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1 Bugfixes:
2
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.
6
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.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
15 * dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
24
25 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29 * register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31 * zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
35
36 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40 * write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59 Regularly:
60
61 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65 * pahole
66
67 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
78 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
83 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
87 Deprecations and removals:
88
89 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92 * 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
93
94 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
99 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
101 is only supported for such old kernels.
102
103 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
106 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
112 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
114
115 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
118 * rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
120
121 * H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
123 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
127 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
130 Features:
131
132 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
133 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
134 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
135
136 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
137 that hwdb patters can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
138 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
139 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
140 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
141 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
142
143 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
144 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
145 way noone can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
146 used transiently, never persistently.
147
148 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
149 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
150 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
151 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
152 based on lo_file_name.
153
154 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
155
156 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
157 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
158 cursors as they happen.
159
160 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
161 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
162 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
163 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
164 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
165 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
166 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
167 activation-by-message id and similar.
168
169 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
170 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
171 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
172 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
173
174 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
175 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
176 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
177 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
178 similar behaviour for system services, too.
179
180 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
181 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
182 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
183
184 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
185
186 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
187 localed, oomd, timedated.
188
189 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
190 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
191 info of the newest entry of the specificy boot (as identified by the boot
192 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
193 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
194 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
195 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
196 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
197 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
198
199 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
200 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
201 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
202
203 * in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
204 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
205 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
206 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
207 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
208 signed by U.
209 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
210 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
211 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
212 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
213 next boot
214 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
215 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
216 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
217 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
218 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
219 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
220 later boot.
221 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
222 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
223 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
224 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
225 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
226
227 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
228 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
229 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
230 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
231 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
232 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
233 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
234 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
235 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
236 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
237 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
238 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
239 access.
240
241 * split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
242 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
243 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
244 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
245 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
246 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
247 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
248 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
249 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
250 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
251
252 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
253 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
254
255 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
256 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
257 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
258 for all umh processes.
259
260 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
261 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
262
263 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
264 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
265 resize.
266
267 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
268 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
269
270 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
271 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
272 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
273 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
274 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
275 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
276
277 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
278 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
279 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
280 records, to be able to order them.
281
282 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
283 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
284 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
285 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
286 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
287 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
288 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
289 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
290 system actually reset.
291
292 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
293 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
294 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
295
296 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
297 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
298 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
299 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
300
301 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
302 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
303 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
304 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
305
306 * fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
307 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
308 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
309 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
310 which isn't quite the same.
311
312 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
313 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
314 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
315 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
316 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
317
318 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
319 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
320 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
321 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
322 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
323
324 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
325
326 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
327 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
328 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
329 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
330
331 * bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
332
333 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
334 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
335
336 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
337 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
338 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
339
340 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
341 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
342
343 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
344 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
345 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
346 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
347 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
348 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
349 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
350 usual.
351
352 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
353
354 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
355
356 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
357
358 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
359 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
360 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
361 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
362 sockaddr.
363
364 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
365 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
366 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
367 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
368 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
369 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
370 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
371 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
372 try to use inode from there.
373
374 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
375 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
376
377 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
378 extensions
379
380 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
381 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
382 for the root fs or /usr/.
383
384 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
385 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
386 combination thereof.
387
388 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
389 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
390 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
391 ahead of time.
392
393 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
394 aforementioned purpose.
395
396 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
397 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
398
399 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
400 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
401 to figure out:
402 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
403 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
404 subsequent boots?
405
406 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
407 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
408 inspiration from IMA log)
409
410 * provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
411 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
412 out to our tools.
413
414 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
415 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
416 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
417 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
418 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
419 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
420 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
421 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
422 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
423 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
424
425 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
426 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
427 used)
428
429 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
430 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
431 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
432 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
433 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
434
435 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
436 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
437 how PCR values we manage came to
438 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
439
440 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
441 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
442 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
443 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
444 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
445 should win over vendor defaults.
446
447 * sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
448 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
449 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
450 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
451 command lines.
452
453 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
454 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
455 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
456
457 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
458 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
459
460 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
461 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
462 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
463 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
464 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
465 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
466
467 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
468 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
469 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
470
471 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
472
473 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
474 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
475 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
476 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
477
478 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
479 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
480 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
481 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
482 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
483 only one for each OS.
484
485 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
486 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
487 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
488 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
489 boot, for the next.
