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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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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?
22
23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
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.
111
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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131* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
132
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133Features:
134
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135* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
136 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
137 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
138
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139* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
140 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
141 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
142 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
143 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
144
145* add a generic client to importd called importctl, then make machinectl just
146 chain-exec() it. Make sure importd/importctl can be used for sysext images,
147 portable images too.
148
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149* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
150
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151* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
152 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
153 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
154 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
155
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156* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
157 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
158
159* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
160
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161* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
162 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
163 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
164 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
165 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
166 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
167
168* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
169 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
170 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
171
172* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
173 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
174
175* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 176 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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177 actually works too when run with user privs.
178
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179* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
180 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
181 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
182 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
183
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184* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
185 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
186
187* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
188 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
189 and unix-export dir of containers.
190
73d8041c 191* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 192 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
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193 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
194
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195* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
196 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
197 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
198 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
199
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200* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
201 64bit mount ids
202
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203* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
204 interfaces nspawn creates
205
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206* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
207 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
208 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
209 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
210
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211* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
212 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
213 volume key.
214
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215* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
216 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
217 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
218 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
219 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
220 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
221 specified images.
222
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223* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
224 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
225 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
226
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227* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
228 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
229 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
230
231* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
232 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
233 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
234
235* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
236 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
237
238* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
239 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
240
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241* systemd-pcrextend:
242 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
243 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
244 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 245 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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246 PCRs.
247
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248* vmspawn:
249 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
250 - register with machined
251 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
252 - support --directory= via virtiofs
253 - sd_notify support
254 - --ephemeral support
255 - --read-only support
256 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
257 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
258 suspend key presses.
259 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
260 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
261 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
262
263* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
264
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265* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
266
267* storagetm:
268 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
269 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
270 operate in device mode
271 - add NVMe authentication
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273* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
274 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
275 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
276 nvme-oF
277
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278* pcrlock:
279 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
280 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
281 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
282 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
283 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
284 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
285 pass it via initrd to OS
286 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
287 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
288 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
289 /run?
290 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
291 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
292 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
293 for pre-built images
294
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295* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
296 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
297 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
298 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
299 add a field identifying the project.
300
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301* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
302 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
303 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
304 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
305 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
306
307* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
308 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
309 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
310 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
311
312* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
313 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
314 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
315
316* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
317 systems.
318
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319* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
320 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
321 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
322 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
323 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
324 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
325 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 326 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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327 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
328 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
329 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
330 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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332* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
333 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
334 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
335 sysext
336
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337* in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
338 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
339 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
340 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
341 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
342
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343* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
344 other programs via IPC:
345 - bootctl
346 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
347 - coredumpcl
348 - systemd-bless-boot
349 - systemd-measure
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350 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
351 - systemd-dissect
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352 - systemd-sysupdate
353 - systemd-analyze
354 - kernel-install
f277d99c 355 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
3d1831b9 356
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357* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
358 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
359 via "systemctl status".
360
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361* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
362 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 363 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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365* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
366 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
367
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368* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
369 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
370
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371* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
372 menu.
373
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374* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
375 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
376 sockets.
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378* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
379 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
380 -c owner?).
381
382* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
383 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
384 migratable between PCs)
385
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386* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
387 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
388 snapshot logic
389
390* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
391 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
392 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 393 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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394 a local key to it.
395
a1f7cdc6 396* PidRef conversion work:
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397 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
398 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
399 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 400 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 401 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 402 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 403 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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404 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
405 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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407* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
408
409* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
410 mode.
411
3a9e659a 412* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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413 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
414 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
415 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
416 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
417 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
418 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
419
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420* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
421 too much
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fcdd21ec 423* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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424 to systemd-dissect
425
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426* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
427 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
428 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
429 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
430 control of the attacker.
431
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432* also include packaging metadata (á la
433 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
434 same JSON format.
435
436* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
437 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
438 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
439 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
440 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
441 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
442 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
443 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
444 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
445 newer.
446
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447* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
448 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
449 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
450 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
451 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
452 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
453 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
454 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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456* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
457 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
458 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
459
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460* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
461 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
462 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
463 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 464 independently of any kernel.
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466* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
467 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
468 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
469 requested during switch root.
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471* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
472
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473* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
474 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
475 matched against OS.
476
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477* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
478 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
479 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
480
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481* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
482 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
483 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
484 namespaces)
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487 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
488
489* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
490 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
491 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
492
f447b741 493* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 494 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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496 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
497 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
498 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
499
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501 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 502 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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506 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
507 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
508 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
509 based on lo_file_name.
