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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.
6
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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
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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:
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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.
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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* make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
134 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
135 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
136 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
137 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
138
666a348d 139* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
630023e2 140 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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142* importd/importctl
143 - import generator
144 - port tar handling to libarchive
145 - add varlink interface
146 - download images into .v/ dirs
147
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148* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
149 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
150 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
151
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152* ptyfwd: look for window title ANSI sequences and insert colored dot in front
153 of it while passing it through, to indicate whether we are in privileged, VM,
154 container terminal sessions.
155
156* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
157 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
158 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
159 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
160 exit code propagation
161
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162* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
163 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
164 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
165 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
166 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
167
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168* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
169
10e3f15a 170* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 171 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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172 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
173 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
174
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175* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
176 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
177 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
178 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
179
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180* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
181 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
182
183* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
184
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185* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
186 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
187 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
188 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
189 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
190 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
191
192* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
193 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
194 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
195
196* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
197 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
198
199* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 200 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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201 actually works too when run with user privs.
202
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203* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
204 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
205 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
206 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
207
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208* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
209 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
210
211* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
212 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
213 and unix-export dir of containers.
214
73d8041c 215* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 216 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
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217 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
218
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219* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
220 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
221 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
222 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
223
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224* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
225 64bit mount ids
226
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227* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
228 interfaces nspawn creates
229
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230* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
231 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
232 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
233 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
234
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235* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
236 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
237 volume key.
238
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239* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
240 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
241 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
242 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
243 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
244 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
245 specified images.
246
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247* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
248 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
249 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
250
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251* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
252 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
253 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
254
255* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
256 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
257 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
258
259* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
260 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
261
262* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
263 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
264
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265* systemd-pcrextend:
266 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
267 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
268 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 269 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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270 PCRs.
271
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272* vmspawn:
273 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
274 - register with machined
275 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
276 - support --directory= via virtiofs
277 - sd_notify support
278 - --ephemeral support
279 - --read-only support
280 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
281 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
282 suspend key presses.
283 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
284 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
285 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
286
287* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
288
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289* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
290
291* storagetm:
292 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
293 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
294 operate in device mode
295 - add NVMe authentication
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297* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
298 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
299 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
300 nvme-oF
301
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302* pcrlock:
303 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
304 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
305 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
306 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
307 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
308 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
309 pass it via initrd to OS
310 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
311 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
312 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
313 /run?
314 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
315 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
316 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
317 for pre-built images
318
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319* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
320 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
321 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
322 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
323 add a field identifying the project.
324
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325* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
326 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
327 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
328 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
329 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
330
331* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
332 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
333 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
334 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
335
336* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
337 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
338 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
339
340* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
341 systems.
342
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343* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
344 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
345 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
346 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
347 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
348 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
349 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 350 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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351 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
352 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
353 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
354 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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356* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
357 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
358 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
359 sysext
360
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361* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
362 other programs via IPC:
363 - bootctl
364 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
365 - coredumpcl
366 - systemd-bless-boot
367 - systemd-measure
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368 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
369 - systemd-dissect
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370 - systemd-sysupdate
371 - systemd-analyze
372 - kernel-install
f277d99c 373 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
3d1831b9 374
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375* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
376 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
377 via "systemctl status".
378
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379* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
380 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 381 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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383* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
384 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
385
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386* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
387 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
388
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389* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
390 menu.
391
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392* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
393 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
394 sockets.
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396* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
397 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 398 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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400* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
401 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
402 migratable between PCs)
403
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404* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
405 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
406 snapshot logic
407
408* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
409 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
410 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 411 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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412 a local key to it.
413
a1f7cdc6 414* PidRef conversion work:
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415 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
416 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
417 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 418 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 419 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 420 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 421 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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422 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
423 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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425* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
426
427* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
428 mode.
429
3a9e659a 430* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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431 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
432 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
433 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
434 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
435 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
436 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
437
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438* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
439 too much
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fcdd21ec 441* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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442 to systemd-dissect
443
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444* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
445 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
446 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
447 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
448 control of the attacker.
449
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450* also include packaging metadata (á la
451 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
452 same JSON format.
453
454* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
455 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
456 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
457 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
458 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
459 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
460 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
461 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
462 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
463 newer.
464
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465* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
466 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
467 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
468 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
469 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
470 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
471 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
472 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
473
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474* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
475 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
476 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
477
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478* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
479 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
480 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
481 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 482 independently of any kernel.