490
491 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
492 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
493
494 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
495 similar behind it, instead of http.
496
497 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
498 boot, or on first boot.
499
500 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
501 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
502
503 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
504 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
505 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
506 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
507 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
508 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
509 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
510 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
511 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
512 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
513 until users are allowed to log in).
514
515 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
516 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
517
518 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
519 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
520 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
521 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-confext
522 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
523 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
524 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
525 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
526 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
527 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
528 automatically invalidated outside of it.
529
530 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
531 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
532 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
533 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
534 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
535 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
536 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
537 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
538 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
539 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
540 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
541 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
542 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
543 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
544 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
545 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
546 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
547 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
548 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
549 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
550 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
551
552 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
553 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
554
555 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
556 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
557
558 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
559 instead of manual blocking.
560
561 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
562 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
563
564 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
565 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
566 supplied password.
567
568 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
569 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
570 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
571 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
572
573 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
574 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
575 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
576 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
577
578 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
579 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
580 automatically derived from --private-key=).
581
582 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
583 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
584 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
585
586 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
587 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
588 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
589 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
590 partition with a portable service partition in one.
591
592 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
593 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
594 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
595 modules
596
597 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
598 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
599 a new name with a built-in config?
600
601 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
602 maybe on kernel command line:
603 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
604 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
605
606 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
607 hash type, etc)
608
609 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
610 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
611
612 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
613 but final node is not a directory
614
615 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
616 non-VFAT fs is used.
617
618 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
619
620 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
621 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
622
623 * pick up creds from EFI vars
624
625 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
626
627 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
628 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
629 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
630 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
631 affect PCR values.
632
633 * systemd-measure tool:
634 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
635
636 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
637 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
638
639 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
640 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
641
642 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
643 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
644
645 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
646 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
647
648 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
649 maybe some other stuff and boots it
650
651 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
652 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
653 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
654 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
655 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
656 use it.
657
658 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
659 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
660
661 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
662 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
663 what it was signed.
664
665 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
666 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
667 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
668 be safely written to disk, then.
669
670 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
671 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
672 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
673 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
674 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
675 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
676 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
677 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
678 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
679 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
680 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
681 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
682
683 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
684 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
685
686 * Process credentials in:
687 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
688 via the credentials logic.
689 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
690 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
691 integrity-generator)
692 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
693 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
694 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
695 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
696 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
697 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
698 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
699 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
700 file system paths to enable on start.
701 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
702 usr=
703 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
704 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
705 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
706 account one can directly log into.
707 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
708 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
709 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
710 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
711 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
712 pre-built kernels.
713
714 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
715 runtime state. Then, expose it:
716
717 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
718 about the unit.
719 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
720 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
721 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
722 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
723 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
724 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
725
726 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
727 what to do if support ended
728
729 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
730 login time, à la motd
731
732 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
733 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
734 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
735 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
736 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
737
738 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
739 initrd transition. Specifically:
740 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
741 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
742 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
743
744 * implement varlink introspection
745
746 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
747 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
748 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
749 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
750 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
751 depending on desired level of persistency.
752
753 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
754 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
755 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
756 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
757 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
758 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
759 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
760 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
761
762 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
763 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
764 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
765 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
766
767 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
768
769 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
770
771 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
772 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
773 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
774 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
775 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
776 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
777 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
778 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
779 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
780 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
781 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
782 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
783 not unprivileged code.
784
785 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
786 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
787
788 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
789 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
790 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
791 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
792
793 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
794 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
795 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
796 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
797 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
798 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
799 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
800 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
801 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
802
803 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
804 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
805 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
806 order.
807
808 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
809 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
810 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
811 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
812 whenever they want.
813
814 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
815 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
816 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
817
818 * add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
819 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
820 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
821 acquire.
822
823 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
824 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
825 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
826 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
827 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
828 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
829 IN_IGNORED again)
830
831 * systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
832 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
833 virtio-fs.
834
835 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
836 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
837 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
838 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
839 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
840 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
841 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
842 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
843 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
844 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
845 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
846 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
847 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
848 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
849 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
850
851 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
852 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
853 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
854
855 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
856 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
857 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
858 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
859 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
860 directly to host service manager.
861
862 * maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
863 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using SMBIOS
864 credentials to configure socket address.
865
866 * sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
867
868 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
869 no api to query the device id
870
871 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
872 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
873 also be queried.
