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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* 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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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
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25* zsh shell completion:
26 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
27 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 28 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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30* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
31* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
32 after being started.
33
34* write blog stories about:
35 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
36 - enabling dbus services
37 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
38 - remote access
39 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
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40 - auto-restart
41 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
42 - the journal HTTP iface
43 - non-cgroup resource management
44 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
45 - refreshed, longer missions statement
46 - calendar time events
47 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
48 - how to create your own target
49 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 50 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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52Regularly:
53
54* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
55
56* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
57
58* pahole
59
60* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
61
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62* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
63
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64Janitorial Clean-ups:
65
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66* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
67 semantics, like we do for device.c now
68
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69* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
70 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
71 libmount for something so trivial.
72
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73* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
74 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
75 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
76
b3e199ce 77* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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78 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
79 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
80 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
81
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82* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
83 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
84
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85* use CHASE_MUST_BE_DIRECTORY and CHASE_MUST_BE_REGULAR at more places (the
86 majority of places that currently employ chase() probably should use this)
87
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88Deprecations and removals:
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90* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
91 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
92
b3e199ce 93* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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94 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
95 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
96 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
97
9eb41aab 98* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 99 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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100 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
101 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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102 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
103
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104* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
105 baseline is 5.8.
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107* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
108 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
109
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110* Once baseline is 5.10, remove support or MS_NOSYMFOLLOW-less kernels
111
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112* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
113 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
114 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
115
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116* In v260: remove support for deprecated FactoryReset EFI variable in
117 systemd-repart, replaced by FactoryResetRequest.
118
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119* Consider removing root=gpt-auto, and push people to use root=dissect instead.
120
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121* Once
122 https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/commit/508fb0e7ac103b68531a59db2a4473897853ab52
0ddf8d9c 123 has hit the prominent distributions, revert --issue-file= hack in units/*getty*service.in
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125* Once kernel baseline is 5.7, obsolete DefaultMemoryMin/Low= and DefaultStartupMemoryLow=
126 since we can systematically enable memory_recursiveprot on cgroupfs and have those
127 enforced by the kernel
128
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129Features:
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131* systemd-repart: add --ghost, that creates file systems, updates the kernel's
132 partition table but does *not* update partition table on disk. This way, we
133 have disk backed file systems that go effectively disappear on reboot. This
134 is useful when booting from a "live" usb stick that is writable, as it means
135 we do not have to place everything in memory. Moreover, we could then migrate
136 the file systems to disk later (using btrfs device replacement), if needed as
137 part of an installer logic.
138
139* add a concept of overlay directory stacks to image discovery, i.e. have a dir
140 with a name suffix of ".ovl" or so that contains DDIs and plain dirs (and
141 possible .v dirs) that are glued together on use via overlayfs. one special
142 subdir should be used as writable top layer.
143
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144* journald: log pidfid as another field, i.e. _PIDFDID=
145
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146* systemd-nspawn: something like --volatile= but that isn't volatile, but
147 stores the data in some separate dir on disk. Usecase: keep always up-to-date
148 DDIs of some OS in your home dir, but combine its /usr/ with a locally
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149 maintained root fs in a regular dir to maintain local state. (idea: call it
150 --mutable= and take dir or DDI and merge in)
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152* maybe rework systemd-modules-load to be a generator that just instantiates
153 modprobe@.service a bunch of times
154
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155* Split vconsole-setup in two, of which the second is started via udev (instead
156 of the "restart" job it currently fires). That way, boot becomes purely
157 positive again, and we can nicely order the two against each other.
158
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159* Add ELF section to make systemd main binary recognizable cleanly, the same
160 way as we make sd-boot recognizable via PE section.
161
162* Add knob to cryptsetup, to trigger automatic reboot on failure to unlock
163 disk. Enable this by default for rootfs, also in gpt-auto-generator
164
165* Add RebootUptimeMinSec= knob to PID 1, that makes systemd-shutdown sleep
166 until the specified uptime has passed, to lengthen tight boot loops.
167
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168* replace bootctl's PE version check to actually use APIs from pe-binary.[ch]
169 to find binary version.
170
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171* replace symlink_label(), mknodat_label(), btrfs_subvol_make_label(),
172 mkdir_label() and related calls by flags-based calls that use
173 label_ops_pre()/label_ops_post().
174
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175* maybe reconsider whether virtualization consoles (hvc1) are considered local
176 or remote. i.e. are they more like an ssh login, or more like a /dev/tty1
177 login? Lennart used to believe the former, but maybe the latter is more
178 appropriate? This has effect on polkit interactivity, since it would mean
179 questions via hvc0 would suddenly use the local polkit property. But this
180 also raises the question whether such sessions shall be considered active or
181 not
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183* automatically reset specific EFI vars on factory reset (make this generic
184 enough so that infrac can be used to erase shim's mok vars?)
185
186* similar: add a plugin for factory reset logic that erases certain parts of
187 the ESP, but leaves others in place.
188
189* systemd-repart: add --defer-partitions-factory-reset or so, as a flavour of
190 --defer-partitions= that picks all partitions that are marked for factory
191 reset. for an installer this is usually the partitions not to copy, too.
192
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193* flush_fd() should probably try to be smart and stop reading once we know that
194 all further queued data was enqueued after flush_fd() was originally
195 called. For that, try SIOCINQ if fd refers to stream socket, and look at
196 timestamps for datagram sockets.
197
198* Similar flush_accept() should look at sockdiag queued sockets count and exit
199 once we flushed out the specified number of connections.
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201* maybe introduce a new per-unit drop-in directory .confext.d/ that may contain
202 symlinks to confext images to enable for the unit.
203
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204* nspawn: map foreign UID range through 1:1
205
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206* replace all uses of fopen_temporary() by fopen_tmpfile_linkable() +
207 flink_tmpfile() and then get rid of fopen_temporary(). Benefit: use O_TMPFILE
208 pervasively, and avoid rename() wherever we can.
209
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210* loginctl: show argv[] of "leader" process in tabular list-sessions output
211
212* loginctl: show "service identifier" in tabular list-sessions output, to make
213 run0 sessions easily visible.
214
215* run0: maybe enable utmp for run0 sessions, so that they are easily visible.
216
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217* maybe beef up sd-event: optionally, allow sd-event to query the timestamp of
218 next pending datagram inside a SOCK_DGRAM IO fd, and order event source
219 dispatching by that. Enable this on the native + syslog sockets in journald,
220 so that we add correct ordering between the two. Use MSG_PEEK + SCM_TIMESTAMP
221 for this.
222
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223* maybe replace nss-machines with logic in networkd that registers records with
224 systemd-resolved, based on DHCP leases, so that we gain compat with VMs.
225 Implementation idea: encode in an ifaltname the intended local name to expose this
226 under and then parse that out and map it to the combined A/AAAA of all handed
227 out leases.
228
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229* bsod: add target "bsod.target" or so, which invokes systemd-bsod.target and
230 waits and then reboots. Then use OnFailure=bsod.target from various jobs that
231 should result in system reboots, such as TPM tamper detection cases.
