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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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25* register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27* zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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32* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36* write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
f461a28d 74* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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75 calls instead.
76
77* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
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79* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
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83* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
b3e199ce 87* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
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92* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
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95Deprecations and removals:
96
97* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
b3e199ce 100* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
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105* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 107 is only supported for such old kernels.
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109* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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121* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
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124* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
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128* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
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131Features:
132
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133* cryptenroll/cryptsetup/homed: add unlock mechanism that combines tpm2 and
134 fido2, as well as tpm2 + ssh-agent, insipred by ChromeOS' logic: encrypt the
135 volume key with the TPM, with a policy that insists that a nonce is signed by
136 the fido2 device's key or ssh-agent key. Thus, add unlock/login time the TPM
137 generates a nonce, which is sent as a challenge to the fido2/ssh-agent, which
138 returns a signature which is handed to the tpm, which then reveals the volume
139 key to the PC.
140
141* cryptenroll/cryptsetup/homed: similar to this, implement TOTP backed by TPM.
142
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143* expose the handoff timestamp fully via the D-Bus properties that contain
144 ExecStatus information
145
146* properly serialize the ExecStatus data from all ExecCommand objects
147 associated with services, sockets, mounts and swaps. Currently, the data is
148 flushed out on reload, which is quite a limitation.
149
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150* Clean up "reboot argument" handling, i.e. set it through some IPC service
151 instead of directly via /run/, so that it can be sensible set remotely.
152
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153* userdb: add concept for user "aliases", to cover for cases where you can log
154 in under the name lennart@somenetworkfsserver, and it would automatically
155 generate a local user, and from the one both names can be used to allow
156 logins into the same account.
157
158* systemd-tpm2-support: add a some logic that detects if system is in DA
159 lockout mode, and queries the user for TPM recovery PIN then.
160
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161* systemd-repart should probably enable btrfs' "temp_fsid" feature for all file
162 systems it creates, as we have no interest in RAID for repart, and it should
163 make sure that we can mount them trivially everywhere.
164
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165* systemd-nspawn should get the same SSH key support that vmspawn now has.
166
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167* insert the new pidfs inode number as a third field into PidRef, so that
168 PidRef are reasonably serializable without having to pass around fds.
169
170* systemd-analyze smbios11 to dump smbios type 11 vendor strings
171
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172* move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
173 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
fcaa5105 174 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
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175 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
176
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177* vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
178 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
179 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
180 which uses 32bit words).
181
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182* In vmspawn/nspawn/machined wait for X_SYSTEMD_UNIT_ACTIVE=ssh-active.target
183 and X_SYSTEMD_SIGNAL_LEVEL=2 as indication whether/when SSH and the POSIX
184 signals are available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for
185 that). Report as property for the machine.
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187* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
188 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
189 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
190 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
191 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
192 as primary way into the container.
193
194* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
195 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
196 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
197 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
198 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
199 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
200 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
201 it for the invoking user.
202
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203* make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
204 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
205 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
206 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
207 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
208
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209* machined: allow running in a per-user instance too, to allow unpriv
210 systemd-nspawn and systemd-vmspawn do something useful. (Alternatively: open
211 up system machined to unpriv client's registering their machines, and enforce
212 they come with some prefix or suffix that clarifies they are the
213 user's. i.e. when a user registers a machine it must be called
214 foobar.<username> or so.).
215
216* importd/…: define per-user dirs for container/VM images too.
217
666a348d 218* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
630023e2 219 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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221* importd/importctl
222 - import generator
223 - port tar handling to libarchive
224 - add varlink interface
225 - download images into .v/ dirs
226
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227* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
228 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
229 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
230
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231* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
232 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
233 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
234 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
235 exit code propagation
236
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237* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
238 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
239 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
240 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
241 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
242
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243* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
244
10e3f15a 245* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 246 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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247 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
248 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
249
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250* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
251 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
252 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
253 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
254
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255* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
256 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
257
258* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
259
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260* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
261 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
262 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
263 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
264 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
265 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
266
267* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
268 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
269 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
270
271* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
272 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
273
274* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 275 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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276 actually works too when run with user privs.
277
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278* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
279 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
280 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
281 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
282
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283* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
284 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
285
286* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
287 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
288 and unix-export dir of containers.