874
875 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
876 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
877 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
878 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
879
880 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
881 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
882 latter).
883
884 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
885
886 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
887
888 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
889 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
890 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
891 generated by GNU sha256sums.
892
893 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
894 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
895 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
896 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
897 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
898 UEFI HTTP boot.
899
900 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
901 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
902 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
903 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
904 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
905 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
906 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
907 hence cheap for enumeration.
908
909 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
910
911 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
912 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
913 words: show partition labels).
914
915 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
916 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
917 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
918 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
919 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
920 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
921 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
922
923 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
924
925 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
926
927 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
928
929 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
930 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
931 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
932 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
933 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
934 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
935 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
936 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
937 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
938 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
939
940 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
941 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
942 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
943 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
944 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
945 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
946 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
947 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
948 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
949 an NTP sync is acquired.
950
951 * kernel-install:
952 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
953
954 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
955 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
956
957 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
958 jobs, units
959
960 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
961 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
962 userspace)
963
964 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
965
966 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
967 json package metadata, and use that when logging
968
969 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
970 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
971
972 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
973 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
974
975 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
976 internal clock.
977
978 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
979 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
980
981 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
982 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
983 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
984 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
985
986 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
987 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
988 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
989
990 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
991 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
992 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
993 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
994 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
995 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
996 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
997 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
998 thread:
999 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1000 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1001 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1002 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1003 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1004 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1005
1006 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1007 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1008 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1009
1010 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1011 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1012 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1013 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1014 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1015 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1016 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1017 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1018 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1019 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1020 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1021 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1022 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1023 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1024 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1025
1026 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1027 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1028 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1029 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1030 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1031 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1032
1033 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1034 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1035 dep in the base OS image)
1036
1037 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1038 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1039 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1040 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1041 on-disk storage.
1042
1043 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1044 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1045 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1046 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1047 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1048
1049 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1050 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1051 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1052
1053 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1054 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1055 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1056 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1057 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1058 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1059 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1060
1061 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1062 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1063 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1064 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1065
1066 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1067 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1068 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1069 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1070 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1071 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1072 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1073 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1074 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1075 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1076 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1077
1078 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1079 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1080 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1081
1082 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1083
1084 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1085
1086 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1087 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1088 that images cannot be misused.
1089
1090 * New udev block device symlink names:
1091 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1092 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1093 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1094 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1095
1096 * sysupdate:
1097 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1098 - support casync as download mechanism
1099 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1100 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1101 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1102 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1103 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1104 override the host's update files.)
1105 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1106 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1107 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1108 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1109
1110 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1111
1112 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1113 make dirs appear under right UID.
1114
1115 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1116 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1117
1118 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1119 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1120 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1121 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1122 for doing that.
1123
1124 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1125 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1126 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1127 already have it.
1128
1129 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1130 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1131
1132 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1133
1134 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1135 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1136 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1137 /proc/self/fd/3
1138
1139 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1140 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1141 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1142
1143 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1144 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1145
1146 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1147 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1148
1149 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1150 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1151 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1152 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1153 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1154
1155 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1156
1157 * credentials system:
1158 - acquire from EFI variable?
1159 - acquire via ask-password?
1160 - acquire creds via keyring?
1161 - pass creds via keyring?
1162 - pass creds via memfd?
1163 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1164 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1165 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1166 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1167 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1168 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1169 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1170 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1171
1172 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1173 firmware indicates there is one.
1174
1175 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1176 and such
1177
1178 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1179
1180 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1181
1182 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1183 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1184
1185 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1186 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1187
1188 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1189
1190 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1191 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1192
1193 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1194 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1195
1196 * cryptsetup:
1197 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1198 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1199
1200 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1201 it happens to be set up alright already.
1202
1203 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1204
1205 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1206 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1207 default.
1208
1209 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1210 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1211 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1212 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1213 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1214
1215 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1216
1217 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1218 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1219
1220 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1221 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1222 temporary dir.
1223
1224 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1225 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1226
1227 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1228 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1229
1230 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1231
1232 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1233
1234 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1235
1236 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1237
1238 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1239 when it exits
1240
1241 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1242 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1243 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1244 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1245 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1246 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1247 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1248 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1249 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1250
1251 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1252 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1253 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1254
1255 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1256 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1257
1258 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1259
1260 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1261 specific service
1262
1263 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1264 exists and responds.
