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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 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
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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94* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
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99* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 101 is only supported for such old kernels.
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103* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
9eb41aab 106* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
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112* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
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115* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
3345802c 118* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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121* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
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123* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
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127* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
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130* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
131
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132Features:
133
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134* new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
135 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
136 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
137 run, per PCR
138 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
139 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
140 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
141 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
142 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
143 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
144 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
145 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
146 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
147 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
148 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
149 measurements might not be recognizable.
150 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
151 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
152 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
153 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
154 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
155 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
156 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
157 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
158 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
159 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
160 restricting it to the counter + 1.
161 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
162 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
163 them as singleton in ESP
164 13. increases the counter by one.
165 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
166 .extra
167 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
168 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
169 the counter
170 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
171 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
172 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
173 deterministically swapped out)
174 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
175 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
176 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
177 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
178 policy is generated and counter increased.
179 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
180 downgrades within bounds
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182* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
183 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
184 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
185 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
186 control of the attacker.
187
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188* also include packaging metadata (á la
189 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
190 same JSON format.
191
192* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
193 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
194 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
195 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
196 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
197 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
198 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
199 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
200 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
201 newer.
202
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203* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
204 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
205 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
206 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
207 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
208 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
209 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
210 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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212* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
213 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
214 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
215
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216* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
217 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
218 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
219 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 220 independently of any kernel.
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222* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
223 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
224 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
225 requested during switch root.
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227* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
228
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229* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
230 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
231 matched against OS.
232
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233* use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
234 without the other)
235
236* in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
237 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
238 sd-stub, explicitly.
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240* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
241 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
242 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
243
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244* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
245 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
246 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
247 namespaces)
248
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249* refuse using the switch-root operation without /etc/initrd-release. Now
250 that we have a concept of userspace reboot, we can clearly say: switch-root
251 is for transitioning from initrd to host (or initrd to next initrd), while
252 userspace reboot is for switching host to next version of the host.
253
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254* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
255 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
256
257* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
258 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
259 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
260
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261* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
262 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
263 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
264
f447b741 265* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 266 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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267 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
268 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
269 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
270 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
271
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272* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
273 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 274 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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275 used transiently, never persistently.
276
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277* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
278 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
279 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
280 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
281 based on lo_file_name.
282
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283* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
284
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285* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
286 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
287 cursors as they happen.
288
289* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
290 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
291 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
292 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
293 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
294 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
295 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
296 activation-by-message id and similar.
297
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298* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
299 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
300 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
301 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
302
303* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
304 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
305 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
306 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
307 similar behaviour for system services, too.
308
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309* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
310 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
311 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
312
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313* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
314
315* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
316 localed, oomd, timedated.
317
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318* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
319 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
94d82b59 320 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
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321 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
322 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
323 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
324 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
325 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
326 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
327
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328* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
329 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
330 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
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332* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
333 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
334 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
335 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
336 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
337 signed by U.
338 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
339 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
340 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
341 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
342 next boot
343 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
344 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
345 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
346 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
347 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
348 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
349 later boot.
350 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
351 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
352 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
353 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
354 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
355
356* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
357 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
358 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
359 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
360 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
361 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 362 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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363 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
364 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
365 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
366 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
367 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
368 access.
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370* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
371 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
372 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
373 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
374 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 375 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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376 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
377 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
378 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
379 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
380
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381* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
382 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
383
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384* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
385 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
386 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
387 for all umh processes.
388
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389* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
390 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
391
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392* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
393 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
394 resize.
395
396* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
397 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
398
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399* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
400 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
401 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
402 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
627cdcc7 403 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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404 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
405
406* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
407 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
30fd9a2d 408 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
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409 records, to be able to order them.
410
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411* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
412 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
413 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
414 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
415 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
416 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
417 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
418 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
419 system actually reset.
420
421* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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422 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
423 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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425* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
426 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
427 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
428 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
429
4cb8a25b 430* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 431 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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432 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
433 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
434
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435* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
436 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
437 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
438 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
439 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
440
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441* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
442 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
443 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
444 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
445 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
446
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447* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
448
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449* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
450 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
451 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
452 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
453
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454* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
455 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
456
457* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
458 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
459 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
460
6d040d84 461* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 462 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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464* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
465 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
466 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
467 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
468 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
469 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
470 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
471 usual.
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474
475* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
476
477* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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480 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
481 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
482 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
483 sockaddr.
