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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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25* register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27* zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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32* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36* write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
f461a28d 74* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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75 calls instead.
76
77* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
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79* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
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83* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
b3e199ce 87* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
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92* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
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95Deprecations and removals:
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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* move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
134 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
fcaa5105 135 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
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136 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
137
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138* vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
139 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
140 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
141 which uses 32bit words).
142
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143* send out sd_notify() from PID 1 when we determined hostname and machine ID
144
145* send out sd_notify() from PID 1 whenever we reach a target unit. Then
146 introduce ssh.target or so. And in vmspawn/nspawn wait for that as indication
147 whether/when SSH is available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for that)
148
149* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
150 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
151 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
152 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
153 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
154 as primary way into the container.
155
156* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
157 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
158 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
159 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
160 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
161 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
162 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
163 it for the invoking user.
164
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165* make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
166 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
167 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
168 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
169 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
170
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171* machined: allow running in a per-user instance too, to allow unpriv
172 systemd-nspawn and systemd-vmspawn do something useful. (Alternatively: open
173 up system machined to unpriv client's registering their machines, and enforce
174 they come with some prefix or suffix that clarifies they are the
175 user's. i.e. when a user registers a machine it must be called
176 foobar.<username> or so.).
177
178* importd/…: define per-user dirs for container/VM images too.
179
666a348d 180* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
630023e2 181 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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183* importd/importctl
184 - import generator
185 - port tar handling to libarchive
186 - add varlink interface
187 - download images into .v/ dirs
188
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189* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
190 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
191 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
192
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193* ptyfwd: look for window title ANSI sequences and insert colored dot in front
194 of it while passing it through, to indicate whether we are in privileged, VM,
195 container terminal sessions.
196
197* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
198 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
199 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
200 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
201 exit code propagation
202
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203* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
204 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
205 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
206 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
207 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
208
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209* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
210
10e3f15a 211* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 212 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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213 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
214 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
215
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216* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
217 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
218 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
219 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
220
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221* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
222 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
223
224* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
225
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226* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
227 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
228 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
229 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
230 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
231 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
232
233* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
234 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
235 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
236
237* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
238 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
239
240* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 241 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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242 actually works too when run with user privs.
243
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244* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
245 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
246 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
247 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
248
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249* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
250 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
251
252* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
253 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
254 and unix-export dir of containers.
255
73d8041c 256* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 257 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
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258 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
259
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260* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
261 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
262 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
263 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
264
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265* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
266 64bit mount ids
267
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268* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
269 interfaces nspawn creates
270
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271* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
272 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
273 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
274 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
275
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276* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
277 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
278 volume key.
279
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280* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
281 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
282 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
283 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
284 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
285 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
286 specified images.
287
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288* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
289 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
290 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
291
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292* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
293 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
294 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
295
296* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
297 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
298 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
299
300* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
301 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
302
303* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
304 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
305
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306* systemd-pcrextend:
307 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
308 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
309 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 310 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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311 PCRs.
312
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313* vmspawn:
314 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
315 - register with machined
316 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
317 - support --directory= via virtiofs
318 - sd_notify support
319 - --ephemeral support
320 - --read-only support
321 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
322 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
323 suspend key presses.
324 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
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325 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
326
327* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
328
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329* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
330
331* storagetm:
332 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
333 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
334 operate in device mode
335 - add NVMe authentication
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337* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
338 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
339 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
340 nvme-oF
341
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342* pcrlock:
343 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
344 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
345 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
346 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
347 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
348 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
349 pass it via initrd to OS
350 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
351 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
352 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
353 /run?
354 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
355 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
356 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
357 for pre-built images
358
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359* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
360 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
361 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
362 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
363 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
364
365* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
366 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
367 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
368 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
369
370* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
371 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
372 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
373
374* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
375 systems.