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485 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
486 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
487 requested during switch root.
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490
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492 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
493 matched against OS.
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496 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
497 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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500 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
501 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
502 namespaces)
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505 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
506
507* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
508 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
509 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
510
f447b741 511* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 512 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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514 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
515 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
516 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
517
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519 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 520 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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522
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524 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
525 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
526 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
527 based on lo_file_name.
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530 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 531 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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533
534* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
535 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
536 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
537 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
538 creating versions like these automatically).
539
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543 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
544 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
545 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
546 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
547 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
548 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
549 activation-by-message id and similar.
550
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552
512f2da5 553* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 554 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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556 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
557
558* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
559 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
560 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
561 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
562 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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565 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
566 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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571 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
572 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
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574* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
575 localed, oomd, timedated.
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578 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
579 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
580 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
581 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
582 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 583 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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585 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
586 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
587 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
588 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
589 access.
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592 posix_spawn().
593
594* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
595 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
596 through nspawn.
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599 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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602 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
603 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
604 for all umh processes.
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607 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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610 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
611 resize.
612
613* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
614 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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617 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
618 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
619 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
620 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
621 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
622 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
623 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
624 system actually reset.
625
626* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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628 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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631 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
632 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
633 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
634
4cb8a25b 635* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 636 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 637 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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641 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
642 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
643 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
644 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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647 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
648 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
649 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
650 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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653
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655 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 656 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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658
084ecae5 659* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 660 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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662* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
663 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
664 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
665
6d040d84 666* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 667 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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669* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
670 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
671 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
672 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
673 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
674 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
675 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
676 usual.
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679
680* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
681
682* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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685 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
686 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
687 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
688 sockaddr.
689
690* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
691 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
692 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
693 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
694 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
695 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
696 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
697 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
698 try to use inode from there.
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701 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
702
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704 extensions
705
706* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
707 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
708 for the root fs or /usr/.
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711 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
712 combination thereof.
713
714* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
715 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
716 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
717 ahead of time.
718
719* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
720 aforementioned purpose.
721
722* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
723 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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726 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
727 to figure out:
728 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
729 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
730 subsequent boots?
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733 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
734 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
735 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
736 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
737 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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739 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
740 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
741 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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744 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
745 used)
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748 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
749 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
750 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
751 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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754 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
755 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
756 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 757 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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761 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
762 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
763
764* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
765 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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768
769* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
770 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 771 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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773
774* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
775 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
776 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
777 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
778 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
779 only one for each OS.
780
781* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
782 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 783 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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784 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
785 boot, for the next.
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788 similar behind it, instead of http.
789
790* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
791 boot, or on first boot.
792
793* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
794 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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797 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
798 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
799 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
800 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
801 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
802 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
803 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
804 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
805 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
806 until users are allowed to log in).
807
808* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
809 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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812 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
813 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 814 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 815 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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817 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
818 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 819 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
820 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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822
823* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
824 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
825 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
826 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 827 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 828 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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830 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 831 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
832 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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834 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
835 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 836 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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838 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
839 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
840 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 841 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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843 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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846 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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849 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
850
851* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
852 instead of manual blocking.
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855 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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858 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
859 supplied password.
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862 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
863 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
864 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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867 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
868 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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871* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
872 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
873 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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876 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
877 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 878 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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880
881* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
882 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
883 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
884 modules
885
b60e0f57 886* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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888 a new name with a built-in config?
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891 maybe on kernel command line:
892 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
893 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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896 hash type, etc)
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900
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4e0ceefe 902 but final node is not a directory
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905 non-VFAT fs is used.
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908
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910 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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917 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
918 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
919 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
920 affect PCR values.
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923 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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926 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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929 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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932 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
933
934* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
935 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
936
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939 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
940 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
941 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
942 use it.
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945 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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948 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
949 what it was signed.
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952 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
953 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
954 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
955 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
956 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
957 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
958 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
959 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
960 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
961 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
962 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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965 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
966
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969 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
970 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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972 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
973 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
974 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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976 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
977 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
978 file system paths to enable on start.
979 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
980 usr=
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982 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
983 pre-built kernels.
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986 runtime state. Then, expose it:
987
988 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
989 about the unit.
990 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
991 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
992 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
993 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
994 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
995 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
996
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998 what to do if support ended
999
1000* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1001 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 1003* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1004 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1005 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1006 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1007 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1010 initrd transition. Specifically:
1011 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1012 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1013 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1014
d486b26f 1015* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1016 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1018 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1019 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1020 depending on desired level of persistency.
