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470* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
471 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
472 that images cannot be misused.
473
aca8ecc3 474* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 475 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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476 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
477 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
478 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
479
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480* sysupdate:
481 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
482 - support casync as download mechanism
483 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
484 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
485 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
486 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
487 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
488 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
489 override the host's update files.)
490 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
491 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
492 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
493 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
494
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496
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497* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
498 make dirs appear under right UID.
499
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500* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
501 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
502
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503* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
504 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
505 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
506 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
507 for doing that.
508
24063ba1 509* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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510 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
511 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
512 already have it.
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514* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
515 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
516
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517* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
518 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
519 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
520 socket: connect() to it.
521
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523
524* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
525 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
526 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
527 /proc/self/fd/3
528
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530 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
531 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
532
533* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
534 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
535
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536* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
537 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
538
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539* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
540 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
541 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
542 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
543 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
544
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545* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
546
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548 - acquire from EFI variable?
549 - acquire via via ask-password?
550 - acquire creds via keyring?
551 - pass creds via keyring?
552 - pass creds via memfd?
553 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
554 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
555 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
556 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
557 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
558 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
559
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560* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
561 firmware indicates there is one.
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563* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
564 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
565 override its hash
566
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567* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
568 and such
569
570* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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572* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
573 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
574
575* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
576
7d7c75f1 577* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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578 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
579
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580* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
581 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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584
585* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
586 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
587
588* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
589 systemd-makefs.service instead.
590
591* cryptsetup:
592 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
593 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
594
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595* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
596 it happens to be set up alright already.
597
598* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
599
600* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
601 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
602 default.
603
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604* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
605 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
606 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
607 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
608 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
609
08d33656 610* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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612* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
613 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
614
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615* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
616 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
617 temporary dir.
618
619* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
620 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
621
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622* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
623 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
624
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625* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
626
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627* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
628
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629* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
630 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
631
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632* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
633
634* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
635
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636* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
637 when it exits
638
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639* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
640 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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642 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 643 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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645 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
646 since they are so basic and our defaults)
647 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
648 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
649
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651 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
652 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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655 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
656
a6e1018d 657* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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659 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
660 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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662* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
663
664* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
665 specific service
666
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667* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
668 exists and responds.
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670* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
671 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
672 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
673
91fc013f 674* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 675 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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7e8facb3 677* unify on openssl:
492f91d8 678 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
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679 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
680
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681* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
682 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
683
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684* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
685 realname substr searches in varlink API
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687* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
688
2a4be3c5 689* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 690
f1eb0ccd 691* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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693* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
694 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
695 initrd had set.
696
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84a1ff94 698 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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699 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
700 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
701 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
702 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
703
704* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
705 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
706 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
707
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709 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
710 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
711 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
712 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
713 source.
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715* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
716 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
717 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
718
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719* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
720
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721* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
722 the hibernation
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724* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
725 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
726 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
727 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
728 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
729 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
730 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
731 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
732 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
733 hibernation mode. (see
734 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
735 section 10.2.2.8 and
736 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
737 at the end).
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740 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 741
c6526b8d 742* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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744* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
745 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
746 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
747 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
748 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
749 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
750 exec().
751
752* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
753
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754* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
755 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
756
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757* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
758 gnome-bluetooth and friends
759
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760* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
761 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
762 root.
763
764* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
765 is issued.
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767* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
768
769* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
770
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771* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
772 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
773 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 774
d238709c 775* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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776 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
777 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
778
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779* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
780
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781* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
782 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
783
06898123 784* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 785 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 786 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 787 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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790
791* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
792 patching around
793
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794* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
795 log.c and sd-journal-send
796
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797* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
798
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799* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
800
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801* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
802 non-zero "tries done" count
803
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804* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
805 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
806 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
807 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
808 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
809 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
810 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
811 CODE_FILE.
812
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814 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
815 some explanatory text online.
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817* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
818
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819* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
820 original defaults before calling parse_config()
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822* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
823 Specifically:
824
825 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
826 properly)
e83419d0 827 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 828 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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830* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
831 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
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833* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
834 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
835 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
836 files and suchlike we operate on.