376
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377* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
378 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
379 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
380 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
381 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
382 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
383 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 384 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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385 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
386 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
387 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
388 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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390* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
391 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
392 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
393 sysext
394
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395* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
396 other programs via IPC:
397 - bootctl
398 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
399 - coredumpcl
400 - systemd-bless-boot
401 - systemd-measure
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402 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
403 - systemd-dissect
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404 - systemd-sysupdate
405 - systemd-analyze
406 - kernel-install
f277d99c 407 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
3d1831b9 408
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409* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
410 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
411 via "systemctl status".
412
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413* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
414 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 415 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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417* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
418 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
419
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420* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
421 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
422
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423* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
424 menu.
425
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426* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
427 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
428 sockets.
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430* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
431 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 432 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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434* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
435 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
436 migratable between PCs)
437
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438* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
439 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
440 snapshot logic
441
442* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
443 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
444 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 445 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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446 a local key to it.
447
a1f7cdc6 448* PidRef conversion work:
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449 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
450 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
451 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 452 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 453 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 454 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 455 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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456 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
457 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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459* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
460
461* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
462 mode.
463
3a9e659a 464* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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465 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
466 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
467 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
468 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
469 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
470 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
471
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472* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
473 too much
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fcdd21ec 475* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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476 to systemd-dissect
477
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478* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
479 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
480 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
481 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
482 control of the attacker.
483
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484* also include packaging metadata (á la
485 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
486 same JSON format.
487
488* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
489 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
490 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
491 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
492 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
493 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
494 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
495 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
496 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
497 newer.
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500 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
501 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
502 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
503 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
504 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
505 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
506 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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509 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
510 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
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513 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
514 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
515 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 516 independently of any kernel.
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519 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
520 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
521 requested during switch root.
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524
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526 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
527 matched against OS.
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530 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
531 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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534 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
535 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
536 namespaces)
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539 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
540
541* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
542 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
543 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
544
f447b741 545* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 546 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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548 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
549 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
550 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
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553 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 554 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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558 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
559 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
560 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
561 based on lo_file_name.
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564 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 565 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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567
568* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
569 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
570 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
571 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
572 creating versions like these automatically).
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577 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
578 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
579 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
580 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
581 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
582 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
583 activation-by-message id and similar.
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586
512f2da5 587* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 588 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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590 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
591
592* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
593 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
594 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
595 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
596 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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599 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
600 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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605 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
606 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
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609 localed, oomd, timedated.
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612 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
613 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
614 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
615 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
616 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 617 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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619 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
620 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
621 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
622 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
623 access.
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626 posix_spawn().
627
628* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
629 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
630 through nspawn.
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633 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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636 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
637 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
638 for all umh processes.
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641 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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644 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
645 resize.
646
647* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
648 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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651 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
652 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
653 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
654 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
655 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
656 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
657 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
658 system actually reset.
659
660* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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662 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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665 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
666 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
667 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
668
4cb8a25b 669* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 670 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 671 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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675 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
676 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
677 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
678 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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681 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
682 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
683 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
684 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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687
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689 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 690 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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692
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696* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
697 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
698 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
699
6d040d84 700* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 701 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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703* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
704 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
705 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
706 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
707 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
708 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
709 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
710 usual.
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713
714* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
715
716* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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719 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
720 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
721 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
722 sockaddr.
723
724* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
725 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
726 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
727 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
728 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
729 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
730 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
731 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
732 try to use inode from there.
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735 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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738 extensions
739
740* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
741 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
742 for the root fs or /usr/.
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745 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
746 combination thereof.
747
748* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
749 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
750 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
751 ahead of time.
752
753* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
754 aforementioned purpose.
755
756* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
757 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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760 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
761 to figure out:
762 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
763 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
764 subsequent boots?
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767 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
768 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
769 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
770 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
771 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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773 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
774 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
775 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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778 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
779 used)
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782 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
783 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
784 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
785 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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788 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
789 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
790 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 791 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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795 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
796 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
797
798* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
799 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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802
803* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
804 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 805 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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807
808* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
809 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
810 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
811 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
812 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
813 only one for each OS.
814
815* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
816 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 817 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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818 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
819 boot, for the next.