484
485* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
486 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
487 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
488 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
489 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
490 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
491 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
492 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
493 try to use inode from there.
494
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496 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
497
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499 extensions
500
501* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
502 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
503 for the root fs or /usr/.
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506 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
507 combination thereof.
508
509* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
510 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
511 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
512 ahead of time.
513
514* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
515 aforementioned purpose.
516
517* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
518 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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521 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
522 to figure out:
523 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
524 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
525 subsequent boots?
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528 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
529 inspiration from IMA log)
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532 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
533 out to our tools.
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536 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
537 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
538 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
539 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
540 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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542 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
543 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
544 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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547 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
548 used)
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551 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
552 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
553 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
554 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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557 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
558 how PCR values we manage came to
559 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
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562 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
563 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
564 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 565 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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567
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569 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
570 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
571
572* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
573 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
574
575* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
576 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
577 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
578 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
579 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
580 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
581
582* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
583 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
584 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
585
586* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
587
588* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
589 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
590 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
591 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
592
593* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
594 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
595 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
596 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
597 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
598 only one for each OS.
599
600* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
601 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 602 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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603 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
604 boot, for the next.
605
606* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
607 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
608
609* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
610 similar behind it, instead of http.
611
612* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
613 boot, or on first boot.
614
615* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
616 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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619 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
620 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
621 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
622 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
623 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
624 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
625 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
626 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
627 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
628 until users are allowed to log in).
629
630* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
631 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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634 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
635 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
b60e0f57 636 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-confext
637 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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639 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
640 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 641 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
642 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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644
645* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
646 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
647 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
648 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
649 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 650 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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652 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 653 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
654 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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656 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
657 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 658 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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660 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
661 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
662 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 663 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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665 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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668 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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671 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
672
673* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
674 instead of manual blocking.
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676* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
677 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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680 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
681 supplied password.
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684 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
685 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
686 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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689 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
690 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
691 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
692
693* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
694 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
695 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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698 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
699 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
700
701* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
702 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
703 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
704 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
705 partition with a portable service partition in one.
706
707* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
708 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
709 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
710 modules
711
b60e0f57 712* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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714 a new name with a built-in config?
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717 maybe on kernel command line:
718 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
719 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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722 hash type, etc)
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726
f461a28d 727* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 728 but final node is not a directory
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731 non-VFAT fs is used.
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736 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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743 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
744 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
745 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
746 affect PCR values.
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749 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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752 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
753
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754* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
755 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
756
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757* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
758 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
759
760* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
761 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
762
9f3a3ac7 763* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
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765 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
766 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
767 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
768 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
769 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
770 ACPI resume events.
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774 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
775 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
776 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
777 use it.
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780 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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783 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
784 what it was signed.
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787 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
788 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
789 be safely written to disk, then.
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792 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
793 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
794 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
795 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
796 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
797 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
798 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
799 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
800 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
801 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
802 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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805 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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808 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
809 via the credentials logic.
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811 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
812 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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814 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
815 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
816 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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818 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
819 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
820 file system paths to enable on start.
821 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
822 usr=
823 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
824 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
825 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
826 account one can directly log into.
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828 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
829 pre-built kernels.
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832 runtime state. Then, expose it:
833
834 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
835 about the unit.
836 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
837 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
838 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
839 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
840 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
841 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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844 what to do if support ended
845
846* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
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e1b45a75 849* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 850 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 851 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 852 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 853 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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856 initrd transition. Specifically:
857 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
858 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
859 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
860
861* implement varlink introspection
862
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47b86590 864 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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866 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
867 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
868 depending on desired level of persistency.
869
870* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
871 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 872 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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873 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
874 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
875 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
876 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
877 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
878
879* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
880 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
881 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
882 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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889 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
890 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
891 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
892 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
893 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
894 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
895 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 896 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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898 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
899 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
900 not unprivileged code.
901
902* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
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906 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
907 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
908 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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911 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
912 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
913 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
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916 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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918 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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920* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
921 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
922 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
923 order.
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926 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
927 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
928 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
929 whenever they want.
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931* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
932 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
933 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
934
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936 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
937 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
938 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 939 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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940 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
941 IN_IGNORED again)
942
5b06ad51 943* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 944 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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945 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
946 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
947 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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948 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
949 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 950 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 951 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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952 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
953 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
954 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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956* Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
957 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
958 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 959
03ede612 960* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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962 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 963 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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964 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
965 directly to host service manager.
