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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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25* register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27* zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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32* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36* write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
f461a28d 74* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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75 calls instead.
76
77* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
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79* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
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83* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
b3e199ce 87* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
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92* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
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95Deprecations and removals:
96
97* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
b3e199ce 100* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
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105* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 107 is only supported for such old kernels.
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109* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
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9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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121* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
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124* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
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128* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
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131Features:
132
666a348d 133* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
630023e2 134 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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136* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
137 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
138 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
139
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140* ptyfwd: look for window title ANSI sequences and insert colored dot in front
141 of it while passing it through, to indicate whether we are in privileged, VM,
142 container terminal sessions.
143
144* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
145 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
146 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
147 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
148 exit code propagation
149
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150* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
151 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
152 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
153 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
154 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
155
156* add a generic client to importd called importctl, then make machinectl just
157 chain-exec() it. Make sure importd/importctl can be used for sysext images,
158 portable images too.
159
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160* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
161
10e3f15a 162* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 163 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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164 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
165 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
166
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167* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
168 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
169 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
170 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
171
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172* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
173 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
174
175* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
176
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177* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
178 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
179 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
180 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
181 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
182 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
183
184* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
185 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
186 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
187
188* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
189 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
190
191* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 192 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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193 actually works too when run with user privs.
194
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195* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
196 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
197 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
198 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
199
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200* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
201 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
202
203* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
204 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
205 and unix-export dir of containers.
206
73d8041c 207* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 208 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
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209 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
210
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211* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
212 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
213 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
214 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
215
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216* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
217 64bit mount ids
218
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219* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
220 interfaces nspawn creates
221
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222* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
223 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
224 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
225 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
226
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227* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
228 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
229 volume key.
230
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231* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
232 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
233 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
234 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
235 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
236 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
237 specified images.
238
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239* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
240 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
241 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
242
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243* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
244 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
245 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
246
247* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
248 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
249 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
250
251* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
252 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
253
254* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
255 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
256
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257* systemd-pcrextend:
258 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
259 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
260 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 261 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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262 PCRs.
263
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264* vmspawn:
265 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
266 - register with machined
267 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
268 - support --directory= via virtiofs
269 - sd_notify support
270 - --ephemeral support
271 - --read-only support
272 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
273 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
274 suspend key presses.
275 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
276 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
277 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
278
279* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
280
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281* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
282
283* storagetm:
284 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
285 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
286 operate in device mode
287 - add NVMe authentication
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289* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
290 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
291 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
292 nvme-oF
293
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294* pcrlock:
295 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
296 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
297 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
298 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
299 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
300 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
301 pass it via initrd to OS
302 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
303 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
304 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
305 /run?
306 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
307 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
308 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
309 for pre-built images
310
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311* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
312 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
313 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
314 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
315 add a field identifying the project.
316
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317* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
318 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
319 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
320 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
321 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
322
323* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
324 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
325 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
326 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
327
328* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
329 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
330 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
331
332* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
333 systems.
334
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335* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
336 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
337 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
338 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
339 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
340 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
341 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 342 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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343 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
344 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
345 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
346 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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348* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
349 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
350 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
351 sysext
352
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353* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
354 other programs via IPC:
355 - bootctl
356 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
357 - coredumpcl
358 - systemd-bless-boot
359 - systemd-measure
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360 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
361 - systemd-dissect
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362 - systemd-sysupdate
363 - systemd-analyze
364 - kernel-install
f277d99c 365 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
3d1831b9 366
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367* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
368 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
369 via "systemctl status".
370
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371* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
372 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 373 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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375* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
376 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
377
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378* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
379 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
380
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381* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
382 menu.
383
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384* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
385 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
386 sockets.
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388* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
389 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 390 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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392* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
393 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
394 migratable between PCs)
395
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396* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
397 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
398 snapshot logic
399
400* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
401 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
402 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 403 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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404 a local key to it.