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838* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
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840* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
841
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842* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
843 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
844
5da19043 845* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 846 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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848* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
849 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
850 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
851 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
852 unlinked from any dir.
853
bd1b3f75 854* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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856* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
857
858* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
859
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860* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
861 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
862 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
863 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
864 should reflink the image file itself.
865
866 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
867 specific paths only like this.
868
53c70a27 869* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 870 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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871 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
872 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 873 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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875* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
876
877* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
878
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879* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
880 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
881
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882* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
883 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
884 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
885 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
886 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
887 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
888 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
889 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
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891* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
892 for root, but only then.
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894* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
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896* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
897 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
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899* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
900 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
901
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902* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
903 only when used. Add unit tests.
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905* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
906 host-side interface pointing to the container.
907
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908* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
909 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
910 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
911 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
912 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
913
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917 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
918 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
919
5f7ecd61 920* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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922* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
923 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
924
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925* blog about fd store and restartable services
926
927* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
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929* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
930 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
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932* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
933 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
934 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
935 ID is available.
936
937* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
938 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
939 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
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942 parameters
943
63a185dc 944* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 945 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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947 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
948 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
949 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
950 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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952* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
953 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
954
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955* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
956 about it in the resource log message
957
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958* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
959 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
960 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
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962* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
963 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
964
965 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
966
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967* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
968 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
969 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
970
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971* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
972 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
973
974* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
975 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
976 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
977 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
978 natural habitat.
979
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980* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
981
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982* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
983 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
984 relative to the configured default value.
985
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986* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
987
04397464 988* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 989
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990* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
991
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992* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
993
04397464 994* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 995
04397464 996* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 997
04397464 998* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 999
8ce9b83a 1000* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1001
1002* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1003 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1004 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1005
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1006* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1007 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1008
e40a326c 1009* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1010
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1011* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1012 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1013 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1014 mapping to work.
1015
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1016* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1017
1018* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1019
1020* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1021
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1022* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1023 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1024
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1025* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1026 reload the unit file anyway
1027
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1028* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1029
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1030* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1031
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1032* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1033 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1034
f9bf1b8f 1035* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1036 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1037 specifications.
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1039* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1040
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1041* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1042
a2088fd0 1043* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1044 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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1045 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1046 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1047
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1048* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1049
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1050* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
1051 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
1052 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
1053
931bc195 1054* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1055
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1056* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1057 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1058 state.
1059 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1060
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1061* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1062 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1063 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1064 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1065 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1066
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1067* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1068
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1069* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1070 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1071
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1072* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1073 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1074
e031c227 1075* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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1076 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1077
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1078* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1079
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1080* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1081 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1082
25e773ee 1083* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1084
720652b3 1085* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1086
720652b3 1087* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1088
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1089* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1090
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1091* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1092 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1093
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1094* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1095
9d6db739 1096* resolved:
9d6db739 1097 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1098 - service registration
1099 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1100 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1101 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1102 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1103 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1104 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1105 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1106 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1107
e25b5a8d 1108* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1109
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1110* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1111
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1112* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1113
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1114* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1115
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1116* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1117
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1118* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1119 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1121* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1122
6a3f892a 1123* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1124 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1125 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1126
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1127* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1128 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1129 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1130
f9bf1b8f 1131* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1132
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1133* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1134 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1135 for ReusePort=
1136
f38afcd0 1137* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1138 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1139 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1140 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1141 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1142 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1143 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 1144
f38afcd0 1145* transient units:
f38afcd0 1146 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1147
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1148* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1149
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1150* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1151
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1152* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1153
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1154* 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
1155
7f79cd71 1156* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1157
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1158* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1159 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1160 path anyway.
1161
04397464 1162* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1163
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1164* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1165
1166* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1167
07eabc2b 1168* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1169
07eabc2b 1170* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1171
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1172* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1173
1174* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1175 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1176 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1177
1178* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1179 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1180
1181* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1182
1183* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1184
1185* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1186
1187* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1188 needs to be auto-respawned?