232
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233* honour validatefs xattrs in dissect-image.c too
234
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235* pcrextend: maybe add option to disable measurements entirely via kernel cmdline
236
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237* tpm2-setup: reboot if we detect SRK changed
238
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239* validatefs: validate more things: check if image id + os id of initrd match
240 target mount, so that we refuse early any attempts to boot into different
241 images with the wrong kernels. check min/max kernel version too. all encoded
242 via xattrs in the target fs.
243
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244* pcrextend: when we fail to measure, reboot the system (at least optionally).
245 important because certain measurements are supposed to "destroy" tpm object
246 access.
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248* pcrextend: after measuring get an immediate quote from the TPM, and validate
249 it. if it doesn't check out, i.e. the measurement we made doesn't appear in
250 the PCR then also reboot.
251
252* cryptsetup: add boolean for disabling use of any password/recovery key slots.
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253 (i.e. that we can operate in a tpm-only mode, and thus protect us from rogue
254 root disks)
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256* complete varlink introspection comments:
257 - io.systemd.BootControl
258 - io.systemd.Hostname
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a0d8484e 260 - io.systemd.Network
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261 - io.systemd.PCRLock
262 - io.systemd.Resolve.Monitor
263 - io.systemd.Resolve
264 - io.systemd.oom
265 - io.systemd.sysext
266
457f4cfb 267* maybe define a /etc/machine-info field for the ANSI color to associate with a
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268 hostname. Then use it for the shell prompt to highlight the hostname. If no
269 color is explicitly set, hash a color automatically from the hostname as a
270 fallback, in a reasonable way. Take inspiration from the ANSI_COLOR= field
271 that already exists in /etc/os-release, i.e. use the same field name and
272 syntax. When hashing the color, use the hsv_to_rgb() helper we already have,
273 fixate S and V to something reasonable and constant, and derive the H from
274 the hostname. Ultimate goal with this: give people a visual hint about the
275 system they are on if the have many to deal with, by giving each a color
276 identity. This code should be placed in hostnamed, so that clients can query
277 the color via varlink or dbus.
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279* unify how blockdev_get_root() and sysupdate find the default root block device
280
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281* Maybe rename pkcs7 and public verbs of systemd-keyutil to be more verb like.
282
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283* maybe extend the capsule concept to the per-user instance too: invokes a
284 systemd --user instance with a subdir of $HOME as $HOME, and a subdir of
285 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
286
287* add "homectl export" and "homectl import" that gets you an "atomic" snapshot
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288 of your homedir, i.e. either a tarball or a snapshot of the underlying disk
289 (use FREEZE/THAW to make it consistent, btrfs snapshots)
290
291* maybe introduce a new partition that we can store debug logs and similar at
292 the very last moment of shutdown. idea would be to store reference to block
293 device (major + minor + partition id + diskeq?) in /run somewhere, than use
294 that from systemd-shutdown, just write a raw JSON blob into the partition.
7ae2ea52 295 Include timestamp, boot id and such, plus kmsg. on next boot immediately
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296 import into journal. maybe use timestamp for making clock more monotonic.
297 also use this to detect unclean shutdowns, boot into special target if
298 detected
299
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300* fix homed/homectl confusion around terminology, i.e. "home directory"
301 vs. "home" vs. "home area". Stick to one term for the concept, and it
302 probably shouldn't contain "area".
303
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304* sd-boot: do something useful if we find exactly zero entries (ignoring items
305 such as reboot/poweroff/factory reset). Show a help text or so.
306
307* sd-boot: optionally ask for confirmation before executing certain operations
308 (e.g. factory resets, storagetm with world access, and so on)
309
310* add field to bls type 1 and type 2 profiles that ensures an item is never
311 considered for automatic selection
312
313* add "conditions" for bls type 1 and type 2 profiles that allow suppressing
314 them under various conditions: 1. if tpm2 is available or not available;
315 2. if sb is on or off; 3. if we are netbooted or not; …
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317* logind: invoke a service manager for "area" logins too. i.e. instantiate
318 user@.service also for logins where XDG_AREA is set, in per-area fashion, and
319 ref count it properly. Benefit: graphical logins should start working with
320 the area logic.
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322* repart: introduce concept of "ghost" partitions, that we setup in almost all
323 ways like other partitions, but do not actually register in the actual gpt
324 table, but only tell the kernel about via BLKPG ioctl. These partitions are
325 disk backed (hence can be large), but not persistent (as they are invisible
326 on next boot). Could be used by live media and similar, to boot up as usual
327 but automatically start at zero on each boot. There should also be a way to
328 make ghost partitions properly persistent on request.
329
330* repart: introduce MigrateFileSystem= or so which is a bit like
331 CopyFiles=/CopyBlocks= but operates via btrfs device logic: adds target as
332 new device then removes source from btrfs. Usecase: a live medium which uses
333 "ghost" partitions as suggested above, which can become persistent on request
334 on another device.
335
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336* make nspawn containers, portable services and vmspawn VMs optionally survive
337 soft reboot wholesale.
338
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339* Turn systemd-networkd-wait-online into a small varlink service that people
340 can talk to and specify exactly what to wait for via a method call, and get a
341 response back once that level of "online" is reached.
342
343* introduce a small "systemd-installer" tool or so, that glues
344 systemd-repart-as-installer and bootctl-install into one. Would just
345 interactively ask user for target disk (with completion and so on), and then do
346 two varlink calls to the the two tools with the right parameters. To support
347 "offline" operation, optionally invoke the two tools directly as child
348 processes with varlink communication over socketpair(). This all should be
349 useful as blueprint for graphical installers which should do the same.
350
3fd11dbc 351* Make run0 forward various signals to the forked process so that sending
530ee01c 352 signals to a child process works roughly the same regardless of whether the
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353 child process is spawned via run0 or not.
354
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355* write a document explaining how to write correct udev rules. Mention things
356 such as:
357 1. do not do lists of vid/pid matches, use hwdb for that
358 2. add|change action matches are typically wrong, should be != remove
359 3. use GOTO, make rules short
360 4. people shouldn't try to make rules file non-world-readable
361
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362* make killing more debuggable: when we kill a service do so setting the
363 .si_code field with a little bit of info. Specifically, we can set a
364 recognizable value to first of all indicate that it's systemd that did the
365 killing. Secondly, we can give a reason for the killing, i.e. OOM or so, and
366 also the phase we are in, and which process we think we are killing (i.e.
530ee01c 367 main vs control process, useful in case of sd_notify() MAINPID= debugging).
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368 Net result: people who try to debug why their process gets killed should have
369 some minimal, nice metadata directly on the signal event.
370
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371* sd-boot/sd-stub: install a uefi "handle" to a sidecar dir of bls type #1
372 entries with an "uki" or "uki-url" stanza, and make sd-stub look for
373 that. That way we can parameterize type #1 entries nicely.
374
375* add a system-wide seccomp filter list for syscalls, kill "acct()" "@obsolete"
376 and a few other legacy syscalls that way.
