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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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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* missing shell completions:
26 - systemd-hwdb
27
28* zsh shell completions:
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29 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
30 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 31 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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33* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
34* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
35 after being started.
36
37* write blog stories about:
38 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
39 - enabling dbus services
40 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
41 - remote access
42 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
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43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
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65* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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67Janitorial Clean-ups:
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69* machined: make remaining machine bus calls compatible with unpriv machined +
70 unpriv npsawn: GetAddresses(), GetSSHInfo(), GetOSRelease(), OpenPTY(),
71 OpenLogin(), OpenShell(), BindMount(), CopyFrom(), CopyTo(),
72 OpenRootDirectory(). Similar for images: GetHostname(), GetMachineID(),
73 GetMachineInfo(), GetOSRelease().
74
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
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78* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
79 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
80 libmount for something so trivial.
81
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82* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
83 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
84 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
85
b3e199ce 86* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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87 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
88 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
89 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
90
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91* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
92 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
93
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94* use CHASE_MUST_BE_DIRECTORY and CHASE_MUST_BE_REGULAR at more places (the
95 majority of places that currently employ chase() probably should use this)
96
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97Deprecations and removals:
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99* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
100 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
101
b3e199ce 102* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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103 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
104 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
105 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
106
9eb41aab 107* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 108 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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109 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
110 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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111 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
112
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113* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
114 baseline is 5.8.
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116* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
117 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
118
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119* Once baseline is 5.10, remove support or MS_NOSYMFOLLOW-less kernels
120
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121* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
122 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
123 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
124
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125* In v260: remove support for deprecated FactoryReset EFI variable in
126 systemd-repart, replaced by FactoryResetRequest.
127
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128* Consider removing root=gpt-auto, and push people to use root=dissect instead.
129
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130* Once
131 https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/commit/508fb0e7ac103b68531a59db2a4473897853ab52
0ddf8d9c 132 has hit the prominent distributions, revert --issue-file= hack in units/*getty*service.in
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134* Once kernel baseline is 5.7, obsolete DefaultMemoryMin/Low= and DefaultStartupMemoryLow=
135 since we can systematically enable memory_recursiveprot on cgroupfs and have those
136 enforced by the kernel
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138Features:
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140* networkd/machined: implement reverse name lookups in the resolved hook
141
142* networkd's resolved hook: optionally map all lease IP addresses handed out to
143 the same hostname which is configured on the .network file. Optionally, even
144 derive this single name from the network interface name (i.e. probably
145 altname or so). This way, when spawning a VM the host could pick the hostname
146 for it and the client gets no say.
147
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148* systemd-repart: add --ghost, that creates file systems, updates the kernel's
149 partition table but does *not* update partition table on disk. This way, we
150 have disk backed file systems that go effectively disappear on reboot. This
151 is useful when booting from a "live" usb stick that is writable, as it means
152 we do not have to place everything in memory. Moreover, we could then migrate
153 the file systems to disk later (using btrfs device replacement), if needed as
154 part of an installer logic.
155
156* add a concept of overlay directory stacks to image discovery, i.e. have a dir
157 with a name suffix of ".ovl" or so that contains DDIs and plain dirs (and
158 possible .v dirs) that are glued together on use via overlayfs. one special
159 subdir should be used as writable top layer.
160
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161* journald: log pidfid as another field, i.e. _PIDFDID=
162
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163* systemd-nspawn: something like --volatile= but that isn't volatile, but
164 stores the data in some separate dir on disk. Usecase: keep always up-to-date
165 DDIs of some OS in your home dir, but combine its /usr/ with a locally
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166 maintained root fs in a regular dir to maintain local state. (idea: call it
167 --mutable= and take dir or DDI and merge in)
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169* measure all log-in attempts into a new nvpcr
170
171* measure all DDI activations into a new nvpcr
172
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173* maybe rework systemd-modules-load to be a generator that just instantiates
174 modprobe@.service a bunch of times
175
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176* Split vconsole-setup in two, of which the second is started via udev (instead
177 of the "restart" job it currently fires). That way, boot becomes purely
178 positive again, and we can nicely order the two against each other.
179
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180* Add ELF section to make systemd main binary recognizable cleanly, the same
181 way as we make sd-boot recognizable via PE section.
182
183* Add knob to cryptsetup, to trigger automatic reboot on failure to unlock
184 disk. Enable this by default for rootfs, also in gpt-auto-generator
185
186* Add RebootUptimeMinSec= knob to PID 1, that makes systemd-shutdown sleep
187 until the specified uptime has passed, to lengthen tight boot loops.
188
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189* replace bootctl's PE version check to actually use APIs from pe-binary.[ch]
190 to find binary version.
191
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192* replace symlink_label(), mknodat_label(), btrfs_subvol_make_label(),
193 mkdir_label() and related calls by flags-based calls that use
194 label_ops_pre()/label_ops_post().
195
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196* maybe reconsider whether virtualization consoles (hvc1) are considered local
197 or remote. i.e. are they more like an ssh login, or more like a /dev/tty1
198 login? Lennart used to believe the former, but maybe the latter is more
199 appropriate? This has effect on polkit interactivity, since it would mean
200 questions via hvc0 would suddenly use the local polkit property. But this
201 also raises the question whether such sessions shall be considered active or
202 not
203
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204* automatically reset specific EFI vars on factory reset (make this generic
205 enough so that infrac can be used to erase shim's mok vars?)
206
207* similar: add a plugin for factory reset logic that erases certain parts of
208 the ESP, but leaves others in place.
209
210* systemd-repart: add --defer-partitions-factory-reset or so, as a flavour of
211 --defer-partitions= that picks all partitions that are marked for factory
212 reset. for an installer this is usually the partitions not to copy, too.
213
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214* flush_fd() should probably try to be smart and stop reading once we know that
215 all further queued data was enqueued after flush_fd() was originally
216 called. For that, try SIOCINQ if fd refers to stream socket, and look at
217 timestamps for datagram sockets.
218
219* Similar flush_accept() should look at sockdiag queued sockets count and exit
220 once we flushed out the specified number of connections.
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222* maybe introduce a new per-unit drop-in directory .confext.d/ that may contain
223 symlinks to confext images to enable for the unit.
224
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225* nspawn: map foreign UID range through 1:1
226
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227* a small tool that can do basic btrfs raid policy mgmt. i.e. gets started as
228 part of the initial transaction for some btrfs raid fs, waits for some time,
229 then puts message on screen (plymouth, console) that some devices apparently
230 are not showing up, then counts down, eventually set a flag somewhere, and
231 retriggers the fs is was invoked for, which causes the udev rules to rerun
232 that assemble the btrfs raid, but this time force degraded assembly.
233
234* systemd-repart: make useful to duplicate current OS onto a second disk, so
235 that we can sanely copy ESP contents, /usr/ images, and then set up btrfs
236 raid for the root fs to extend/mirror the existing install. This would be
237 very similar to the concept of live-install-through-btrfs-migration.
238
239* introduce /etc/boottab or so which lists block devices that bootctl +
240 kernel-install shall update the ESPs on (and register in EFI BootXYZ
241 variables), in addition to whatever is currently the booted /usr/.
242 systemd-sysupdate should also take it into consideration and update the
243 /usr/ images on all listed devices.
