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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.
6
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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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131Features:
132
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133* send out sd_notify() from PID 1 when we determined hostname and machine ID
134
135* send out sd_notify() from PID 1 whenever we reach a target unit. Then
136 introduce ssh.target or so. And in vmspawn/nspawn wait for that as indication
137 whether/when SSH is available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for that)
138
139* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
140 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
141 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
142 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
143 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
144 as primary way into the container.
145
146* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
147 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
148 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
149 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
150 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
151 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
152 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
153 it for the invoking user.
154
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155* make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
156 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
157 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
158 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
159 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
160
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161* machined: allow running in a per-user instance too, to allow unpriv
162 systemd-nspawn and systemd-vmspawn do something useful. (Alternatively: open
163 up system machined to unpriv client's registering their machines, and enforce
164 they come with some prefix or suffix that clarifies they are the
165 user's. i.e. when a user registers a machine it must be called
166 foobar.<username> or so.).
167
168* importd/…: define per-user dirs for container/VM images too.
169
666a348d 170* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
630023e2 171 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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173* importd/importctl
174 - import generator
175 - port tar handling to libarchive
176 - add varlink interface
177 - download images into .v/ dirs
178
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179* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
180 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
181 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
182
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183* ptyfwd: look for window title ANSI sequences and insert colored dot in front
184 of it while passing it through, to indicate whether we are in privileged, VM,
185 container terminal sessions.
186
187* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
188 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
189 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
190 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
191 exit code propagation
192
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193* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
194 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
195 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
196 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
197 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
198
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199* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
200
10e3f15a 201* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 202 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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203 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
204 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
205
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206* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
207 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
208 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
209 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
210
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211* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
212 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
213
214* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
215
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216* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
217 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
218 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
219 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
220 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
221 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
222
223* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
224 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
225 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
226
227* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
228 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
229
230* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 231 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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232 actually works too when run with user privs.
233
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234* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
235 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
236 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
237 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
238
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239* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
240 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
241
242* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
243 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
244 and unix-export dir of containers.
245
73d8041c 246* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 247 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
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248 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
249
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250* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
251 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
252 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
253 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
254
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255* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
256 64bit mount ids
257
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258* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
259 interfaces nspawn creates
260
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261* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
262 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
263 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
264 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
265
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266* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
267 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
268 volume key.
269
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270* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
271 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
272 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
273 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
274 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
275 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
276 specified images.
277
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278* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
279 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
280 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
281
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282* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
283 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
284 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
285
286* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
287 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
288 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
289
290* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
291 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
292
293* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
294 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
295
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296* systemd-pcrextend:
297 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
298 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
299 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 300 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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301 PCRs.
302
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303* vmspawn:
304 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
305 - register with machined
306 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
307 - support --directory= via virtiofs
308 - sd_notify support
309 - --ephemeral support
310 - --read-only support
311 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
312 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
313 suspend key presses.
314 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
315 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
316 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
317
318* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
319
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320* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
321
322* storagetm:
323 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
324 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
325 operate in device mode
326 - add NVMe authentication
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328* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
329 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
330 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
331 nvme-oF
332
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333* pcrlock:
334 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
335 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
336 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
337 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
338 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
339 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
340 pass it via initrd to OS
341 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
342 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
343 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
344 /run?
345 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
346 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
347 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
348 for pre-built images
349
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350* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
351 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
352 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
353 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
354 add a field identifying the project.
355
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356* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
357 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
358 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
359 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
360 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
361
362* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
363 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
364 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
365 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
366
367* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
368 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
369 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
370
371* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
372 systems.
373
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374* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
375 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
376 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
377 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
378 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
379 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
380 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 381 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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382 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
383 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
384 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
385 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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387* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
388 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
389 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
390 sysext
391
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392* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
393 other programs via IPC:
394 - bootctl
395 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
396 - coredumpcl
397 - systemd-bless-boot
398 - systemd-measure
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399 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
400 - systemd-dissect
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401 - systemd-sysupdate
402 - systemd-analyze
403 - kernel-install
f277d99c 404 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
3d1831b9 405
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406* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
407 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
408 via "systemctl status".
409
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410* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
411 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 412 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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414* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
415 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
416
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417* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
418 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
419
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420* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
421 menu.