1265
1266 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1267 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1268
1269 * unify on openssl:
1270 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1271 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1272 gnutls
1273 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1274
1275 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1276 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1277
1278 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1279 realname substr searches in varlink API
1280
1281 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1282
1283 * userdb: allow existence checks
1284
1285 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1286
1287 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1288 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1289 initrd had set.
1290
1291 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1292 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1293 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1294 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1295 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1296 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1297
1298 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1299 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1300 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1301
1302 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1303 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1304 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1305 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1306 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1307 source.
1308
1309 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1310 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1311 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1312
1313 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1314
1315 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1316 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1317 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1318 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1319 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1320 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1321 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1322 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1323 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1324 hibernation mode. (see
1325 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1326 section 10.2.2.8 and
1327 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1328 at the end).
1329
1330 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1331 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1332
1333 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1334
1335 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1336 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1337 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1338 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1339 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1340 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1341 exec().
1342
1343 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1344
1345 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1346 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1347
1348 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1349 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1350
1351 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1352 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1353 root.
1354
1355 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1356 is issued.
1357
1358 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1359
1360 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1361
1362 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1363 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1364 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1365
1366 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1367 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1368 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1369
1370 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1371
1372 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1373 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1374
1375 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1376 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1377 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1378 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1379
1380 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1381
1382 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1383 log.c and sd-journal-send
1384
1385 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1386
1387 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1388
1389 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1390 non-zero "tries done" count
1391
1392 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1393 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1394 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1395 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1396 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1397 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1398 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1399 CODE_FILE.
1400
1401 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1402 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1403 some explanatory text online.
1404
1405 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1406
1407 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1408 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1409
1410 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1411 Specifically:
1412
1413 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1414 properly)
1415 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1416 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
1417
1418 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1419 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1420
1421 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1422 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1423 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1424 files and suchlike we operate on.
1425
1426 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1427
1428 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1429
1430 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1431 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1432
1433 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1434 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1435
1436 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1437 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1438 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1439 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1440 unlinked from any dir.
1441
1442 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1443
1444 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1445
1446 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1447
1448 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1449 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1450 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1451 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1452 should reflink the image file itself.
1453
1454 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1455 specific paths only like this.
1456
1457 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1458 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1459 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1460 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1461 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1462
1463 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1464
1465 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1466
1467 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1468 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1469
1470 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1471 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1472 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1473 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1474 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1475 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1476 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1477 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1478
1479 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1480 for root, but only then.
1481
1482 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1483
1484 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1485 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1486
1487 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1488 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1489
1490 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1491 only when used. Add unit tests.
1492
1493 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1494 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1495
1496 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1497 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1498 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1499 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1500 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1501
1502 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1503
1504 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1505
1506 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1507 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1508
1509 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1510
1511 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1512
1513 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1514 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1515
1516 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1517 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1518 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1519 ID is available.
1520
1521 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1522 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1523 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1524
1525 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1526 parameters
1527
1528 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1529 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1530 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1531 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1532 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1533 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1534 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1535
1536 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1537 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1538
1539 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1540 about it in the resource log message
1541
1542 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1543 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1544 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1545
1546 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1547 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1548
1549 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1550
1551 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1552 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1553 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1554
1555 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1556 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1557
1558 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1559 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1560 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1561 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1562 natural habitat.
1563
1564 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1565 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1566
1567 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1568 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1569 relative to the configured default value.
1570
1571 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1572
1573 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1574
1575 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1576
1577 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1578
1579 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1580
1581 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1582
1583 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1584
1585 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1586
1587 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1588 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1589 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1590
1591 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1592 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1593
1594 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1595
1596 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1597 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1598 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1599 mapping to work.
1600
1601 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1602
1603 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1604
1605 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1606
1607 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1608 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1609
1610 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1611 reload the unit file anyway
1612
1613 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1614
1615 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1616
1617 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1618 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1619
1620 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1621 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1622 specifications.
1623
1624 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1625
1626 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1627
1628 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1629 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1630 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1631 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1632
1633 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1634
1635 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1636
1637 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1638 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1639 state.