289
73d8041c 290* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 291 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
7aed4343 292 run0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
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294* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
295 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
296 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
297 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
298
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299* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
300 64bit mount ids
301
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302* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
303 interfaces nspawn creates
304
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305* mountfsd/nsresourced
306 - userdb: maybe allow callers to map one uid to their own uid
307 - bpflsm: allow writes if resulting UID on disk would be userns' owner UID
308 - make encrypted DDIs work (password…)
309 - add API for creating a new file system from scratch (together with some
310 dm-integrity/HMAC key). Should probably work using systemd-repart (access
311 via varlink).
312 - add api to make an existing file "trusted" via dm-integry/HMAC key
313 - port: portabled
314 - port: tmpfiles, sysusers and similar
315 - lets see if we can make runtime bind mounts into unpriv nspawn work
316
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317* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
318 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
319 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
320 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
321
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322* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
323 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
324 volume key.
325
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326* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
327 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
328 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
329 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
330 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
331 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
332 specified images.
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334* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
335 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
336 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
337
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338* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
339 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
340 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
341
342* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
343 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
344 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
345
346* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
347 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
348
349* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
350 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
351
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352* systemd-pcrextend:
353 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
354 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
355 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 356 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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357 PCRs.
358
46859471 359* vmspawn:
46859471 360 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
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361 - sd_notify support
362 - --ephemeral support
363 - --read-only support
364 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
365 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
366 suspend key presses.
367 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
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368 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
369
370* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
371
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372* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
373
374* storagetm:
375 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
376 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
377 operate in device mode
378 - add NVMe authentication
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380* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
381 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
382 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
383 nvme-oF
384
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385* pcrlock:
386 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
387 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
388 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
389 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
390 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
391 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
392 pass it via initrd to OS
393 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
394 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
395 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
396 /run?
397 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
398 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
399 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
400 for pre-built images
401
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402* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
403 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
404 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
405 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
406 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
407
408* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
409 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
410 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
411 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
412
413* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
414 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
415 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
416
417* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
418 systems.
419
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420* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
421 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
422 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
423 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
424 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
425 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
426 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 427 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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428 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
429 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
430 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
431 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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433* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
434 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
435 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
436 sysext
437
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438* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
439 other programs via IPC:
440 - bootctl
441 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
442 - coredumpcl
443 - systemd-bless-boot
444 - systemd-measure
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445 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
446 - systemd-dissect
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447 - systemd-sysupdate
448 - systemd-analyze
449 - kernel-install
f277d99c 450 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
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452* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
453 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
454 via "systemctl status".
455
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456* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
457 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 458 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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460* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
461 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
462
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463* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
464 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
465
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466* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
467 menu.
468
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469* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
470 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
471 sockets.
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473* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
474 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 475 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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477* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
478 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
479 migratable between PCs)
480
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481* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
482 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
483 snapshot logic
484
485* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
486 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
487 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 488 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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490
a1f7cdc6 491* PidRef conversion work:
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493 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
494 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 495 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 496 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 497 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 498 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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500 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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503
504* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
505 mode.
506
3a9e659a 507* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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509 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
510 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
511 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
512 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
513 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
514
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516 too much
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fcdd21ec 518* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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520
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522 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
523 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
524 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
525 control of the attacker.
526
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528 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
529 same JSON format.
530
531* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
532 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
533 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
534 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
535 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
536 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
537 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
538 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
539 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
540 newer.
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543 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
544 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
545 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
546 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
547 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
548 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
549 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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552 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
553 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
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556 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
557 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
558 requested during switch root.
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561
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563 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
564 matched against OS.
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567 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
568 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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571 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
572 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
573 namespaces)
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576 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
577
578* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
579 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
580 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
581
f447b741 582* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 583 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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585 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
586 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
587 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
588
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590 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 591 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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593
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595 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
596 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
597 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
598 based on lo_file_name.
599
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601 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 602 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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604
605* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
606 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
607 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
608 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
609 creating versions like these automatically).
610
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612
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614 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
615 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
616 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
617 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
618 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
619 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
620 activation-by-message id and similar.
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623
512f2da5 624* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 625 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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627 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
628
629* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
630 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
631 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
632 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
633 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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636 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
637 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
638
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640
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642 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
643 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
644
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646 localed, oomd, timedated.
647
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649 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
650 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
651 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
652 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
653 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 654 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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656 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
657 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
658 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
659 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
660 access.
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663 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
664 through nspawn.
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667 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
668
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670 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
671 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
672 for all umh processes.