377
378* maybe introduce "@icky" as a seccomp filter group, which contains acct() and
379 certain other syscalls that aren't quite obsolete, but certainly icky.
380
381* revisit how we pass fs images and initrd to the kernel. take uefi http boot
382 ramdisks as inspiration: for any confext/sysext/initrd erofs/DDI image simply
383 generate a fake pmem region in the UEFI memory tables, that Linux then turns
384 into /dev/pmemX. Then turn of cpio-based initrd logic in linux kernel,
385 instead let kernel boot directly into /dev/pmem0. In order to allow our usual
386 cpio-based parameterization, teach PID 1 to just uncompress cpio ourselves
387 early on, from another pmem device. (Related to this, maybe introduce a new
388 PE section .ramdisk that just synthesizes pmem devices from arbitrary
389 blobs. Could be particularly useful in add-ons)
390
391* also parse out primary GPT disk label uuid from gpt partition device path at
392 boot and pass it as efi var to OS.
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394* storagetm: maybe also serve the specified disk via HTTP? we have glue for
395 microhttpd anyway already. Idea would also be serve currently booted UKI as
396 separate HTTP resource, so that EFI http boot on another system could
397 directly boot from our system, with full access to the hdd.
398
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399* support specifying download hash sum in systemd-import-generator expression
400 to pin image/tarball.
401
402* support boot into nvme-over-tcp: add generator that allows specifying nvme
403 devices on kernel cmdline + credentials. Also maybe add interactive mode
404 (where the user is prompted for nvme info), in order to boot from other
405 system's HDD.
406
407* ptyfwd: use osc context information in vmspawn/nspawn/… to optionally only
408 listen to ^]]] key when no further vmspawn/nspawn context is allocated
409
410* ptyfwd: usec osc context information to propagate status messages from
411 vmspawn/nspawn to service manager's "status" string, reporting what is
412 currently in the fg
413
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414* nspawn/vmspawn: define hotkey that one can hit on the primary interface to
415 ask for a friendly, acpi style shutdown.
416
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417* for better compat with major clouds: implement simple PTP device support in
418 timesyncd
419
420* for better compat with major clouds: recognize clouds via hwdb on DMI device,
421 and add udev properties to it that help with handling IMDS, i.e. entrypoint
422 URL, which fields to find ip hostname, ssh key, …
423
424* for better compat with major clouds: introduce imds mini client service that
425 sets up primary netif in a private netns (ipvlan?) to query imds without
426 affecting rest of the host. pick up literal credentials from there plus the
427 fields the hwdb reports for the other fields and turn them into credentials.
428 then write generator that used detected virtualization info and plugs this
429 service into the early boot, waiting for the DMI and network device to show
430 up.
431
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432* Add UKI profile conditioning so that profles are only available if secure
433 boot is turned off, or only on. similar, add conditions on TPM availability,
434 network boot, and other conditions.
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436* fix bug around run0 background color on ls in fresh terminal
437
438* Reset TPM2 DA bit on each successful boot
439
440* systemd-repart: add --installer or so, that will intractively ask for a
441 target disk, maybe ask for confirmation, and install something on disk. Then,
442 hook that into installer.target or so, so that it can be used to
443 install/replicate installs
444
445* systemd-cryptenroll: add --firstboot or so, that will interactively ask user
446 whether recovery key shall be enrolled and do so
447
bc9e0803 448* bootctl: add tool for registering BootXXX entry that boots from some http
411bc7c9 449 server of your choice (i.e. like kernel-bootcfg --add-uri=)
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451* maybe introduce container-shell@.service or so, to match
452 container-getty.service but skips authentication, so you get a shell prompt
453 directly. Usecase: wsl-like stuff (they have something pretty much like
454 that). Question: how to pick user for this. Instance parameter? somehow from
455 credential (would probably require some binary that converts credential to
456 User= parameter?
457
dadd1823 458* systemd-firstboot: optionally install an ssh key for root for offline use.
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460* Allocate UIDs/GIDs automatically in userdbctl load-credentials if none are
461 included in the user/group record credentials
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463* introduce new ANSI sequence for communicating log level and structured error
464 metadata to terminals.
465
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466* in pid1: include ExecStart= cmdlines (and other Exec*= cmdlines) in polkit
467 request, so that policies can match against command lines.
468
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469* allow dynamic modifications of ConcurrencyHardMax= and ConcurrencySoftMax=
470 via DBus (and with that also by daemon-reload)
471
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472* importd: introduce a per-user instance, that downloads into per-user DDI dirs
473
474* sysupdated: similar
475
476* portabled: similar
477
478* machined: implement a per-user instance, that manages per-user DDI dirs for
479 images. systemd-nspawn/systemd-vmspawn should probably register with both the
480 system and the user scoped machined instance. The former to get the machine
481 name registered as hostname, and the latter so that the image stuff is nicely
482 per-user managed.
483
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484* resolved: make resolved process DNR DHCP info
485
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486* maybe introduce an OSC sequence that signals when we ask for a password, so
487 that terminal emulators can maybe connect a password manager or so, and
488 highlight things specially.
489
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490* start using STATX_SUBVOL in btrfs_is_subvol(). Also, make use of it
491 generically, so that image discovery recognizes bcachefs subvols too.
492
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493* "systemd-export tar" should reuse the libarchive export code from systemd-dissect
494 --archive.
495
496* "systemd-import tar" should be moved to libarchive
497
498* foreign uid:
499 - add support to export-fs, import-fs, import-tar, export-tar
500 - add tool for deleting foreign UID held container images
501 - systemd-dissect should learn mappings, too, when doing mtree and such
502
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503* format-table: introduce new cell type for strings with ansi sequences in
504 them. display them in regular output mode (via strip_tab_ansi()), but
505 suppress them in json mode.
506
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507* resolved: report ttl in resolution replies if we know it. This data is useful
508 for tools such as wireguard which want to periodically re-resolve DNS names,
509 and might want to use the TTL has hint for that.
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511* journald: beef up ClientContext logic to store pidfd_id of peer, to validate
512 we really use the right cache entry
513
514* journald: log client's pidfd id as a new automatic field _PIDFDID= or so.
515
516* journald: split up ClientContext cache in two: one cache keyed by pid/pidfdid
517 with process information, and another one keyed by cgroup path/cgroupid with
518 cgroup information. This way if a service consisting of many logging
519 processes can take benefit of the cgroup caching.
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521* system lsmbpf policy that prohibits creating files owned by "nobody"
522 system-wide
523
524* system lsmpbf policy that prohibits creating or opening device nodes outside
525 of devtmpfs/tmpfs, except if they are the pseudo-devices /dev/null,
526 /dev/zero, /dev/urandom and so on.
527
528* system lsmbpf policy that enforces that block device backed mounts may only
529 be established on top of dm-crypt or dm-verity devices, or an allowlist of
530 file systems (which should probably include vfat, for compat with the ESP)
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532* $LISTEN_PID, $SYSTEMD_EXECPID env vars that the service manager sets should
533 be augmented with $LISTEN_PIDFDID, and $SYSTEMD_EXECPIDFD (and similar for
534 other env vars we might send).