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512 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 513 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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515
516* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
517 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
518 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
519 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
520 creating versions like these automatically).
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523
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525 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
526 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
527 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
528 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
529 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
530 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
531 activation-by-message id and similar.
532
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534
512f2da5 535* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 536 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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538 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
539
540* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
541 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
542 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
543 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
544 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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547 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
548 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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551
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553 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
554 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
555
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556* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
557 localed, oomd, timedated.
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560 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
561 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
562 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
563 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
564 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 565 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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567 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
568 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
569 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
570 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
571 access.
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574 posix_spawn().
575
576* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
577 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
578 through nspawn.
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581 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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584 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
585 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
586 for all umh processes.
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589 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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592 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
593 resize.
594
595* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
596 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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599 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
600 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
601 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
602 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
603 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
604 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
605 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
606 system actually reset.
607
608* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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610 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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613 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
614 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
615 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
616
4cb8a25b 617* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 618 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 619 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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623 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
624 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
625 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
626 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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629 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
630 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
631 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
632 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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635
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637 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 638 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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640
084ecae5 641* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
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644* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
645 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
646 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
647
6d040d84 648* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 649 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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651* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
652 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
653 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
654 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
655 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
656 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
657 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
658 usual.
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661
662* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
663
664* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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667 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
668 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
669 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
670 sockaddr.
671
672* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
673 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
674 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
675 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
676 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
677 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
678 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
679 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
680 try to use inode from there.
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683 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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686 extensions
687
688* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
689 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
690 for the root fs or /usr/.
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693 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
694 combination thereof.
695
696* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
697 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
698 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
699 ahead of time.
700
701* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
702 aforementioned purpose.
703
704* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
705 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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708 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
709 to figure out:
710 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
711 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
712 subsequent boots?
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715 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
716 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
717 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
718 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
719 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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721 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
722 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
723 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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726 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
727 used)
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730 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
731 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
732 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
733 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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736 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
737 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
738 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 739 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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743 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
744 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
745
746* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
747 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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750
751* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
752 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 753 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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755
756* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
757 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
758 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
759 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
760 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
761 only one for each OS.
762
763* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
764 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 765 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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767 boot, for the next.
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770 similar behind it, instead of http.
771
772* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
773 boot, or on first boot.
774
775* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
776 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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779 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
780 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
781 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
782 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
783 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
784 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
785 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
786 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
787 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
788 until users are allowed to log in).
789
790* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
791 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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794 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
795 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 796 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 797 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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799 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
800 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 801 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
802 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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804
805* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
806 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
807 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
808 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 809 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 810 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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812 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 813 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
814 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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816 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
817 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 818 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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820 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
821 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
822 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 823 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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825 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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828 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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831 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
832
833* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
834 instead of manual blocking.
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837 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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840 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
841 supplied password.
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844 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
845 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
846 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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849 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
850 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
fcdd21ec 851 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
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853* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
854 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
855 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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858 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
859 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 860 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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862
863* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
864 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
865 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
866 modules
867
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870 a new name with a built-in config?
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873 maybe on kernel command line:
874 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
875 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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878 hash type, etc)
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882
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4e0ceefe 884 but final node is not a directory
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887 non-VFAT fs is used.
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892 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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899 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
900 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
901 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
902 affect PCR values.
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905 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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908 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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911 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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914 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
915
916* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
917 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
918
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921 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
922 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
923 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
924 use it.
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927 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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930 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
931 what it was signed.
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934 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
935 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
936 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
937 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
938 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
939 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
940 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
941 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
942 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
943 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
944 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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947 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
948
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951 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
952 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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954 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
955 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
956 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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958 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
959 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
960 file system paths to enable on start.
961 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
962 usr=
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964 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
965 pre-built kernels.
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968 runtime state. Then, expose it:
969
970 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
971 about the unit.
972 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
973 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
974 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
975 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
976 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
977 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
978
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980 what to do if support ended
981
982* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 983 login time, à la motd
81a96518 984
e1b45a75 985* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 986 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 987 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 988 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 989 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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992 initrd transition. Specifically:
993 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
994 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
995 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
996
d486b26f 997* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 998 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1000 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1001 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1002 depending on desired level of persistency.
1003
1004* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1005 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1006 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1008 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1009 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1010 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1011 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1012
1013* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1014 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1015 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1016 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1017
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1019
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1021
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1023 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1024 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1025 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1027 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1028 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1029 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1030 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1032 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1033 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1034 not unprivileged code.