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822 similar behind it, instead of http.
823
824* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
825 boot, or on first boot.
826
827* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
828 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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831 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
832 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
833 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
834 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
835 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
836 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
837 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
838 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
839 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
840 until users are allowed to log in).
841
842* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
843 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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846 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
847 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 848 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
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851 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
852 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 853 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
854 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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856
857* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
858 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
859 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
860 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 861 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 862 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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864 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 865 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
866 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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868 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
869 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 870 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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872 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
873 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
874 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 875 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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877 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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880 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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883 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
884
885* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
886 instead of manual blocking.
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889 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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892 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
893 supplied password.
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896 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
897 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
898 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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901 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
902 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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905* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
906 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
907 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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910 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
911 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 912 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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915* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
916 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
917 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
918 modules
919
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922 a new name with a built-in config?
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925 maybe on kernel command line:
926 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
927 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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930 hash type, etc)
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934
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4e0ceefe 936 but final node is not a directory
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939 non-VFAT fs is used.
940
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941* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
942
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944 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
945
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947
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951 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
952 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
953 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
954 affect PCR values.
955
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957 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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959* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
960 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
961
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963 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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966 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
967
968* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
969 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
970
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973 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
974 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
975 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
976 use it.
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979 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
980
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982 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
983 what it was signed.
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986 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
987 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
988 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
989 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
990 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
991 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
992 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
993 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
994 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
995 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
996 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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999 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1000
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1003 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1004 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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1006 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1007 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1008 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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1010 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1011 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1012 file system paths to enable on start.
1013 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
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1016 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1017 pre-built kernels.
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1020 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1021
1022 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1023 about the unit.
1024 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1025 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1026 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1027 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1028 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1029 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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1032 what to do if support ended
1033
1034* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1035 login time, à la motd
81a96518 1036
e1b45a75 1037* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1038 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1039 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1040 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1041 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1044 initrd transition. Specifically:
1045 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1046 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1047 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1048
d486b26f 1049* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1050 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1052 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1053 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1054 depending on desired level of persistency.
1055
1056* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1057 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1058 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1060 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1061 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1062 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1063 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1064
1065* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1066 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1067 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1068 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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1071
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1075 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1076 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1077 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1079 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1080 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1081 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1082 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1084 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1085 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1086 not unprivileged code.
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1089 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1090 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1091 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1094 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1095 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1096 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1097 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1098 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1099 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1101 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1103* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1104 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1105 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1106 order.
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1109 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1110 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1113 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1114 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1115 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1116 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1118 IN_IGNORED again)
1119
5b06ad51 1120* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1121 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1123 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1124 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1125 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1126 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1127 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1128 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1130 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1131 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1134 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1135 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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03ede612 1137* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1139 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1140 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1142 directly to host service manager.
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1144* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1145 no api to query the device id
1146
1147* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1148 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1149 also be queried.
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1151* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1152 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1153 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1154 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1155
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1157 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1158 latter).
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1160* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1161
1162* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1163
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1164* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1165 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1166 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1167 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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1170 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1171 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1172 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1173 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1175
1176* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1177 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1178 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1179 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1181 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1182 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1183 hence cheap for enumeration.
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1186
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1188 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1189 words: show partition labels).
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1192 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1193 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1194 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1196 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1197 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1198
e4f92a62 1199* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1201* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1202
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1203* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1204 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1205 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1206 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1207 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1208 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1209 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1210 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1211 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1212 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1213
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1214* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1215 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1216
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1218 jobs, units
1219
a57d72ce 1220* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1222 userspace)
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1225
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1227 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1228
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1231
1232* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1233 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1236 internal clock.
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1239 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1240
1241* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1242 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1243 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1244 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1247 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1248 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1249
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1251 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1253 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1254 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1255 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1256 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1259 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1260 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1261 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1262 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1263 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1265* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1266 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1268
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1270 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1271 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1272 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1273 on-disk storage.