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536* port copy.c over to use LabelOps for all labelling.
537
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538* get rid of compat with libidn.so.11 (retain only for libidn.so.12)
539
540* get rid of compat with libbpf.so.0 (retainly only for libbpf.so.1)
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542* define a generic "report" varlink interface, which services can implement to
543 provide health/statistics data about themselves. then define a dir somewhere
544 in /run/ where components can bind such sockets. Then make journald, logind,
545 and pid1 itself implement this and expose various stats on things there. Then
546 issue parallel calls to these interfaces from the systemd-report tool,
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548 quote. tpm quote should protect the json doc via the nonce field
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549 studd. Allow shipping this off elsewhere for analyze.
550
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551* The bind(AF_UNSPEC) construct (for resetting sockets to their initial state)
552 should be blocked in many cases because it punches holes in many sandboxes.
553
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554* find a nice way to opt-in into auto-masking SIGCHLD on first
555 sd_event_add_child(), and then get rid of many more explicit sigprocmask()
556 calls.
557
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558* introduce new structure Tpm2CombinedPolicy, that combines the various TPm2
559 policy bits into one structure, i.e. public key info, pcr masks, pcrlock
560 stuff, pin and so on. Then pass that around in tpm2_seal() and tpm2_unseal().
561
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562* look at nsresourced, mountfsd, homed, importd, and try to come up with a way
563 how the forked off worker processes can be moved into transient services with
564 sandboxing, without breaking notify socket stuff and so on.
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567 more readable \e. It's a GNU extension, but a ton more readable than the
568 others, and most importantly it doesn't result in confusing errors if you
569 suffix the escape sequence with one more decimal digit, because compilers
570 think you might actually specify a value outside the 8bit range with that.
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573 insert an intermediary bind mount on itself there. This has the benefit that
574 services where mount propagation from the root fs is off, an still have
575 confext/sysext propagated in.
576
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577* generic interface for varlink for setting log level and stuff that all our daemons can implement
578
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579* maybe teach repart.d/ dropins a new setting MakeMountNodes= or so, which is
580 just like MakeDirectories=, but uses an access mode of 0000 and sets the +i
581 chattr bit. This is useful as protection against early uses of /var/ or /tmp/
582 before their contents is mounted.
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585 all three of:
586 1. --no-legend properly
587 2. --json= properly
588 3. --no-pager properly
589
590* go through all --help texts in our codebases, and make sure:
591 1. the one sentence description of the tool is highlighted via ANSI how we
592 usually do it
593 2. If more than one or two commands are supported (as opposed to switches),
594 separate commands + switches from each other, using underlined --help sections.
595 3. If there are many switches, consider adding additional --help sections.
596
597* go through our codebase, and convert "vertical tables" (i.e. things such as
598 "systemctl status") to use table_new_vertical() for output
599
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600* pcrlock: add support for multi-profile UKIs
601
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602* initrd: when transitioning from initrd to host, validate that
603 /lib/modules/`uname -r` exists, refuse otherwise
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605* signed bpf loading: to address need for signature verification for bpf
606 programs when they are loaded, and given the bpf folks don't think this is
607 realistic in kernel space, maybe add small daemon that facilitates this
608 loading on request of clients, validates signatures and then loads the
609 programs. This daemon should be the only daemon with privs to do load BPF on
610 the system. It might be a good idea to run this daemon already in the initrd,
611 and leave it around during the initrd transition, to continue serve requests.
612 Should then live in its own fs namespace that inherits from the initrd's
613 fs tree, not from the host, to isolate it properly. Should set
614 PR_SET_DUMPABLE so that it cannot be ptraced from the host. Should have
615 CAP_SYS_BPF as only service around.
616
617* add a mechanism we can drop capabilities from pid1 *before* transitioning
618 from initrd to host. i.e. before we transition into the slightly lower trust
619 domain that is the host systems we might want to get rid of some caps.
620 Example: CAP_SYS_BPF in the signed bpf loading logic above. (We already have
621 CapabilityBoundingSet= in system.conf, but that is enforced when pid 1
622 initializes, rather then when it transitions to the next.)
623
624* maybe add a new standard slice where process that are started in the initrd
625 and stick around for the whole system runtime (i.e. root fs storage daemons,
626 the bpf loader daemon discussed above, and such) are placed. maybe
627 protected.slice or so? Then write docs that suggest that services like this
628 set Slice=protected.sice, RefuseManualStart=yes, RefuseManualStop=yes and a
629 couple of other things.
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632 that generates a quote of local PCRs and NvPCRs, along with synchronous log
633 snapshot. use "audit session" logic for that, so that we get read-outs and
634 signature in one step. Then turn this into a JSON object. Use the "TCG TSS 2.0
635 JSON Data Types and Policy Language" format to encode the signature. And CEL
636 for the measurement log.
637
638* creds: add a new cred format that reused the JSON structures we use in the
639 LUKS header, so that we get the various newer policies for free.
640
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641* systemd-analyze: port "pcrs" verb to talk directly to TPM device, instead of
642 using sysfs interface (well, or maybe not, as that would require privileges?)
643
644* pcrextend/tpm2-util: add a concept of "rotation" to event log. i.e. allow
645 trailing parts of the logs if time or disk space limit is hit. Protect the
646 boot-time measurements however (i.e. up to some point where things are
647 settled), since we need those for pcrlock measurements and similar. When
648 deleting entries for rotation, place an event that declares how many items
649 have been dropped, and what the hash before and after that.
650
651* measure information about all DDIs as we activate them to an NvPCR. We
652 probably should measure the dm-verity root hash from the kernel side, but
653 DDI meta info from userspace.
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656 number) for identifying inodes, for example in copy.c when finding hard
657 links, or loop-util.c for tracking backing files, and other places.
658
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a5cbc0fa 660 fido2, as well as tpm2 + ssh-agent, inspired by ChromeOS' logic: encrypt the
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661 volume key with the TPM, with a policy that insists that a nonce is signed by
662 the fido2 device's key or ssh-agent key. Thus, add unlock/login time the TPM
663 generates a nonce, which is sent as a challenge to the fido2/ssh-agent, which
664 returns a signature which is handed to the tpm, which then reveals the volume
665 key to the PC.
666
667* cryptenroll/cryptsetup/homed: similar to this, implement TOTP backed by TPM.
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670 ExecStatus information
671
672* properly serialize the ExecStatus data from all ExecCommand objects
673 associated with services, sockets, mounts and swaps. Currently, the data is
674 flushed out on reload, which is quite a limitation.
675
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676* Clean up "reboot argument" handling, i.e. set it through some IPC service
677 instead of directly via /run/, so that it can be sensible set remotely.
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679* systemd-tpm2-support: add a some logic that detects if system is in DA
680 lockout mode, and queries the user for TPM recovery PIN then.
681
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682* systemd-repart should probably enable btrfs' "temp_fsid" feature for all file
683 systems it creates, as we have no interest in RAID for repart, and it should
684 make sure that we can mount them trivially everywhere.
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686* systemd-nspawn should get the same SSH key support that vmspawn now has.