244
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245* replace all uses of fopen_temporary() by fopen_tmpfile_linkable() +
246 flink_tmpfile() and then get rid of fopen_temporary(). Benefit: use O_TMPFILE
247 pervasively, and avoid rename() wherever we can.
248
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249* loginctl: show argv[] of "leader" process in tabular list-sessions output
250
251* loginctl: show "service identifier" in tabular list-sessions output, to make
252 run0 sessions easily visible.
253
254* run0: maybe enable utmp for run0 sessions, so that they are easily visible.
255
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256* maybe beef up sd-event: optionally, allow sd-event to query the timestamp of
257 next pending datagram inside a SOCK_DGRAM IO fd, and order event source
258 dispatching by that. Enable this on the native + syslog sockets in journald,
259 so that we add correct ordering between the two. Use MSG_PEEK + SCM_TIMESTAMP
260 for this.
261
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262* bsod: add target "bsod.target" or so, which invokes systemd-bsod.target and
263 waits and then reboots. Then use OnFailure=bsod.target from various jobs that
264 should result in system reboots, such as TPM tamper detection cases.
265
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266* honour validatefs xattrs in dissect-image.c too
267
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268* pcrextend: maybe add option to disable measurements entirely via kernel cmdline
269
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270* tpm2-setup: reboot if we detect SRK changed
271
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272* validatefs: validate more things: check if image id + os id of initrd match
273 target mount, so that we refuse early any attempts to boot into different
274 images with the wrong kernels. check min/max kernel version too. all encoded
275 via xattrs in the target fs.
276
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277* pcrextend: when we fail to measure, reboot the system (at least optionally).
278 important because certain measurements are supposed to "destroy" tpm object
279 access.
280
281* pcrextend: after measuring get an immediate quote from the TPM, and validate
282 it. if it doesn't check out, i.e. the measurement we made doesn't appear in
283 the PCR then also reboot.
284
285* cryptsetup: add boolean for disabling use of any password/recovery key slots.
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286 (i.e. that we can operate in a tpm-only mode, and thus protect us from rogue
287 root disks)
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289* complete varlink introspection comments:
290 - io.systemd.BootControl
291 - io.systemd.Hostname
a0d8484e 292 - io.systemd.ManagedOOM
a0d8484e 293 - io.systemd.Network
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294 - io.systemd.PCRLock
295 - io.systemd.Resolve.Monitor
296 - io.systemd.Resolve
297 - io.systemd.oom
298 - io.systemd.sysext
299
457f4cfb 300* maybe define a /etc/machine-info field for the ANSI color to associate with a
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301 hostname. Then use it for the shell prompt to highlight the hostname. If no
302 color is explicitly set, hash a color automatically from the hostname as a
303 fallback, in a reasonable way. Take inspiration from the ANSI_COLOR= field
304 that already exists in /etc/os-release, i.e. use the same field name and
305 syntax. When hashing the color, use the hsv_to_rgb() helper we already have,
306 fixate S and V to something reasonable and constant, and derive the H from
307 the hostname. Ultimate goal with this: give people a visual hint about the
308 system they are on if the have many to deal with, by giving each a color
309 identity. This code should be placed in hostnamed, so that clients can query
310 the color via varlink or dbus.
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312* unify how blockdev_get_root() and sysupdate find the default root block device
313
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314* Maybe rename pkcs7 and public verbs of systemd-keyutil to be more verb like.
315
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316* maybe extend the capsule concept to the per-user instance too: invokes a
317 systemd --user instance with a subdir of $HOME as $HOME, and a subdir of
318 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
319
320* add "homectl export" and "homectl import" that gets you an "atomic" snapshot
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321 of your homedir, i.e. either a tarball or a snapshot of the underlying disk
322 (use FREEZE/THAW to make it consistent, btrfs snapshots)
323
324* maybe introduce a new partition that we can store debug logs and similar at
325 the very last moment of shutdown. idea would be to store reference to block
326 device (major + minor + partition id + diskeq?) in /run somewhere, than use
327 that from systemd-shutdown, just write a raw JSON blob into the partition.
7ae2ea52 328 Include timestamp, boot id and such, plus kmsg. on next boot immediately
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329 import into journal. maybe use timestamp for making clock more monotonic.
330 also use this to detect unclean shutdowns, boot into special target if
331 detected
332
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333* fix homed/homectl confusion around terminology, i.e. "home directory"
334 vs. "home" vs. "home area". Stick to one term for the concept, and it
335 probably shouldn't contain "area".
336
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337* sd-boot: do something useful if we find exactly zero entries (ignoring items
338 such as reboot/poweroff/factory reset). Show a help text or so.
339
340* sd-boot: optionally ask for confirmation before executing certain operations
341 (e.g. factory resets, storagetm with world access, and so on)
342
343* add field to bls type 1 and type 2 profiles that ensures an item is never
344 considered for automatic selection
345
346* add "conditions" for bls type 1 and type 2 profiles that allow suppressing
347 them under various conditions: 1. if tpm2 is available or not available;
348 2. if sb is on or off; 3. if we are netbooted or not; …
349
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350* logind: invoke a service manager for "area" logins too. i.e. instantiate
351 user@.service also for logins where XDG_AREA is set, in per-area fashion, and
352 ref count it properly. Benefit: graphical logins should start working with
353 the area logic.
354
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355* repart: introduce concept of "ghost" partitions, that we setup in almost all
356 ways like other partitions, but do not actually register in the actual gpt
357 table, but only tell the kernel about via BLKPG ioctl. These partitions are
358 disk backed (hence can be large), but not persistent (as they are invisible
359 on next boot). Could be used by live media and similar, to boot up as usual
360 but automatically start at zero on each boot. There should also be a way to
361 make ghost partitions properly persistent on request.
362
363* repart: introduce MigrateFileSystem= or so which is a bit like
364 CopyFiles=/CopyBlocks= but operates via btrfs device logic: adds target as
365 new device then removes source from btrfs. Usecase: a live medium which uses
366 "ghost" partitions as suggested above, which can become persistent on request
367 on another device.
368
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369* make nspawn containers, portable services and vmspawn VMs optionally survive
370 soft reboot wholesale.
371
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372* Turn systemd-networkd-wait-online into a small varlink service that people
373 can talk to and specify exactly what to wait for via a method call, and get a
374 response back once that level of "online" is reached.
375
376* introduce a small "systemd-installer" tool or so, that glues
377 systemd-repart-as-installer and bootctl-install into one. Would just
378 interactively ask user for target disk (with completion and so on), and then do
379 two varlink calls to the the two tools with the right parameters. To support
380 "offline" operation, optionally invoke the two tools directly as child
381 processes with varlink communication over socketpair(). This all should be
382 useful as blueprint for graphical installers which should do the same.
383
3fd11dbc 384* Make run0 forward various signals to the forked process so that sending
530ee01c 385 signals to a child process works roughly the same regardless of whether the
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386 child process is spawned via run0 or not.