405
a1f7cdc6 406* PidRef conversion work:
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407 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
408 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
409 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 410 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 411 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 412 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 413 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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414 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
415 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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417* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
418
419* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
420 mode.
421
3a9e659a 422* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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423 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
424 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
425 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
426 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
427 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
428 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
429
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430* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
431 too much
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fcdd21ec 433* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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434 to systemd-dissect
435
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436* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
437 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
438 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
439 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
440 control of the attacker.
441
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442* also include packaging metadata (á la
443 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
444 same JSON format.
445
446* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
447 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
448 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
449 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
450 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
451 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
452 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
453 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
454 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
455 newer.
456
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457* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
458 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
459 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
460 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
461 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
462 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
463 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
464 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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466* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
467 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
468 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
469
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470* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
471 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
472 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
473 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 474 independently of any kernel.
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476* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
477 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
478 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
479 requested during switch root.
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482
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483* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
484 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
485 matched against OS.
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488 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
489 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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492 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
493 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
494 namespaces)
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497 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
498
499* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
500 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
501 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
502
f447b741 503* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 504 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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506 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
507 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
508 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
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511 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 512 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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514
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516 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
517 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
518 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
519 based on lo_file_name.
520
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522 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 523 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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525
526* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
527 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
528 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
529 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
530 creating versions like these automatically).
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533
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535 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
536 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
537 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
538 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
539 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
540 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
541 activation-by-message id and similar.
542
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544
512f2da5 545* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 546 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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548 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
549
550* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
551 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
552 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
553 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
554 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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557 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
558 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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561
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563 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
564 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
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567 localed, oomd, timedated.
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570 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
571 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
572 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
573 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
574 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 575 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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577 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
578 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
579 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
580 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
581 access.
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584 posix_spawn().
585
586* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
587 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
588 through nspawn.
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591 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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594 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
595 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
596 for all umh processes.
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599 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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602 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
603 resize.
604
605* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
606 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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609 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
610 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
611 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
612 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
613 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
614 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
615 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
616 system actually reset.
617
618* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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620 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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623 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
624 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
625 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
626
4cb8a25b 627* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 628 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 629 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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633 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
634 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
635 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
636 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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639 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
640 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
641 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
642 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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645
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647 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 648 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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650
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654* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
655 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
656 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
657
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4cb8a25b 659 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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661* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
662 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
663 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
664 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
665 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
666 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
667 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
668 usual.
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671
672* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
673
674* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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677 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
678 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
679 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
680 sockaddr.
681
682* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
683 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
684 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
685 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
686 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
687 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
688 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
689 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
690 try to use inode from there.
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693 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
694
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696 extensions
697
698* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
699 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
700 for the root fs or /usr/.
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703 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
704 combination thereof.
705
706* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
707 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
708 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
709 ahead of time.
710
711* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
712 aforementioned purpose.
713
714* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
715 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
716
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718 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
719 to figure out:
720 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
721 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
722 subsequent boots?
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725 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
726 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
727 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
728 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
729 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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731 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
732 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
733 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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736 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
737 used)
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740 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
741 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
742 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
743 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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746 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
747 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
748 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 749 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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753 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
754 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
755
756* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
757 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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760
761* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
762 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 763 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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765
766* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
767 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
768 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
769 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
770 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
771 only one for each OS.
772
773* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
774 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 775 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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776 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
777 boot, for the next.
778
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780 similar behind it, instead of http.
781
782* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
783 boot, or on first boot.
784
785* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
786 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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789 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
790 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
791 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
792 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
793 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
794 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
795 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
796 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
797 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
798 until users are allowed to log in).
799
800* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
801 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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804 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
805 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 806 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 807 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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809 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
810 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 811 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
812 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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814
815* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
816 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
817 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
818 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 819 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 820 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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822 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 823 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
824 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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826 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
827 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 828 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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830 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
831 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
832 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
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835 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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838 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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841 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
842
843* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
844 instead of manual blocking.
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847 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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850 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
851 supplied password.
