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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* insert the new pidfs inode number as a third field into PidRef, so that
134 PidRef are reasonably serializable without having to pass around fds.
135
136* systemd-analyze smbios11 to dump smbios type 11 vendor strings
137
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138* move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
139 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
fcaa5105 140 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
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141 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
142
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143* vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
144 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
145 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
146 which uses 32bit words).
147
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148* In vmspawn/nspawn/machined wait for X_SYSTEMD_UNIT_ACTIVE=ssh-active.target
149 and X_SYSTEMD_SIGNAL_LEVEL=2 as indication whether/when SSH and the POSIX
150 signals are available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for
151 that). Report as property for the machine.
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153* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
154 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
155 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
156 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
157 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
158 as primary way into the container.
159
160* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
161 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
162 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
163 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
164 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
165 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
166 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
167 it for the invoking user.
168
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169* make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
170 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
171 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
172 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
173 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
174
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175* machined: allow running in a per-user instance too, to allow unpriv
176 systemd-nspawn and systemd-vmspawn do something useful. (Alternatively: open
177 up system machined to unpriv client's registering their machines, and enforce
178 they come with some prefix or suffix that clarifies they are the
179 user's. i.e. when a user registers a machine it must be called
180 foobar.<username> or so.).
181
182* importd/…: define per-user dirs for container/VM images too.
183
666a348d 184* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
630023e2 185 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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187* importd/importctl
188 - import generator
189 - port tar handling to libarchive
190 - add varlink interface
191 - download images into .v/ dirs
192
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193* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
194 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
195 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
196
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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
7aed4343 258 run0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
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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* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
360 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
361 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
362 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
363 add a field identifying the project.
364
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365* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
366 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
367 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
368 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
369 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
370
371* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
372 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
373 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
374 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
375
376* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
377 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
378 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
379
380* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
381 systems.
382
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383* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
384 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
385 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
386 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
387 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
388 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
389 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 390 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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391 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
392 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
393 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
394 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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396* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
397 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
398 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
399 sysext
400
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401* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
402 other programs via IPC:
403 - bootctl
404 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
405 - coredumpcl
406 - systemd-bless-boot
407 - systemd-measure
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408 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
409 - systemd-dissect
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410 - systemd-sysupdate
411 - systemd-analyze
412 - kernel-install
f277d99c 413 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
3d1831b9 414
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415* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
416 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
417 via "systemctl status".
418
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419* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
420 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 421 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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423* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
424 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
425
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426* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
427 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
428
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429* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
430 menu.
431
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432* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
433 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
434 sockets.
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436* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
437 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 438 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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440* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
441 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
442 migratable between PCs)
443
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444* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
445 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
446 snapshot logic
447
448* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
449 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
450 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 451 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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452 a local key to it.
453
a1f7cdc6 454* PidRef conversion work:
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455 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
456 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
457 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 458 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 459 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 460 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 461 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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462 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
463 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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465* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
466
467* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
468 mode.
469
3a9e659a 470* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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471 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
472 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
473 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
474 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
475 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
476 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
477
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478* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
479 too much
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fcdd21ec 481* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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485 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
486 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
487 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
488 control of the attacker.
489
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491 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
492 same JSON format.
493
494* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
495 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
496 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
497 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
498 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
499 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
500 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
501 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
502 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
503 newer.
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506 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
507 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
508 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
509 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
510 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
511 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
512 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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515 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
516 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
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519 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
520 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
521 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 522 independently of any kernel.
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525 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
526 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
527 requested during switch root.
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532 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
533 matched against OS.
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536 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
537 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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540 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
541 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
542 namespaces)
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545 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
546
547* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
548 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
549 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
550
f447b741 551* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 552 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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554 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
555 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
556 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
557
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559 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 560 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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564 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
565 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
566 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
567 based on lo_file_name.
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570 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 571 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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573
574* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
575 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
576 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
577 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
578 creating versions like these automatically).
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583 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
584 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
585 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
586 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
587 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
588 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
589 activation-by-message id and similar.
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592
512f2da5 593* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 594 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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596 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
597
598* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
599 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
600 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
601 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
602 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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605 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
606 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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611 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
612 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
613
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614* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
615 localed, oomd, timedated.
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618 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
619 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
620 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
621 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
622 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 623 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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625 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
626 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
627 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
628 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
629 access.
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632 posix_spawn().