1021
1022* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1023 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1024 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1026 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1027 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1028 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1029 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1030
1031* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1032 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1033 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1034 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1035
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1037
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1039
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1041 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1042 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1043 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1045 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1046 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1047 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1048 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1050 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1051 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1052 not unprivileged code.
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1055 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1056 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1057 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1060 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1061 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1062 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1063 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1065 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1067 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1069* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1070 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1071 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1072 order.
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1075 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1076 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1079 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1080 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1081 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1082 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1084 IN_IGNORED again)
1085
5b06ad51 1086* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1087 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1088 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1089 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1090 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1091 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1092 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1093 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1094 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1096 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1097 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1100 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1101 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1102
03ede612 1103* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1105 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1106 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1108 directly to host service manager.
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1111 no api to query the device id
1112
1113* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1114 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1115 also be queried.
1116
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1118 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1119 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1120 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1121
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1123 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1124 latter).
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1126* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1127
1128* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1129
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1130* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1131 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1132 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1133 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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1136 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1137 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1138 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1139 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1141
1142* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1143 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1144 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1145 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1147 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1148 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1149 hence cheap for enumeration.
1150
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1151* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1152
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1153* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1154 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1155 words: show partition labels).
1156
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1158 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1159 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1160 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1162 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1163 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1164
e4f92a62 1165* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1167* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1168
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1169* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1170 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1171 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1172 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1173 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1174 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1175 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1176 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1177 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1178 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1179
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1180* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1181 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1182
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1184 jobs, units
1185
a57d72ce 1186* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1188 userspace)
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1191
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1193 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1194
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1197
1198* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1199 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1200
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1201* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1202 internal clock.
1203
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1204* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1205 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1206
1207* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1208 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1209 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1210 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1213 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1214 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1215
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1217 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1219 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1220 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1221 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1222 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1225 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1226 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1227 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1228 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1229 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1231* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1232 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1234
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1236 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1237 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1238 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1239 on-disk storage.
1240
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1242 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1243 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1244 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1245 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1246
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1248 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1249 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1250
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1252 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1253 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1254 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1255
3fc0688d 1256* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1258 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1259 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1260 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1261 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1262 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1263 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1264 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1265 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1266 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1269 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1270 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1273
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1277 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1278 that images cannot be misused.
1279
aca8ecc3 1280* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1281 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1283 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1284 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1285
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1287 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1288 - support casync as download mechanism
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1289 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1290 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1291 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1292 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1293 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1294 host's update files.)
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1296 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1297 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1298 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1301
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1302* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1303 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1305* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1306 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1307
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1310 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1311 already have it.
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1314 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1315
1c904337 1316* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1318* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1319 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1320 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1321 /proc/self/fd/3
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1324 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1325 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1326
1327* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1328 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1331 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1334 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1335 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1336 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1337 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1340
199b097d 1341* credentials system:
199b097d 1342 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1343 - acquire via ask-password?
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1345 - pass creds via keyring?
1346 - pass creds via memfd?
1347 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1348 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1349 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1350 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1351 wireguard)
1352 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1354
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1356 and such
1357
1358* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1360* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1361
7d7c75f1 1362* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1364
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1365* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1366 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1369
1370* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1371 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1372
1373* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1374 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1375
1376* cryptsetup:
1377 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1378 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1379
08d33656 1380* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1382* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1383 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1384
f461a28d 1385* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1387
f461a28d 1388* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1389 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1390
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1391* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1392
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1393* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1394
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1395* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1396 when it exits
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1398* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1399 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1400 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1401 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1403 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1404 since they are so basic and our defaults)
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1406* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1407 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1408 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1409
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1410* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1411 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1412
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1413* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1414
1415* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1416 specific service
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1418* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1419 exists and responds.
1420
91fc013f 1421* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1422 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1423
7e8facb3 1424* unify on openssl:
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1425 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1426 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1427 gnutls
1428 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1430* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1431 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1432
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1433* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1434 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1436* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1437
2a4be3c5 1438* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1439
f1eb0ccd 1440* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1442* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1443 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1444 initrd had set.
1445
173c7873 1446* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1447 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1448 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1449 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1450 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1451 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1452
1453* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1454 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1455 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1456
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1457* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1458 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1459 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1460 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1461 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1462 source.