1035
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1037 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1038 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1039 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1042 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1043 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1044 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1045 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1047 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1049 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1051* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1052 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1053 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1054 order.
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1057 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1058 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1061 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1062 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1063 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1064 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1066 IN_IGNORED again)
1067
5b06ad51 1068* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1069 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1070 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1071 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1072 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1073 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1074 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1075 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1076 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1077 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1078 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1079 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1082 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1083 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1084
03ede612 1085* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1087 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1088 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1089 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1090 directly to host service manager.
1091
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1092* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1093 no api to query the device id
1094
1095* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1096 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1097 also be queried.
1098
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1099* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1100 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1101 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1102 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1103
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1104* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1105 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1106 latter).
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1108* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1109
1110* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1111
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1112* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1113 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1114 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1115 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1116
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1118 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1119 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1120 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1121 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1123
1124* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1125 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1126 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1127 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1128 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1129 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1130 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1131 hence cheap for enumeration.
1132
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1133* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1134
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1135* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1136 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1137 words: show partition labels).
1138
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1140 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1141 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1142 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1143 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1144 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1145 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1146
e4f92a62 1147* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1149* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1150
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1151* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1152 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1153 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1154 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1155 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1156 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1157 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1158 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1159 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1160 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1161
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1162* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1163 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1164
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1165* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1166 jobs, units
1167
a57d72ce 1168* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1170 userspace)
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1172* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
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1175 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1176
d1666bde 1177* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1179
1180* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1181 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1183* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1184 internal clock.
1185
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1186* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1187 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1188
1189* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1190 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1191 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1192 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1195 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1196 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1197
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1199 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1200 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1201 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1202 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1203 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1204 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1205 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1206 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1207 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1208 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1209 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1210 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1211 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1212 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1215 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1216 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1217 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1218 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1219 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1221* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1222 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1224
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1225* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1226 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1227 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1228 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1229 on-disk storage.
1230
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1232 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1233 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1234 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1235 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1236
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1238 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1239 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1240
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1241* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1242 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1243 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1244 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1245
3fc0688d 1246* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1247 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1248 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1249 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1250 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1251 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1252 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1253 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1254 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1255 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1256 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1259 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1260 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1262* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1263
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1267 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1268 that images cannot be misused.
1269
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178d3ff2 1271 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1273 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1274 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1275
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1277 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1278 - support casync as download mechanism
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1279 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1280 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1281 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1282 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1283 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1284 host's update files.)
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1285 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1286 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1287 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1288 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1289
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1291
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1292* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1293 make dirs appear under right UID.
1294
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1295* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1296 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1297
24063ba1 1298* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1300 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1301 already have it.
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1304 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1305
1c904337 1306* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1308* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1309 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1310 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1311 /proc/self/fd/3
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1314 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1315 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1316
1317* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1318 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1320* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1321 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1323* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1324 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1325 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1326 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1327 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1330
199b097d 1331* credentials system:
199b097d 1332 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1333 - acquire via ask-password?
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1335 - pass creds via keyring?
1336 - pass creds via memfd?
1337 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1338 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1339 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1340 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1341 wireguard)
1342 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1344
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1346 and such
1347
1348* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1349
02c914ef 1350* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1351
7d7c75f1 1352* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1354
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1356 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1358* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1359
1360* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1361 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1362
1363* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1364 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1365
1366* cryptsetup:
1367 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1368 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1369
08d33656 1370* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1372* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1373 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1374
f461a28d 1375* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1376 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1377
f461a28d 1378* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1379 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1380
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1381* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1382
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1383* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1384
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1385* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1386 when it exits
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1388* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1389 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1390 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1391 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1392 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1393 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1394 since they are so basic and our defaults)
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1396* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1397 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1398 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1399
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1400* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1401 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1402
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1403* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1404
1405* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1406 specific service
1407
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1408* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1409 exists and responds.
1410
91fc013f 1411* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1412 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1413
7e8facb3 1414* unify on openssl:
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1415 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1416 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1417 gnutls
1418 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
492f91d8 1419
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1420* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1421 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1422
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1423* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1424 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1426* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1427
2a4be3c5 1428* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1429
f1eb0ccd 1430* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1432* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1433 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1434 initrd had set.
1435
173c7873 1436* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1437 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1438 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1439 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1440 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1441 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1442
1443* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1444 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1445 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1446
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1447* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1448 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1449 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1450 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1451 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1452 source.