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854 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
855 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
856 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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859 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
860 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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863* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
864 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
865 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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868 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
869 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 870 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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872
873* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
874 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
875 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
876 modules
877
b60e0f57 878* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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880 a new name with a built-in config?
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883 maybe on kernel command line:
884 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
885 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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888 hash type, etc)
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892
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4e0ceefe 894 but final node is not a directory
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897 non-VFAT fs is used.
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902 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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909 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
910 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
911 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
912 affect PCR values.
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915 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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918 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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921 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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924 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
925
926* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
927 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
928
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931 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
932 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
933 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
934 use it.
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936* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
937 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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939* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
940 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
941 what it was signed.
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944 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
945 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
946 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
947 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
948 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
949 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
950 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
951 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
952 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
953 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
954 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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957 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
958
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961 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
962 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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964 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
965 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
966 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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968 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
969 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
970 file system paths to enable on start.
971 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
972 usr=
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974 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
975 pre-built kernels.
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978 runtime state. Then, expose it:
979
980 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
981 about the unit.
982 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
983 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
984 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
985 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
986 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
987 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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990 what to do if support ended
991
992* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 993 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 995* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 996 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 997 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 998 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 999 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1002 initrd transition. Specifically:
1003 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1004 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1005 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1006
d486b26f 1007* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1008 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1010 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1011 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1012 depending on desired level of persistency.
1013
1014* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1015 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1016 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1018 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1019 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1020 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1021 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1022
1023* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1024 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1025 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1026 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1027
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1029
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1030* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1031
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1033 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1034 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1035 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1037 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1038 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1039 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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1042 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1043 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1044 not unprivileged code.
1045
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1047 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1048 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1049 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1052 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1053 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1054 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1055 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1056 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1057 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1059 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1061* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1062 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1063 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1064 order.
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1067 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1068 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1071 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1072 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1073 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1074 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1076 IN_IGNORED again)
1077
5b06ad51 1078* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1079 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1080 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1081 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1082 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1083 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1084 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1085 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1086 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1087 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1088 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1089 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1092 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1093 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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03ede612 1095* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1097 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1098 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1099 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1100 directly to host service manager.
1101
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1102* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1103 no api to query the device id
1104
1105* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1106 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1107 also be queried.
1108
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1109* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1110 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1111 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1112 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1113
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1114* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1115 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1116 latter).
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1118* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1119
1120* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1121
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1122* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1123 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1124 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1125 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1126
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1128 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1129 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1130 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1131 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1132 UEFI HTTP boot.
1133
1134* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1135 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1136 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1137 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1138 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1139 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1140 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1141 hence cheap for enumeration.
1142
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1143* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1144
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1145* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1146 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1147 words: show partition labels).
1148
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1150 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1151 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1152 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1153 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1154 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1155 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1156
e4f92a62 1157* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1159* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1160
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1161* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1162 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1163 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1164 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1165 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1166 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1167 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1168 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1169 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1170 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1171
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1172* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1173 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1174
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1175* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1176 jobs, units
1177
a57d72ce 1178* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1179 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1180 userspace)
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1182* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1183
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1184* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1185 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1186
d1666bde 1187* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1189
1190* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1191 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1193* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1194 internal clock.
1195
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1196* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1197 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1198
1199* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1200 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1201 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1202 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1204* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1205 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1206 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1207
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1208* homed: if the homed shell fallback thing has access to an SSH agent, try to
1209 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1210 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1211 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1212 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1213 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1214 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1216* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1217 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1218 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1219 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1220 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1221 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1223* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1224 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1226
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1227* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1228 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1229 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1230 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1231 on-disk storage.
1232
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1234 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1235 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1236 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1237 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1238
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1239* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1240 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1241 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1243* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1244 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1245 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1246 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1247
3fc0688d 1248* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1249 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1250 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1251 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1252 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1253 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1254 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1255 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1256 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1257 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1258 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1261 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1262 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1264* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1265
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1268* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1269 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1270 that images cannot be misused.