1463
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1464* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1465 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1466 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1467
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1468* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1469
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1470* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1471 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1472
c6526b8d 1473* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1475* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1476 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1477 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1478 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1479 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1480 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1481 exec().
1482
1483* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1484
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1485* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1486 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1487
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1488* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1489 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1490
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1491* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1492 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1493 root.
1494
1495* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1496 is issued.
1497
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1498* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1499
1500* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1501
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1502* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1503 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1504 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1505
d238709c 1506* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1507 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1508 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1509
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1510* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1511
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1512* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1513 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1514
06898123 1515* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1516 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1517 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1518 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1519
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1520* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1521
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1522* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1523
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1524* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1525 non-zero "tries done" count
1526
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1527* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1528 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1529 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1530 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1531 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1532 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1533 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1534 CODE_FILE.
1535
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1536* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1537 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1538 some explanatory text online.
1539
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1540* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1541
d1797c42 1542* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1544* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1545 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1546
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1547* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1548 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1549 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1550 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1552* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1553
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1554* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1555 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1556
5da19043 1557* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1558 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1560* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1561 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1562 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1563 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1564 unlinked from any dir.
1565
bd1b3f75 1566* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1568* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1569
1570* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1571
53c70a27 1572* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1573 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1574 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1575 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1576 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1577
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1578* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1579
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1580* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1581 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1582
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1583* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1584 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1585 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1586 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1587 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1588 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1589 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1590 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1591
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1592* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1593 for root, but only then.
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1595* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1596 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1597
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1598* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1599 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1600
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1601* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1602 only when used. Add unit tests.
1603
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1604* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1605 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1606
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1607* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1608 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1609 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1610 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1611 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1612
899feb72 1613* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1614
5f7ecd61 1615* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1617* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1618 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1619
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1620* blog about fd store and restartable services
1621
1622* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1623
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1624* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1625 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1626
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1627* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1628 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1629 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1630 ID is available.
1631
1632* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1633 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1634 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1635
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1636* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1637 parameters
1638
63a185dc 1639* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1640 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1641 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1642 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1643 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1644 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1645 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1647* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1648 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1649
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1650* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1651 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1652 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1653
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1654* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1655 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1656
1657 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1658
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1659* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1660 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1661 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1662
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1663* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1664 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1665
1666* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1667 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1668 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1669 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1670 natural habitat.
1671
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1672* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1673 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1675* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1676 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1677 relative to the configured default value.
1678
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1679* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1680
04397464 1681* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1683* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1684
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1685* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1686
04397464 1687* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1688
04397464 1689* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1690
04397464 1691* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1692
8ce9b83a 1693* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1695* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1696 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1697 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1698
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1699* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1700 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1701
e40a326c 1702* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1704* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1705 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1706 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1707 mapping to work.
1708
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1709* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1710
1711* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1712
1713* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1714
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1715* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1716 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1717
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1718* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1719 reload the unit file anyway
1720
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1721* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1722
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1723* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1724
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1725* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1726 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1727
f9bf1b8f 1728* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1729 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1730 specifications.
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1732* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1733
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1734* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1735
a2088fd0 1736* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1737 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1738 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1739 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1741* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1742
931bc195 1743* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1744
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1745* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1746 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1747 state.
41d6f3bf 1748 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1750* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1751 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1752 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1753 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1754 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1755
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1756* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1757
d2f81fb0 1758* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1759 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1760
0a86c1a9 1761* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1762 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1763
e031c227 1764* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1765 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
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1767* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1768
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1769* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1770 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1771
25e773ee 1772* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1773
720652b3 1774* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1775
720652b3 1776* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1777
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1778* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1779 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1780
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1781* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1782
9d6db739 1783* resolved:
9d6db739 1784 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1785 - service registration
1786 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1787 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1788 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1789 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1790 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1791 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1792 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1793 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1794
e25b5a8d 1795* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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1797* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1798
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1799* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1800
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1801* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1802
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1803* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1804
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1805* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1806 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1807
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1808* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1809
6a3f892a 1810* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1811 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1812 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1813
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1814* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1815 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1816 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1817
f9bf1b8f 1818* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1821 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1822 for ReusePort=
1823
f38afcd0 1824* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1825 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1826 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1827 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1828 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1829 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1830 the hierarchies of child processes
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1831 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1832 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1833
f38afcd0 1834* transient units:
f38afcd0 1835 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1836
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1837* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1838
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1839* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1840
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1841* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1842
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1843* 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
1844
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1845* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1846 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1847 path anyway.