673
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675 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
676
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678 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
679 resize.
680
681* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
682 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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685 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
686 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
687 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
688 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
689 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
690 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
691 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
692 system actually reset.
693
694* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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696 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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699 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
700 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
701 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
702
4cb8a25b 703* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 704 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 705 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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707
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709 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
710 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
711 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
712 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
713
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715 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
716 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
717 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
718 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
719
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721
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723 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 724 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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726
084ecae5 727* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
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730* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
731 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
732 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
733
6d040d84 734* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 735 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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737* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
738 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
739 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
740 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
741 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
742 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
743 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
744 usual.
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747
748* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
749
750* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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753 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
754 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
755 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
756 sockaddr.
757
758* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
759 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
760 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
761 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
762 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
763 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
764 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
765 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
766 try to use inode from there.
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769 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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772 extensions
773
774* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
775 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
776 for the root fs or /usr/.
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779 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
780 combination thereof.
781
782* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
783 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
784 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
785 ahead of time.
786
787* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
788 aforementioned purpose.
789
790* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
791 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
792
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794 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
795 to figure out:
796 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
797 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
798 subsequent boots?
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801 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
802 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
803 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
804 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
805 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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807 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
808 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
809 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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812 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
813 used)
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816 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
817 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
818 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
819 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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822 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
823 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
824 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 825 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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829 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
830 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
831
832* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
833 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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836
837* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
838 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 839 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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841
842* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
843 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
844 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
845 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
846 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
847 only one for each OS.
848
849* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
850 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 851 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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853 boot, for the next.
854
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856 similar behind it, instead of http.
857
858* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
859 boot, or on first boot.
860
861* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
862 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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865 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
866 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
867 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
868 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
869 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
870 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
871 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
872 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
873 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
874 until users are allowed to log in).
875
876* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
877 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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880 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
881 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 882 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 883 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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885 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
886 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 887 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
888 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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890
891* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
892 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
893 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
894 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 895 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 896 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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898 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 899 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
900 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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902 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
903 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 904 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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906 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
907 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
908 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 909 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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911 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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914 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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917 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
918
919* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
920 instead of manual blocking.
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923 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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926 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
927 supplied password.
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930 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
931 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
932 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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935 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
936 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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939 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
940 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 941 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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943
944* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
945 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
946 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
947 modules
948
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949* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
950 maybe on kernel command line:
951 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
952 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
953
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954* Merge systemd-creds options --uid= (which accepts user names) and --user.
955
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956* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
957 hash type, etc)
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f461a28d 959* chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
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961
f461a28d 962* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 963 but final node is not a directory
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966 non-VFAT fs is used.
967
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968* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
969
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970* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
971 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
972
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973* pick up creds from EFI vars
974
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978 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
979 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
980 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
981 affect PCR values.
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984 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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987 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
988
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989* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
990 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
991
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993 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
994
995* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
996 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
997
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1000 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
1001 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
1002 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
1003 use it.
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1005* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
1006 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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1008* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
1009 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
1010 what it was signed.
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1013 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
1014 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
1015 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
1016 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
1017 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
1018 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
1019 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
1020 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
1021 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
1022 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
1023 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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1026 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1027
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1030 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1031 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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1033 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1034 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1035 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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1037 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1038 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1039 file system paths to enable on start.
1040 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1041 usr=
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1043 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1044 pre-built kernels.
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1047 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1048
1049 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1050 about the unit.
1051 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1052 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1053 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1054 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1055 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1056 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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1059 what to do if support ended
1060
1061* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1062 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 1064* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1065 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1066 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1067 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1068 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1071 initrd transition. Specifically:
1072 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1073 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1074 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1075
d486b26f 1076* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1077 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1079 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1080 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1081 depending on desired level of persistency.
1082
1083* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1084 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1085 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1087 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1088 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1089 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1090 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1091
1092* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1093 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1094 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1095 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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1098
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1102 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1103 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1104 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1106 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1107 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1108 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1109 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1111 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1112 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1113 not unprivileged code.
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1116 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1117 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1118 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1121 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1122 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1123 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1124 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1125 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1126 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1128 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1130* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1131 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1132 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1133 order.
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1136 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1137 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1139* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1140 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1141 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1142 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1143 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1145 IN_IGNORED again)
1146
5b06ad51 1147* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1148 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1150 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1151 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1152 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1153 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1154 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1155 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1156 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1157 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1158 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1161 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1162 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1163
03ede612 1164* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1166 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1167 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1168 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1169 directly to host service manager.