1271
aca8ecc3 1272* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1273 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1274 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1275 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1276 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1277
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1278* sysupdate:
1279 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1280 - support casync as download mechanism
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1281 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1282 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1283 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1284 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1285 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1286 host's update files.)
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1287 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1288 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1289 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1290 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1291
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1292* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1293
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1294* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1295 make dirs appear under right UID.
1296
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1297* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1298 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1299
24063ba1 1300* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1301 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1302 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1303 already have it.
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1305* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1306 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1307
1c904337 1308* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1310* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1311 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1312 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1313 /proc/self/fd/3
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1315* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1316 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1317 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1318
1319* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1320 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1322* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1323 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1324
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1325* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1326 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1327 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1328 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1329 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1332
199b097d 1333* credentials system:
199b097d 1334 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1335 - acquire via ask-password?
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1337 - pass creds via keyring?
1338 - pass creds via memfd?
1339 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1340 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1341 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1342 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1343 wireguard)
1344 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1346
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1347* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1348 and such
1349
1350* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1352* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1353
7d7c75f1 1354* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1356
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1357* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1358 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1360* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1361
1362* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1363 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1364
1365* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1366 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1367
1368* cryptsetup:
1369 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1370 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1371
08d33656 1372* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1374* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1375 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1376
f461a28d 1377* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1378 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1379
f461a28d 1380* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1381 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1382
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1383* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1384
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1385* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1386
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1387* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1388 when it exits
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1390* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1391 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1392 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1393 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1394 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1395 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1396 since they are so basic and our defaults)
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1398* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1399 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1400 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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1402* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1403 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1404
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1405* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1406
1407* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1408 specific service
1409
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1410* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1411 exists and responds.
1412
91fc013f 1413* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1414 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1415
7e8facb3 1416* unify on openssl:
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1417 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1418 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1419 gnutls
1420 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1422* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1423 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1424
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1425* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1426 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1428* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1429
2a4be3c5 1430* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1431
f1eb0ccd 1432* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1434* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1435 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1436 initrd had set.
1437
173c7873 1438* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1439 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1440 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1441 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1442 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1443 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1444
1445* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1446 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1447 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1448
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1449* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1450 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1451 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1452 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1453 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1454 source.
1455
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1456* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1457 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1458 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1459
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1460* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1461
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1462* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1463 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1464
c6526b8d 1465* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1467* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1468 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1469 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1470 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1471 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1472 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1473 exec().
1474
1475* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1476
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1477* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1478 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1479
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1480* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1481 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1482
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1483* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1484 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1485 root.
1486
1487* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1488 is issued.
1489
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1490* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1491
1492* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1493
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1494* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1495 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1496 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1497
d238709c 1498* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1499 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1500 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1501
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1502* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1503
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1504* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1505 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1506
06898123 1507* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1508 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1509 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1510 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1512* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1513
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1514* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1515
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1516* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1517 non-zero "tries done" count
1518
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1519* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1520 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1521 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1522 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1523 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1524 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1525 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1526 CODE_FILE.
1527
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1528* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1529 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1530 some explanatory text online.
1531
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1532* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1533
d1797c42 1534* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1536* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1537 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1538
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1539* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1540 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1541 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1542 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1544* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1545
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1546* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1547
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1548* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1549 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1550
5da19043 1551* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1552 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1553
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1554* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1555 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1556 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1557 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1558 unlinked from any dir.
1559
bd1b3f75 1560* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1561
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1562* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1563
1564* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1565
53c70a27 1566* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1567 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1568 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1569 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1570 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1571
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1572* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1573
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1574* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1575 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1576
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1577* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1578 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1579 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1580 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1581 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1582 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1583 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1584 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1585
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1586* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1587 for root, but only then.
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1589* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1590 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1591
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1592* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1593 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1594
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1595* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1596 only when used. Add unit tests.