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688* move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
689 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
fcaa5105 690 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
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691 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
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693* vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
694 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
695 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
696 which uses 32bit words).
697
afd20791 698* In vmspawn/nspawn/machined wait for X_SYSTEMD_UNIT_ACTIVE=ssh-active.target
fdc1b714 699 and X_SYSTEMD_SIGNALS_LEVEL=2 as indication whether/when SSH and the POSIX
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700 signals are available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for
701 that). Report as property for the machine.
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703* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
704 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
705 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
706 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
707 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
708 as primary way into the container.
709
710* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
711 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
712 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
713 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
714 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
715 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
716 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
717 it for the invoking user.
718
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630023e2 720 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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7e9cdafa 723 - port tar handling to libarchive
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728 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
729 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
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732 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
733 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
734 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
735 exit code propagation
736
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740 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
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743 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
744 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
745 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
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748 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
749
750* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
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753 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
754 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
755 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
756 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
757 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
758
759* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
760 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
761 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
762
763* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
764 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
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767 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
768 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
769 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
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771* machined: optionally track nspawn unix-export/ runtime for each machined, and
772 then update systemd-ssh-proxy so that it can connect to that.
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775 64bit mount ids
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778 - userdb: maybe allow callers to map one uid to their own uid
779 - bpflsm: allow writes if resulting UID on disk would be userns' owner UID
780 - make encrypted DDIs work (password…)
781 - add API for creating a new file system from scratch (together with some
782 dm-integrity/HMAC key). Should probably work using systemd-repart (access
783 via varlink).
784 - add api to make an existing file "trusted" via dm-integry/HMAC key
785 - port: portabled
786 - port: tmpfiles, sysusers and similar
787 - lets see if we can make runtime bind mounts into unpriv nspawn work
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790 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
791 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
792 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
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795 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
796 volume key.
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799 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
800 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
801 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
802 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
803 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
804 specified images.
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807 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
808 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
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810* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
811 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
812 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
813
814* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
815 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
816 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
817
818* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
819 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
820
821* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
822 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
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825 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
826 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
827 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
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830
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833 - --read-only support
834 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
835 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
836 suspend key presses.
837 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
46859471 838 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
4d44670d 839 - implement hotkeys ^]^]r and ^]^]p like nspawn
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841* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
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844 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
845 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
846 operate in device mode
847 - add NVMe authentication
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849* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
850 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
851 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
852 nvme-oF
853
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856 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
857 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
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858 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
859 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
860 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
861 /run?
862 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
863 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
864 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
865 for pre-built images
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868 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
869 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
870 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
871 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
872
873* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
874 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
875 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
876 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
877
878* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
879 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
880 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
881
882* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
883 systems.
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886 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
887 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
888 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
889 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
890 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
891 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 892 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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894 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
895 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
896 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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899 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
900 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
901 sysext
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904 other programs via IPC:
905 - bootctl
906 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
907 - coredumpcl
908 - systemd-bless-boot
909 - systemd-measure
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911 - systemd-dissect
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913 - systemd-analyze
914 - kernel-install
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918 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 919 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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921* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
922 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
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924* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
925 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
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928 menu.
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931 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
932 sockets.
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935 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
936 migratable between PCs)
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939 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
940 snapshot logic
941
942* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
943 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
944 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
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947
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950 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
951 - get_ctty_devnr()
4775b55d 952 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
a1f7cdc6 953 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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955 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
b480a4c1 956 - journald's process cache
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959
960* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
961 mode.
962
bba5f48a 963* similar, measure some string via pcrphase whenever we resume from hibernate
26e69865 964
3a9e659a 965* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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966 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
967 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
968 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
969 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
970 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
971 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
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974 too much
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980 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
981 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
982 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
983 control of the attacker.
984
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987 binaries, using the same JSON format.
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989* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
990 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
991 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
992 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
993 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
994 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
995 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
996 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
997 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
998 newer.
999
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1001 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
1002 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
1003 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
1004 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
1005 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
1006 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
1007 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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1010 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
1011 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
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1014 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
1015 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
1016 requested during switch root.
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1020* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
1021 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
1022 matched against OS.
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1025 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
1026 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
1027
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1029 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
1030 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
1031 namespaces)
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1034 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
1035
1036* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
1037 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
1038 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
1039
f447b741 1040* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 1041 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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1043 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
1044 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
1045 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
1046
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1048 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 1049 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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1053 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
1054 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
1055 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
1056 based on lo_file_name.
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1059 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 1060 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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1062
1063* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
1064 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
1065 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
1066 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
1067 creating versions like these automatically).
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1072 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
1073 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
1074 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
1075 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
1076 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
1077 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
1078 activation-by-message id and similar.
1079
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1081
512f2da5 1082* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 1083 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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1085 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
1086
1087* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
1088 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
1089 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
1090 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
1091 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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1094 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
1095 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
1096
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1098
12c346d8 1099* udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
4bc06da7 1100 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q symlink -r'
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1102
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1103* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
1104 localed, oomd, timedated.
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1107 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
1108 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
1109 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
1110 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
1111 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 1112 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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1114 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
1115 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
1116 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
1117 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
1118 access.
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1121 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
1122 through nspawn.
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1125 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
1126
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1128 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
1129 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
1130 for all umh processes.
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1133 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
1134 resize.
1135
1136* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
1137 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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1140 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
1141 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
1142 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
1143 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
1144 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
1145 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
1146 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
1147 system actually reset.
1148
1149* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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1151 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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1154 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
1155 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
1156 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
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1159 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
1160 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
1161 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
1162 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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1165 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
1166 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
1167
6d040d84 1168* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 1169 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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1171* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
1172 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
1173 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
1174 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
1175 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
1176 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
1177 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
1178 usual.
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1181
1182* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
1183
1184* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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1187 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
1188 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
1189 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
1190 sockaddr.
1191
1192* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
1193 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
1194 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
1195 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
1196 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
1197 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
1198 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
1199 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
1200 try to use inode from there.
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1202* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
1203 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
1204
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1205* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
1206 extensions
1207
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1208* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
1209 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
1210 combination thereof.
1211
1212* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
1213 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
1214 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
1215 ahead of time.
1216
1217* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
1218 aforementioned purpose.
1219
1220* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
1221 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
1222
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1224 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
1225 to figure out:
1226 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
1227 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
1228 subsequent boots?
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1231 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
1232 used)
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1235 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
1236 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
1237 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
1238 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
1239
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1240* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
1241 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
1242 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
1243 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 1244 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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1246
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1247* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
1248 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
1249 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
1250
1251* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
1252 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
1253
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1255
1256* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
1257 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 1258 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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1260
1261* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
1262 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
1263 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
1264 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
1265 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
1266 only one for each OS.
1267
1268* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
1269 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 1270 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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1271 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
1272 boot, for the next.
1273
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1275 similar behind it, instead of http.
1276
1277* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
1278 boot, or on first boot.
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1281 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
1282 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
1283 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
1284 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
1285 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
1286 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
1287 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
1288 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
1289 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
1290 until users are allowed to log in).