387
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388* write a document explaining how to write correct udev rules. Mention things
389 such as:
390 1. do not do lists of vid/pid matches, use hwdb for that
391 2. add|change action matches are typically wrong, should be != remove
392 3. use GOTO, make rules short
393 4. people shouldn't try to make rules file non-world-readable
394
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395* make killing more debuggable: when we kill a service do so setting the
396 .si_code field with a little bit of info. Specifically, we can set a
397 recognizable value to first of all indicate that it's systemd that did the
398 killing. Secondly, we can give a reason for the killing, i.e. OOM or so, and
399 also the phase we are in, and which process we think we are killing (i.e.
530ee01c 400 main vs control process, useful in case of sd_notify() MAINPID= debugging).
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401 Net result: people who try to debug why their process gets killed should have
402 some minimal, nice metadata directly on the signal event.
403
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404* sd-boot/sd-stub: install a uefi "handle" to a sidecar dir of bls type #1
405 entries with an "uki" or "uki-url" stanza, and make sd-stub look for
406 that. That way we can parameterize type #1 entries nicely.
407
408* add a system-wide seccomp filter list for syscalls, kill "acct()" "@obsolete"
409 and a few other legacy syscalls that way.
410
411* maybe introduce "@icky" as a seccomp filter group, which contains acct() and
412 certain other syscalls that aren't quite obsolete, but certainly icky.
413
414* revisit how we pass fs images and initrd to the kernel. take uefi http boot
415 ramdisks as inspiration: for any confext/sysext/initrd erofs/DDI image simply
416 generate a fake pmem region in the UEFI memory tables, that Linux then turns
417 into /dev/pmemX. Then turn of cpio-based initrd logic in linux kernel,
418 instead let kernel boot directly into /dev/pmem0. In order to allow our usual
419 cpio-based parameterization, teach PID 1 to just uncompress cpio ourselves
420 early on, from another pmem device. (Related to this, maybe introduce a new
421 PE section .ramdisk that just synthesizes pmem devices from arbitrary
422 blobs. Could be particularly useful in add-ons)
423
424* also parse out primary GPT disk label uuid from gpt partition device path at
425 boot and pass it as efi var to OS.
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427* storagetm: maybe also serve the specified disk via HTTP? we have glue for
428 microhttpd anyway already. Idea would also be serve currently booted UKI as
429 separate HTTP resource, so that EFI http boot on another system could
430 directly boot from our system, with full access to the hdd.
431
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432* support specifying download hash sum in systemd-import-generator expression
433 to pin image/tarball.
434
435* support boot into nvme-over-tcp: add generator that allows specifying nvme
436 devices on kernel cmdline + credentials. Also maybe add interactive mode
437 (where the user is prompted for nvme info), in order to boot from other
438 system's HDD.
439
440* ptyfwd: use osc context information in vmspawn/nspawn/… to optionally only
441 listen to ^]]] key when no further vmspawn/nspawn context is allocated
442
443* ptyfwd: usec osc context information to propagate status messages from
444 vmspawn/nspawn to service manager's "status" string, reporting what is
445 currently in the fg
446
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447* nspawn/vmspawn: define hotkey that one can hit on the primary interface to
448 ask for a friendly, acpi style shutdown.
449
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450* for better compat with major clouds: implement simple PTP device support in
451 timesyncd
452
453* for better compat with major clouds: recognize clouds via hwdb on DMI device,
454 and add udev properties to it that help with handling IMDS, i.e. entrypoint
455 URL, which fields to find ip hostname, ssh key, …
456
457* for better compat with major clouds: introduce imds mini client service that
458 sets up primary netif in a private netns (ipvlan?) to query imds without
459 affecting rest of the host. pick up literal credentials from there plus the
460 fields the hwdb reports for the other fields and turn them into credentials.
461 then write generator that used detected virtualization info and plugs this
462 service into the early boot, waiting for the DMI and network device to show
463 up.
464
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465* Add UKI profile conditioning so that profles are only available if secure
466 boot is turned off, or only on. similar, add conditions on TPM availability,
467 network boot, and other conditions.
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469* fix bug around run0 background color on ls in fresh terminal
470
471* Reset TPM2 DA bit on each successful boot
472
473* systemd-repart: add --installer or so, that will intractively ask for a
474 target disk, maybe ask for confirmation, and install something on disk. Then,
475 hook that into installer.target or so, so that it can be used to
476 install/replicate installs
477
478* systemd-cryptenroll: add --firstboot or so, that will interactively ask user
479 whether recovery key shall be enrolled and do so
480
bc9e0803 481* bootctl: add tool for registering BootXXX entry that boots from some http
411bc7c9 482 server of your choice (i.e. like kernel-bootcfg --add-uri=)
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484* maybe introduce container-shell@.service or so, to match
485 container-getty.service but skips authentication, so you get a shell prompt
486 directly. Usecase: wsl-like stuff (they have something pretty much like
487 that). Question: how to pick user for this. Instance parameter? somehow from
488 credential (would probably require some binary that converts credential to
489 User= parameter?
490
dadd1823 491* systemd-firstboot: optionally install an ssh key for root for offline use.
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493* Allocate UIDs/GIDs automatically in userdbctl load-credentials if none are
494 included in the user/group record credentials
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496* introduce new ANSI sequence for communicating log level and structured error
497 metadata to terminals.
498
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499* in pid1: include ExecStart= cmdlines (and other Exec*= cmdlines) in polkit
500 request, so that policies can match against command lines.
501
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502* allow dynamic modifications of ConcurrencyHardMax= and ConcurrencySoftMax=
503 via DBus (and with that also by daemon-reload)
504
9a1d72fe 505* sysupdated: introduce per-user version that can update per-user installed dDIs
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507* portabled: similar
508
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509* resolved: make resolved process DNR DHCP info
510
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511* maybe introduce an OSC sequence that signals when we ask for a password, so
512 that terminal emulators can maybe connect a password manager or so, and
513 highlight things specially.
514
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515* start using STATX_SUBVOL in btrfs_is_subvol(). Also, make use of it
516 generically, so that image discovery recognizes bcachefs subvols too.
517
ab659a68 518* foreign uid:
9a1d72fe 519 - add support to export-fs, import-fs
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520 - systemd-dissect should learn mappings, too, when doing mtree and such
521
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522* format-table: introduce new cell type for strings with ansi sequences in
523 them. display them in regular output mode (via strip_tab_ansi()), but
524 suppress them in json mode.
525
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526* resolved: report ttl in resolution replies if we know it. This data is useful
527 for tools such as wireguard which want to periodically re-resolve DNS names,
528 and might want to use the TTL has hint for that.
529
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530* journald: beef up ClientContext logic to store pidfd_id of peer, to validate
531 we really use the right cache entry
532
533* journald: log client's pidfd id as a new automatic field _PIDFDID= or so.
534
535* journald: split up ClientContext cache in two: one cache keyed by pid/pidfdid
536 with process information, and another one keyed by cgroup path/cgroupid with
537 cgroup information. This way if a service consisting of many logging
538 processes can take benefit of the cgroup caching.
539
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540* system lsmbpf policy that prohibits creating files owned by "nobody"
541 system-wide
542
543* system lsmpbf policy that prohibits creating or opening device nodes outside
544 of devtmpfs/tmpfs, except if they are the pseudo-devices /dev/null,
545 /dev/zero, /dev/urandom and so on.
