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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 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
77 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
80 Features:
81
82 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
83 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
84 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
85 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
86
87 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
88 maybe some other stuff and boots it
89
90 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
91 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
92 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
93 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
94 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
95 use it.
96
97 * portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
98 file system paths to enable on start.
99
100 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
101 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
102
103 * PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
104 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
105 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
106
107 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
108 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
109 what it was signed.
110
111 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
112 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
113 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
114 be safely written to disk, then.
115
116 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
117 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
118 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
119 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
120 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
121 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
122 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
123 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
124 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
125 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
126 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
127 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
128
129 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
130 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
131
132 * bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
133 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
134 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
135 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
136 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
137
138 * networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
139 via the credentials logic.
140
141 * fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
142 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
143 integrity-generator)
144
145 * getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
146
147 * run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
148
149 * resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
150 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
151 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
152 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
153
154 * repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
155
156 * tmpfiles: add snippet that provisions /etc/hosts, /etc/motd,
157 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from credential
158
159 * timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
160
161 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
162 runtime state. Then, expose it:
163
164 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
165 about the unit.
166 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
167 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
168 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
169 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
170 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
171 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
172
173 * show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
174 for this on dbus)
175
176 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
177 what to do if support ended
178
179 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
180 login time, á la motd
181
182 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
183 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
184 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
185 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
186 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
187
188 * make tmpfiles read lines from creds, so that we can provision SSH host keys
189 via creds. Similar: sysusers, sysctl, homed
190
191 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
192 initrd transition. Specifically:
193 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
194 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
195 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
196
197 * implement varlink introspection
198
199 * we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
200 chase_symlinks() instead
201
202 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
203 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
204 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
205 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
206 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
207 depending on desired level of persistency.
208
209 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
210 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
211 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
212 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
213 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
214 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
215 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
216 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
217
218 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
219 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
220 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
221 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
222
223 * make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
224 usr=
225
226 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
227
228 * ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
229 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
230
231 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
232
233 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
234 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
235 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
236 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
237 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
238 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
239 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
240 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
241 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
242 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
243 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
244 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
245 not unprivileged code.
246
247 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
248 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
249
250 * allow embedding a signature blob for PCR hashes into separate section in
251 unified kernel binaries. This section should be picked up by sd-stub, and
252 passed in a file to the booted kernel (via initrd cpio, as usual). Usecase:
253 this way we can implement disk encryption policies that bind to specific
254 kernel PCR state, without breaking things on every kernel update. As long as
255 the kernel includes the PCR signature blob we should be good, as disk
256 encryption can then pass the signature to the TPM to unlock their secrets.
257 Why do this via a separate PE section? That's because the PCR state depends
258 on the measured kernel/initrd of course, thus we cannot put the signature
259 into the kernel/initrd itself, because that would require a time machine.
260 Hence we have to find a separate place. A simple solution is a PE section
261 of its own, because then it is next to the kernel and initrd which after all
262 are stored in PE sections of their own too. Building a unified kernel would
263 thus mean, calculating PCR values for the raw kernel image, and raw initrd
264 image, then signing those PCR values with a vendor key, and then combining
265 sd-stub, raw kernel image, raw initrd, and PCR signature into a unified
266 kernel image.
267
268 * a new tool "systemd-trust" or so, that can calculate PCR hashes offline, and
269 optionally sign them. for that we should extend our syntax for specifying pcr
270 policies (e.g. the string like "4+7+9") so that it can also include explicit
271 hash values, i.e.
272 4=sha256:0ef149998289474e4bb31813edda6ad7f3c991b2d8dec6e8fe4db7a1f039f2d1+7=sha256:87428fc522803d31065e7bce3cf03fe475096631e5e07bbd7a0fde60c4cf25c7+9=sha256:0263829989b6fd954f72baaf2fc64bc2e2f01d692d4de72986ea808f6e99813f
273 and file names to calculate hashes from, i.e.
274 4=file:/boot/vmlinuz+7=file:/boot/initrd/+9=file:/etc/fstab"
275 The systemd-trust tool should then be able to resolve any "underspecifed"
276 form into the form with explicit hash values.