1848
04397464 1849* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1850
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1851* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1852
07eabc2b 1853* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1854
07eabc2b 1855* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1856
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1857* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1858
1859* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1860 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1861 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1862
1863* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1864 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1865
1866* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1867
1868* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1869
1870* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1871
1872* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1873 needs to be auto-respawned?
1874
1875* pid1:
1876 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1877 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1878 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1879 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1880 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1881 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1882 - move PAM code into its own binary
1883 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1884 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1885 - Support --test based on current system state
1886 - 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().
1887 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1888 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1889 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1890 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1891 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1892 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1893 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1894 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1895 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1896 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1897 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1898 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1899
1900* unit files:
1901 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1902 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1903 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1904 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1905 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1906 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1907 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1908 - introduce Type=pid-file
1909 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1910 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1911 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1912
1913* timer units:
63a185dc 1914 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1915 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1916
1917* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1918
1919* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1920
1921* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1922
1923* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1924
07eabc2b 1925* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1926
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1927* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1928
1929* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1930
fff87a35 1931* test/:
20d52ab6 1932 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1933
b5c03638 1934* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1935 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1936 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1937 destination.
1938
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1939* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1940 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1941
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1942* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1943
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1944* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1945 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1946 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1947
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1948* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1949 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1950
7227dd81 1951* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1952 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1953 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1954 that automatically.
1955
e5ec62c5 1956* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1957
ccddd104 1958* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1959
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1960* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1961
356ce991 1962* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1963
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1964* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1965
1966* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1967
1968* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1969
1970* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1971
1972* sd-bus:
1973 - EBADSLT handling
1974 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1975 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1976 - 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
1977 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1978 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1979 - longer term: priority inheritance
1980 - dbus spec updates:
1981 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1982 - path escaping
1983 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1984
1985* sd-event
1986 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1987 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1988 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1989 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1990 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1991 here:
1992 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1993
1994* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1995 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1996
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1997* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1998
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1999* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2000
2001* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2002
2003* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2004
b44be3ec 2005* EFI:
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2006 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2007 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2008 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2009* bootctl
631427d6 2010 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2011
07eabc2b 2012* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2013
07eabc2b 2014* bootctl:
483091b0 2015 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2016 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2017 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2018
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2019* logind:
2020 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2021 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2022 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2023 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2024 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2025 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2026 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2027 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2028 needs setuid().
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2029 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2030 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2031 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2032 complete.
2033 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2034 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2035 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2036 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2037 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2038 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2039 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2040 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2041 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2042 relogins
77b19caf 2043 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2044 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2045 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2046 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2047
2048* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2049
2050* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2051 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2052 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2053
2054* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2055 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2056
b44be3ec 2057* journal:
57f2a947 2058 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2059 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2060 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2061 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2062 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2063 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2064 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2065 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2066 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2067 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2068 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2069 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2070 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2071 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2072 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2073 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2074 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2075 - 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.
2076 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2077 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2078 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2079 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2080 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2081 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2082 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2083 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2084 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2085 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2086 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2087 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2088 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2089 to syslog when it works again.
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2090 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2091 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2092 journals in.
2093 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2094 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2095 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2096 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2097 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2098 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2099 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2100 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2101 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2102 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2103 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2104 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2105 operation.
2106 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2107 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2108 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2109 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2110 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2111 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2112 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2113 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2114 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2115 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2117* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2118 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2119
2120* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2121 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2122 validated via TPM.
2123
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2125 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2126 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2127
2128* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2129 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2130 cursors as they happen.
2131
2132* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2133 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2134 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2135 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2136 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2137 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2138 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2139 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2140 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2141
2142* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2143 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2144 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2145 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2146 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2148
2149* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2150 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2151 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2152 records, to be able to order them.
2153
2154* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2155 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2156 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2157 be safely written to disk, then.
2158
2159* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2160 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2161 inspiration from IMA log)
2162
2163* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2164 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2165 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2166
2167* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2168 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2169 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2170 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2171 for doing that.
2172
2173* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2174 log.c and sd-journal-send
2175
2176* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2177 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2178 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2179 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2180 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2181 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2182 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2183 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2184 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2185 an NTP sync is acquired.
2186
2187* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2188
2189* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2190 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2191 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2192
2193* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2194 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2195 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2196 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2197 cgroup.
2198
2199* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2200 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2201 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2202 logging.