1291
1292* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
1293 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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1296 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
1297 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 1298 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 1299 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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1301 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
1302 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 1303 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
1304 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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1306
1307* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
1308 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
1309 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
1310 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 1311 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 1312 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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1314 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 1315 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
1316 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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1318 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
1319 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 1320 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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1322 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
1323 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
1324 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 1325 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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1327 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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1330 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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1333 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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1336 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
1337 supplied password.
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1340 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
1341 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
1342 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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1345 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
1346 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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1349 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
1350 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 1351 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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1353
1354* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
1355 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
1356 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
1357 modules
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1359* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
1360 maybe on kernel command line:
1361 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
1362 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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1366* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
1367 hash type, etc)
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1371
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1373 non-VFAT fs is used.
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1375* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
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1378 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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1385 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
1386 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
1387 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
1388 affect PCR values.
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1391 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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1393* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
1394 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
1395
1396* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
1397 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
1398
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1400 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
1401 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
1402 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
1403 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
1404 use it.
1405
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1406* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
1407 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
1408
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1409* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
1410 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
1411 what it was signed.
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1414 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
1415 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
1416 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
1417 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
1418 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
1419 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
1420 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
1421 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
1422 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
1423 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
1424 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
1425
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1427 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1428
d1666bde 1429* Process credentials in:
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1430 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
1431 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1432 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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1433 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
1434 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1435 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1436 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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1437 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
1438 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1439 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1440 file system paths to enable on start.
1441 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1442 usr=
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1444 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1445 pre-built kernels.
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1448 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1449
1450 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1451 about the unit.
1452 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1453 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1454 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1455 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1456 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1457 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
1458
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1459* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
1460 what to do if support ended
1461
1462* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1463 login time, à la motd
81a96518 1464
e1b45a75 1465* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1466 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1467 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1468 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1469 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1472 initrd transition. Specifically:
1473 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1474 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1475 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1476
d486b26f 1477* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1478 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1479 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
1480 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1481 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1482 depending on desired level of persistency.
1483
1484* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1485 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1486 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1487 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
1488 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1489 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1490 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1491 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1492
1493* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1494 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1495 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1496 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1497
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1498* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1499
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1500* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
1501 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1502 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1503 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1504 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
1505 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1506 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1507 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1508 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1509 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1510 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1511 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1512 not unprivileged code.
1513
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1514* maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1515 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1516 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1517 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1518
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1519* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1520 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1521 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1522 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1523 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1524 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1525 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1526 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1527 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1529* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1530 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1531 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1532 order.
1533
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1535 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1536 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1537
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1538* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1539 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1540 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1541 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1542 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1543 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1544 IN_IGNORED again)
1545
5b06ad51 1546* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1547 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1548 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1549 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1550 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1551 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1552 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1553 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1554 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1556* Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1557 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1558 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1559
03ede612 1560* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1561 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1562 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1563 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1564 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1565 directly to host service manager.
1566
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1567* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1568 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1569 also be queried.
1570
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1571* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1572 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1573 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1574 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1575
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1576* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1577 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1578 latter).
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1579
1580* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1581
1582* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1583
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1584* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1585
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1586* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1587 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1588 words: show partition labels).
1589
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1590* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1591
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1592* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1593 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1594 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1595 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1596 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1597 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1598 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1599 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1600 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1601 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1602
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1603* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1604 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1605
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1606* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1607 jobs, units
1608
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1609* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1610
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1611* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1612 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1613
d1666bde 1614* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1615 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1616
1617* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1618 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1619
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1620* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1621 internal clock.
1622
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1623* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1624 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1625
1626* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1627 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1628 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1629 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1630
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1631* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1632 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1633 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1634
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1635* homed: if the homed shell fallback thing has access to an SSH agent, try to
1636 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1637 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1638 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1639 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1640 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1641 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1642
bb5464ad 1643* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1644 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1645 dep in the base OS image)
1646
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1647* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1648 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1649 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1650 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1651 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1652
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1653* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1654 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1655 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1656
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1657* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1658 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1659 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1660 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1661
3fc0688d 1662* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1663 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1664 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1665 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1666 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1667 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1668 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1669 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1670 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1671 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1672 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1674* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1675 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1676 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1678* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1679
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1680* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1681 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1682 that images cannot be misused.
1683
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1684* sysupdate:
1685 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1686 - support casync as download mechanism
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1687 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1688 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1689 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
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1690 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1691 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1692 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1693 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1694
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1695* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1696
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1697* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1698 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1699
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1700* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1701 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1702
1c904337 1703* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1705* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1706 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1707 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1708 /proc/self/fd/3
1709
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1710* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1711 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1712 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1713
1714* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1715 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
66e52d22 1716
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1717* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1718 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1719
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1720* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1721 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1722 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1723 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1724 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1725
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1726* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1727
199b097d 1728* credentials system:
199b097d 1729 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1730 - acquire via ask-password?
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1731 - acquire creds via keyring?
1732 - pass creds via keyring?
1733 - pass creds via memfd?
1734 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
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1735 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1736 wireguard)
1737 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1738 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1739
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1740* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1741 and such
1742
1743* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1744
02c914ef 1745* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1746
7d7c75f1 1747* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1748 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1749
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1750* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1751 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1752
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1753* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1754
1755* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1756 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1757
1758* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1759 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1760
1761* cryptsetup:
1762 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1763 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1764
08d33656 1765* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1766
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1767* systemd-analyze inspect-elf should show other notes too, at least build-id.
1768
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1769* Figure out naming of verbs in systemd-analyze: we have (singular) capability,
1770 exit-status, but (plural) filesystems, architectures.
1771
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1772* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1773 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1774
f461a28d 1775* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1776 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1777
f461a28d 1778* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1779 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1780
03ccee19 1781* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np().
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1783* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1784
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1785* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1786 when it exits
1787
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1788* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1789 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1790 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1791
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1792* systemd-path: Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum, mapping to
1793 $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
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1795* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1796
1797* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1798 specific service
1799
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1800* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1801 exists and responds.
1802
91fc013f 1803* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1804 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1805
7e8facb3 1806* unify on openssl:
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1807 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1808 gnutls
26cde6f0 1809 - port fsprg over to openssl
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1811* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1812 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1813
2a4be3c5 1814* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1815
f1eb0ccd 1816* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1817
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1818* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1819 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1820 initrd had set.
1821
173c7873 1822* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1823 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1824 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1825 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1826 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1827 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1828
1829* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1830 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1831 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1832
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1833* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1834 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1835 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1836 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1837 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1838 source.
1839
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1840* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1841 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1842 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1843
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1844* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1845
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1846* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1847 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1848
c6526b8d 1849* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1850
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1851* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1852
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1853* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1854 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1855
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1856* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1857 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1858
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1859* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1860 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1861 root.
1862
1863* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1864 is issued.
1865
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1866* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1867
1868* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1869
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1870* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1871 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1872 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1873
d238709c 1874* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
7de438cd 1875 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first while
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1876 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1877
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1878* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1879
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1880* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1881 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1882
06898123 1883* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1884 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1885 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1886 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1887
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1888* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1889
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1890* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1891
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1892* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1893 non-zero "tries done" count
1894
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1895* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1896 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1897 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1898 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1899 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1900 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1901 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1902 CODE_FILE.