277
278 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
279 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
280 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
281 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
282
283 * tmpfiles: for f/F/w lines, if the argument columns is left unspecified, look
284 for a service credential named after the file path to write to, and load
285 contents to write from there. Usecase: provision arbitrary files from
286 credentials. Example use: with a line like "f /root/.ssh/authorized-keys
287 0644 root root" in a tmpfiles.d/ snippet add
288 LoadCredential=root.ssh.authorized-keys via drop-in to
289 systemd-tmpfiles.service, and then provision an SSH access key through
290 nspawn's --load-credential=, through qemu's fw_cfg, or via systemd-stub's
291 credntial pick-up. The latter is particularly interesting to implement SSH
292 access to an initrd.
293
294 * systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential sysemd.homed.register
295 or so with JSON user records to automatically register if not registered yet.
296 Usecase: deploy a system, and add an account one can directly log into.
297
298 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
299 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
300 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
301 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
302 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
303 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
304 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
305 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
306 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
307
308 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
309 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
310 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
311 order.
312
313 * TPM2: add auth policy for signed PCR values to make updates easy. i.e. do
314 what tpm2_policyauthorize tool does. To be truly useful scheme needs to be a
315 bit more elaborate though: policy probably must take some nvram based
316 generation counter into account that can only monotonically increase and can
317 be used to invalidate old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to
318 old signed PCR sets whenever they want. Usecase: encrypt the rootfs with LUKS
319 with a key that can only be unlocked via a pristine pre-built Fedora
320 kernel+initrd.
321
322 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
323 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
324 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
325
326 * add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
327 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
328 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
329 acquire.
330
331 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
332 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
333 is only supported for such old kernels
334
335 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
336 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
337 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
338 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
339 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
340 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
341 IN_IGNORED again)
342
343 * sd-stub: set efi var indicating stub features, i.e. whether they pick up
344 creds, sysexts and so on. similar to existing variable of sd-boot
345
346 * sd-stub: set efi vars declaring TPM PCRs we measured creds/cmdline + sysext
347 into (even if we hardcode them)
348
349 * systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
350 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
351 virtio-fs.
352
353 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
354 - make sysext run in the initrd
355 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
356 on verification if in secureboot mode
357 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
358 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
359 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
360 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
361 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
362 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
363 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
364 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
365 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
366 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
367 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
368 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
369 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
370 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
371 - sd-stub should measure the kernel/initrd/… into a separate PCR, so that we
372 have one PCR we can bind the encrypted creds to that is not effected by
373 anything else but what we drop in via kernel-install, i.e. by earlier EFI
374 code running (i.e. like PCR 4)
375
376 * Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
377 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
378 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
379 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
380 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
381 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
382 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
383 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
384 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
385 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
386 service runtime logic quite substantially.
387
388 * firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
389 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
390 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
391
392 * beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
393 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
394 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
395 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
396 friends.)
397
398 * mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
399 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
400 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
401 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
402 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
403 directly to host service manager.
404
405 * maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
406 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
407 configure socket address.
408
409 * sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
410 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
411
412 * sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
413 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
414 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
415
416 * sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
417
418 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
419 no api to query the device id
420
421 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
422 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
423 also be queried.
424
425 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
426 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
427 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
428 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
429
430 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
431 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
432 latter).
433
434 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
435
436 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
437
438 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
439 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
440 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
441 generated by GNU sha256sums.
442
443 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
444 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
445 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
446 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
447 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
448 UEFI HTTP boot.
449
450 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
451 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
452 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
453 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
454 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
455 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
456 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
457 hence cheap for enumeration.
458
459 * initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
460 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
461 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
462
463 * in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
464 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
465 pre-built kernels.
466
467 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
468
469 * maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
470 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
471 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
472 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
473 comprehensively.
474
475 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
476 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
477 words: show partition labels).
478
479 * systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
480 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
481 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
482 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
483
484 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
485 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
486 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
487 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
488 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
489 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
490 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
491
492 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
493
494 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
495
496 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
497
498 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
499 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
500 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
501 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
502 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
503 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
504 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
505 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
506 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
507 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
508
509 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
510 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
511 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
512 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
513 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
514 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
515 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
516 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
517 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
518 an NTP sync is acquired.
519
520 * kernel-install:
521 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
522 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
523 call it at the end only
524
525 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
526 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
527
528 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
529 jobs, units
530
531 * bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
532
533 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
534 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
535
536 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
537
538 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
539 json package metadata, and use that when logging
540
541 * systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
542
543 * Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
544 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
545
546 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
547 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
548
549 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
550 internal clock.