1640 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1641
1642 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1643 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1644 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1645 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1646 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1647
1648 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1649
1650 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1651 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1652
1653 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1654 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1655
1656 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1657 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1658
1659 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1660
1661 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1662 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1663
1664 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1665
1666 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1667
1668 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1669
1670 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1671
1672 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1673 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1674
1675 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1676
1677 * resolved:
1678 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1679 - service registration
1680 - service/domain/types browsing
1681 - avahi compat
1682 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1683 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1684 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1685 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1686 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1687 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1688
1689 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1690
1691 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1692
1693 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1694
1695 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1696
1697 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1698
1699 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1700 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1701
1702 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1703
1704 * gpt-auto-generator:
1705 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1706 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1707
1708 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1709 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1710 when it is otherwise off
1711
1712 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1713
1714 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1715 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1716 for ReusePort=
1717
1718 * cgroups:
1719 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1720 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1721 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1722 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1723 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1724 the hierarchies of child processes
1725 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1726 maybe use them for user@.service
1727
1728 * transient units:
1729 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1730
1731 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1732
1733 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1734
1735 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1736
1737 * 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
1738
1739 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1740
1741 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1742 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1743 path anyway.
1744
1745 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1746
1747 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1748
1749 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1750
1751 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1752
1753 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1754
1755 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1756
1757 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1758 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1759 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1760
1761 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1762 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1763
1764 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1765
1766 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1767
1768 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1769
1770 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1771 needs to be auto-respawned?
1772
1773 * pid1:
1774 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1775 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1776 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1777 that are not supported...
1778 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1779 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1780 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1781 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1782 - move PAM code into its own binary
1783 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1784 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1785 - Support --test based on current system state
1786 - 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().
1787 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1788 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1789 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1790 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1791 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1792 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1793 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1794 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1795 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1796 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1797 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1798 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1799
1800 * unit files:
1801 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1802 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1803 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1804 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1805 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1806 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1807 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1808 - introduce Type=pid-file
1809 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1810 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1811 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1812
1813 * timer units:
1814 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1815 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1816
1817 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1818
1819 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1820
1821 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1822
1823 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1824
1825 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1826
1827 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1828
1829 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1830
1831 * test/:
1832 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1833
1834 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1835 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1836 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1837 destination.
1838
1839 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1840 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1841
1842 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1843
1844 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1845 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1846 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1847
1848 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1849 compliant boot loader is installed.
1850
1851 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1852 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1853 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1854 that automatically.
1855
1856 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1857
1858 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1859
1860 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1861
1862 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1863
1864 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1865
1866 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1867
1868 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1869
1870 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1871
1872 * sd-bus:
1873 - EBADSLT handling
1874 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1875 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1876 - 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
1877 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1878 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1879 - longer term: priority inheritance
1880 - dbus spec updates:
1881 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1882 - path escaping
1883 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1884
1885 * sd-event
1886 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1887 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1888 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1889 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1890 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1891 here:
1892 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1893
1894 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1895 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1896
1897 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1898
1899 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1900
1901 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1902
1903 * EFI:
1904 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1905 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1906 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1907 * bootctl
1908 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1909
1910 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1911
1912 * bootctl:
1913 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1914 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1915 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1916
1917 * kernel-install:
1918 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
1919
1920 * logind:
1921 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1922 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1923 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1924 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1925 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1926 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1927 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1928 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1929 needs setuid().
1930 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1931 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1932 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1933 complete.
1934 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1935 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1936 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1937 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1938 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1939 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1940 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1941 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1942 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1943 relogins
1944 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1945 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1946 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1947 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
1948
1949 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1950
1951 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1952 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1953 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1954
1955 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1956 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1957
1958 * journal:
1959 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1960 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1961 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1962 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1963 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1964 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1965 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1966 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1967 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1968 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1969 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1970 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1971 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1972 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1973 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1974 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1975 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1976 - 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.
1977 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1978 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1979 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1980 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1981 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1982 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1983 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1984 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1985 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1986 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1987 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1988 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1989 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1990 to syslog when it works again.
1991 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1992 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1993 journals in.
1994 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1995 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1996 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1997 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1998 the most common operations.
1999 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2000 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2001 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2002 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2003 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2004 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2005 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2006 operation.
2007 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2008 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2009 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2010 binary logs data
2011 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2012 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2013 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2014 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2015 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2016 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2017
2018 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2019 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2020
2021 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2022 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2023 validated via TPM.
2024
2025 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2026 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2027
2028 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2029 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2030 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2031
2032 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2033 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2034 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2035 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2036 cgroup.
2037
2038 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2039 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2040 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2041 logging.