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1276 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1277 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1278 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1279 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1280
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1282 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1283 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1286 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1287 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1288 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1289
3fc0688d 1290* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1292 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1293 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1294 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1295 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1296 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1297 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1298 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1299 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1300 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1303 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1304 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1307
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1311 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1312 that images cannot be misused.
1313
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178d3ff2 1315 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1317 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1318 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1319
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1321 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1322 - support casync as download mechanism
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1324 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1325 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1326 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1328 host's update files.)
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1330 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1331 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1332 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1335
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1337 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1340 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1341
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1344 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1345 already have it.
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1348 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1349
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1352* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1353 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1354 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1355 /proc/self/fd/3
1356
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1357* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1358 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1359 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1360
1361* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1362 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1364* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1365 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1366
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1367* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1368 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1369 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1370 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1371 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1372
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1373* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1374
199b097d 1375* credentials system:
199b097d 1376 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1377 - acquire via ask-password?
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1378 - acquire creds via keyring?
1379 - pass creds via keyring?
1380 - pass creds via memfd?
1381 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1382 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1383 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1384 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1385 wireguard)
1386 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1387 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1388
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1389* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1390 and such
1391
1392* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1393
02c914ef 1394* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1395
7d7c75f1 1396* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1397 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1398
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1399* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1400 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1401
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1402* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1403
1404* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1405 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1406
1407* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1408 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1409
1410* cryptsetup:
1411 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1412 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1413
08d33656 1414* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1416* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1417 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1418
f461a28d 1419* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1420 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1421
f461a28d 1422* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1423 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1424
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1425* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1426
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1427* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1428
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1429* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1430 when it exits
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1432* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1433 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1434 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1435 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
cdfd8537 1436 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
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1437 - bzip2 (always — gzip should probably stay static dep the way it is,
1438 since it's so basic and our defaults)
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1440* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1441 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1442 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1443
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1444* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1445 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1446
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1447* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1448
1449* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1450 specific service
1451
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1452* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1453 exists and responds.
1454
91fc013f 1455* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1456 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1457
7e8facb3 1458* unify on openssl:
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1459 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1460 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1461 gnutls
1462 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1464* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1465 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1466
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1467* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1468 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1470* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1471
2a4be3c5 1472* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1473
f1eb0ccd 1474* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1475
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1476* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1477 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1478 initrd had set.
1479
173c7873 1480* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1481 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1482 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1483 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1484 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1485 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1486
1487* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1488 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1489 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1490
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1491* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1492 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1493 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1494 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1495 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1496 source.
1497
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1498* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1499 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1500 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1501
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1502* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1503
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1504* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1505 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1506
c6526b8d 1507* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1508
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1509* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1510 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1511 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1512 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1513 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1514 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1515 exec().
1516
1517* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1518
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1519* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1520 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1521
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1522* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1523 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1524
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1525* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1526 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1527 root.
1528
1529* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1530 is issued.
1531
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1532* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1533
1534* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1535
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1536* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1537 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1538 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1539
d238709c 1540* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1541 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1542 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1543
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1544* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1545
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1546* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1547 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1548
06898123 1549* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1550 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1551 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1552 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1554* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1555
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1556* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1557
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1558* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1559 non-zero "tries done" count
1560
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1561* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1562 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1563 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1564 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1565 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1566 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1567 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1568 CODE_FILE.
1569
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1570* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1571 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1572 some explanatory text online.
1573
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1574* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1575
d1797c42 1576* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1577
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1578* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1579 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1580
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1581* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1582 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1583 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1584 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1586* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1587
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1588* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1589 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1590
5da19043 1591* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1592 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1593
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1594* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1595 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1596 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1597 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1598 unlinked from any dir.
1599
bd1b3f75 1600* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1601
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1602* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1603
1604* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1605
53c70a27 1606* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1607 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1608 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1609 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1610 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1611
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1612* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1613
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1614* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1615 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1616
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1617* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1618 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1619 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1620 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1621 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1622 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1623 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1624 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1625
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1626* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1627 for root, but only then.