633
634* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
635 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
636 through nspawn.
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639 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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642 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
643 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
644 for all umh processes.
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647 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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650 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
651 resize.
652
653* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
654 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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657 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
658 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
659 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
660 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
661 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
662 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
663 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
664 system actually reset.
665
666* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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668 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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671 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
672 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
673 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
674
4cb8a25b 675* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 676 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 677 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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681 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
682 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
683 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
684 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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687 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
688 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
689 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
690 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
691
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693
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695 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 696 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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698
084ecae5 699* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 700 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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702* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
703 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
704 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
705
6d040d84 706* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 707 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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709* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
710 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
711 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
712 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
713 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
714 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
715 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
716 usual.
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719
720* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
721
722* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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725 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
726 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
727 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
728 sockaddr.
729
730* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
731 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
732 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
733 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
734 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
735 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
736 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
737 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
738 try to use inode from there.
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741 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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744 extensions
745
746* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
747 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
748 for the root fs or /usr/.
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751 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
752 combination thereof.
753
754* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
755 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
756 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
757 ahead of time.
758
759* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
760 aforementioned purpose.
761
762* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
763 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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766 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
767 to figure out:
768 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
769 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
770 subsequent boots?
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773 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
774 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
775 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
776 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
777 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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779 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
780 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
781 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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784 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
785 used)
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788 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
789 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
790 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
791 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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794 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
795 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
796 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 797 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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801 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
802 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
803
804* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
805 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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808
809* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
810 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 811 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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813
814* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
815 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
816 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
817 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
818 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
819 only one for each OS.
820
821* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
822 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 823 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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825 boot, for the next.
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828 similar behind it, instead of http.
829
830* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
831 boot, or on first boot.
832
833* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
834 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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837 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
838 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
839 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
840 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
841 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
842 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
843 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
844 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
845 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
846 until users are allowed to log in).
847
848* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
849 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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852 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
853 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 854 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 855 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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857 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
858 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 859 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
860 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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862
863* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
864 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
865 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
866 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 867 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 868 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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870 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 871 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
872 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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874 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
875 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 876 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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878 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
879 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
880 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 881 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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883 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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886 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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889 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
890
891* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
892 instead of manual blocking.
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895 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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898 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
899 supplied password.
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902 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
903 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
904 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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907 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
908 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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911* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
912 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
913 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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916 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
917 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 918 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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920
921* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
922 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
923 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
924 modules
925
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928 a new name with a built-in config?
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931 maybe on kernel command line:
932 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
933 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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935* Merge systemd-creds options --uid= (which accepts user names) and --user.
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938 hash type, etc)
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942
f461a28d 943* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 944 but final node is not a directory
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947 non-VFAT fs is used.
948
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949* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
950
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951* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
952 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
953
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954* pick up creds from EFI vars
955
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957
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958* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
959 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
960 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
961 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
962 affect PCR values.
963
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965 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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967* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
968 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
969
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970* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
971 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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974 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
975
976* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
977 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
978
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981 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
982 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
983 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
984 use it.
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987 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
988
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990 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
991 what it was signed.
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994 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
995 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
996 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
997 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
998 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
999 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
1000 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
1001 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
1002 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
1003 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
1004 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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1007 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1008
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1010 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
1011 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1012 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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1014 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1015 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1016 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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1018 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1019 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1020 file system paths to enable on start.
1021 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1022 usr=
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1024 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1025 pre-built kernels.
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1028 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1029
1030 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1031 about the unit.
1032 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1033 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1034 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1035 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1036 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1037 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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1040 what to do if support ended
1041
1042* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1043 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 1045* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1046 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1047 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1048 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1049 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1052 initrd transition. Specifically:
1053 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1054 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1055 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1056
d486b26f 1057* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1058 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1060 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1061 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1062 depending on desired level of persistency.
1063
1064* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1065 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1066 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1068 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1069 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1070 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1071 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1072
1073* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1074 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1075 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1076 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1077
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1079
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1083 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1084 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1085 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1087 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1088 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1089 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1090 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1092 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1093 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1094 not unprivileged code.
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1097 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1098 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1099 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1102 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1103 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1104 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1105 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1107 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1109 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1111* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1112 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1113 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1114 order.
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1117 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1118 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1121 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1122 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1123 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1124 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1126 IN_IGNORED again)
1127
5b06ad51 1128* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1129 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1131 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1132 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1134 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1135 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1136 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1138 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1139 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1142 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1143 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1144
03ede612 1145* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1147 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1148 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1150 directly to host service manager.