2042
2043 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2044
2045 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2046 from the SIGBUS handler
2047
2048 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2049 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2050 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2051 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2052
2053 * homed:
2054 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2055 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2056 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2057 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2058 - create on activate?
2059 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2060 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2061 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2062 systemd --user is shut down.
2063 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2064 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2065 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2066 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2067 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2068 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2069 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2070 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2071 - query password from kernel keyring first
2072 - update even if record is "absent"
2073 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2074 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2075 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2076 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2077 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2078 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2079 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2080 doesn't mean user B sees it
2081 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2082 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2083 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2084 signature
2085 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2086 and insert a local signature instead.
2087 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2088 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2089 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2090 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2091 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2092 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2093 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2094 easily?
2095 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2096 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2097 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2098 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2099 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2100 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2101 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2102 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2103 can easily set overall quota for all users
2104 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2105 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2106 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2107 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2108 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2109 large.
2110
2111 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2112 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2113 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2114
2115 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2116
2117 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2118 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2119 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2120 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2121
2122 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2123
2124 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2125 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2126 something goes wrong on the way.
2127
2128 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2129
2130 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2131 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2132 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2133 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2134
2135 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2136 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2137 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2138 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2139 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2140 automatically.
2141
2142 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2143 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2144
2145 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2146 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2147 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2148 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2149 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2150 fails to apply use the latter.
2151
2152 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2153 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2154
2155 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2156 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2157
2158 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2159 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2160 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2161
2162 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2163 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2164
2165 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2166 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2167 during boot.
2168
2169 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2170
2171 * document:
2172 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2173 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2174 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2175 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2176 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2177 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2178 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2179 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2180 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2181 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2182 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2183 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2184
2185 * systemctl:
2186 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2187 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2188 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2189 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2190 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2191 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2192 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2193 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2194 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2195 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2196
2197 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2198 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2199 it should skip the variant type string though.
2200
2201 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2202 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2203 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2204
2205 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2206 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2207 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2208
2209 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2210 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2211
2212 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2213 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2214 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2215 do, for example)
2216
2217 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2218 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2219 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2220 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2221
2222 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2223
2224 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2225
2226 * unit install:
2227 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2228 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2229
2230 * nspawn:
2231 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2232 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2233 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2234 from the kernel's logs.
2235 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2236 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2237 interface be missing
2238 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2239 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2240 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2241 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2242 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2243 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2244 PID 1...
2245 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2246 running, remove them when shut down.
2247 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2248 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2249 startup.
2250 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2251 or so, freeze the payload too.
2252 - support time namespaces
2253 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2254 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2255 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2256 "machinectl shell"
2257 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2258 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2259 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2260 - greater control over selinux label?
2261 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2262 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2263 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2264 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2265 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2266 host TPM.
2267 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2268 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2269 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2270 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2271 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2272 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2273 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2274 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2275 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2276 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2277 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2278 or two sockets.
2279 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2280
2281 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2282 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2283 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2284 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2285 anything like that.
2286
2287 * machined:
2288 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2289 removed or added to an existing machine
2290 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2291 difference host, via ssh
2292 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2293 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2294 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2295 question
2296 - "machinectl history"
2297 - "machinectl diff"
2298 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2299 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2300
2301 * udev:
2302 - move to LGPL
2303 - kill scsi_id
2304 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2305 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2306 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2307 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2308
2309 * coredump:
2310 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2311 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2312 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2313
2314 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2315
2316 * tmpfiles:
2317 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2318 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2319 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2320 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2321 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2322 calls follow symlinks.
2323 - add --test mode
2324 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2325 project quota
2326 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2327 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2328 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2329
2330 * udev-link-config:
2331 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2332 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2333 on Path= matching
2334
2335 * sd-rtnl:
2336 - add support for more attribute types
2337 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2338
2339 * networkd:
2340 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2341 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2342 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2343 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2344 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2345 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2346 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2347 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2348 - expose in the API the following bits:
2349 - option 15, domain name
2350 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2351 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2352 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2353 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2354 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2355 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2356 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2357 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2358
2359 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2360
2361 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2362
2363 * dhcp:
2364 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2365
2366 * dhcp6:
2367 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2368 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2369 - write more test cases
2370 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2371 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2372 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2373 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2374 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2375 or interface down
2376 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2377 this behavior
2378 - RouteTable= ?