1597
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1598* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1599 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1600
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1601* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1602 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1603 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1604 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1605 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1606
899feb72 1607* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1608
5f7ecd61 1609* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1610
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1611* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1612 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1613
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1614* blog about fd store and restartable services
1615
1616* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1617
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1618* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1619 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1620
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1621* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1622 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1623 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1624 ID is available.
1625
1626* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1627 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1628 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1629
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1630* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1631 parameters
1632
63a185dc 1633* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1634 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1635 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1636 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1637 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1638 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1639 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1640
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1641* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1642 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1643
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1644* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1645 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1646 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1647
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1648* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1649 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1650
1651 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1652
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1653* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1654 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1655 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1656
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1657* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1658 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1659
1660* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1661 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1662 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1663 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1664 natural habitat.
1665
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1666* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1667 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1669* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1670 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1671 relative to the configured default value.
1672
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1673* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1674
04397464 1675* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1677* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1678
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1679* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1680
04397464 1681* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1682
04397464 1683* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1684
04397464 1685* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1686
8ce9b83a 1687* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1688
1689* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1690 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1691 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1692
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1693* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1694 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1695
e40a326c 1696* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1698* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1699 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1700 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1701 mapping to work.
1702
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1703* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1704
1705* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1706
1707* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1708
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1709* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1710 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1711
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1712* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1713 reload the unit file anyway
1714
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1715* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1716
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1717* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1718
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1719* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1720 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1721
f9bf1b8f 1722* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1723 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1724 specifications.
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1726* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1727
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1728* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1729
a2088fd0 1730* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1731 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1732 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1733 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1735* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1736
931bc195 1737* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1739* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1740 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1741 state.
41d6f3bf 1742 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1744* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1745 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1746 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1747 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1748 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1749
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1750* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1751
d2f81fb0 1752* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1753 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1754
0a86c1a9 1755* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1756 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1757
e031c227 1758* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1759 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1760
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1761* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1762
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1763* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1764 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1765
25e773ee 1766* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1767
720652b3 1768* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1769
720652b3 1770* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1771
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1772* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1773 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1774
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1775* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1776
9d6db739 1777* resolved:
9d6db739 1778 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1779 - service registration
1780 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1781 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1782 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1783 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1784 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1785 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1786 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1787 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1788
e25b5a8d 1789* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1790
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1791* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1792
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1793* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1794
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1795* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1796
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1797* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1798
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1799* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1800 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1802* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1803
6a3f892a 1804* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1805 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1806 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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1808* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1809 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1810 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1811
f9bf1b8f 1812* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1815 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1816 for ReusePort=
1817
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f38afcd0 1819 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1820 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1821 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1822 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1823 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1824 the hierarchies of child processes
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1825 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1826 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1827
f38afcd0 1828* transient units:
f38afcd0 1829 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1830
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1831* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1832
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1833* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1834
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1835* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1836
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1837* 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
1838
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1839* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1840 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1841 path anyway.
1842
04397464 1843* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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1845* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1846
07eabc2b 1847* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1848
07eabc2b 1849* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1850
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1851* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1852
1853* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1854 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1855 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1856
1857* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1858 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1859
1860* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1861
1862* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1863
1864* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1865
1866* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1867 needs to be auto-respawned?
1868
1869* pid1:
1870 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1871 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1872 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1873 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1874 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1875 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1876 - move PAM code into its own binary
1877 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1878 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1879 - Support --test based on current system state
1880 - 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().
1881 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1882 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1883 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1884 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1885 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1886 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1887 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1888 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1889 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1890 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1891 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1892 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1893
1894* unit files:
1895 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1896 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1897 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1898 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1899 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1900 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1901 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1902 - introduce Type=pid-file
1903 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1904 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1905 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1906
1907* timer units:
63a185dc 1908 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1909 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1910
1911* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1912
1913* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1914
1915* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1916
1917* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1918
07eabc2b 1919* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1920
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1921* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1922
1923* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1924
fff87a35 1925* test/:
20d52ab6 1926 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1927
b5c03638 1928* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1929 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1930 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1931 destination.