966
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967* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
968
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969* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
970 no api to query the device id
971
972* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
973 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
974 also be queried.
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977 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
978 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
979 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
980
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981* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
982 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
983 latter).
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985* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
986
987* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
988
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989* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
990 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
991 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
992 generated by GNU sha256sums.
993
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995 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 996 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
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997 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
998 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
999 UEFI HTTP boot.
1000
1001* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1002 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1003 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1004 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1005 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1006 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1007 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1008 hence cheap for enumeration.
1009
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1010* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1011
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1012* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1013 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1014 words: show partition labels).
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1017 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1018 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 1019 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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1020 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1021 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1022 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1023
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1025
e4f92a62 1026* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1028* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1029
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1030* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1031 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1032 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1033 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1034 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1035 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1036 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1037 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1038 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1039 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1040
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1042 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
1043 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
1044 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
1045 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
1046 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
1047 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
1048 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
1049 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
1050 an NTP sync is acquired.
1051
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1053 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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1055* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1056 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1057
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1058* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1059 jobs, units
1060
a57d72ce 1061* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1063 userspace)
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1068 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1069
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1072
1073* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1074 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1077 internal clock.
1078
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1079* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1080 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1081
1082* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1083 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1084 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1085 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1088 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1089 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1090
1091* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1092 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1093 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1094 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1095 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1096 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1097 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1098 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1099 thread:
1100 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1101 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1102 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1103 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1104 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1105 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1106
1107* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1108 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1109 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1110
1111* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1112 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1113 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1114 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1115 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1116 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1117 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1118 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1119 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1120 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1121 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1122 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1123 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1124 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1125 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1128 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1129 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1130 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1131 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1132 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1134* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1135 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1137
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1138* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1139 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1140 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1141 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1142 on-disk storage.
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1145 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1146 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1147 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1148 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1149
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1150* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1151 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1152 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1154* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1155 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1156 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1157 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1158 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1159 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1160 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1163 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1164 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1165 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1166
3fc0688d 1167* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1168 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1169 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1170 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1171 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1172 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1173 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1174 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1175 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1176 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1177 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1180 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1181 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1184
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1187* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1188 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1189 that images cannot be misused.
1190
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178d3ff2 1192 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1193 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1194 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1195 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1196
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1198 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1199 - support casync as download mechanism
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1200 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1201 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1202 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1203 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1204 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1205 override the host's update files.)
1206 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1207 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1208 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1209 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1210
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1212
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1213* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1214 make dirs appear under right UID.
1215
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1216* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1217 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1218
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1219* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1220 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1221 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1222 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1223 for doing that.
1224
24063ba1 1225* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1227 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1228 already have it.
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1230* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1231 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1232
1c904337 1233* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1235* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1236 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1237 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1238 /proc/self/fd/3
1239
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1240* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1241 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1242 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1243
1244* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1245 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1246
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1247* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1248 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1249
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1250* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1251 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1252 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1253 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1254 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1256* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1257
199b097d 1258* credentials system:
199b097d 1259 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1260 - acquire via ask-password?
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1262 - pass creds via keyring?
1263 - pass creds via memfd?
1264 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1265 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1266 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1267 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1268 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1269 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1270 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1271 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1273* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1274 firmware indicates there is one.
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1276* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1277 and such
1278
1279* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1281* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1282
7d7c75f1 1283* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1284 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1285
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1286* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1287 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1289* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1290
1291* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1292 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1293
1294* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1295 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1296
1297* cryptsetup:
1298 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1299 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1300
08d33656 1301* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1304 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1305
f461a28d 1306* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1307 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1308
f461a28d 1309* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1310 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1311
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1312* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1313
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1314* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1315
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1316* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1317
1318* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1319
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1320* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1321 when it exits
1322
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1323* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1324 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1325 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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1327 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1328 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1329 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1330 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1331 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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1333* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1334 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1335 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1336
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1337* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1338 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1339
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1340* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1341
1342* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1343 specific service
1344
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1345* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1346 exists and responds.
1347
91fc013f 1348* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1349 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1350
7e8facb3 1351* unify on openssl:
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1352 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1353 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1354 gnutls
1355 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1357* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1358 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1359
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1360* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1361 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1363* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1364
2a4be3c5 1365* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1366
f1eb0ccd 1367* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1369* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1370 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1371 initrd had set.