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1629* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1630 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1631
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1632* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1633 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1634
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1635* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1636 only when used. Add unit tests.
1637
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1638* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1639 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1640
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1641* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1642 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1643 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1644 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1645 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1646
899feb72 1647* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1648
5f7ecd61 1649* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1650
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1651* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1652 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1653
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1654* blog about fd store and restartable services
1655
1656* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1657
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1658* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1659 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1660
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1661* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1662 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1663 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1664 ID is available.
1665
1666* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1667 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1668 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1669
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1670* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1671 parameters
1672
63a185dc 1673* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1674 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1675 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1676 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1677 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1678 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1679 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1681* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1682 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1683
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1684* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1685 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1686 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1687
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1688* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1689 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1690
1691 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1692
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1693* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1694 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1695 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1696
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1697* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1698 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1699
1700* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1701 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1702 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1703 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1704 natural habitat.
1705
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1706* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1707 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1709* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1710 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1711 relative to the configured default value.
1712
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1713* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1714
04397464 1715* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1717* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1718
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1719* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1720
04397464 1721* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1722
04397464 1723* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1724
04397464 1725* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1726
8ce9b83a 1727* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1729* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1730 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1731 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1732
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1733* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1734 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1735
e40a326c 1736* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1738* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1739 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1740 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1741 mapping to work.
1742
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1743* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1744
1745* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1746
1747* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1748
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1749* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1750 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1751
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1752* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1753 reload the unit file anyway
1754
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1755* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1756
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1757* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1758
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1759* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1760 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1761
f9bf1b8f 1762* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1763 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1764 specifications.
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1766* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1767
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1768* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1769
a2088fd0 1770* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1771 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1772 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1773 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1775* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1776
931bc195 1777* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1778
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1779* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1780 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1781 state.
41d6f3bf 1782 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1784* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1785 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1786 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1787 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1788 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1789
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1790* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1791
d2f81fb0 1792* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1793 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1794
0a86c1a9 1795* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1796 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1797
e031c227 1798* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1799 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
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1801* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1802
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1803* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1804 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1805
25e773ee 1806* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1807
720652b3 1808* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1809
720652b3 1810* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1811
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1812* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1813 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1814
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1815* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1816
9d6db739 1817* resolved:
9d6db739 1818 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1819 - service registration
1820 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1821 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1822 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1823 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1824 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1825 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1826 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1827 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1828
e25b5a8d 1829* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1830
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1831* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1832
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1833* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1834
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1835* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1836
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1837* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1838
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1839* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1840 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1841
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1842* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1843
6a3f892a 1844* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1845 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1846 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1847
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1848* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1849 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1850 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1851
f9bf1b8f 1852* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1853
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1854* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1855 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1856 for ReusePort=
1857
f38afcd0 1858* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1859 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1860 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1861 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1862 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1863 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1864 the hierarchies of child processes
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1865 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1866 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1867
f38afcd0 1868* transient units:
f38afcd0 1869 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1870
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1871* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1872
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1873* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1874
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1875* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1876
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1877* 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
1878
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1879* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1880 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1881 path anyway.
1882
04397464 1883* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1884
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1885* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1886
07eabc2b 1887* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1888
07eabc2b 1889* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1890
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1891* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1892
1893* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1894 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1895 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1896
1897* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1898 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1899
1900* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1901
1902* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1903
1904* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1905
1906* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1907 needs to be auto-respawned?
1908
1909* pid1:
1910 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1911 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1912 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1913 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1914 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1915 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1916 - move PAM code into its own binary
1917 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1918 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1919 - Support --test based on current system state
1920 - 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().
1921 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1922 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1923 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1924 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1925 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1926 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1927 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1928 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1929 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1930 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1931 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1932 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1933
1934* unit files:
1935 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1936 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1937 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1938 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1939 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1940 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1941 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1942 - introduce Type=pid-file
1943 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1944 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1945 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1946
1947* timer units:
63a185dc 1948 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1949 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1950
1951* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1952
1953* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1954
1955* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1956
1957* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1958
07eabc2b 1959* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1960
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1961* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1962
1963* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1964
fff87a35 1965* test/:
20d52ab6 1966 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1967
b5c03638 1968* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1969 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1970 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1971 destination.