1932
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1933* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1934 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1935
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1936* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1937
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1938* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1939 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1940 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1941
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1942* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1943 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1944
7227dd81 1945* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1946 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1947 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1948 that automatically.
1949
e5ec62c5 1950* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1951
ccddd104 1952* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1953
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1954* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1955
356ce991 1956* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1957
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1958* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1959
1960* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1961
1962* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1963
1964* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1965
1966* sd-bus:
1967 - EBADSLT handling
1968 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1969 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1970 - 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
1971 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1972 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1973 - longer term: priority inheritance
1974 - dbus spec updates:
1975 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1976 - path escaping
1977 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1978
1979* sd-event
1980 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1981 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1982 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1983 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1984 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1985 here:
1986 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1987
1988* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1989 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1990
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1991* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1992
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1993* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1994
1995* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1996
1997* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1998
b44be3ec 1999* EFI:
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2000 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2001 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2002 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2003* bootctl
631427d6 2004 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2005
07eabc2b 2006* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2007
07eabc2b 2008* bootctl:
483091b0 2009 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2010 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2011 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2012
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2013* logind:
2014 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2015 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2016 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2017 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2018 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2019 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2020 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2021 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2022 needs setuid().
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2023 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2024 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2025 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2026 complete.
2027 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2028 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2029 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2030 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2031 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2032 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2033 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2034 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2035 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2036 relogins
77b19caf 2037 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2038 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2039 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2040 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2041
2042* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2043
2044* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2045 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2046 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2047
2048* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2049 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2050
b44be3ec 2051* journal:
57f2a947 2052 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2053 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2054 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2055 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2056 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2057 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2058 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2059 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2060 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2061 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2062 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2063 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2064 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2065 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2066 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2067 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2068 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2069 - 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.
2070 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2071 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2072 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2073 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2074 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2075 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2076 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2077 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2078 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2079 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2080 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2081 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2082 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2083 to syslog when it works again.
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2084 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2085 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2086 journals in.
2087 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2088 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2089 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2090 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2091 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2092 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2093 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2094 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2095 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2096 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2097 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2098 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2099 operation.
2100 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2101 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2102 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2103 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2104 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2105 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2106 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2107 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2108 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2109 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2111* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2112 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2113
2114* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2115 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2116 validated via TPM.
2117
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2119 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2120 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2121
2122* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2123 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2124 cursors as they happen.
2125
2126* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2127 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2128 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2129 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2130 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2131 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2132 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2133 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2134 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2135
2136* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2137 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2138 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2139 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2140 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2142
2143* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2144 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2145 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2146 records, to be able to order them.
2147
2148* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2149 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2150 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2151 be safely written to disk, then.
2152
2153* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2154 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2155 inspiration from IMA log)
2156
2157* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2158 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2159 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2160
2161* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2162 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2163 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2164 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2165 for doing that.
2166
2167* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2168 log.c and sd-journal-send
2169
2170* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2171 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2172 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2173 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2174 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2175 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2176 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2177 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2178 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2179 an NTP sync is acquired.
2180
2181* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2182
2183* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2184 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2185 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2186
2187* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2188 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2189 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2190 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2191 cgroup.
2192
2193* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2194 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2195 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2196 logging.
2197
2198* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2199
2200* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2201 from the SIGBUS handler
2202
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2204 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2205 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2206 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2207
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2209 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2210
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2211* homed:
2212 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2213 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2214 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2215 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2216 - create on activate?
2217 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2218 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2219 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2220 systemd --user is shut down.
2221 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2222 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2223 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2224 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2225 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2226 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2227 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2228 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2229 - query password from kernel keyring first
2230 - update even if record is "absent"
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2231 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2232 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2233 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2234 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2235 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2236 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2237 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2238 doesn't mean user B sees it
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2240 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2241 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2242 signature
2243 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2244 and insert a local signature instead.