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1171* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1172 no api to query the device id
1173
1174* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1175 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1176 also be queried.
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1178* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1179 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1180 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1181 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1184 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1185 latter).
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1187* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1188
1189* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1190
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1191* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1192 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1193 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1194 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1195
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1197 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1198 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1199 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1200 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1202
1203* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1204 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1205 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1206 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1207 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1208 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1209 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1210 hence cheap for enumeration.
1211
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1213
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1214* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1215 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1216 words: show partition labels).
1217
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1218* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1219 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1220 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1221 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1223 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1224 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1225
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1227
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1228* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1229 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1230 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1231 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1232 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1233 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1234 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1235 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1236 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1237 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1238
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1239* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1240 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1241
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1243 jobs, units
1244
a57d72ce 1245* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1247 userspace)
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1250
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1251* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1252 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1253
d1666bde 1254* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1256
1257* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1258 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1260* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1261 internal clock.
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1263* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1264 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1265
1266* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1267 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1268 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1269 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1271* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1272 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1273 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
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1276 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1278 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1279 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1280 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1281 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1284 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1285 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1286 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1287 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1288 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1290* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1291 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1293
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1295 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1296 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1297 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1298 on-disk storage.
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1301 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1302 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1303 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1304 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
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1307 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1308 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1311 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1312 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1313 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1314
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1316 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1317 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1318 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1319 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1320 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1321 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1322 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1323 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1324 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1325 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1328 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1329 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1332
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1336 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1337 that images cannot be misused.
1338
aca8ecc3 1339* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1340 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1342 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1343 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1344
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1346 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1347 - support casync as download mechanism
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1349 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1350 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1351 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1353 host's update files.)
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1354 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1355 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1356 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1357 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1358
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1359* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1360
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1361* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1362 make dirs appear under right UID.
1363
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1364* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1365 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1366
24063ba1 1367* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1368 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1369 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1370 already have it.
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1372* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1373 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1374
1c904337 1375* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1377* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1378 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1379 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1380 /proc/self/fd/3
1381
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1382* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1383 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1384 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1385
1386* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1387 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1389* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1390 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1391
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1392* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1393 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1394 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1395 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1396 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1397
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1398* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1399
199b097d 1400* credentials system:
199b097d 1401 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1402 - acquire via ask-password?
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1403 - acquire creds via keyring?
1404 - pass creds via keyring?
1405 - pass creds via memfd?
1406 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
199b097d 1407 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1408 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1409 wireguard)
1410 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1411 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1412
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1413* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1414 and such
1415
1416* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1417
02c914ef 1418* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1419
7d7c75f1 1420* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1422
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1423* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1424 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1426* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1427
1428* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1429 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1430
1431* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1432 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1433
1434* cryptsetup:
1435 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1436 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1437
08d33656 1438* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1440* Figure out naming of verbs in systemd-analyze: we have (singular) capability,
1441 exit-status, but (plural) filesystems, architectures.
1442
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1443* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1444 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1445
f461a28d 1446* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1448
f461a28d 1449* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1450 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1451
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1452* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1453
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1454* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1455
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1456* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1457 when it exits
1458
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1459* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1460 o turn into dlopen() deps:
a52dc0b6 1461 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
cdfd8537 1462 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
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1464* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1465 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1466 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1467
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1468* systemd-path: Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum, mapping to
1469 $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
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1471* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1472
1473* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1474 specific service
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1476* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1477 exists and responds.
1478
91fc013f 1479* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1480 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1481
7e8facb3 1482* unify on openssl:
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1483 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1484 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1485 gnutls
1486 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1488* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1489 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1490
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1491* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1492 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1493
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1494* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1495
2a4be3c5 1496* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1497
f1eb0ccd 1498* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1500* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1501 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1502 initrd had set.
1503
173c7873 1504* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1505 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1506 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1507 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1508 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1509 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1510
1511* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1512 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1513 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1514
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1515* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1516 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1517 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1518 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1519 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1520 source.
1521
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1522* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1523 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1524 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1525
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1526* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1527
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1528* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1529 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1530
c6526b8d 1531* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1533* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1534 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1535 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1536 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1537 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1538 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1539 exec().