1453
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1454* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1455 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1456 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1457
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1458* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1459
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1460* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1461 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1462
c6526b8d 1463* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1465* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1466 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1467 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1468 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1469 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1470 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1471 exec().
1472
1473* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1474
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1475* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1476 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1477
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1478* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1479 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1480
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1481* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1482 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1483 root.
1484
1485* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1486 is issued.
1487
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1488* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1489
1490* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1491
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1492* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1493 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1494 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1495
d238709c 1496* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1497 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1498 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1499
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1500* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1501
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1502* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1503 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1504
06898123 1505* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1506 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1507 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1508 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1509
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1510* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1511
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1512* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1513
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1514* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1515 non-zero "tries done" count
1516
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1517* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1518 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1519 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1520 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1521 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1522 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1523 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1524 CODE_FILE.
1525
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1526* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1527 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1528 some explanatory text online.
1529
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1530* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1531
d1797c42 1532* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1534* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1535 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1536
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1537* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1538 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1539 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1540 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1542* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1543
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1544* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1545
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1546* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1547 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1548
5da19043 1549* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1550 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1551
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1552* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1553 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1554 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1555 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1556 unlinked from any dir.
1557
bd1b3f75 1558* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1559
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1560* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1561
1562* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1563
53c70a27 1564* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1565 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1566 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1567 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1568 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1569
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1570* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1571
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1572* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1573 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1574
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1575* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1576 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1577 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1578 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1579 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1580 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1581 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1582 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1583
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1584* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1585 for root, but only then.
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1587* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1588 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1589
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1590* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1591 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1592
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1593* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1594 only when used. Add unit tests.
1595
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1596* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1597 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1598
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1599* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1600 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1601 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1602 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1603 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1604
899feb72 1605* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1606
5f7ecd61 1607* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1608
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1609* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1610 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1611
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1612* blog about fd store and restartable services
1613
1614* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1615
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1616* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1617 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1618
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1619* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1620 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1621 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1622 ID is available.
1623
1624* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1625 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1626 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1627
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1628* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1629 parameters
1630
63a185dc 1631* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1632 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1633 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1634 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1635 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1636 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1637 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1638
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1639* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1640 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1641
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1642* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1643 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1644 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1645
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1646* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1647 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1648
1649 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1650
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1651* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1652 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1653 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1654
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1655* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1656 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1657
1658* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1659 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1660 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1661 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1662 natural habitat.
1663
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1664* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1665 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1667* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1668 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1669 relative to the configured default value.
1670
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1671* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1672
04397464 1673* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1675* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1676
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1677* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1678
04397464 1679* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1680
04397464 1681* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1682
04397464 1683* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1684
8ce9b83a 1685* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1687* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1688 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1689 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1690
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1691* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1692 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1693
e40a326c 1694* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1695
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1696* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1697 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1698 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1699 mapping to work.
1700
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1701* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1702
1703* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1704
1705* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1706
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1707* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1708 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1709
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1710* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1711 reload the unit file anyway
1712
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1713* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1714
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1715* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1716
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1717* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1718 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1719
f9bf1b8f 1720* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1721 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1722 specifications.
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1724* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1725
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1726* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1727
a2088fd0 1728* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1729 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1730 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1731 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1733* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1734
931bc195 1735* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1737* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1738 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1739 state.
41d6f3bf 1740 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1742* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1743 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1744 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1745 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1746 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1747
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1748* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1749
d2f81fb0 1750* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1751 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1752
0a86c1a9 1753* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1754 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1755
e031c227 1756* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1757 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1758
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1759* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1760
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1761* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1762 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1763
25e773ee 1764* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1765
720652b3 1766* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1767
720652b3 1768* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1769
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1770* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1771 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1772
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1773* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1774
9d6db739 1775* resolved:
9d6db739 1776 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1777 - service registration
1778 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1779 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1780 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1781 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1782 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1783 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1784 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1785 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1786
e25b5a8d 1787* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1788
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1789* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1790
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1791* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1792
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1793* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1794
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1795* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1796
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1797* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1798 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1799
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1800* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1801
6a3f892a 1802* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1803 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1804 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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1806* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1807 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1808 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1809
f9bf1b8f 1810* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1813 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1814 for ReusePort=
1815
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f38afcd0 1817 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1818 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1819 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1820 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1821 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1822 the hierarchies of child processes
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1823 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1824 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1825
f38afcd0 1826* transient units:
f38afcd0 1827 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1828
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1829* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1830
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1831* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1832
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1833* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1834
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1835* 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
1836
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1837* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1838 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1839 path anyway.