551
552 * nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
553 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
554
555 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
556 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
557
558 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
559 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
560 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
561 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
562
563 * sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
564 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
565
566 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
567 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
568 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
569
570 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
571 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
572 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
573 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
574 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
575 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
576 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
577 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
578 thread:
579 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
580 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
581 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
582 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
583 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
584 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
585
586 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
587 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
588 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
589
590 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
591 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
592 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
593 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
594 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
595 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
596 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
597 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
598 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
599 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
600 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
601 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
602 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
603 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
604 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
605
606 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
607 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
608 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
609 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
610 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
611 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
612
613 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
614 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
615 dep in the base OS image)
616
617 * sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
618 sysext pickup logic.
619
620 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
621 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
622 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
623 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
624 on-disk storage.
625
626 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
627 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
628 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
629 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
630 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
631
632 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
633 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
634 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
635 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
636 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
637 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
638 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
639
640 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
641 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
642 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
643 externally and provide to us on demand only.
644
645 * add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
646 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
647 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
648 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
649 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
650 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
651 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
652 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
653
654 * nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
655 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
656 one.
657
658 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
659 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
660 into PCR 8)
661
662 * add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
663 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
664 authentication.
665
666 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
667 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
668 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
669
670 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
671
672 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
673
674 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
675 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
676 that images cannot be misused.
677
678 * New udev block device symlink names:
679 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
680 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
681 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
682 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
683
684 * sysupdate:
685 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
686 - support casync as download mechanism
687 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
688 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
689 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
690 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
691 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
692 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
693 override the host's update files.)
694 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
695 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
696 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
697 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
698
699 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
700
701 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
702 make dirs appear under right UID.
703
704 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
705 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
706
707 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
708 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
709 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
710 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
711 for doing that.
712
713 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
714 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
715 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
716 already have it.
717
718 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
719 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
720
721 * add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
722 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
723 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
724 socket: connect() to it.
725
726 * Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
727
728 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
729 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
730 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
731 /proc/self/fd/3
732
733 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
734 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
735 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
736
737 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
738 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
739
740 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
741 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
742
743 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
744 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
745 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
746 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
747 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
748
749 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
750
751 * credentials system:
752 - acquire from EFI variable?
753 - acquire via via ask-password?
754 - acquire creds via keyring?
755 - pass creds via keyring?
756 - pass creds via memfd?
757 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
758 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
759 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
760 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
761 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
762 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
763 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
764 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
765
766 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
767 firmware indicates there is one.
768
769 * Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
770 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
771 override its hash
772
773 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
774 and such
775
776 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
777
778 * cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
779 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
780
781 * cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
782
783 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
784 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
785
786 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
787 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
788
789 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
790
791 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
792 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
793
794 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
795 systemd-makefs.service instead.
796
797 * cryptsetup:
798 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
799 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
800
801 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
802 it happens to be set up alright already.
803
804 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
805
806 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
807 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
808 default.
809
810 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
811 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
812 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
813 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
814 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
815
816 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
817
818 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
819 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
820
821 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
822 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
823 temporary dir.
824
825 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
826 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
827
828 * add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
829 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
830
831 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
832
833 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
834
835 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
836 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
837
838 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
839
840 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
841
842 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
843 when it exits
844
845 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
846 o turn into dlopen() deps:
847 - p11-kit-trust (always)
848 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
849 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
850 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
851 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
852 since they are so basic and our defaults)
853 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
854 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
855
856 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
857 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
858 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
859
860 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
861 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
862
863 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
864 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
865 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
866 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
867
868 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
869
870 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
871 specific service
872
873 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
874 exists and responds.
875
876 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
877 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
878 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
879
880 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
881 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
882
883 * unify on openssl:
884 - kill gnutls support in resolved
885 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
886 gnutls
887 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
888
889 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
890 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
891
892 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
893 realname substr searches in varlink API
894
895 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
896
897 * userdb: allow existence checks
898
899 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
900
901 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
902 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
903 initrd had set.
904
905 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
906 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
907 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
908 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
909 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
910 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
911
912 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
913 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
914 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
915
916 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
917 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
918 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
919 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
920 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
921 source.