1540
1541* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1542
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1543* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1544 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1545
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1546* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1547 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1548
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1549* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1550 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1551 root.
1552
1553* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1554 is issued.
1555
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1556* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1557
1558* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1559
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1560* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1561 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1562 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1563
d238709c 1564* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1565 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1566 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1567
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1568* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1569
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1570* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1571 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1572
06898123 1573* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1574 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1575 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1576 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1578* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1579
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1580* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1581
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1582* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1583 non-zero "tries done" count
1584
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1585* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1586 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1587 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1588 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1589 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1590 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1591 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1592 CODE_FILE.
1593
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1594* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1595 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1596 some explanatory text online.
1597
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1598* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1599
d1797c42 1600* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1602* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1603 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1604
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1605* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1606 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1607 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1608 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1610* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1611
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1612* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1613 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1614
5da19043 1615* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1616 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1618* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1619 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1620 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1621 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1622 unlinked from any dir.
1623
bd1b3f75 1624* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1626* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1627
1628* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1629
53c70a27 1630* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1631 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1632 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1633 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1634 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1635
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1636* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1637
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1638* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1639 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1640
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1641* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1642 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1643 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1644 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1645 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1646 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1647 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1648 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1649
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1650* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1651 for root, but only then.
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1653* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1654 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1655
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1656* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1657 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1658
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1659* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1660 only when used. Add unit tests.
1661
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1662* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1663 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1664
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1665* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1666 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1667 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1668 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1669 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1670
899feb72 1671* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1672
5f7ecd61 1673* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1675* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1676 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1677
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1678* blog about fd store and restartable services
1679
1680* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1681
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1682* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1683 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1684
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1685* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1686 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1687 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1688 ID is available.
1689
1690* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1691 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1692 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1693
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1694* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1695 parameters
1696
63a185dc 1697* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1698 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1699 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1700 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1701 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1702 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1703 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1705* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1706 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1707
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1708* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1709 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1710 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1711
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1712* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1713 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1714
1715 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1716
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1717* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1718 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1719 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1720
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1721* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1722 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1723
1724* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1725 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1726 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1727 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1728 natural habitat.
1729
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1730* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1731 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1733* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1734 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1735 relative to the configured default value.
1736
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1737* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1738
04397464 1739* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1741* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1742
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1743* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1744
04397464 1745* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1746
04397464 1747* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1748
04397464 1749* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1750
8ce9b83a 1751* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1753* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1754 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1755 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1756
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1757* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1758 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1759
e40a326c 1760* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1762* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1763 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1764 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1765 mapping to work.
1766
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1767* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1768
1769* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1770
1771* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1772
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1773* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1774 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1775
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1776* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1777 reload the unit file anyway
1778
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1779* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1780
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1781* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1782
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1783* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1784 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1785
f9bf1b8f 1786* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1787 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1788 specifications.
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1790* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1791
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1792* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1793
a2088fd0 1794* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1795 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1796 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1797 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1799* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1800
931bc195 1801* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1803* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1804 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1805 state.
41d6f3bf 1806 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1807
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1808* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1809 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1810 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1811 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1812 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1813
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1814* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1815
d2f81fb0 1816* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1817 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1818
0a86c1a9 1819* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1820 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1821
e031c227 1822* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1823 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1824
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1825* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1826
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1827* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1828 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1829
25e773ee 1830* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1831
720652b3 1832* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1833
720652b3 1834* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1835
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1836* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1837 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1838
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1839* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1840
9d6db739 1841* resolved:
9d6db739 1842 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1843 - service registration
1844 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1845 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1846 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1847 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1848 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1849 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1850 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1851 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1852
e25b5a8d 1853* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1854
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1855* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1856
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1857* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1858
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1859* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1860
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1861* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1862
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1863* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1864 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1865
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1866* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1867
6a3f892a 1868* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1869 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1870 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1871
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1872* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1873 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1874 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1875
f9bf1b8f 1876* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1877
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1878* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1879 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1880 for ReusePort=
1881
f38afcd0 1882* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1883 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1884 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1885 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1886 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1887 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1888 the hierarchies of child processes
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1889 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1890 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1891
f38afcd0 1892* transient units:
f38afcd0 1893 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1894
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1895* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1896
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1897* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1898
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1899* 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
1900
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1901* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1902 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1903 path anyway.