1840
04397464 1841* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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1843* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1844
07eabc2b 1845* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1846
07eabc2b 1847* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1848
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1849* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1850
1851* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1852 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1853 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1854
1855* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1856 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1857
1858* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1859
1860* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1861
1862* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1863
1864* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1865 needs to be auto-respawned?
1866
1867* pid1:
1868 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1869 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1870 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1871 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1872 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1873 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1874 - move PAM code into its own binary
1875 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1876 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1877 - Support --test based on current system state
1878 - 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().
1879 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1880 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1881 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1882 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1883 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1884 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1885 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1886 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1887 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1888 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1889 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1890 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1891
1892* unit files:
1893 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1894 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1895 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1896 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1897 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1898 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1899 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1900 - introduce Type=pid-file
1901 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1902 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1903 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1904
1905* timer units:
63a185dc 1906 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1907 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1908
1909* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1910
1911* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1912
1913* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1914
1915* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1916
07eabc2b 1917* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1918
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1919* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1920
1921* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1922
fff87a35 1923* test/:
20d52ab6 1924 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1925
b5c03638 1926* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1927 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1928 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1929 destination.
1930
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1931* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1932 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1933
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1934* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1935
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1936* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1937 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1938 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1939
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1940* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1941 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1942
7227dd81 1943* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1944 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1945 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1946 that automatically.
1947
e5ec62c5 1948* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1949
ccddd104 1950* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1951
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1952* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1953
356ce991 1954* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1955
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1956* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1957
1958* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1959
1960* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1961
1962* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1963
1964* sd-bus:
1965 - EBADSLT handling
1966 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1967 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1968 - 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
1969 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1970 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1971 - longer term: priority inheritance
1972 - dbus spec updates:
1973 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1974 - path escaping
1975 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1976
1977* sd-event
1978 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1979 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1980 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1981 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1982 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1983 here:
1984 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1985
1986* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1987 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1988
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1989* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1990
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1991* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1992
1993* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1994
1995* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1996
b44be3ec 1997* EFI:
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1998 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1999 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2000 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2001* bootctl
631427d6 2002 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2003
07eabc2b 2004* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2005
07eabc2b 2006* bootctl:
483091b0 2007 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2008 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2009 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2010
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2011* logind:
2012 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2013 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2014 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2015 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2016 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2017 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2018 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2019 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2020 needs setuid().
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2021 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2022 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2023 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2024 complete.
2025 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2026 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2027 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2028 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2029 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2030 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2031 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2032 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2033 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2034 relogins
77b19caf 2035 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2036 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2037 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2038 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2039
2040* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2041
2042* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2043 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2044 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2045
2046* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2047 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2048
b44be3ec 2049* journal:
57f2a947 2050 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2051 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2052 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2053 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2054 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2055 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2056 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2057 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2058 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2059 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2060 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2061 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2062 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2063 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2064 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2065 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2066 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2067 - 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.
2068 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2069 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2070 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2071 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2072 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2073 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2074 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2075 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2076 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2077 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2078 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2079 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2080 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2081 to syslog when it works again.
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2082 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2083 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2084 journals in.
2085 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2086 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2087 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2088 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2089 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2090 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2091 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2092 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2093 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2094 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2095 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2096 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2097 operation.
2098 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2099 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2100 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2101 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2102 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2103 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2104 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2105 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2106 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2107 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2109* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2110 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2111
2112* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2113 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2114 validated via TPM.
2115
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2117 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2118 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2119
2120* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2121 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2122 cursors as they happen.
2123
2124* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2125 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2126 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2127 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2128 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2129 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2130 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2131 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2132 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2133
2134* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2135 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2136 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2137 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2138 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2140
2141* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2142 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2143 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2144 records, to be able to order them.
2145
2146* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2147 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2148 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2149 be safely written to disk, then.
2150
2151* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2152 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2153 inspiration from IMA log)
2154
2155* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2156 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2157 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2158
2159* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2160 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2161 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2162 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2163 for doing that.
2164
2165* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2166 log.c and sd-journal-send
2167
2168* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2169 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2170 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2171 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2172 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2173 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2174 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2175 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2176 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2177 an NTP sync is acquired.
2178
2179* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2180
2181* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2182 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2183 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2184
2185* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2186 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2187 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2188 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2189 cgroup.
2190
2191* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2192 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2193 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2194 logging.