1151
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1152* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1153 no api to query the device id
1154
1155* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1156 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1157 also be queried.
1158
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1159* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1160 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1161 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1162 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1163
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1165 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1166 latter).
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1168* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1169
1170* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1171
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1172* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1173 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1174 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1175 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1176
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1178 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1179 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1180 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1181 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1183
1184* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1185 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1186 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1187 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1189 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1190 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1191 hence cheap for enumeration.
1192
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1193* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1194
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1195* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1196 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1197 words: show partition labels).
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1200 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1201 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1202 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1204 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1205 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1206
e4f92a62 1207* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1209* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1210
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1211* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1212 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1213 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1214 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1215 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1216 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1217 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1218 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1219 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1220 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1221
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1222* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1223 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1224
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1226 jobs, units
1227
a57d72ce 1228* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1230 userspace)
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1235 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1236
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1239
1240* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1241 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1244 internal clock.
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1246* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1247 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1248
1249* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1250 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1251 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1252 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1254* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1255 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1256 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
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1259 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1261 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1262 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1263 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1264 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1267 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1268 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1269 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1270 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1271 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1273* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1274 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1278 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1279 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1280 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1281 on-disk storage.
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1284 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1285 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1286 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1287 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1288
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1290 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1291 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1294 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1295 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1296 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1297
3fc0688d 1298* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1299 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1300 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1301 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1302 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1303 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1304 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1305 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1306 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1307 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1308 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1311 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1312 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1315
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1319 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1320 that images cannot be misused.
1321
aca8ecc3 1322* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1323 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1325 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1326 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1327
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1329 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1330 - support casync as download mechanism
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1332 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1333 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1334 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1336 host's update files.)
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1338 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1339 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1340 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1343
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1345 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1348 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1349
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1352 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1353 already have it.
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1355* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1356 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1357
1c904337 1358* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1360* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1361 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1362 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1363 /proc/self/fd/3
1364
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1365* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1366 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1367 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1368
1369* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1370 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1372* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1373 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1374
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1375* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1376 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1377 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1378 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1379 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1380
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1381* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1382
199b097d 1383* credentials system:
199b097d 1384 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1385 - acquire via ask-password?
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1386 - acquire creds via keyring?
1387 - pass creds via keyring?
1388 - pass creds via memfd?
1389 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1390 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1391 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1392 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1393 wireguard)
1394 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1395 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1396
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1397* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1398 and such
1399
1400* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1401
02c914ef 1402* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1403
7d7c75f1 1404* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1405 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1406
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1407* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1408 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1410* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1411
1412* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1413 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1414
1415* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1416 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1417
1418* cryptsetup:
1419 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1420 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1421
08d33656 1422* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1423
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1424* Figure out naming of verbs in systemd-analyze: we have (singular) capability,
1425 exit-status, but (plural) filesystems, architectures.
1426
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1427* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1428 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1429
f461a28d 1430* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1431 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1432
f461a28d 1433* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1434 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1435
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1436* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1437
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1438* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1439
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1440* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1441 when it exits
1442
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1443* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1444 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1445 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1446 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
cdfd8537 1447 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
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1448 - bzip2 (always — gzip should probably stay static dep the way it is,
1449 since it's so basic and our defaults)
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1451* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1452 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1453 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1454
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1455* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1456 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1457
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1458* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1459
1460* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1461 specific service
1462
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1463* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1464 exists and responds.
1465
91fc013f 1466* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1467 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1468
7e8facb3 1469* unify on openssl:
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1470 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1471 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1472 gnutls
1473 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1475* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1476 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1477
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1478* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1479 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1480
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1481* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1482
2a4be3c5 1483* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1484
f1eb0ccd 1485* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1486
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1487* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1488 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1489 initrd had set.
1490
173c7873 1491* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1492 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1493 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1494 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1495 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1496 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1497
1498* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1499 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1500 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1501
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1502* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1503 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1504 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1505 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1506 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1507 source.
1508
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1509* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1510 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1511 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1512
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1513* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1514
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1515* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1516 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1517
c6526b8d 1518* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1519
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1520* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1521 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1522 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1523 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1524 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1525 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1526 exec().
1527
1528* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1529
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1530* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1531 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1532
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1533* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1534 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1535
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1536* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1537 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1538 root.