546
547* system lsmbpf policy that enforces that block device backed mounts may only
548 be established on top of dm-crypt or dm-verity devices, or an allowlist of
549 file systems (which should probably include vfat, for compat with the ESP)
550
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552 be augmented with $SYSTEMD_EXECPIDFD (and similar for
b2b7c54c 553 other env vars we might send).
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555* port copy.c over to use LabelOps for all labelling.
556
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557* get rid of compat with libidn.so.11 (retain only for libidn.so.12)
558
559* get rid of compat with libbpf.so.0 (retainly only for libbpf.so.1)
560
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561* define a generic "report" varlink interface, which services can implement to
562 provide health/statistics data about themselves. then define a dir somewhere
563 in /run/ where components can bind such sockets. Then make journald, logind,
564 and pid1 itself implement this and expose various stats on things there. Then
565 issue parallel calls to these interfaces from the systemd-report tool,
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567 quote. tpm quote should protect the json doc via the nonce field
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568 studd. Allow shipping this off elsewhere for analyze.
569
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570* The bind(AF_UNSPEC) construct (for resetting sockets to their initial state)
571 should be blocked in many cases because it punches holes in many sandboxes.
572
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573* find a nice way to opt-in into auto-masking SIGCHLD on first
574 sd_event_add_child(), and then get rid of many more explicit sigprocmask()
575 calls.
576
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577* introduce new structure Tpm2CombinedPolicy, that combines the various TPm2
578 policy bits into one structure, i.e. public key info, pcr masks, pcrlock
579 stuff, pin and so on. Then pass that around in tpm2_seal() and tpm2_unseal().
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582 how the forked off worker processes can be moved into transient services with
583 sandboxing, without breaking notify socket stuff and so on.
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585* replace all \x1b, \x1B, \033 C string escape sequences in our codebase with a
586 more readable \e. It's a GNU extension, but a ton more readable than the
587 others, and most importantly it doesn't result in confusing errors if you
588 suffix the escape sequence with one more decimal digit, because compilers
589 think you might actually specify a value outside the 8bit range with that.
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592 insert an intermediary bind mount on itself there. This has the benefit that
593 services where mount propagation from the root fs is off, an still have
594 confext/sysext propagated in.
595
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596* generic interface for varlink for setting log level and stuff that all our daemons can implement
597
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598* maybe teach repart.d/ dropins a new setting MakeMountNodes= or so, which is
599 just like MakeDirectories=, but uses an access mode of 0000 and sets the +i
600 chattr bit. This is useful as protection against early uses of /var/ or /tmp/
601 before their contents is mounted.
602
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603* go through all uses of table_new() in our codebase, and make sure we support
604 all three of:
605 1. --no-legend properly
606 2. --json= properly
607 3. --no-pager properly
608
609* go through all --help texts in our codebases, and make sure:
610 1. the one sentence description of the tool is highlighted via ANSI how we
611 usually do it
612 2. If more than one or two commands are supported (as opposed to switches),
613 separate commands + switches from each other, using underlined --help sections.
614 3. If there are many switches, consider adding additional --help sections.
615
616* go through our codebase, and convert "vertical tables" (i.e. things such as
617 "systemctl status") to use table_new_vertical() for output
618
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619* pcrlock: add support for multi-profile UKIs
620
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621* initrd: when transitioning from initrd to host, validate that
622 /lib/modules/`uname -r` exists, refuse otherwise
623
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624* signed bpf loading: to address need for signature verification for bpf
625 programs when they are loaded, and given the bpf folks don't think this is
626 realistic in kernel space, maybe add small daemon that facilitates this
627 loading on request of clients, validates signatures and then loads the
628 programs. This daemon should be the only daemon with privs to do load BPF on
629 the system. It might be a good idea to run this daemon already in the initrd,
630 and leave it around during the initrd transition, to continue serve requests.
631 Should then live in its own fs namespace that inherits from the initrd's
632 fs tree, not from the host, to isolate it properly. Should set
633 PR_SET_DUMPABLE so that it cannot be ptraced from the host. Should have
634 CAP_SYS_BPF as only service around.
635
636* add a mechanism we can drop capabilities from pid1 *before* transitioning
637 from initrd to host. i.e. before we transition into the slightly lower trust
638 domain that is the host systems we might want to get rid of some caps.
639 Example: CAP_SYS_BPF in the signed bpf loading logic above. (We already have
640 CapabilityBoundingSet= in system.conf, but that is enforced when pid 1
641 initializes, rather then when it transitions to the next.)
642
643* maybe add a new standard slice where process that are started in the initrd
644 and stick around for the whole system runtime (i.e. root fs storage daemons,
645 the bpf loader daemon discussed above, and such) are placed. maybe
646 protected.slice or so? Then write docs that suggest that services like this
647 set Slice=protected.sice, RefuseManualStart=yes, RefuseManualStop=yes and a
648 couple of other things.
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651 that generates a quote of local PCRs and NvPCRs, along with synchronous log
652 snapshot. use "audit session" logic for that, so that we get read-outs and
653 signature in one step. Then turn this into a JSON object. Use the "TCG TSS 2.0
654 JSON Data Types and Policy Language" format to encode the signature. And CEL
655 for the measurement log.
656
657* creds: add a new cred format that reused the JSON structures we use in the
658 LUKS header, so that we get the various newer policies for free.
659
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660* systemd-analyze: port "pcrs" verb to talk directly to TPM device, instead of
661 using sysfs interface (well, or maybe not, as that would require privileges?)
662
663* pcrextend/tpm2-util: add a concept of "rotation" to event log. i.e. allow
664 trailing parts of the logs if time or disk space limit is hit. Protect the
665 boot-time measurements however (i.e. up to some point where things are
666 settled), since we need those for pcrlock measurements and similar. When
667 deleting entries for rotation, place an event that declares how many items
668 have been dropped, and what the hash before and after that.
669
670* measure information about all DDIs as we activate them to an NvPCR. We
671 probably should measure the dm-verity root hash from the kernel side, but
672 DDI meta info from userspace.
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675 number) for identifying inodes, for example in copy.c when finding hard
676 links, or loop-util.c for tracking backing files, and other places.
677
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a5cbc0fa 679 fido2, as well as tpm2 + ssh-agent, inspired by ChromeOS' logic: encrypt the
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680 volume key with the TPM, with a policy that insists that a nonce is signed by
681 the fido2 device's key or ssh-agent key. Thus, add unlock/login time the TPM
682 generates a nonce, which is sent as a challenge to the fido2/ssh-agent, which
683 returns a signature which is handed to the tpm, which then reveals the volume
684 key to the PC.
685
686* cryptenroll/cryptsetup/homed: similar to this, implement TOTP backed by TPM.
687
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688* expose the handoff timestamp fully via the D-Bus properties that contain
689 ExecStatus information
690
691* properly serialize the ExecStatus data from all ExecCommand objects
692 associated with services, sockets, mounts and swaps. Currently, the data is
693 flushed out on reload, which is quite a limitation.
694
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695* Clean up "reboot argument" handling, i.e. set it through some IPC service
696 instead of directly via /run/, so that it can be sensible set remotely.
697
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698* systemd-tpm2-support: add a some logic that detects if system is in DA
699 lockout mode, and queries the user for TPM recovery PIN then.
