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