1539
1540* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1541 is issued.
1542
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1543* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1544
1545* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1546
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1547* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1548 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1549 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1550
d238709c 1551* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1552 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1553 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1554
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1555* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1556
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1557* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1558 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1559
06898123 1560* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1561 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1562 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1563 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1565* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1566
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1567* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1568
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1569* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1570 non-zero "tries done" count
1571
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1572* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1573 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1574 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1575 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1576 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1577 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1578 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1579 CODE_FILE.
1580
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1581* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1582 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1583 some explanatory text online.
1584
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1585* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1586
d1797c42 1587* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1588
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1589* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1590 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1591
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1592* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1593 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1594 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1595 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1597* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1598
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1599* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1600 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1601
5da19043 1602* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1603 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1605* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1606 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1607 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1608 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1609 unlinked from any dir.
1610
bd1b3f75 1611* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1613* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1614
1615* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1616
53c70a27 1617* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1618 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1619 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1620 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1621 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1622
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1623* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1624
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1625* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1626 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1627
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1628* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1629 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1630 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1631 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1632 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1633 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1634 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1635 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1636
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1637* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1638 for root, but only then.
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1640* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1641 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1642
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1643* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1644 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1645
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1646* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1647 only when used. Add unit tests.
1648
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1649* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1650 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1651
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1652* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1653 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1654 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1655 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1656 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1657
899feb72 1658* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1659
5f7ecd61 1660* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1662* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1663 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1664
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1665* blog about fd store and restartable services
1666
1667* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1668
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1669* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1670 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1671
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1672* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1673 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1674 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1675 ID is available.
1676
1677* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1678 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1679 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1680
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1681* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1682 parameters
1683
63a185dc 1684* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1685 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1686 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1687 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1688 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1689 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1690 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1692* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1693 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1694
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1695* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1696 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1697 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1698
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1699* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1700 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1701
1702 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1703
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1704* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1705 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1706 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1707
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1708* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1709 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1710
1711* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1712 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1713 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1714 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1715 natural habitat.
1716
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1717* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1718 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1720* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1721 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1722 relative to the configured default value.
1723
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1724* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1725
04397464 1726* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1728* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1729
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1730* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1731
04397464 1732* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1733
04397464 1734* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1735
04397464 1736* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1737
8ce9b83a 1738* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1740* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1741 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1742 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1743
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1744* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1745 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1746
e40a326c 1747* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1749* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1750 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1751 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1752 mapping to work.
1753
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1754* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1755
1756* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1757
1758* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1759
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1760* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1761 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1762
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1763* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1764 reload the unit file anyway
1765
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1766* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1767
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1768* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1769
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1770* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1771 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1772
f9bf1b8f 1773* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1774 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1775 specifications.
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1777* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1778
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1779* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1780
a2088fd0 1781* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1782 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1783 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1784 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1786* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1787
931bc195 1788* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1790* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1791 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1792 state.
41d6f3bf 1793 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1795* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1796 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1797 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1798 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1799 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1800
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1801* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1802
d2f81fb0 1803* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1804 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1805
0a86c1a9 1806* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1807 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1808
e031c227 1809* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1810 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1811
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1812* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1813
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1814* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1815 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1816
25e773ee 1817* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1818
720652b3 1819* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1820
720652b3 1821* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1822
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1823* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1824 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1825
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1826* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1827
9d6db739 1828* resolved:
9d6db739 1829 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1830 - service registration
1831 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1832 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1833 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1834 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1835 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1836 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1837 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1838 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1839
e25b5a8d 1840* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1841
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1842* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1843
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1844* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1845
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1846* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1847
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1848* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1849
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1850* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1851 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1852
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1853* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1854
6a3f892a 1855* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1856 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1857 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1858
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1859* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1860 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1861 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1862
f9bf1b8f 1863* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1864
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1865* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1866 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1867 for ReusePort=
1868
f38afcd0 1869* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1870 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1871 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1872 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1873 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1874 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1875 the hierarchies of child processes
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1876 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1877 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1878
f38afcd0 1879* transient units:
f38afcd0 1880 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1881
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1882* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1883
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1884* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1885
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1886* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1887
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1888* 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
1889
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1890* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1891 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1892 path anyway.