700
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701* systemd-repart should probably enable btrfs' "temp_fsid" feature for all file
702 systems it creates, as we have no interest in RAID for repart, and it should
703 make sure that we can mount them trivially everywhere.
704
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705* systemd-nspawn should get the same SSH key support that vmspawn now has.
706
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707* move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
708 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
fcaa5105 709 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
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710 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
711
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712* vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
713 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
714 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
715 which uses 32bit words).
716
afd20791 717* In vmspawn/nspawn/machined wait for X_SYSTEMD_UNIT_ACTIVE=ssh-active.target
fdc1b714 718 and X_SYSTEMD_SIGNALS_LEVEL=2 as indication whether/when SSH and the POSIX
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719 signals are available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for
720 that). Report as property for the machine.
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722* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
723 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
724 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
725 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
726 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
727 as primary way into the container.
728
729* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
730 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
731 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
732 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
733 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
734 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
735 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
736 it for the invoking user.
737
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630023e2 739 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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746 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
747 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
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750 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
751 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
752 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
753 exit code propagation
754
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757 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
758 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
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760* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
761 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
762 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
763 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
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766 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
767
768* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
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771 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
772 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
773 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
774 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
775 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
776
777* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
778 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
779 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
780
781* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
782 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
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785 https://systemd.io/CREDENTIALS/#well-known-credentials is very stale.
786 Document credentials in individual man pages, generate list as in
787 systemd.directives.
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790 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
791 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
792 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
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794* machined: optionally track nspawn unix-export/ runtime for each machined, and
795 then update systemd-ssh-proxy so that it can connect to that.
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798 64bit mount ids
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801 - userdb: maybe allow callers to map one uid to their own uid
802 - bpflsm: allow writes if resulting UID on disk would be userns' owner UID
803 - make encrypted DDIs work (password…)
804 - add API for creating a new file system from scratch (together with some
805 dm-integrity/HMAC key). Should probably work using systemd-repart (access
806 via varlink).
807 - add api to make an existing file "trusted" via dm-integry/HMAC key
808 - port: portabled
809 - port: tmpfiles, sysusers and similar
810 - lets see if we can make runtime bind mounts into unpriv nspawn work
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813 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
814 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
815 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
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817* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
818 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
819 volume key.
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822 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
823 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
824 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
825 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
826 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
827 specified images.
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830 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
831 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
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833* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
834 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
835 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
836
837* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
838 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
839 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
840
841* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
842 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
843
844* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
845 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
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848 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
849 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
850 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 851 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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853
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855 - --ephemeral support
856 - --read-only support
857 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
858 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
859 suspend key presses.
860 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
46859471 861 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
4d44670d 862 - implement hotkeys ^]^]r and ^]^]p like nspawn
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864* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
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867 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
868 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
869 operate in device mode
870 - add NVMe authentication
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872* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
873 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
874 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
875 nvme-oF
876
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878 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
879 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
880 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
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881 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
882 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
883 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
884 /run?
885 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
886 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
887 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
888 for pre-built images
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891 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
892 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
893 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
894 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
895
896* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
897 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
898 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
899 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
900
901* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
902 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
903 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
904
905* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
906 systems.
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909 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
910 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
911 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
912 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
913 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
914 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 915 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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917 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
918 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
919 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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922 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
923 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
924 sysext
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927 other programs via IPC:
928 - bootctl
929 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
930 - coredumpcl
931 - systemd-bless-boot
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934 - systemd-dissect
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936 - systemd-analyze
937 - kernel-install
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941 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 942 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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944* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
945 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
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948 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
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951 menu.
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954 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
955 sockets.
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958 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
959 migratable between PCs)
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962 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
963 snapshot logic
964
965* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
966 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
967 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 968 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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970
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973 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
974 - get_ctty_devnr()
4775b55d 975 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
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978 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
b480a4c1 979 - journald's process cache
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982
983* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
984 mode.
985
bba5f48a 986* similar, measure some string via pcrphase whenever we resume from hibernate
26e69865 987
3a9e659a 988* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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990 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
991 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
992 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
993 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
994 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
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997 too much
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1003 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
1004 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
1005 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
1006 control of the attacker.
1007
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1010 binaries, using the same JSON format.
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1012* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
1013 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
1014 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
1015 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
1016 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
1017 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
1018 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
1019 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
1020 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
1021 newer.
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1024 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
1025 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
1026 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
1027 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
1028 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
1029 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
1030 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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1033 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
1034 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
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1037 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
1038 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
1039 requested during switch root.
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1044 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
1045 matched against OS.
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1048 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
1049 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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1052 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
1053 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
1054 namespaces)
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1057 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
1058
1059* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
1060 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
1061 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
1062
f447b741 1063* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 1064 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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1066 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
1067 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
1068 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
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1071 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 1072 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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1076 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
1077 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
1078 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
1079 based on lo_file_name.
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1082 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 1083 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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1085
1086* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
1087 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
1088 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
1089 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
1090 creating versions like these automatically).
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1095 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
1096 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
1097 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
1098 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
1099 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
1100 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
1101 activation-by-message id and similar.
1102
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1104
512f2da5 1105* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 1106 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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1108 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
1109
1110* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
1111 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
1112 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
1113 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
1114 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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1117 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
1118 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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1121
12c346d8 1122* udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
4bc06da7 1123 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q symlink -r'
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1125
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1127 localed, oomd, timedated.
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1130 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
1131 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
1132 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
1133 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
1134 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 1135 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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1137 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
1138 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
1139 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
1140 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
1141 access.
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1144 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
1145 through nspawn.
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1148 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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1151 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
1152 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
1153 for all umh processes.
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1156 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
1157 resize.
1158
1159* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
1160 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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1163 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
1164 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
1165 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
1166 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
1167 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
1168 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
1169 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
1170 system actually reset.
1171
1172* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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1174 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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1177 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
1178 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
1179 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
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1182 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
1183 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
1184 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
1185 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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1188 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
1189 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
1190
6d040d84 1191* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 1192 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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1194* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
1195 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
1196 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
1197 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
1198 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
1199 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
1200 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
1201 usual.
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1204
1205* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
1206
1207* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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1210 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
1211 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
1212 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
1213 sockaddr.
1214
1215* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
1216 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
1217 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
1218 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
1219 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
1220 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
1221 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
1222 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
1223 try to use inode from there.
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1226 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
1227
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1229 extensions
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1232 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
1233 combination thereof.
1234
1235* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
1236 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
1237 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
1238 ahead of time.
1239
1240* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
1241 aforementioned purpose.
1242
1243* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
1244 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
1245
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1247 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
1248 to figure out:
1249 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
1250 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
1251 subsequent boots?
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1254 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
1255 used)
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1258 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
1259 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
1260 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
1261 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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1263* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
1264 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
1265 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
1266 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 1267 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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1269
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1270* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
1271 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
1272 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
1273
1274* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
1275 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
1276
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1277* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
1278
1279* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
1280 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 1281 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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1283
1284* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
1285 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
1286 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
1287 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
1288 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
1289 only one for each OS.
1290
1291* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
1292 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 1293 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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1294 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
1295 boot, for the next.
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1298 similar behind it, instead of http.
1299
1300* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
1301 boot, or on first boot.