2245 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2246 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2247 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2248 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2249 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2250 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2251 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2252 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2253 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2254 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2255 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2256 can easily set overall quota for all users
2257 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2258 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
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LP
2259 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2260 home dir
07eabc2b 2261
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LB
2262* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2263 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2264 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2265
2df2bb1f 2266* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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LB
2267
2268* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2269 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2270 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2271 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2272
2273* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2274
2275* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2276 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2277 something goes wrong on the way.
2278
07eabc2b
LB
2279* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2280 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2281 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2282 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2283
2284* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2285 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2286 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2287 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2288 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2289 automatically.
2290
2291* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2292 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2293
2294* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2295 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2296 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2297 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2298 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2299 fails to apply use the latter.
2300
2301* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2302 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2303
2304* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2305 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2306
2307* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2308 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2309 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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LB
2310
2311* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2312 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2313
92e72028 2314* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2315 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2316 during boot.
2317
2318* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2319
b44be3ec 2320* document:
8b8f2591 2321 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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LP
2322 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2323 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2324 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2325 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2326 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2327 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2328 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2329 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2330 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2331 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2332 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2333
2334* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2335 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2336 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2337 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2338 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2339 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2340 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2341
07eabc2b
LB
2342* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2343 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2344 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2345
07eabc2b
LB
2346* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2347 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2348 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2349
07eabc2b
LB
2350* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2351 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2352 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2353
07eabc2b
LB
2354* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2355 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2356
07eabc2b
LB
2357* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2358 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2359 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2360 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2361
07eabc2b
LB
2362* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2363 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2364 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2365 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2366
07eabc2b
LB
2367* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2368
2369* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2370
2371* unit install:
2372 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2373 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2374
b44be3ec 2375* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2376 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2377 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2378 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2379 from the kernel's logs.
2380 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2381 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2382 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2383 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2384 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2385 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2386 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2387 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2388 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2389 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2390 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2391 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2392 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2393 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2394 startup.
2395 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2396 or so, freeze the payload too.
2397 - support time namespaces
2398 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2399 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2400 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2401 "machinectl shell"
2402 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2403 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2404 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2405 - greater control over selinux label?
2406 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2407 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2408 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2409 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2410 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2411 host TPM.
2412 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2413 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2414 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2415 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2416 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2417 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2418 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2419 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2420 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2421 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2422 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2423 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2424 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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LB
2425
2426* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2427 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2428 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2429 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2430 anything like that.
2431
e25b5a8d 2432* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2433 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2434 removed or added to an existing machine
2435 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2436 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2437 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2438 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2439 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2440 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2441 - "machinectl history"
2442 - "machinectl diff"
2443 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2444 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2445
abd55b16 2446* udev:
abd55b16 2447 - move to LGPL
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KS
2448 - kill scsi_id
2449 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2450 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2451 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2452 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2453
e25b5a8d
DH
2454* coredump:
2455 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2456 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2457 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2458
2459* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2460
f38afcd0 2461* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2462 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2463 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2464 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2465 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2466 calls follow symlinks.
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ZJS
2467 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2468 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2469 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2470 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2471 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2472 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2473
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TG
2474* udev-link-config:
2475 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2476 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2477 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2478
88e4d1d7 2479* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2480 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2481 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2482
0a4b9a07 2483* networkd:
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TG
2484 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2485 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2486 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2487 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2488 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2489 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2490 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2491 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2492 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2493 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2494 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2495 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2496 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2497 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2498 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2499 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2500 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2501 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2502
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LB
2503* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2504
d5e172d2
ZJS
2505* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2506
ac976532 2507* dhcp:
424a8732 2508 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2509
37d8b536
PF
2510* dhcp6:
2511 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2512 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2513 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2514 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2515 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2516 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2517 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2518 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2519 or interface down
2520 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2521 this behavior
4a77c53d 2522 - RouteTable= ?
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2523
2524* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2525 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2526 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)