1189
1190* pid1:
1191 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1192 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1193 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1194 that are not supported...
1195 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1196 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1197 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1198 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1199 - move PAM code into its own binary
1200 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1201 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1202 - Support --test based on current system state
1203 - 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().
1204 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1205 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1206 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1207 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1208 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1209 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1210 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1211 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1212 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1213 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1214 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1215 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1216
1217* unit files:
1218 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1219 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1220 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1221 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1222 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1223 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1224 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1225 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1226 - introduce Type=pid-file
1227 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1228 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1229 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1230
1231* timer units:
63a185dc 1232 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1233 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1234
1235* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1236
1237* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1238
1239* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1240
1241* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1242
07eabc2b 1243* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1244
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1245* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1246
1247* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1248
fff87a35 1249* test/:
20d52ab6 1250 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1251
b5c03638 1252* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1253 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1254 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1255 destination.
1256
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1257* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1258 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1259
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1260* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1261
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1262* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1263 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1264 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1265
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1266* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1267 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1268
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1269* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1270 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1271 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1272 that automatically.
1273
e5ec62c5 1274* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1275
ccddd104 1276* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1277
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1278* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1279
356ce991 1280* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1281
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1282* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1283
1284* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1285
1286* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1287
1288* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1289
1290* sd-bus:
1291 - EBADSLT handling
1292 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1293 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1294 - 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
1295 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1296 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1297 - longer term: priority inheritance
1298 - dbus spec updates:
1299 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1300 - GVariant
1301 - path escaping
1302 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1303
1304* sd-event
1305 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1306 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1307 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1308 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1309 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1310 here:
1311 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1312
1313* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1314 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1315
1316* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1317
1318* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1319
1320* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1321
1322* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1323 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1324 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1325 the host on invocation
1326
1327* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1328 reading/writing files
1329
1330* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1331
1332* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1333 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1334 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1335 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1336 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1337 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1338 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1339
1340* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1341 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1342 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1343 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1344 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1345 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1346 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1347
b44be3ec 1348* EFI:
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1349 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1350 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1351 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1352* bootctl
631427d6 1353 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1354
07eabc2b 1355* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1356
07eabc2b 1357* bootctl:
483091b0 1358 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1359 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1360 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1361 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
f620a368 1362 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
483091b0 1363 - support --quiet in is-installed, update
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1364
1365* kernel-install:
1366 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1367
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1368* logind:
1369 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1370 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1371 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1372 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1373 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1374 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1375 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1376 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1377 needs setuid().
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1378 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1379 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1380 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1381 complete.
1382 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1383 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1384 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1385 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1386 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1387 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1388 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1389 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1390 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1391 relogins
77b19caf 1392 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1393
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1394* move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1395
1396* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1397
1398* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1399 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1400 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1401
1402* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1403 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1404
b44be3ec 1405* journal:
57f2a947 1406 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1407 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1408 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1409 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1410 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1411 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1412 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1413 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1414 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1415 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1416 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1417 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1418 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1419 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1420 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1421 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1422 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1423 - 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.
1424 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1425 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1426 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1427 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1428 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1429 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1430 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1431 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1432 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1433 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1434 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1435 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1436 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1437 to syslog when it works again.
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1438 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1439 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1440 journals in.
1441 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1442 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1443 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1444 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1445 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1446 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1447 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1448 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1449 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1450 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1451 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1452 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1453 operation.
1454 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1455 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1456 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1457 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1458 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1459 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1460 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1461 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1462 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1463 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1464
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1465* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1466 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1467
1468* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1469 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1470 validated via TPM.
1471
1472* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1473 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1474
1475* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1476 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1477 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1478
1479* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1480 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1481 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1482 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1483 cgroup.
1484
1485* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1486 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1487 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1488 logging.
1489
1490* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1491
1492* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1493 from the SIGBUS handler
1494
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1496 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1497 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1498 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1499
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1500* homed:
1501 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1502 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1503 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1504 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1505 - create on activate?