1893
04397464 1894* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1895
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1896* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1897
07eabc2b 1898* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1899
07eabc2b 1900* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1901
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1902* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1903
1904* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1905 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1906 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1907
1908* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1909 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1910
1911* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1912
1913* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1914
1915* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1916
1917* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1918 needs to be auto-respawned?
1919
1920* pid1:
1921 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1922 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1923 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1924 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1925 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1926 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1927 - move PAM code into its own binary
1928 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1929 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1930 - Support --test based on current system state
1931 - 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().
1932 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1933 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1934 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1935 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1936 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1937 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1938 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1939 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1940 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1941 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1942 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1943 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1944
1945* unit files:
1946 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1947 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1948 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1949 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1950 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1951 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1952 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1953 - introduce Type=pid-file
1954 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1955 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1956 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1957
1958* timer units:
63a185dc 1959 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1960 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1961
1962* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1963
1964* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1965
1966* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1967
1968* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1969
07eabc2b 1970* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1971
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1972* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1973
1974* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1975
fff87a35 1976* test/:
20d52ab6 1977 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1978
b5c03638 1979* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1980 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1981 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1982 destination.
1983
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1984* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1985 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1986
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1987* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1988
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1989* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1990 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1991 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1992
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1993* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1994 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1995
7227dd81 1996* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1997 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1998 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1999 that automatically.
2000
e5ec62c5 2001* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 2002
ccddd104 2003* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 2004
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2005* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
2006
356ce991 2007* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 2008
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2009* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2010
2011* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2012
2013* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2014
2015* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2016
2017* sd-bus:
2018 - EBADSLT handling
2019 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2020 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2021 - 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
2022 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2023 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2024 - longer term: priority inheritance
2025 - dbus spec updates:
2026 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2027 - path escaping
2028 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2029
2030* sd-event
2031 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2032 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2033 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2034 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2035 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2036 here:
2037 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2038
2039* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2040 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2041
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2042* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2043
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2044* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2045
2046* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2047
2048* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2049
b44be3ec 2050* EFI:
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2051 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2052 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2053 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2054* bootctl
631427d6 2055 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2056
07eabc2b 2057* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2058
07eabc2b 2059* bootctl:
483091b0 2060 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2061 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2062 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2063
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2064* logind:
2065 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2066 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2067 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2068 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2069 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2070 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2071 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2072 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2073 needs setuid().
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2074 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2075 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2076 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2077 complete.
2078 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2079 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2080 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2081 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2082 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2083 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2084 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2085 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2086 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2087 relogins
77b19caf 2088 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2089 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2090 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2091 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2092
2093* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2094
2095* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2096 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2097 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2098
2099* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2100 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2101
b44be3ec 2102* journal:
57f2a947 2103 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2104 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2105 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2106 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2107 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2108 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2109 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2110 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2111 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2112 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2113 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2114 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2115 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2116 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2117 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2118 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2119 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2120 - 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.
2121 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2122 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2123 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2124 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2125 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2126 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2127 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2128 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2129 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2130 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2131 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2132 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2133 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2134 to syslog when it works again.
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2135 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2136 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2137 journals in.
2138 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2139 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2140 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2141 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2142 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2143 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2144 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2145 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2146 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2147 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2148 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2149 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2150 operation.
2151 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2152 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2153 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2154 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2155 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2156 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2157 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2158 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2159 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2160 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2162* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2163 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2164
2165* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2166 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2167 validated via TPM.
2168
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2170 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2171 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2172
2173* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2174 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2175 cursors as they happen.
2176
2177* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2178 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2179 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2180 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2181 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2182 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2183 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2184 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2185 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2186
2187* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2188 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2189 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2190 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2191 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2193
2194* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2195 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2196 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2197 records, to be able to order them.
2198
2199* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2200 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2201 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2202 be safely written to disk, then.
2203
2204* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2205 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2206 inspiration from IMA log)
2207
2208* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2209 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2210 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2211
2212* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2213 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2214 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2215 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2216 for doing that.
2217
2218* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2219 log.c and sd-journal-send
2220
2221* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2222 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2223 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2224 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2225 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2226 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2227 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2228 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2229 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2230 an NTP sync is acquired.
2231
2232* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2233
2234* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2235 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2236 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2237
2238* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2239 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2240 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2241 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2242 cgroup.
2243
2244* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2245 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2246 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2247 logging.