1972
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1973* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1974 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1975
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1976* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1977
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1978* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1979 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1980 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1981
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1982* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1983 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1984
7227dd81 1985* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1986 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1987 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1988 that automatically.
1989
e5ec62c5 1990* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1991
ccddd104 1992* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1993
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1994* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1995
356ce991 1996* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1997
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1998* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1999
2000* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2001
2002* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2003
2004* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2005
2006* sd-bus:
2007 - EBADSLT handling
2008 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2009 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2010 - 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
2011 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2012 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2013 - longer term: priority inheritance
2014 - dbus spec updates:
2015 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2016 - path escaping
2017 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2018
2019* sd-event
2020 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2021 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2022 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2023 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2024 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2025 here:
2026 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2027
2028* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2029 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2030
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2031* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2032
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2033* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2034
2035* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2036
2037* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2038
b44be3ec 2039* EFI:
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2040 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2041 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2042 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2043* bootctl
631427d6 2044 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2045
07eabc2b 2046* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2047
07eabc2b 2048* bootctl:
483091b0 2049 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2050 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2051 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2052
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2053* logind:
2054 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2055 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2056 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2057 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2058 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2059 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2060 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2061 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2062 needs setuid().
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2063 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2064 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2065 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2066 complete.
2067 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2068 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2069 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2070 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2071 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2072 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2073 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2074 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2075 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2076 relogins
77b19caf 2077 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2078 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2079 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2080 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2081
2082* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2083
2084* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2085 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2086 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2087
2088* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2089 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2090
b44be3ec 2091* journal:
57f2a947 2092 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2093 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2094 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2095 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2096 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2097 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2098 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2099 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2100 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2101 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2102 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2103 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2104 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2105 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2106 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2107 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2108 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2109 - 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.
2110 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2111 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2112 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2113 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2114 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2115 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2116 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2117 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2118 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2119 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2120 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2121 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2122 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2123 to syslog when it works again.
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2124 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2125 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2126 journals in.
2127 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2128 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2129 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2130 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2131 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2132 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2133 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2134 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2135 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2136 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2137 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2138 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2139 operation.
2140 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2141 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2142 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2143 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2144 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2145 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2146 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2147 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2148 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2149 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 2150
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2151* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2152 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2153
2154* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2155 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2156 validated via TPM.
2157
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2158* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2159 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2160 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2161
2162* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2163 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2164 cursors as they happen.
2165
2166* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2167 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2168 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2169 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2170 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2171 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2172 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2173 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2174 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2175
2176* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2177 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2178 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2179 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2180 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2181 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2182
2183* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2184 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2185 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2186 records, to be able to order them.
2187
2188* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2189 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2190 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2191 be safely written to disk, then.
2192
2193* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2194 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2195 inspiration from IMA log)
2196
2197* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2198 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2199 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2200
2201* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2202 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2203 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2204 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2205 for doing that.
2206
2207* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2208 log.c and sd-journal-send
2209
2210* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2211 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2212 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2213 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2214 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2215 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2216 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2217 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2218 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2219 an NTP sync is acquired.
2220
2221* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2222
2223* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2224 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2225 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2226
2227* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2228 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2229 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2230 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2231 cgroup.
2232
2233* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2234 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2235 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2236 logging.
2237
2238* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2239
2240* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2241 from the SIGBUS handler
2242
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2243* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2244 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2245 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2246 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2247
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2248* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2249 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2250
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2251* homed:
2252 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2253 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2254 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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LB
2255 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2256 - create on activate?
2257 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2258 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2259 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2260 systemd --user is shut down.
2261 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2262 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2263 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2264 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2265 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2266 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2267 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2268 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2269 - query password from kernel keyring first
2270 - update even if record is "absent"
07eabc2b
LB
2271 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2272 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2273 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2274 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2275 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
a11e7c0b
LB
2276 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2277 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2278 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2279 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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LP
2280 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2281 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2282 signature
2283 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2284 and insert a local signature instead.