2203
2204* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2205
2206* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2207 from the SIGBUS handler
2208
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2209* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2210 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2211 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2212 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2213
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2215 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2216
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2217* homed:
2218 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2219 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2220 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2221 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2222 - create on activate?
2223 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2224 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2225 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2226 systemd --user is shut down.
2227 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2228 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2229 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2230 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2231 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2232 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2233 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2234 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2235 - query password from kernel keyring first
2236 - update even if record is "absent"
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2237 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2238 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2239 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2240 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2241 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2242 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2243 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2244 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2245 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
9c53de8b
LP
2246 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2247 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2248 signature
2249 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2250 and insert a local signature instead.
2251 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2252 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2253 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2254 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2255 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2256 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2257 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2258 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2259 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2260 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2261 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2262 can easily set overall quota for all users
2263 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2264 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2265 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2266 home dir
07eabc2b 2267
07eabc2b
LB
2268* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2269 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2270 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2271
2df2bb1f 2272* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
07eabc2b
LB
2273
2274* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2275 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2276 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2277 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2278
2279* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2280
2281* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2282 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2283 something goes wrong on the way.
2284
07eabc2b
LB
2285* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2286 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2287 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2288 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2289
2290* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2291 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2292 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2293 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2294 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2295 automatically.
2296
2297* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2298 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2299
2300* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2301 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2302 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2303 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2304 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2305 fails to apply use the latter.
2306
2307* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2308 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2309
2310* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2311 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2312
2313* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2314 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2315 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
07eabc2b
LB
2316
2317* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2318 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2319
92e72028 2320* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2321 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2322 during boot.
2323
2324* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2325
b44be3ec 2326* document:
8b8f2591 2327 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
2328 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2329 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2330 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2331 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2332 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2333 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2334 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2335 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2336 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2337 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2338 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2339
2340* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2341 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2342 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2343 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2344 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2345 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2346 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2347
07eabc2b
LB
2348* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2349 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2350 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2351
07eabc2b
LB
2352* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2353 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2354 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2355
07eabc2b
LB
2356* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2357 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2358 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2359
07eabc2b
LB
2360* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2361 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2362
07eabc2b
LB
2363* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2364 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2365 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2366 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2367
07eabc2b
LB
2368* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2369 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2370 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2371 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2372
07eabc2b
LB
2373* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2374
2375* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2376
2377* unit install:
2378 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2379 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2380
b44be3ec 2381* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2382 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2383 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2384 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2385 from the kernel's logs.
2386 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2387 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2388 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2389 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2390 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2391 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2392 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2393 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2394 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2395 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2396 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2397 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2398 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2399 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2400 startup.
2401 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2402 or so, freeze the payload too.
2403 - support time namespaces
2404 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2405 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2406 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2407 "machinectl shell"
2408 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2409 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2410 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2411 - greater control over selinux label?
2412 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2413 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2414 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2415 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2416 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2417 host TPM.
2418 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2419 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2420 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2421 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2422 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2423 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2424 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2425 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2426 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2427 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2428 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2429 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2430 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2431
2432* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2433 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2434 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2435 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2436 anything like that.
2437
e25b5a8d 2438* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2439 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2440 removed or added to an existing machine
2441 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2442 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2443 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2444 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2445 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2446 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2447 - "machinectl history"
2448 - "machinectl diff"
2449 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2450 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2451
abd55b16 2452* udev:
abd55b16 2453 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2454 - kill scsi_id
2455 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2456 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2457 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2458 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2459
e25b5a8d
DH
2460* coredump:
2461 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2462 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2463 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2464
2465* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2466
f38afcd0 2467* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2468 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2469 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2470 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2471 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2472 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2473 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2474 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2475 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2476 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2477 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2478 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2479
af6f0d42
TG
2480* udev-link-config:
2481 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2482 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2483 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2484
88e4d1d7 2485* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2486 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2487 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2488
0a4b9a07 2489* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2490 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2491 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2492 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2493 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2494 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2495 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2496 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2497 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2498 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2499 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2500 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2501 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2502 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2503 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2504 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2505 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2506 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2507 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2508
07eabc2b
LB
2509* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2510
d5e172d2
ZJS
2511* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2512
ac976532 2513* dhcp:
424a8732 2514 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2515
37d8b536
PF
2516* dhcp6:
2517 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2518 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2519 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2520 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2521 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2522 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2523 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2524 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2525 or interface down
2526 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2527 this behavior
4a77c53d 2528 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2529
2530* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2531 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2532 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)