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1304 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
1305 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
1306 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
1307 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
1308 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
1309 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
1310 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
1311 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
1312 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
1313 until users are allowed to log in).
1314
1315* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
1316 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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1319 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
1320 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 1321 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 1322 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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1324 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
1325 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 1326 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
1327 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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1329
1330* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
1331 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
1332 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
1333 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 1334 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 1335 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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1337 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 1338 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
1339 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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1340 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
1341 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
1342 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 1343 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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1345 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
1346 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
1347 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 1348 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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1350 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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1353 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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1356 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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1359 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
1360 supplied password.
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1363 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
1364 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
1365 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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1368 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
1369 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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1372 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
1373 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 1374 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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1376
1377* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
1378 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
1379 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
1380 modules
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1383 maybe on kernel command line:
1384 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
1385 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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1390 hash type, etc)
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f461a28d 1392* chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
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1393 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
1394
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1395* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
1396 non-VFAT fs is used.
1397
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1398* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
1399
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1400* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
1401 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
1402
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1403* pick up creds from EFI vars
1404
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1406
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1407* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
1408 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
1409 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
1410 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
1411 affect PCR values.
1412
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1414 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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1416* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
1417 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
1418
1419* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
1420 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
1421
e1b45a75 1422* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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1424 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
1425 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
1426 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
1427 use it.
1428
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1429* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
1430 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
1431
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1432* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
1433 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
1434 what it was signed.
1435
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1437 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
1438 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
1439 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
1440 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
1441 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
1442 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
1443 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
1444 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
1445 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
1446 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
1447 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
1448
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1450 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1451
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1453 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
1454 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1455 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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1456 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
1457 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1458 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1459 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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1460 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
1461 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1462 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1463 file system paths to enable on start.
1464 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1465 usr=
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1467 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1468 pre-built kernels.
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1471 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1472
1473 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1474 about the unit.
1475 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1476 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1477 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1478 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1479 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1480 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
1481
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1482* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
1483 what to do if support ended
1484
1485* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1486 login time, à la motd
81a96518 1487
e1b45a75 1488* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1489 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1490 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1491 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1492 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
9c18b363 1493
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1495 initrd transition. Specifically:
1496 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1497 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1498 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1499
d486b26f 1500* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1501 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1503 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1504 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1505 depending on desired level of persistency.
1506
1507* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1508 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1509 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1510 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
1511 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1512 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1513 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1514 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1515
1516* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1517 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1518 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1519 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1520
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1521* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1522
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1523* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
1524 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1525 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1526 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1527 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
1528 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1529 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1530 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1531 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1532 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1533 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1534 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1535 not unprivileged code.
1536
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1537* maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1538 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1539 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1540 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1541
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1542* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1543 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1544 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1545 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1546 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1547 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1548 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1549 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1550 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1551
1552* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1553 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1554 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1555 order.
1556
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1557* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1558 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1559 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1560
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1561* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1562 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1563 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1564 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1565 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1566 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1567 IN_IGNORED again)
1568
5b06ad51 1569* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1570 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1571 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1572 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1573 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1574 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1575 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1576 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1577 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1579* Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1580 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1581 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1582
03ede612 1583* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1584 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1585 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1586 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1587 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1588 directly to host service manager.
1589
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1590* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1591 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1592 also be queried.
1593
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1594* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1595 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1596 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1597 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1598
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1599* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1600 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1601 latter).
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1602
1603* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1604
1605* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1606
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1607* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1608
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1609* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1610 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1611 words: show partition labels).
1612
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1613* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1614
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1615* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1616 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1617 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1618 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1619 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1620 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1621 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1622 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1623 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1624 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1625
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1626* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1627 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1628
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1629* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1630 jobs, units
1631
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1632* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1633
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1634* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1635 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1636
d1666bde 1637* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1638 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1639
1640* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1641 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1642
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1643* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1644 internal clock.
1645
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1646* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1647 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1648
1649* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1650 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1651 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1652 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1653
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1654* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1655 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1656 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1657
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1658* homed: if the homed shell fallback thing has access to an SSH agent, try to
1659 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1660 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1661 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1662 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1663 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1664 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1665
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1666* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1667 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1668 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1669 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1670 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1671
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1672* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1673 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1674 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1675
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1676* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1677 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1678 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1679 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1680
3fc0688d 1681* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1682 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1683 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1684 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1685 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1686 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1687 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1688 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1689 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1690 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1691 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1693* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1694 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1695 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1697* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1698
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1699* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1700 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1701 that images cannot be misused.
1702
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1703* sysupdate:
1704 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1705 - support casync as download mechanism
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1706 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1707 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1708 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
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1709 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1710 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1711 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1712 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1713
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1714* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1715
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1716* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1717 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1718
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1719* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1720 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1721
1c904337 1722* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1724* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1725 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1726 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1727 /proc/self/fd/3
1728
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1729* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1730 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1731 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1732
1733* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1734 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
66e52d22 1735
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1736* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1737 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1738
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1739* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1740 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1741 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1742 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1743 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1744
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1745* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1746
199b097d 1747* credentials system:
199b097d 1748 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1749 - acquire via ask-password?
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1750 - acquire creds via keyring?
1751 - pass creds via keyring?
1752 - pass creds via memfd?
1753 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
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1754 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1755 wireguard)
1756 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1757 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1758
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1759* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1760 and such
1761
1762* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1763
02c914ef 1764* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1765
7d7c75f1 1766* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1767 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1768
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1769* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1770 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1771
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1772* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1773
1774* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1775 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1776
1777* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1778 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1779
1780* cryptsetup:
1781 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1782 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1783
08d33656 1784* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1785
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1786* systemd-analyze inspect-elf should show other notes too, at least build-id.
1787
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1788* Figure out naming of verbs in systemd-analyze: we have (singular) capability,
1789 exit-status, but (plural) filesystems, architectures.
1790
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1791* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1792 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1793
f461a28d 1794* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1795 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1796
f461a28d 1797* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1798 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1799
03ccee19 1800* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np().
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1802* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1803
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1804* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1805 when it exits
1806
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1807* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1808 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1809 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1810
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1811* systemd-path: Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum, mapping to
1812 $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
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1814* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1815
1816* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1817 specific service
1818
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1819* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1820 exists and responds.
1821
91fc013f 1822* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1823 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1824
7e8facb3 1825* unify on openssl:
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1826 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd:
1827 - 1.x is stable and has a hard dependency on gnutls
1828 - 2.x is in development and has openssl support
1829 - Worth testing against 2.x in our CI?
26cde6f0 1830 - port fsprg over to openssl
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1832* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1833 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1834
2a4be3c5 1835* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1836
f1eb0ccd 1837* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1838
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1839* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1840 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1841 initrd had set.
1842
173c7873 1843* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1844 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1845 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1846 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1847 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1848 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1849
1850* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1851 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1852 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1853
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1854* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1855 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1856 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1857 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1858 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1859 source.
1860
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1861* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1862 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1863 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1864
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1865* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1866
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1867* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1868 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1869
c6526b8d 1870* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1871
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1872* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1873
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1874* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1875 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1876
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1877* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1878 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1879
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1880* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1881 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1882 root.
1883
1884* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1885 is issued.