922
923 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
924 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
925 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
926
927 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
928
929 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
930 the hibernation
931
932 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
933 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
934 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
935 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
936 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
937 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
938 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
939 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
940 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
941 hibernation mode. (see
942 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
943 section 10.2.2.8 and
944 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
945 at the end).
946
947 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
948 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
949
950 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
951
952 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
953 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
954 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
955 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
956 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
957 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
958 exec().
959
960 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
961
962 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
963 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
964
965 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
966 gnome-bluetooth and friends
967
968 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
969 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
970 root.
971
972 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
973 is issued.
974
975 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
976
977 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
978
979 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
980 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
981 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
982
983 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
984 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
985 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
986
987 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
988
989 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
990 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
991
992 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
993 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
994 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
995 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
996
997 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
998
999 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1000 log.c and sd-journal-send
1001
1002 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1003
1004 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1005
1006 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1007 non-zero "tries done" count
1008
1009 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1010 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1011 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1012 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1013 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1014 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1015 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1016 CODE_FILE.
1017
1018 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1019 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1020 some explanatory text online.
1021
1022 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1023
1024 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1025 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1026
1027 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1028 Specifically:
1029
1030 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1031 properly)
1032 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1033 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
1034
1035 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1036 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1037
1038 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1039 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1040 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1041 files and suchlike we operate on.
1042
1043 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1044
1045 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1046
1047 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1048 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1049
1050 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1051 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1052
1053 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1054 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1055 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1056 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1057 unlinked from any dir.
1058
1059 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1060
1061 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1062
1063 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1064
1065 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1066 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1067 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1068 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1069 should reflink the image file itself.
1070
1071 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1072 specific paths only like this.
1073
1074 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1075 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1076 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1077 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1078 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1079
1080 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1081
1082 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1083
1084 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1085 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1086
1087 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1088 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1089 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1090 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1091 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1092 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1093 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1094 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1095
1096 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1097 for root, but only then.
1098
1099 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1100
1101 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1102 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1103
1104 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1105 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1106
1107 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1108 only when used. Add unit tests.
1109
1110 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1111 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1112
1113 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1114 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1115 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1116 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1117 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1118
1119 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1120
1121 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1122 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1123 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1124
1125 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1126
1127 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1128 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1129
1130 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1131
1132 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1133
1134 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1135 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1136
1137 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1138 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1139 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1140 ID is available.
1141
1142 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1143 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1144 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1145
1146 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1147 parameters
1148
1149 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1150 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1151 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1152 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1153 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1154 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1155 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1156
1157 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1158 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1159
1160 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1161 about it in the resource log message
1162
1163 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1164 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1165 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1166
1167 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1168 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1169
1170 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1171
1172 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1173 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1174 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1175
1176 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1177 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1178
1179 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1180 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1181 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1182 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1183 natural habitat.
1184
1185 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1186
1187 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1188 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1189 relative to the configured default value.
1190
1191 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1192
1193 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1194
1195 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1196
1197 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1198
1199 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1200
1201 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1202
1203 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1204
1205 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1206
1207 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1208 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1209 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1210
1211 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1212 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1213
1214 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1215
1216 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1217 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1218 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1219 mapping to work.
1220
1221 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1222
1223 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1224
1225 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1226
1227 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1228 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1229
1230 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1231 reload the unit file anyway
1232
1233 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1234
1235 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1236
1237 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1238 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1239
1240 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1241 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1242 specifications.
1243
1244 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1245
1246 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1247
1248 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1249 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1250 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1251 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1252
1253 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1254
1255 * initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
1256 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
1257 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
1258
1259 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1260
1261 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1262 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1263 state.
1264 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1265
1266 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1267 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1268 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1269 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1270 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1271
1272 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1273
1274 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1275 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1276
1277 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1278 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1279
1280 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1281 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1282
1283 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1284
1285 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1286 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1287
1288 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1289
1290 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1291
1292 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1293
1294 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1295
1296 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1297 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1298
1299 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1300
1301 * resolved:
1302 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1303 - service registration
1304 - service/domain/types browsing
1305 - avahi compat
1306 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1307 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1308 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1309 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1310 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1311 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1312
1313 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1314
1315 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1316
1317 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1318
1319 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1320
1321 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1322
1323 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1324 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1325
1326 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1327
1328 * gpt-auto-generator:
1329 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1330 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1331
1332 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1333 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1334 when it is otherwise off
1335
1336 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1337
1338 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1339 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1340 for ReusePort=
1341
1342 * cgroups:
1343 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1344 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1345 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1346 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1347 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1348 the hierarchies of child processes
1349 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1350 maybe use them for user@.service
1351
1352 * transient units:
1353 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1354
1355 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1356
1357 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1358
1359 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1360
1361 * 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
1362
1363 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1364
1365 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1366 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1367 path anyway.