1904
04397464 1905* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1906
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1907* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1908
07eabc2b 1909* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1910
07eabc2b 1911* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1912
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1913* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1914
1915* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1916 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1917 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1918
1919* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1920 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1921
1922* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1923
1924* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1925
1926* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1927
1928* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1929 needs to be auto-respawned?
1930
1931* pid1:
1932 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1933 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1934 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1935 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1936 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1937 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1938 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1939 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1940 - Support --test based on current system state
1941 - 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().
1942 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1943 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1944 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1945 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1946 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1947 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1948 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1949 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1950 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1951 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1952 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1953 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1954
1955* unit files:
1956 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1957 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1958 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1959 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1960 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1961 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1962 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1963 - introduce Type=pid-file
1964 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1965 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1966 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1967
1968* timer units:
63a185dc 1969 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1970 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1971
1972* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1973
1974* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1975
1976* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1977
1978* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1979
07eabc2b 1980* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1981
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1982* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1983
fff87a35 1984* test/:
20d52ab6 1985 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1986
b5c03638 1987* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1988 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1989 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1990 destination.
1991
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1992* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1993 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1994
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1995* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1996
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1997* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1998 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1999 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
2000
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2001* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
2002 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 2003
7227dd81 2004* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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2005 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
2006 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
2007 that automatically.
2008
e5ec62c5 2009* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 2010
ccddd104 2011* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 2012
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2013* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
2014
356ce991 2015* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 2016
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2017* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2018
2019* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2020
2021* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2022
2023* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2024
2025* sd-bus:
2026 - EBADSLT handling
2027 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2028 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2029 - 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
2030 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2031 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2032 - longer term: priority inheritance
2033 - dbus spec updates:
2034 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2035 - path escaping
2036 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2037
2038* sd-event
2039 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2040 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2041 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2042 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2043 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2044 here:
2045 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2046
2047* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2048 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2049
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2050* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2051
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2052* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2053
2054* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2055
2056* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2057
b44be3ec 2058* EFI:
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2059 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2060 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2061 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2062* bootctl
631427d6 2063 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2064
07eabc2b 2065* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2066
07eabc2b 2067* bootctl:
483091b0 2068 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2069 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2070 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2071
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2072* logind:
2073 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2074 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2075 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2076 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2077 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2078 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2079 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2080 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2081 needs setuid().
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2082 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2083 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2084 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2085 complete.
2086 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2087 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2088 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2089 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2090 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2091 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2092 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2093 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2094 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2095 relogins
77b19caf 2096 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2097 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2098 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2099 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2100
2101* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2102
2103* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2104 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2105 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2106
2107* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2108 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2109
b44be3ec 2110* journal:
57f2a947 2111 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2112 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2113 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2114 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2115 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2116 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2117 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2118 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2119 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2120 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2121 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2122 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2123 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2124 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2125 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2126 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2127 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2128 - 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.
2129 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2130 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2131 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2132 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2133 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2134 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2135 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2136 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2137 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2138 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2139 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2140 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2141 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2142 to syslog when it works again.
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2143 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2144 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2145 journals in.
2146 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2147 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2148 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2149 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2150 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2151 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2152 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2153 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2154 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2155 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2156 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2157 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2158 operation.
2159 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2160 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2161 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2162 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2163 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2164 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2165 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2166 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2167 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2168 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2170* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2171 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2172
2173* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2174 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2175 validated via TPM.
2176
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2178 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2179 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2180
2181* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2182 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2183 cursors as they happen.
2184
2185* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2186 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2187 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2188 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2189 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2190 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2191 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2192 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2193 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2194
2195* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2196 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2197 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2198 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2199 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2201
2202* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2203 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2204 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2205 records, to be able to order them.
2206
2207* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2208 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2209 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2210 be safely written to disk, then.
2211
2212* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2213 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2214 inspiration from IMA log)
2215
2216* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2217 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2218 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2219
2220* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2221 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2222 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2223 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2224 for doing that.
2225
2226* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2227 log.c and sd-journal-send
2228
2229* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2230 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2231 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2232 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2233 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2234 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2235 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2236 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2237 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2238 an NTP sync is acquired.
2239
2240* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2241
2242* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2243 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2244 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2245
2246* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2247 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2248 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2249 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2250 cgroup.
2251
2252* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2253 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2254 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2255 logging.