1372
173c7873 1373* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1374 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1375 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1376 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1377 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1378 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1379
1380* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1381 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1382 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1383
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1384* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1385 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1386 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1387 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1388 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1389 source.
1390
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1391* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1392 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1393 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1394
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1395* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1396
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1397* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1398 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1399 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1400 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1401 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1402 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1403 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1404 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1405 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1406 hibernation mode. (see
1407 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1408 section 10.2.2.8 and
1409 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1410 at the end).
1411
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1412* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1413 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1414
c6526b8d 1415* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1416
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1417* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1418 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1419 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1420 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1421 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1422 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1423 exec().
1424
1425* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1426
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1427* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1428 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1429
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1430* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1431 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1432
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1433* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1434 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1435 root.
1436
1437* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1438 is issued.
1439
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1440* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1441
1442* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1443
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1444* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1445 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1446 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1447
d238709c 1448* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1449 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1450 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1451
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1452* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1453
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1454* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1455 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1456
06898123 1457* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1458 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1459 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1460 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1462* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1463
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1464* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1465 log.c and sd-journal-send
1466
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1467* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1468
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1469* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1470
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1471* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1472 non-zero "tries done" count
1473
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1474* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1475 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1476 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1477 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1478 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1479 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1480 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1481 CODE_FILE.
1482
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1483* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1484 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1485 some explanatory text online.
1486
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1487* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1488
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1489* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1490 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1491
d1797c42 1492* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1494* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1495 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1496
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1497* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1498 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1499 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1500 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1502* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1503
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1504* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1505
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1506* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1507 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1508
5da19043 1509* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1510 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1512* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1513 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1514 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1515 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1516 unlinked from any dir.
1517
bd1b3f75 1518* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1519
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1520* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1521
1522* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1523
53c70a27 1524* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1525 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1526 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1527 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1528 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1529
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1530* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1531
1532* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1533
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1534* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1535 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1536
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1537* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1538 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1539 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1540 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1541 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1542 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1543 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1544 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1545
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1546* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1547 for root, but only then.
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1549* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1550 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1551
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1552* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1553 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1554
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1555* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1556 only when used. Add unit tests.
1557
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1558* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1559 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1560
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1561* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1562 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1563 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1564 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1565 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1566
899feb72 1567* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1568
5f7ecd61 1569* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1570
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1571* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1572 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1573
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1574* blog about fd store and restartable services
1575
1576* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1577
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1578* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1579 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1580
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1581* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1582 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1583 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1584 ID is available.
1585
1586* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1587 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1588 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1589
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1590* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1591 parameters
1592
63a185dc 1593* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1594 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1595 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1596 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1597 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1598 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1599 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1601* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1602 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1603
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1604* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1605 about it in the resource log message
1606
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1607* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1608 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1609 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1610
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1611* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1612 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1613
1614 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1615
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1616* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1617 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1618 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1619
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1620* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1621 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1622
1623* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1624 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1625 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1626 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1627 natural habitat.
1628
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1629* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1630 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1632* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1633 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1634 relative to the configured default value.
1635
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1636* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1637
04397464 1638* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1639
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1640* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1641
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1642* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1643
04397464 1644* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1645
04397464 1646* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1647
04397464 1648* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1649
8ce9b83a 1650* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1651
1652* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1653 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1654 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1655
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1656* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1657 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1658
e40a326c 1659* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1660
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1661* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1662 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1663 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1664 mapping to work.
1665
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1666* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1667
1668* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1669
1670* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1671
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1672* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1673 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1674
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1675* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1676 reload the unit file anyway
1677
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1678* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1679
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1680* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1681
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1682* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1683 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1684
f9bf1b8f 1685* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1686 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1687 specifications.
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1689* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1690
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1691* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1692
a2088fd0 1693* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1694 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1695 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1696 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1698* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1699
931bc195 1700* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1701
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1702* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1703 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1704 state.