1368
1369 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1370
1371 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1372
1373 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1374
1375 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1376
1377 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1378
1379 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1380
1381 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1382 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1383 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1384
1385 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1386 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1387
1388 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1389
1390 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1391
1392 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1393
1394 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1395 needs to be auto-respawned?
1396
1397 * pid1:
1398 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1399 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1400 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1401 that are not supported...
1402 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1403 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1404 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1405 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1406 - move PAM code into its own binary
1407 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1408 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1409 - Support --test based on current system state
1410 - 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().
1411 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1412 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1413 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1414 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1415 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1416 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1417 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1418 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1419 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1420 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1421 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1422 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1423
1424 * unit files:
1425 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1426 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1427 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1428 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1429 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1430 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1431 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1432 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1433 - introduce Type=pid-file
1434 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1435 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1436 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1437
1438 * timer units:
1439 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1440 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1441
1442 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1443
1444 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1445
1446 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1447
1448 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1449
1450 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1451
1452 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1453
1454 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1455
1456 * test/:
1457 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1458
1459 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1460 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1461 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1462 destination.
1463
1464 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1465 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1466
1467 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1468
1469 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1470 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1471 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1472
1473 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1474 compliant boot loader is installed.
1475
1476 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1477 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1478 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1479 that automatically.
1480
1481 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1482
1483 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1484
1485 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1486
1487 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1488
1489 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1490
1491 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1492
1493 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1494
1495 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1496
1497 * sd-bus:
1498 - EBADSLT handling
1499 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1500 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1501 - 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
1502 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1503 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1504 - longer term: priority inheritance
1505 - dbus spec updates:
1506 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1507 - path escaping
1508 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1509
1510 * sd-event
1511 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1512 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1513 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1514 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1515 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1516 here:
1517 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1518
1519 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1520 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1521
1522 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1523
1524 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1525
1526 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1527
1528 * firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1529 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1530 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1531 the host on invocation
1532
1533 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1534 reading/writing files
1535
1536 * firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1537
1538 * sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1539 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1540 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1541 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1542 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1543 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1544 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1545
1546 * efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1547 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1548 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1549 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1550 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1551 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1552 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1553
1554 * EFI:
1555 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1556 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1557 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1558 * bootctl
1559 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1560
1561 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1562
1563 * bootctl:
1564 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1565 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1566 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1567 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
1568 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1569
1570 * kernel-install:
1571 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
1572
1573 * logind:
1574 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1575 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1576 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1577 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1578 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1579 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1580 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1581 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1582 needs setuid().
1583 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1584 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1585 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1586 complete.
1587 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1588 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1589 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1590 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1591 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1592 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1593 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1594 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1595 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1596 relogins
1597 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1598 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1599 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1600 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
1601
1602 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1603
1604 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1605 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1606 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1607
1608 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1609 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1610
1611 * journal:
1612 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1613 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1614 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1615 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1616 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1617 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1618 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1619 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1620 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1621 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1622 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1623 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1624 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1625 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1626 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1627 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1628 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1629 - 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.
1630 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1631 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1632 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1633 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1634 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1635 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1636 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1637 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1638 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1639 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1640 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1641 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1642 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1643 to syslog when it works again.
1644 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1645 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1646 journals in.
1647 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1648 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1649 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1650 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1651 the most common operations.
1652 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1653 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1654 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1655 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1656 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1657 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1658 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1659 operation.
1660 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1661 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1662 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1663 binary logs data
1664 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1665 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1666 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1667 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1668 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1669 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1670
1671 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1672 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1673
1674 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1675 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1676 validated via TPM.
1677
1678 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1679 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1680
1681 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1682 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1683 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1684
1685 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1686 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1687 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1688 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1689 cgroup.