1506 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1507 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1508 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1509 systemd --user is shut down.
1510 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1511 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1512 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1513 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1514 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1515 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1516 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1517 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1518 - query password from kernel keyring first
1519 - update even if record is "absent"
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1520 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1521 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1522 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1523 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1524 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1525 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1526 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1527 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1528 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1529 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1530 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1531 signature
1532 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1533 and insert a local signature instead.
1534 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1535 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1536 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1537 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1538 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1539 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1540 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1541 easily?
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1542 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1543 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1544 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1545 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1546 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1547 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1548 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1549 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1550 can easily set overall quota for all users
1551 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1552 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1553 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1554 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1555 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1556 large.
07eabc2b 1557
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1558* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1559 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1560 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1561
2df2bb1f 1562* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1563
1564* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1565 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1566 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1567 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1568
1569* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1570
1571* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1572 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1573 something goes wrong on the way.
1574
1575* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1576
1577* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1578 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1579 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1580 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1581
1582* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1583 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1584 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1585 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1586 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1587 automatically.
1588
1589* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1590 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1591
1592* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1593 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1594 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1595 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1596 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1597 fails to apply use the latter.
1598
1599* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1600 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1601
1602* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1603 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1604
1605* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1606 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1607
1608* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1609 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1610
b44be3ec 1611* document:
8b8f2591 1612 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1613 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1614 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1615 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1616 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1617 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1618 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1619 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1620 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1621 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1622 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1623 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1624
1625* systemctl:
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1626 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1627 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1628 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1629 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1630 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1631 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1632 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1633 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1634 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1635 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1636
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1637* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1638 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1639 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1640
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1641* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1642 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1643 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1644 output for them.
d2e83c23 1645
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1646* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1647 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1648 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1649
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1650* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1651 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1652 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1653
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1654* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1655 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1656
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1657* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1658 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1659 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1660 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1661
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1662* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1663 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1664 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1665 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 1666
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1667* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1668
1669* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1670
1671* unit install:
1672 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1673 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 1674
b44be3ec 1675* nspawn:
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1676 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1677 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1678 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1679 from the kernel's logs.
1680 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1681 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1682 interface be missing
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1683 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1684 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1685 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1686 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1687 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1688 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1689 PID 1...
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1690 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1691 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1692
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1693* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1694 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1695 during startup.
1696
1697* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1698 so, freeze the payload too.
1699
1700* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1701 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1702 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1703 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1704 anything like that.
1705
1706* nspawn: support time namespaces
1707
1708* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1709 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1710
1711* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1712 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1713
1714* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1715 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1716 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1717
1718* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1719
1720* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1721
e25b5a8d 1722* machined:
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1723 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1724 removed or added to an existing machine
1725 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1726 difference host, via ssh
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1727 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1728 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1729 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1730 question
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1731 - "machinectl history"
1732 - "machinectl diff"
1733 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1734 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1735
abd55b16 1736* udev:
abd55b16 1737 - move to LGPL
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1738 - kill scsi_id
1739 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1740 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1741
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1742* coredump:
1743 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1744 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1745
1746* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1747
f38afcd0 1748* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1749 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1750 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1751 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1752 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1753 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1754 - add --test mode
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1755 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1756 project quota
1258097c 1757
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1758* udev-link-config:
1759 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1760 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1761 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1762
88e4d1d7 1763* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1764 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1765 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1766
0a4b9a07 1767* networkd:
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1768 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1769 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1770 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1771 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1772 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1773 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1774 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1775 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1776 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1777 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1778 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1779 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1780 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1781 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1782 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1783 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1784 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1785 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1786
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1787* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1788
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1789* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1790
ac976532 1791* dhcp:
424a8732 1792 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1793
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1794* dhcp6:
1795 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1796 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1797 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1798 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1799 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1800 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1801 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1802 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1803 or interface down
1804 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1805 this behavior
4a77c53d 1806 - RouteTable= ?