1903
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1904* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1905 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1906 some explanatory text online.
1907
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1908* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1909
d1797c42 1910* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1911
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1912* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1913 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1914
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1915* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1916 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1917 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1918 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1919
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1920* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1921
7de438cd 1922* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable service (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
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1923 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1924
5da19043 1925* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1926 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1927
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1928* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1929 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1930 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1931 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1932 unlinked from any dir.
1933
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1934* systemctl, machinectl, loginctl: port "status" commands over to
1935 format-table.c's vertical output logic.
5da19043 1936
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1937* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1938
1939* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1940
53c70a27 1941* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1942 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1943 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1944 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1945 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1946
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1947* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1948
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1949* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1950 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1951
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1952* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1953 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1954 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1955 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1956 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1957 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1958 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1959 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1960
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1961* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1962 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1963
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1964* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1965 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1966
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1967* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1968 only when used. Add unit tests.
1969
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1970* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1971 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1972
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1973* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1974 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1975 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1976 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1977 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1978
899feb72 1979* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1980
5f7ecd61 1981* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1982
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1983* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1984 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1985
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1986* blog about fd store and restartable services
1987
1988* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1989
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1990* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1991 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1992
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1993* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1994 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1995 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1996 ID is available.
1997
1998* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1999 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
2000 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
2001
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2002* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
2003 parameters
2004
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2005* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
2006 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
2007
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2008* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
2009 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
2010 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
2011
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2012* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
2013 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
2014
2015 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
2016
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2017* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
2018 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
2019 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
2020
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2021* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
2022 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
2023
2024* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
2025 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
2026 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
2027 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
2028 natural habitat.
2029
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2030* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
2031 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
2032 relative to the configured default value.
2033
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2034* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
2035
04397464 2036* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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2038* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
2039
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2040* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
2041
04397464 2042* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 2043
04397464 2044* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 2045
04397464 2046* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 2047
8ce9b83a 2048* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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2049
2050* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
2051 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
2052 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
2053
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2054* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
2055 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
2056
e40a326c 2057* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 2058
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2059* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
2060 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
2061 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
2062 mapping to work.
2063
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2064* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
2065
2066* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
2067
2068* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
2069
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2070* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
2071 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
2072
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2073* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
2074 reload the unit file anyway
2075
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2076* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
2077
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2078* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
2079
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2080* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
2081 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
2082
f9bf1b8f 2083* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 2084 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 2085 specifications.
de7399eb 2086
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2087* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
2088
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2089* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
2090
a2088fd0 2091* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 2092 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 2093 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 2094 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 2095
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2096* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
2097
a65b8648 2098* docs: bring https://systemd.io/MY_SERVICE_CANT_GET_REALTIME up to date
b18d23d7 2099
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2100* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
2101 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
2102 state.
41d6f3bf 2103 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 2104
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2105* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
2106 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
2107 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
2108 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
2109 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
2110
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2111* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
2112
d2f81fb0 2113* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 2114 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 2115
0a86c1a9 2116* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 2117 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 2118
e031c227 2119* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 2120 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 2121
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2122* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
2123
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2124* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
2125 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
2126
25e773ee 2127* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 2128
720652b3 2129* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 2130
720652b3 2131* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 2132
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2133* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
2134 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
2135
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2136* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
2137
9d6db739 2138* resolved:
9d6db739 2139 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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2140 - service registration
2141 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 2142 - avahi compat
9d6db739 2143 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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2144 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
2145 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
2146 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 2147 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 2148 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 2149
e25b5a8d 2150* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 2151
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2152* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
2153
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2154* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
2155
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2156* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
2157
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2158* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
2159
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2160* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
2161 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 2162
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2163* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
2164
6a3f892a 2165* gpt-auto-generator:
6a3f892a 2166 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 2167
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2168* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
2169 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
2170 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 2171
f9bf1b8f 2172* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 2173
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2174* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
2175 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
2176 for ReusePort=
2177
f38afcd0 2178* cgroups:
f38afcd0 2179 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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2180 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
2181 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
2182 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
2183 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
2184 the hierarchies of child processes
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2185 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
2186 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 2187
f38afcd0 2188* transient units:
f38afcd0 2189 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 2190
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2191* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
2192
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2193* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
2194
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2195* 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
2196
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2197* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
2198 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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2199 path anyway.
2200
04397464 2201* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 2202
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2203* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
2204
07eabc2b 2205* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 2206
07eabc2b 2207* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 2208
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2209* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
2210
2211* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
2212 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
2213 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
2214
2215* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
2216 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
2217
2218* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
2219
2220* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
2221
2222* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
2223
2224* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
2225 needs to be auto-respawned?
2226
2227* pid1:
2228 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
2229 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
2230 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
2231 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 2232 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 2233 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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2234 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
2235 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
2236 - Support --test based on current system state
2237 - 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().
2238 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
2239 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
2240 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
2241 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
2242 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
2243 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
2244 but much rather a disconnect on success.
2245 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
2246 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
2247 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
2248 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
2249 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
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2250 - ExtensionImages= deduplication for services is currently only applied to disk images without GPT envelope.
2251 This should be extended to work with proper DDIs too, as well as directory confext/sysext. Moreover,
68a2a43c 2252 system-wide confext/sysext should support this too.
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2253 - Pin the mount namespace via FD by sending it back from sd-exec to the manager, and use it
2254 for live mounting, instead of doing it via PID
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2255
2256* unit files:
2257 - allow port=0 in .socket units
2258 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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2259 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
2260 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
2261 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
2262 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
2263 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
2264 - introduce Type=pid-file
2265 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
2266 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
2267 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
2268
2269* timer units:
63a185dc 2270 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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2271 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
2272
2273* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
2274
2275* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
2276
dc150555 2277* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?)
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2278
2279* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
2280
07eabc2b 2281* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 2282
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2283* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
2284
fff87a35 2285* test/:
20d52ab6 2286 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 2287
b5c03638 2288* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 2289 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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2290 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
2291 destination.
2292
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2293* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
2294 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
2295
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2296* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
2297
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2298* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
2299 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
2300 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
2301
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2302* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
2303 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 2304
7227dd81 2305* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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2306 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
2307 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
2308 that automatically.
2309
e5ec62c5 2310* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 2311
ccddd104 2312* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 2313
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2314* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
2315
356ce991 2316* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 2317
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2318* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2319
2320* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2321
2322* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2323
2324* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2325
2326* sd-bus:
2327 - EBADSLT handling
2328 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2329 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2330 - 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
2331 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2332 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2333 - longer term: priority inheritance
2334 - dbus spec updates:
2335 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2336 - path escaping
2337 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2338
2339* sd-event
2340 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2341 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2342 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2343 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2344 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2345 here:
2346 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2347
2348* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2349 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2350
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2351* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2352
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2353* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2354
2355* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2356
2357* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2358
b44be3ec 2359* EFI:
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2360 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2361 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
631427d6 2362* bootctl
631427d6 2363 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2364
07eabc2b 2365* bootctl:
483091b0 2366 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2367 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2368 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2369
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2370* logind:
2371 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2372 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2373 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2374 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2375 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2376 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2377 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2378 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2379 needs setuid().