41d6f3bf 1705 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1707* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1708 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1709 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1710 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1711 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1712
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1713* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1714
d2f81fb0 1715* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1716 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1717
0a86c1a9 1718* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1719 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1720
e031c227 1721* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1722 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1723
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1724* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1725
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1726* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1727 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1728
25e773ee 1729* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1730
720652b3 1731* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1732
720652b3 1733* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1734
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1735* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1736 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1737
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1738* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1739
9d6db739 1740* resolved:
9d6db739 1741 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1742 - service registration
1743 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1744 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1745 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1746 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1747 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1748 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1749 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1750 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1751
e25b5a8d 1752* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1753
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1754* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1755
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1756* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1757
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1758* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1759
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1760* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1761
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1762* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1763 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1765* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1766
6a3f892a 1767* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1768 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1769 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1770
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1771* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1772 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1773 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1774
f9bf1b8f 1775* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1776
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1777* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1778 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1779 for ReusePort=
1780
f38afcd0 1781* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1782 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1783 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1784 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1785 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1786 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1787 the hierarchies of child processes
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1788- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1789 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1790
f38afcd0 1791* transient units:
f38afcd0 1792 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1793
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1794* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1795
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1796* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1797
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1798* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1799
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1800* 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
1801
7f79cd71 1802* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1803
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1804* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1805 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1806 path anyway.
1807
04397464 1808* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1809
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1810* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1811
1812* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1813
07eabc2b 1814* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1815
07eabc2b 1816* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1817
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1818* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1819
1820* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1821 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1822 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1823
1824* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1825 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1826
1827* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1828
1829* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1830
1831* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1832
1833* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1834 needs to be auto-respawned?
1835
1836* pid1:
1837 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1838 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1839 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1840 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1841 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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41d6f3bf 1843 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1844 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1845 - move PAM code into its own binary
1846 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1847 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1848 - Support --test based on current system state
1849 - 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().
1850 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1851 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1852 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1853 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1854 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1855 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1856 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1857 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1858 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1859 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1860 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1861 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1862
1863* unit files:
1864 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1865 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1866 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1867 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1868 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1869 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1870 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1871 - introduce Type=pid-file
1872 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1873 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1874 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1875
1876* timer units:
63a185dc 1877 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1878 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1879
1880* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1881
1882* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1883
1884* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1885
1886* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1887
07eabc2b 1888* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1889
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1890* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1891
1892* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1893
fff87a35 1894* test/:
20d52ab6 1895 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1896
b5c03638 1897* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1898 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1899 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1900 destination.
1901
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1902* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1903 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1904
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1905* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1906
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1907* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1908 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1909 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1910
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1911* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1912 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1913
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1914* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1915 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1916 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1917 that automatically.
1918
e5ec62c5 1919* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1920
ccddd104 1921* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1922
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1923* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1924
356ce991 1925* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1926
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1927* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1928
1929* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1930
1931* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1932
1933* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1934
1935* sd-bus:
1936 - EBADSLT handling
1937 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1938 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1939 - 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
1940 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1941 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1942 - longer term: priority inheritance
1943 - dbus spec updates:
1944 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1945 - path escaping
1946 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1947
1948* sd-event
1949 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1950 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1951 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1952 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1953 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1954 here:
1955 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1956
1957* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1958 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1959
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1960* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1961
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1962* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1963
1964* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1965
1966* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1967
b44be3ec 1968* EFI:
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1969 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1970 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1971 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1972* bootctl
631427d6 1973 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1974
07eabc2b 1975* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1976
07eabc2b 1977* bootctl:
483091b0 1978 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1979 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1980 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 1981
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1982* logind:
1983 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1984 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1985 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1986 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1987 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1988 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1989 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1990 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1991 needs setuid().
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1992 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1993 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1994 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1995 complete.
1996 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1997 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1998 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1999 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2000 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2001 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2002 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2003 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2004 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2005 relogins
77b19caf 2006 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2007 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2008 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2009 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2011* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2012
2013* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2014 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2015 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2016
2017* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2018 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2019
b44be3ec 2020* journal:
57f2a947 2021 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2022 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2023 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2024 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2025 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2026 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2027 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2028 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2029 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2030 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2031 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2032 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2033 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2034 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2035 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2036 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2037 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2038 - 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.
2039 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2040 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2041 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2042 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2043 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2044 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2045 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2046 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2047 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2048 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2049 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2050 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2051 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2052 to syslog when it works again.
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2053 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2054 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2055 journals in.
2056 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2057 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2058 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2059 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2060 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2061 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2062 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2063 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2064 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2065 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2066 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2067 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2068 operation.
2069 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2070 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2071 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2072 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2073 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2074 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2075 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2076 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2077 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2078 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2080* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2081 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2082
2083* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2084 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2085 validated via TPM.
2086
2087* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2088 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2089
2090* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2091 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2092 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2093
2094* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2095 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2096 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2097 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2098 cgroup.