1690
1691 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1692 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1693 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1694 logging.
1695
1696 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1697
1698 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1699 from the SIGBUS handler
1700
1701 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1702 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1703 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1704 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1705
1706 * homed:
1707 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1708 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1709 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
1710 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1711 - create on activate?
1712 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1713 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1714 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1715 systemd --user is shut down.
1716 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1717 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1718 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1719 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1720 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1721 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1722 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1723 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1724 - query password from kernel keyring first
1725 - update even if record is "absent"
1726 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1727 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1728 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1729 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1730 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
1731 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1732 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1733 doesn't mean user B sees it
1734 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
1735 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1736 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1737 signature
1738 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1739 and insert a local signature instead.
1740 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1741 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1742 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1743 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1744 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1745 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1746 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1747 easily?
1748 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1749 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1750 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1751 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1752 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1753 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1754 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
1755 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1756 can easily set overall quota for all users
1757 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1758 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
1759 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
1760 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
1761 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1762 large.
1763
1764 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1765 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1766 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1767
1768 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
1769
1770 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1771 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1772 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1773 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1774
1775 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1776
1777 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1778 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1779 something goes wrong on the way.
1780
1781 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1782
1783 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1784 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1785 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1786 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1787
1788 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1789 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1790 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1791 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1792 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1793 automatically.
1794
1795 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1796 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1797
1798 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1799 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1800 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1801 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1802 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1803 fails to apply use the latter.
1804
1805 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1806 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1807
1808 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1809 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1810
1811 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1812 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1813
1814 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1815 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1816
1817 * document:
1818 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1819 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1820 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1821 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1822 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1823 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1824 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1825 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1826 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1827 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1828 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1829 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1830
1831 * systemctl:
1832 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1833 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1834 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1835 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1836 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1837 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1838 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1839 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1840 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1841 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1842
1843 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1844 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1845 it should skip the variant type string though.
1846
1847 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1848 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1849 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1850 output for them.
1851
1852 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1853 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1854 the slices, and the units attached to them.
1855
1856 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1857 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1858 wait to retrieve their exit data.
1859
1860 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1861 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
1862
1863 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1864 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1865 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1866 do, for example)
1867
1868 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1869 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1870 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1871 returning from the "systemctl stop".
1872
1873 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1874
1875 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1876
1877 * unit install:
1878 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1879 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1880
1881 * nspawn:
1882 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1883 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1884 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1885 from the kernel's logs.
1886 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1887 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1888 interface be missing
1889 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1890 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1891 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1892 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1893 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1894 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1895 PID 1...
1896 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1897 running, remove them when shut down.
1898
1899 * nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1900 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1901 during startup.
1902
1903 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1904 so, freeze the payload too.
1905
1906 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1907 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1908 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1909 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1910 anything like that.
1911
1912 * nspawn: support time namespaces
1913
1914 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1915 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1916
1917 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1918 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1919
1920 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1921 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1922 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1923
1924 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1925
1926 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1927
1928 * machined:
1929 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1930 removed or added to an existing machine
1931 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1932 difference host, via ssh
1933 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1934 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1935 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1936 question
1937 - "machinectl history"
1938 - "machinectl diff"
1939 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1940 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1941
1942 * udev:
1943 - move to LGPL
1944 - kill scsi_id
1945 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1946 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1947
1948 * coredump:
1949 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1950 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1951
1952 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1953
1954 * tmpfiles:
1955 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1956 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1957 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1958 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1959 calls follow symlinks.
1960 - add --test mode
1961 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1962 project quota
1963
1964 * udev-link-config:
1965 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1966 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1967 on Path= matching
1968
1969 * sd-rtnl:
1970 - add support for more attribute types
1971 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1972
1973 * networkd:
1974 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1975 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1976 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1977 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1978 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1979 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1980 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1981 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1982 - expose in the API the following bits:
1983 - option 15, domain name
1984 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1985 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1986 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1987 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1988 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1989 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1990 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1991 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1992
1993 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1994
1995 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1996
1997 * dhcp:
1998 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1999
2000 * dhcp6:
2001 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2002 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2003 - write more test cases
2004 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2005 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2006 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2007 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2008 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2009 or interface down
2010 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2011 this behavior
2012 - RouteTable= ?