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2380 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2381 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2382 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2383 complete.
2384 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2385 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2386 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2387 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2388 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2389 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2390 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2391 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2392 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2393 relogins
77b19caf 2394 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2395
2396* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2397
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2398* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2399 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2400
b44be3ec 2401* journal:
57f2a947 2402 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2403 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2404 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2405 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2406 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2407 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2408 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2409 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2410 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2411 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2412 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2413 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2414 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2415 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2416 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2417 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2418 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2419 - 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.
2420 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2421 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2422 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2423 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2424 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2425 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2426 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2427 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2428 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2429 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2430 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2431 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2432 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2433 to syslog when it works again.
279f0366 2434 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
20d00d1f 2435 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to manage uid ranges to split
279f0366 2436 journals in.
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2437 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary.
2438 journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --invocation=-1
2439 - systemctl: change 'status' to show logs for the last invocation, not a fixed
2440 number of lines
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2441 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2442 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2443 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2444 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2445 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2446 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2447 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2448 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2449 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2450 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2451 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2452 operation.
2453 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2454 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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DH
2455 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2456 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2457 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
e25b5a8d
DH
2458 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2459 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2460 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2461 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2462 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 2463
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2464* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2465 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2466
2467* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2468 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2469 validated via TPM.
2470
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2471* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2472 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2473 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2474
2475* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2476 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2477 cursors as they happen.
2478
2479* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2480 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2481 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2482 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2483 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2484 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2485 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2486 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2487 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2488
2489* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2490 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2491 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2492 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2493 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2494 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2495
2496* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2497 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2498 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2499 records, to be able to order them.
2500
2501* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2502 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2503 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2504 be safely written to disk, then.
2505
2506* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2507 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2508 inspiration from IMA log)
2509
2510* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2511 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2512 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2513
dd411431 2514* bsod: maybe use graphical mode. Use DRM APIs directly, see
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2515 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2516 for doing that.
2517
2518* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2519 log.c and sd-journal-send
2520
2521* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2522 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2523 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2524 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2525 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2526 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2527 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2528 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2529 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2530 an NTP sync is acquired.
2531
2532* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2533
2534* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2535 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2536 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2537
2538* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2539 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2540 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2541 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2542 cgroup.
2543
2544* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2545 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2546 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2547 logging.
2548
2549* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2550
2551* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2552 from the SIGBUS handler
2553
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2554* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2555 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2556 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2557 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2558
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2559* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2560 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2561
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2562* homed:
2563 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2564 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2565 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2566 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2567 - create on activate?
dd411431 2568 - properties: icon url?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
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2569 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2570 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2571 systemd --user is shut down.
2572 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2573 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2574 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2575 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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2576 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2577 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2578 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
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2579 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2580 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2581 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2582 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2583 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2584 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2585 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2586 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2587 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2588 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2589 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2590 signature
a971e660 2591 - add a way to "take possession" of a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
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2592 and insert a local signature instead.
2593 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2594 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2595 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2596 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2597 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2598 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2599 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2600 easily?
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2601 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2602 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2603 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2604 can easily set overall quota for all users
2605 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2606 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
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2607 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2608 home dir
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2610* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2611 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2612 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2613
2df2bb1f 2614* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2615
2616* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2617 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2618 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2619 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2620
2621* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2622
2623* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2624 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2625 something goes wrong on the way.
2626
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2627* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2628 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2629 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2630 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2631
2632* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2633 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2634 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2635 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2636 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2637 automatically.
2638
2639* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2640 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2641
2642* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2643 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2644 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2645 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2646 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2647 fails to apply use the latter.
2648
2649* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2650 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2651
2652* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2653 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2654
2655* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2656 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2657 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2658
2659* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2660 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2661
92e72028 2662* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2663 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2664 during boot.
2665
2666* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2667
b44be3ec 2668* document:
8b8f2591 2669 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2670 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2671 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2672 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2673 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2674 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2675 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2676 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2677 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2678 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2679 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2680 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2681
2682* systemctl:
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2683 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2684 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
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2685 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2686 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2687 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2688 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2689
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2690* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2691 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2692 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2693
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2694* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2695 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2696 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2697
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2698* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2699 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2700 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2701
07eabc2b
LB
2702* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2703 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2704
07eabc2b
LB
2705* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2706 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2707 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2708 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2709
07eabc2b
LB
2710* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2711
2712* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2713
2714* unit install:
2715 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2716 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2717
b44be3ec 2718* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2719 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2720 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2721 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2722 from the kernel's logs.
2723 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2724 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2725 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2726 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2727 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2728 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2729 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2730 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2731 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2732 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2733 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2734 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2735 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2736 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2737 startup.
2738 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2739 or so, freeze the payload too.
2740 - support time namespaces
2741 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2742 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2743 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2744 "machinectl shell"
2745 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2746 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2747 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2748 - greater control over selinux label?
2749 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2750 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2751 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2752 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2753 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2754 host TPM.
2755 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2756 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2757 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2758 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2759 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2760 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2761 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2762 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2763 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2764 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2765 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2766 or two sockets.
07eabc2b 2767
e25b5a8d 2768* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2769 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2770 removed or added to an existing machine
2771 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2772 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2773 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2774 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2775 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2776 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2777 - "machinectl history"
2778 - "machinectl diff"
2779 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2780 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2781
abd55b16 2782* udev:
abd55b16 2783 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2784 - kill scsi_id
2785 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2786 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2787 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2788 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2789
e25b5a8d
DH
2790* coredump:
2791 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2792 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
6e092104 2793 - add examples for other distros in PACKAGE_METADATA_FOR_EXECUTABLE_FILES
87a8baa3
LP
2794
2795* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2796
f38afcd0 2797* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2798 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2799 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2800 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2801 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2802 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2803 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2804 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2805 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2806 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2807 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2808 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2809
af6f0d42
TG
2810* udev-link-config:
2811 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2812 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2813 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2814
88e4d1d7 2815* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2816 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2817 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2818
0a4b9a07 2819* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2820 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2821 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2822 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2823 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2824 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2825 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2826 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2827 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2828 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2829 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2830 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2831 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2832 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2833 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2834 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2835 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2836 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2837 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2838
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LB
2839* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2840
d5e172d2
ZJS
2841* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2842
ac976532 2843* dhcp:
424a8732 2844 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2845
37d8b536
PF
2846* dhcp6:
2847 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2848 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2849 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2850 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2851 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2852 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2853 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2854 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2855 or interface down
2856 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2857 this behavior
4a77c53d 2858 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2859
2860* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2861 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2862 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)
c139ac7f
MY
2863
2864* Hook up systemd-journal-upload with RESTART_RESET=1 logic (should probably
2865 be conditioned on the num of successfully uploaded entries?)