2099
2100* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2101 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2102 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2103 logging.
2104
2105* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2106
2107* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2108 from the SIGBUS handler
2109
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2111 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2112 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2113 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2114
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2115* homed:
2116 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2117 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2118 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2119 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2120 - create on activate?
2121 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2122 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2123 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2124 systemd --user is shut down.
2125 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2126 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2127 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2128 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2129 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2130 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2131 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2132 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2133 - query password from kernel keyring first
2134 - update even if record is "absent"
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2135 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2136 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2137 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2138 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2139 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2140 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2141 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2142 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2143 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2144 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2145 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2146 signature
2147 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2148 and insert a local signature instead.
2149 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2150 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2151 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2152 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2153 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2154 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2155 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2156 easily?
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2157 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2158 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2159 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2160 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2161 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2162 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2163 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2164 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2165 can easily set overall quota for all users
2166 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2167 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2168 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2169 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2170 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2171 large.
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2173* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2174 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2175 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2176
2df2bb1f 2177* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2178
2179* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2180 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2181 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2182 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2183
2184* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2185
2186* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2187 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2188 something goes wrong on the way.
2189
2190* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2191
2192* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2193 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2194 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2195 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2196
2197* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2198 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2199 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2200 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2201 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2202 automatically.
2203
2204* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2205 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2206
2207* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2208 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2209 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2210 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2211 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2212 fails to apply use the latter.
2213
2214* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2215 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2216
2217* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2218 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2219
2220* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2221 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2222 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2224* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2225 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2226
92e72028 2227* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2229 during boot.
2230
2231* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2232
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8b8f2591 2234 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2235 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2236 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
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2238 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2239 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2240 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2241 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2242 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2243 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2244 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2245 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2246
2247* systemctl:
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2248 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2249 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2250 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2251 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2252 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2253 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2254 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2255 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2256 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2257 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2258
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2259* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2260 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2261 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2262
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2263* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2264 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2265 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2266
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2267* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2268 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2269 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2270
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2271* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2272 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2273
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2274* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2275 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2276 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2277 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2278
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2279* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2280 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2281 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2282 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2283
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2284* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2285
2286* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2287
2288* unit install:
2289 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2290 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2291
b44be3ec 2292* nspawn:
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2293 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2294 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2295 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2296 from the kernel's logs.
2297 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2298 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2299 interface be missing
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2300 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2301 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2302 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2303 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2304 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2305 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2306 PID 1...
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2307 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2308 running, remove them when shut down.
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2309 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2310 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2311 startup.
2312 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2313 or so, freeze the payload too.
2314 - support time namespaces
2315 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2316 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2317 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2318 "machinectl shell"
2319 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2320 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2321 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2322 - greater control over selinux label?
2323 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2324 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2325 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2326 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2327 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2328 host TPM.
2329 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2330 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2331 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2332 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2333 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2334 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2335 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2336 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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2337 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2338 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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2339 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2340 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2341 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2342
2343* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2344 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2345 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2346 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2347 anything like that.
2348
e25b5a8d 2349* machined:
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2350 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2351 removed or added to an existing machine
2352 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2353 difference host, via ssh
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2354 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2355 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2356 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2357 question
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2358 - "machinectl history"
2359 - "machinectl diff"
2360 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2361 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2362
abd55b16 2363* udev:
abd55b16 2364 - move to LGPL
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2365 - kill scsi_id
2366 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2367 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2368 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2369 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2370
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2371* coredump:
2372 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2373 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2374 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2375
2376* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2377
f38afcd0 2378* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2379 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2380 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2381 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2382 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2383 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2384 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2385 - add --test mode
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2386 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2387 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2388 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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2389 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2390 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2391
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2392* udev-link-config:
2393 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2394 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2395 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2396
88e4d1d7 2397* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2398 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2399 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2400
0a4b9a07 2401* networkd:
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2402 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2403 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2404 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2405 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2406 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2407 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2408 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2409 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2410 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2411 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2412 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2413 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2414 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2415 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2416 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2417 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2418 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2419 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2420
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2421* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2422
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2423* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2424
ac976532 2425* dhcp:
424a8732 2426 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2427
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2428* dhcp6:
2429 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2430 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2431 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2432 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2433 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2434 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2435 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2436 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2437 or interface down
2438 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2439 this behavior
4a77c53d 2440 - RouteTable= ?