1886
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1887* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1888
1889* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1890
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1891* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1892 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1893 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1894
d238709c 1895* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
7de438cd 1896 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first while
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1897 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1898
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1899* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1900
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1901* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1902 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1903
06898123 1904* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1905 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1906 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1907 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1908
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1909* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1910
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1911* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1912
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1913* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1914 non-zero "tries done" count
1915
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1916* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1917 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1918 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1919 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1920 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1921 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1922 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1923 CODE_FILE.
1924
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1925* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1926 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1927 some explanatory text online.
1928
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1929* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1930
d1797c42 1931* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1932
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1933* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1934 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1935
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1936* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1937 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1938 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1939 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1940
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1941* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1942
7de438cd 1943* 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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1944 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1945
5da19043 1946* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1947 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1948
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1949* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1950 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1951 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1952 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1953 unlinked from any dir.
1954
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1955* systemctl, machinectl, loginctl: port "status" commands over to
1956 format-table.c's vertical output logic.
5da19043 1957
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1958* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1959
1960* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1961
53c70a27 1962* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1963 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1964 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1965 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1966 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1967
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1968* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1969
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1970* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1971 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1972
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1973* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1974 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1975 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1976 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1977 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1978 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1979 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1980 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1981
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1982* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1983 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1984
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1985* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1986 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1987
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1988* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1989 only when used. Add unit tests.
1990
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1991* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1992 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1993
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1994* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1995 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1996 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1997 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1998 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1999
899feb72 2000* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 2001
5f7ecd61 2002* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 2003
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2004* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
2005 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
2006
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2007* blog about fd store and restartable services
2008
2009* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
2010
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2011* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
2012 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
2013
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2014* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
2015 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
2016 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
2017 ID is available.
2018
2019* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
2020 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
2021 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
2022
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2023* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
2024 parameters
2025
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2026* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
2027 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
2028
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2029* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
2030 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
2031 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
2032
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2033* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
2034 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
2035
2036 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
2037
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2038* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
2039 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
2040 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
2041
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2042* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
2043 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
2044
2045* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
2046 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
2047 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
2048 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
2049 natural habitat.
2050
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2051* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
2052 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
2053 relative to the configured default value.
2054
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2055* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
2056
04397464 2057* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 2058
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2059* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
2060
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2061* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
2062
04397464 2063* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 2064
04397464 2065* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 2066
04397464 2067* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 2068
8ce9b83a 2069* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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2070
2071* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
2072 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
2073 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
2074
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2075* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
2076 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
2077
e40a326c 2078* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 2079
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2080* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
2081 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
2082 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
2083 mapping to work.
2084
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2085* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
2086
2087* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
2088
2089* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
2090
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2091* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
2092 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
2093
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2094* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
2095 reload the unit file anyway
2096
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2097* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
2098
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2099* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
2100
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2101* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
2102 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
2103
f9bf1b8f 2104* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 2105 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 2106 specifications.
de7399eb 2107
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2108* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
2109
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2110* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
2111
a2088fd0 2112* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 2113 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 2114 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 2115 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 2116
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2117* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
2118
a65b8648 2119* docs: bring https://systemd.io/MY_SERVICE_CANT_GET_REALTIME up to date
b18d23d7 2120
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2121* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
2122 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
2123 state.
41d6f3bf 2124 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 2125
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2126* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
2127 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
2128 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
2129 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
2130 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
2131
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2132* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
2133
d2f81fb0 2134* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 2135 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 2136
0a86c1a9 2137* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 2138 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 2139
e031c227 2140* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 2141 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 2142
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2143* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
2144
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2145* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
2146 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
2147
25e773ee 2148* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 2149
720652b3 2150* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 2151
720652b3 2152* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 2153
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2154* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
2155 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
2156
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2157* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
2158
9d6db739 2159* resolved:
9d6db739 2160 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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2161 - service registration
2162 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 2163 - avahi compat
9d6db739 2164 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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2165 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
2166 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
2167 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 2168 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3f77a1b1 2169
e25b5a8d 2170* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 2171
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2172* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
2173
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2174* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
2175
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2176* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
2177
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2178* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
2179
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2180* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
2181 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 2182
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2183* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
2184
6a3f892a 2185* gpt-auto-generator:
6a3f892a 2186 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 2187
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2188* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
2189 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
2190 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 2191
f9bf1b8f 2192* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 2193
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2194* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
2195 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
2196 for ReusePort=
2197
f38afcd0 2198* cgroups:
f38afcd0 2199 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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2200 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
2201 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
2202 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
2203 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
2204 the hierarchies of child processes
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2205 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
2206 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 2207
f38afcd0 2208* transient units:
f38afcd0 2209 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 2210
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2211* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
2212
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2213* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
2214
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2215* 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
2216
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2217* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
2218 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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2219 path anyway.
2220
04397464 2221* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 2222
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2223* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
2224
07eabc2b 2225* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 2226
07eabc2b 2227* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 2228
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2229* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
2230
2231* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
2232 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
2233 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
2234
2235* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
2236 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
2237
2238* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
2239
2240* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
2241
2242* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
2243
2244* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
2245 needs to be auto-respawned?
2246
2247* pid1:
2248 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
2249 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
2250 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
2251 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 2252 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 2253 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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2254 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
2255 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
2256 - Support --test based on current system state
2257 - 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().
2258 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
2259 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
2260 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
2261 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
2262 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
2263 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
2264 but much rather a disconnect on success.
2265 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
2266 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
2267 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
2268 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
2269 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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2270 - ExtensionImages= deduplication for services is currently only applied to disk images without GPT envelope.
2271 This should be extended to work with proper DDIs too, as well as directory confext/sysext. Moreover,
68a2a43c 2272 system-wide confext/sysext should support this too.
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2273 - Pin the mount namespace via FD by sending it back from sd-exec to the manager, and use it
2274 for live mounting, instead of doing it via PID
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2275
2276* unit files:
2277 - allow port=0 in .socket units
2278 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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2279 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
2280 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
2281 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
2282 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
2283 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
2284 - introduce Type=pid-file
2285 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
2286 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
2287 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
2288
2289* timer units:
63a185dc 2290 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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2291 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
2292
2293* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
2294
2295* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
2296
dc150555 2297* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?)
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2298
2299* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
2300
07eabc2b 2301* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 2302
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2303* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
2304
fff87a35 2305* test/:
20d52ab6 2306 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 2307
b5c03638 2308* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 2309 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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2310 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
2311 destination.
2312
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2313* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
2314 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
2315
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2316* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
2317
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2318* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
2319 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
2320 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
2321
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2322* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
2323 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 2324
7227dd81 2325* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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2326 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
2327 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
2328 that automatically.
2329
e5ec62c5 2330* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 2331
ccddd104 2332* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 2333
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2334* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
2335
356ce991 2336* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 2337
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2338* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2339
2340* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2341
2342* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2343
2344* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2345
2346* sd-bus:
2347 - EBADSLT handling
2348 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2349 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2350 - 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
2351 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2352 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2353 - longer term: priority inheritance
2354 - dbus spec updates:
2355 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2356 - path escaping
2357 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2358
2359* sd-event
2360 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2361 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2362 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2363 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2364 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2365 here:
2366 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2367
2368* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2369 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2370
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2371* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2372
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2373* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2374
2375* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2376
2377* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2378
b44be3ec 2379* EFI:
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2380 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2381 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
631427d6 2382* bootctl
631427d6 2383 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2384
07eabc2b 2385* bootctl:
483091b0 2386 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2387 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2388 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2389
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2390* logind:
2391 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2392 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2393 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2394 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2395 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2396 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2397 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2398 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2399 needs setuid().