2256
2257* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2258
2259* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2260 from the SIGBUS handler
2261
590171d1
ZJS
2262* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2263 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2264 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2265 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2266
0134afe3
ZJS
2267* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2268 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2269
07eabc2b
LB
2270* homed:
2271 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2272 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2273 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
07eabc2b
LB
2274 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2275 - create on activate?
2276 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2277 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2278 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2279 systemd --user is shut down.
2280 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2281 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2282 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2283 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2284 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2285 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2286 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2287 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
07eabc2b
LB
2288 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2289 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2290 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2291 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2292 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
a11e7c0b
LB
2293 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2294 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2295 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2296 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
9c53de8b
LP
2297 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2298 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2299 signature
2300 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2301 and insert a local signature instead.
2302 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2303 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2304 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2305 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2306 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2307 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2308 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2309 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2310 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2311 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2312 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2313 can easily set overall quota for all users
2314 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2315 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2316 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2317 home dir
07eabc2b 2318
07eabc2b
LB
2319* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2320 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2321 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2322
2df2bb1f 2323* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
07eabc2b
LB
2324
2325* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2326 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2327 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2328 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2329
2330* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2331
2332* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2333 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2334 something goes wrong on the way.
2335
07eabc2b
LB
2336* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2337 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2338 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2339 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2340
2341* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2342 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2343 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2344 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2345 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2346 automatically.
2347
2348* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2349 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2350
2351* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2352 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2353 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2354 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2355 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2356 fails to apply use the latter.
2357
2358* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2359 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2360
2361* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2362 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2363
2364* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2365 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2366 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
07eabc2b
LB
2367
2368* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2369 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2370
92e72028 2371* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2372 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2373 during boot.
2374
2375* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2376
b44be3ec 2377* document:
8b8f2591 2378 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
2379 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2380 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2381 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2382 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2383 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2384 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2385 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2386 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2387 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2388 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2389 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2390
2391* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2392 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2393 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2394 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2395 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2396 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2397 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2398
07eabc2b
LB
2399* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2400 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2401 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2402
07eabc2b
LB
2403* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2404 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2405 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2406
07eabc2b
LB
2407* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2408 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2409 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2410
07eabc2b
LB
2411* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2412 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2413
07eabc2b
LB
2414* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2415 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2416 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2417 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2418
07eabc2b
LB
2419* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2420 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2421 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2422 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2423
07eabc2b
LB
2424* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2425
2426* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2427
2428* unit install:
2429 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2430 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2431
b44be3ec 2432* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2433 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2434 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2435 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2436 from the kernel's logs.
2437 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2438 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2439 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2440 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2441 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2442 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2443 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2444 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2445 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2446 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2447 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2448 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2449 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2450 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2451 startup.
2452 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2453 or so, freeze the payload too.
2454 - support time namespaces
2455 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2456 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2457 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2458 "machinectl shell"
2459 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2460 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2461 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2462 - greater control over selinux label?
2463 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2464 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2465 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2466 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2467 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2468 host TPM.
2469 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2470 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2471 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2472 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2473 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2474 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2475 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2476 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2477 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2478 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2479 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2480 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2481 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b 2482
e25b5a8d 2483* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2484 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2485 removed or added to an existing machine
2486 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2487 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2488 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2489 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2490 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2491 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2492 - "machinectl history"
2493 - "machinectl diff"
2494 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2495 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2496
abd55b16 2497* udev:
abd55b16 2498 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2499 - kill scsi_id
2500 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2501 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2502 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2503 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2504
e25b5a8d
DH
2505* coredump:
2506 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2507 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2508 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2509
2510* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2511
f38afcd0 2512* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2513 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2514 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2515 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2516 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2517 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2518 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2519 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2520 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2521 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2522 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2523 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2524
af6f0d42
TG
2525* udev-link-config:
2526 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2527 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2528 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2529
88e4d1d7 2530* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2531 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2532 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2533
0a4b9a07 2534* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2535 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2536 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2537 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2538 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2539 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2540 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2541 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2542 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2543 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2544 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2545 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2546 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2547 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2548 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2549 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2550 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2551 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2552 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2553
07eabc2b
LB
2554* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2555
d5e172d2
ZJS
2556* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2557
ac976532 2558* dhcp:
424a8732 2559 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2560
37d8b536
PF
2561* dhcp6:
2562 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2563 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2564 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2565 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2566 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2567 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2568 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2569 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2570 or interface down
2571 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2572 this behavior
4a77c53d 2573 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2574
2575* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2576 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2577 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)