2248
2249* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2250
2251* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2252 from the SIGBUS handler
2253
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ZJS
2254* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2255 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2256 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2257 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2258
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ZJS
2259* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2260 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2261
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LB
2262* homed:
2263 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2264 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2265 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
07eabc2b
LB
2266 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2267 - create on activate?
2268 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2269 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2270 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2271 systemd --user is shut down.
2272 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2273 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2274 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2275 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2276 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2277 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2278 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2279 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
07eabc2b
LB
2280 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2281 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2282 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2283 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2284 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
a11e7c0b
LB
2285 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2286 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2287 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2288 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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LP
2289 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2290 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2291 signature
2292 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2293 and insert a local signature instead.
2294 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2295 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2296 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2297 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2298 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2299 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2300 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2301 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2302 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2303 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2304 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2305 can easily set overall quota for all users
2306 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2307 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2308 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2309 home dir
07eabc2b 2310
07eabc2b
LB
2311* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2312 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2313 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2314
2df2bb1f 2315* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
07eabc2b
LB
2316
2317* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2318 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2319 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2320 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2321
2322* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2323
2324* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2325 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2326 something goes wrong on the way.
2327
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LB
2328* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2329 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2330 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2331 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2332
2333* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2334 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2335 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2336 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2337 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2338 automatically.
2339
2340* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2341 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2342
2343* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2344 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2345 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2346 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2347 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2348 fails to apply use the latter.
2349
2350* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2351 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2352
2353* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2354 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2355
2356* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2357 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2358 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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LB
2359
2360* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2361 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2362
92e72028 2363* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2364 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2365 during boot.
2366
2367* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2368
b44be3ec 2369* document:
8b8f2591 2370 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
2371 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2372 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2373 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2374 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2375 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2376 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2377 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2378 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2379 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2380 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2381 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2382
2383* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2384 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2385 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2386 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2387 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2388 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2389 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2390
07eabc2b
LB
2391* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2392 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2393 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2394
07eabc2b
LB
2395* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2396 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2397 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2398
07eabc2b
LB
2399* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2400 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2401 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2402
07eabc2b
LB
2403* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2404 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2405
07eabc2b
LB
2406* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2407 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2408 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2409 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2410
07eabc2b
LB
2411* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2412 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2413 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2414 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2415
07eabc2b
LB
2416* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2417
2418* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2419
2420* unit install:
2421 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2422 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2423
b44be3ec 2424* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2425 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2426 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2427 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2428 from the kernel's logs.
2429 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2430 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2431 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2432 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2433 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2434 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2435 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2436 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2437 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2438 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2439 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2440 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2441 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2442 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2443 startup.
2444 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2445 or so, freeze the payload too.
2446 - support time namespaces
2447 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2448 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2449 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2450 "machinectl shell"
2451 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2452 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2453 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2454 - greater control over selinux label?
2455 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2456 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2457 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2458 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2459 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2460 host TPM.
2461 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2462 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2463 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2464 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2465 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2466 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2467 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2468 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2469 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2470 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2471 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2472 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2473 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2474
2475* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2476 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2477 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2478 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2479 anything like that.
2480
e25b5a8d 2481* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2482 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2483 removed or added to an existing machine
2484 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2485 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2486 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2487 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2488 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2489 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2490 - "machinectl history"
2491 - "machinectl diff"
2492 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2493 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2494
abd55b16 2495* udev:
abd55b16 2496 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2497 - kill scsi_id
2498 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2499 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2500 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2501 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2502
e25b5a8d
DH
2503* coredump:
2504 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2505 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2506 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2507
2508* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2509
f38afcd0 2510* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2511 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2512 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2513 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2514 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2515 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2516 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2517 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2518 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2519 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2520 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2521 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2522
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TG
2523* udev-link-config:
2524 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2525 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2526 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2527
88e4d1d7 2528* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2529 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2530 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2531
0a4b9a07 2532* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2533 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2534 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2535 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2536 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2537 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2538 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2539 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2540 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2541 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2542 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2543 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2544 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2545 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2546 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2547 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2548 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2549 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2550 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2551
07eabc2b
LB
2552* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2553
d5e172d2
ZJS
2554* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2555
ac976532 2556* dhcp:
424a8732 2557 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2558
37d8b536
PF
2559* dhcp6:
2560 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2561 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2562 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2563 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2564 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2565 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2566 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2567 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2568 or interface down
2569 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2570 this behavior
4a77c53d 2571 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
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2572
2573* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2574 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2575 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)