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2400 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2401 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2402 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2403 complete.
2404 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2405 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2406 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2407 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2408 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2409 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2410 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2411 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2412 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2413 relogins
77b19caf 2414 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2415
2416* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2417
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2418* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2419 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2420
b44be3ec 2421* journal:
57f2a947 2422 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2423 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2424 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2425 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2426 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2427 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2428 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2429 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2430 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2431 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2432 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2433 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2434 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2435 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2436 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2437 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2438 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2439 - 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.
2440 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2441 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2442 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2443 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2444 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2445 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2446 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2447 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2448 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2449 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2450 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2451 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2452 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2453 to syslog when it works again.
279f0366 2454 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
20d00d1f 2455 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to manage uid ranges to split
279f0366 2456 journals in.
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2457 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary.
2458 journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --invocation=-1
2459 - systemctl: change 'status' to show logs for the last invocation, not a fixed
2460 number of lines
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2461 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2462 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2463 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2464 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2465 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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DH
2466 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2467 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2468 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2469 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2470 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2471 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2472 operation.
2473 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2474 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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DH
2475 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2476 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2477 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
e25b5a8d
DH
2478 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2479 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2480 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2481 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2482 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 2483
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2484* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2485 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2486
2487* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2488 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2489 validated via TPM.
2490
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2491* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2492 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2493 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2494
2495* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2496 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2497 cursors as they happen.
2498
2499* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2500 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2501 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2502 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2503 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2504 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2505 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2506 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2507 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2508
2509* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2510 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2511 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2512 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2513 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2514 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2515
2516* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2517 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2518 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2519 records, to be able to order them.
2520
2521* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2522 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2523 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2524 be safely written to disk, then.
2525
2526* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2527 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2528 inspiration from IMA log)
2529
2530* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2531 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2532 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2533
dd411431 2534* bsod: maybe use graphical mode. Use DRM APIs directly, see
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2535 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2536 for doing that.
2537
2538* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2539 log.c and sd-journal-send
2540
2541* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2542 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2543 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2544 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2545 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2546 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2547 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2548 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2549 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2550 an NTP sync is acquired.
2551
2552* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2553
2554* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2555 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2556 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2557
2558* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2559 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2560 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2561 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2562 cgroup.
2563
2564* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2565 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2566 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2567 logging.
2568
2569* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2570
2571* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2572 from the SIGBUS handler
2573
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2574* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2575 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2576 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2577 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2578
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2579* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2580 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2581
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2582* homed:
2583 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2584 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2585 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2586 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2587 - create on activate?
dd411431 2588 - properties: icon url?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
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2589 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2590 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2591 systemd --user is shut down.
2592 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2593 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2594 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2595 - 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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2596 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2597 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2598 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
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2599 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2600 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2601 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2602 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2603 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2604 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2605 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2606 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2607 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2608 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2609 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2610 signature
a971e660 2611 - add a way to "take possession" of a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
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2612 and insert a local signature instead.
2613 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2614 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2615 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2616 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2617 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2618 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2619 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2620 easily?
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2621 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2622 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2623 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2624 can easily set overall quota for all users
2625 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2626 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
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2627 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2628 home dir
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2630* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2631 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2632 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2633
2df2bb1f 2634* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2635
2636* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2637 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2638 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2639 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2640
2641* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2642
2643* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2644 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2645 something goes wrong on the way.
2646
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2647* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2648 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2649 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2650 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2651
2652* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2653 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2654 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2655 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2656 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2657 automatically.
2658
2659* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2660 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2661
2662* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2663 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2664 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2665 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2666 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2667 fails to apply use the latter.
2668
2669* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2670 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2671
2672* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2673 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2674
2675* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2676 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2677 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2678
2679* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2680 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2681
92e72028 2682* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2683 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2684 during boot.
2685
2686* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2687
b44be3ec 2688* document:
8b8f2591 2689 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2690 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2691 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2692 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2693 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2694 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2695 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2696 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2697 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2698 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2699 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2700 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2701
2702* systemctl:
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2703 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2704 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2705 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2706 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2707 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2708 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2709
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LB
2710* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2711 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2712 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2713
07eabc2b
LB
2714* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2715 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2716 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2717
07eabc2b
LB
2718* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2719 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2720 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2721
07eabc2b
LB
2722* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2723 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2724
07eabc2b
LB
2725* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2726 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2727 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2728 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2729
07eabc2b
LB
2730* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2731
2732* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2733
2734* unit install:
2735 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2736 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2737
b44be3ec 2738* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2739 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2740 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2741 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2742 from the kernel's logs.
2743 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2744 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2745 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2746 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2747 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2748 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2749 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2750 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2751 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2752 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2753 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2754 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2755 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2756 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2757 startup.
2758 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2759 or so, freeze the payload too.
2760 - support time namespaces
2761 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2762 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2763 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2764 "machinectl shell"
2765 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2766 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2767 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2768 - greater control over selinux label?
2769 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2770 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2771 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2772 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2773 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2774 host TPM.
2775 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2776 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2777 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2778 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2779 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2780 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2781 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2782 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2783 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2784 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2785 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2786 or two sockets.
07eabc2b 2787
e25b5a8d 2788* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2789 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2790 removed or added to an existing machine
2791 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2792 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2793 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2794 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2795 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2796 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2797 - "machinectl history"
2798 - "machinectl diff"
2799 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2800 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2801
abd55b16 2802* udev:
abd55b16 2803 - move to LGPL
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KS
2804 - kill scsi_id
2805 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2806 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2807 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2808 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2809
e25b5a8d
DH
2810* coredump:
2811 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2812 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
6e092104 2813 - add examples for other distros in PACKAGE_METADATA_FOR_EXECUTABLE_FILES
87a8baa3
LP
2814
2815* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2816
f38afcd0 2817* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2818 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2819 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2820 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2821 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2822 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2823 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2824 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2825 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2826 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2827 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2828 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2829
af6f0d42
TG
2830* udev-link-config:
2831 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2832 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2833 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2834
88e4d1d7 2835* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2836 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2837 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2838
0a4b9a07 2839* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2840 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2841 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2842 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2843 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2844 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2845 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2846 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2847 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2848 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2849 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2850 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2851 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2852 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2853 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2854 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2855 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2856 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2857 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2858
07eabc2b
LB
2859* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2860
d5e172d2
ZJS
2861* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2862
ac976532 2863* dhcp:
424a8732 2864 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2865
37d8b536
PF
2866* dhcp6:
2867 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2868 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2869 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2870 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2871 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2872 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2873 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2874 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2875 or interface down
2876 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2877 this behavior
4a77c53d 2878 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2879
2880* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2881 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2882 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)
c139ac7f
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2883
2884* Hook up systemd-journal-upload with RESTART_RESET=1 logic (should probably
2885 be conditioned on the num of successfully uploaded entries?)