2195
2196* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2197
2198* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2199 from the SIGBUS handler
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2202 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2203 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2204 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2205
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2206* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2207 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2208
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2209* homed:
2210 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2211 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2212 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2213 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2214 - create on activate?
2215 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2216 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2217 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2218 systemd --user is shut down.
2219 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2220 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2221 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2222 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2223 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2224 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2225 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2226 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2227 - query password from kernel keyring first
2228 - update even if record is "absent"
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2229 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2230 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2231 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2232 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2233 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2234 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2235 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2236 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2237 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2238 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2239 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2240 signature
2241 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2242 and insert a local signature instead.
2243 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2244 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2245 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2246 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2247 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2248 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2249 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2250 easily?
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LP
2251 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2252 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2253 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2254 can easily set overall quota for all users
2255 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2256 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2257 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2258 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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LP
2259 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2260 large.
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LP
2261 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2262 home dir
07eabc2b 2263
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LB
2264* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2265 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2266 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2267
2df2bb1f 2268* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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LB
2269
2270* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2271 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2272 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2273 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2274
2275* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2276
2277* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2278 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2279 something goes wrong on the way.
2280
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LB
2281* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2282 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2283 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2284 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2285
2286* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2287 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2288 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2289 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2290 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2291 automatically.
2292
2293* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2294 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2295
2296* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2297 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2298 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2299 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2300 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2301 fails to apply use the latter.
2302
2303* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2304 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2305
2306* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2307 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2308
2309* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2310 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2311 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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LB
2312
2313* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2314 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2315
92e72028 2316* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2317 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2318 during boot.
2319
2320* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2321
b44be3ec 2322* document:
8b8f2591 2323 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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LP
2324 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2325 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2326 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2327 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2328 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2329 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2330 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2331 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2332 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2333 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2334 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2335
2336* systemctl:
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LP
2337 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2338 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2339 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2340 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2341 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2342 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2343
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LB
2344* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2345 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2346 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2347
07eabc2b
LB
2348* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2349 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2350 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2351
07eabc2b
LB
2352* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2353 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2354 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2355
07eabc2b
LB
2356* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2357 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2358
07eabc2b
LB
2359* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2360 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2361 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2362 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2363
07eabc2b
LB
2364* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2365 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2366 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2367 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2368
07eabc2b
LB
2369* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2370
2371* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2372
2373* unit install:
2374 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2375 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2376
b44be3ec 2377* nspawn:
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DH
2378 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2379 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2380 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2381 from the kernel's logs.
2382 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2383 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2384 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2385 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2386 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2387 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2388 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2389 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2390 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2391 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2392 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2393 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2394 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2395 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2396 startup.
2397 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2398 or so, freeze the payload too.
2399 - support time namespaces
2400 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2401 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2402 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2403 "machinectl shell"
2404 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2405 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2406 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2407 - greater control over selinux label?
2408 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2409 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2410 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2411 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2412 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2413 host TPM.
2414 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2415 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2416 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2417 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2418 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2419 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2420 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2421 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2422 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2423 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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CB
2424 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2425 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2426 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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LB
2427
2428* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2429 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2430 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2431 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2432 anything like that.
2433
e25b5a8d 2434* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2435 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2436 removed or added to an existing machine
2437 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2438 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2439 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2440 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2441 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2442 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2443 - "machinectl history"
2444 - "machinectl diff"
2445 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2446 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2447
abd55b16 2448* udev:
abd55b16 2449 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2450 - kill scsi_id
2451 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2452 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2453 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2454 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2455
e25b5a8d
DH
2456* coredump:
2457 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2458 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2459 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2460
2461* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2462
f38afcd0 2463* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2464 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2465 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2466 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2467 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2468 calls follow symlinks.
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ZJS
2469 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2470 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2471 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2472 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2473 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2474 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2475
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TG
2476* udev-link-config:
2477 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2478 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2479 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2480
88e4d1d7 2481* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2482 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2483 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2484
0a4b9a07 2485* networkd:
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TG
2486 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2487 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2488 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2489 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2490 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2491 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2492 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2493 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2494 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2495 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2496 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2497 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2498 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2499 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2500 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2501 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2502 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2503 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2504
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LB
2505* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2506
d5e172d2
ZJS
2507* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2508
ac976532 2509* dhcp:
424a8732 2510 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2511
37d8b536
PF
2512* dhcp6:
2513 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2514 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2515 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2516 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2517 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2518 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2519 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2520 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2521 or interface down
2522 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2523 this behavior
4a77c53d 2524 - RouteTable= ?
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2525
2526* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2527 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2528 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)