2285 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2286 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2287 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2288 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2289 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2290 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2291 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2292 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2293 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2294 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2295 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2296 can easily set overall quota for all users
2297 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2298 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2299 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2300 home dir
07eabc2b 2301
07eabc2b
LB
2302* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2303 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2304 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2305
2df2bb1f 2306* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
07eabc2b
LB
2307
2308* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2309 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2310 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2311 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2312
2313* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2314
2315* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2316 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2317 something goes wrong on the way.
2318
07eabc2b
LB
2319* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2320 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2321 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2322 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2323
2324* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2325 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2326 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2327 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2328 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2329 automatically.
2330
2331* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2332 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2333
2334* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2335 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2336 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2337 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2338 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2339 fails to apply use the latter.
2340
2341* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2342 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2343
2344* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2345 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2346
2347* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2348 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2349 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
07eabc2b
LB
2350
2351* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2352 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2353
92e72028 2354* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2355 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2356 during boot.
2357
2358* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2359
b44be3ec 2360* document:
8b8f2591 2361 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
2362 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2363 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2364 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2365 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2366 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2367 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2368 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2369 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2370 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2371 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2372 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2373
2374* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2375 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2376 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2377 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2378 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2379 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2380 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2381
07eabc2b
LB
2382* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2383 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2384 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2385
07eabc2b
LB
2386* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2387 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2388 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2389
07eabc2b
LB
2390* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2391 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2392 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2393
07eabc2b
LB
2394* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2395 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2396
07eabc2b
LB
2397* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2398 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2399 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2400 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2401
07eabc2b
LB
2402* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2403 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2404 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2405 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2406
07eabc2b
LB
2407* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2408
2409* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2410
2411* unit install:
2412 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2413 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2414
b44be3ec 2415* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2416 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2417 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2418 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2419 from the kernel's logs.
2420 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2421 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2422 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2423 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2424 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2425 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2426 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2427 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2428 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2429 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2430 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2431 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2432 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2433 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2434 startup.
2435 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2436 or so, freeze the payload too.
2437 - support time namespaces
2438 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2439 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2440 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2441 "machinectl shell"
2442 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2443 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2444 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2445 - greater control over selinux label?
2446 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2447 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2448 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2449 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2450 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2451 host TPM.
2452 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2453 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2454 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2455 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2456 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2457 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2458 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2459 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2460 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2461 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2462 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2463 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2464 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2465
2466* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2467 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2468 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2469 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2470 anything like that.
2471
e25b5a8d 2472* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2473 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2474 removed or added to an existing machine
2475 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2476 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2477 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2478 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2479 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2480 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2481 - "machinectl history"
2482 - "machinectl diff"
2483 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2484 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2485
abd55b16 2486* udev:
abd55b16 2487 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2488 - kill scsi_id
2489 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2490 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2491 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2492 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2493
e25b5a8d
DH
2494* coredump:
2495 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2496 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2497 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2498
2499* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2500
f38afcd0 2501* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2502 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2503 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2504 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2505 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2506 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2507 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2508 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2509 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2510 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2511 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2512 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2513
af6f0d42
TG
2514* udev-link-config:
2515 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2516 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2517 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2518
88e4d1d7 2519* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2520 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2521 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2522
0a4b9a07 2523* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2524 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2525 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2526 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2527 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2528 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2529 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2530 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2531 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2532 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2533 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2534 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2535 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2536 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2537 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2538 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2539 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2540 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2541 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2542
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LB
2543* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2544
d5e172d2
ZJS
2545* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2546
ac976532 2547* dhcp:
424a8732 2548 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2549
37d8b536
PF
2550* dhcp6:
2551 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2552 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2553 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2554 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2555 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2556 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2557 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2558 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2559 or interface down
2560 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2561 this behavior
4a77c53d 2562 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2563
2564* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2565 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2566 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)