422
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423* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
424 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
425 sockets.
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427* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
428 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 429 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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431* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
432 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
433 migratable between PCs)
434
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435* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
436 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
437 snapshot logic
438
439* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
440 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
441 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 442 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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443 a local key to it.
444
a1f7cdc6 445* PidRef conversion work:
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446 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
447 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
448 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 449 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 450 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 451 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 452 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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453 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
454 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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456* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
457
458* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
459 mode.
460
3a9e659a 461* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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462 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
463 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
464 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
465 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
466 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
467 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
468
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469* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
470 too much
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fcdd21ec 472* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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473 to systemd-dissect
474
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475* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
476 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
477 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
478 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
479 control of the attacker.
480
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481* also include packaging metadata (á la
482 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
483 same JSON format.
484
485* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
486 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
487 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
488 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
489 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
490 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
491 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
492 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
493 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
494 newer.
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497 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
498 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
499 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
500 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
501 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
502 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
503 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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506 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
507 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
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510 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
511 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
512 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 513 independently of any kernel.
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516 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
517 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
518 requested during switch root.
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521
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522* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
523 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
524 matched against OS.
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527 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
528 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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531 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
532 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
533 namespaces)
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536 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
537
538* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
539 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
540 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
541
f447b741 542* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 543 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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545 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
546 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
547 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
548
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550 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 551 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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555 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
556 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
557 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
558 based on lo_file_name.
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561 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 562 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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564
565* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
566 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
567 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
568 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
569 creating versions like these automatically).
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574 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
575 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
576 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
577 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
578 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
579 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
580 activation-by-message id and similar.
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583
512f2da5 584* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 585 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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587 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
588
589* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
590 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
591 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
592 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
593 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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596 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
597 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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602 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
603 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
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606 localed, oomd, timedated.
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609 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
610 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
611 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
612 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
613 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 614 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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616 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
617 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
618 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
619 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
620 access.
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623 posix_spawn().
624
625* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
626 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
627 through nspawn.
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630 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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633 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
634 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
635 for all umh processes.
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638 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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641 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
642 resize.
643
644* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
645 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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648 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
649 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
650 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
651 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
652 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
653 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
654 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
655 system actually reset.
656
657* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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659 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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662 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
663 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
664 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
665
4cb8a25b 666* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 667 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 668 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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672 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
673 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
674 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
675 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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678 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
679 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
680 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
681 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
682
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684
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686 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 687 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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689
084ecae5 690* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 691 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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693* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
694 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
695 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
696
6d040d84 697* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 698 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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700* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
701 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
702 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
703 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
704 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
705 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
706 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
707 usual.
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710
711* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
712
713* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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716 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
717 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
718 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
719 sockaddr.
720
721* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
722 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
723 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
724 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
725 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
726 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
727 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
728 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
729 try to use inode from there.
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732 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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735 extensions
736
737* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
738 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
739 for the root fs or /usr/.
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742 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
743 combination thereof.
744
745* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
746 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
747 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
748 ahead of time.
749
750* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
751 aforementioned purpose.
752
753* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
754 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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757 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
758 to figure out:
759 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
760 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
761 subsequent boots?
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764 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
765 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
766 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
767 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
768 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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770 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
771 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
772 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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775 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
776 used)
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779 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
780 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
781 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
782 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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785 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
786 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
787 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 788 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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792 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
793 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
794
795* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
796 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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799
800* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
801 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 802 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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804
805* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
806 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
807 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
808 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
809 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
810 only one for each OS.
811
812* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
813 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 814 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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816 boot, for the next.
817
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819 similar behind it, instead of http.
820
821* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
822 boot, or on first boot.
823
824* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
825 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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828 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
829 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
830 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
831 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
832 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
833 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
834 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
835 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
836 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
837 until users are allowed to log in).
838
839* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
840 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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843 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
844 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 845 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 846 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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848 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
849 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 850 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
851 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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853
854* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
855 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
856 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
857 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 858 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 859 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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861 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 862 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
863 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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865 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
866 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 867 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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869 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
870 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
871 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
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874 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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877 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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880 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
881
882* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
883 instead of manual blocking.
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886 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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889 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
890 supplied password.
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893 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
894 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
895 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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898 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
899 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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902* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
903 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
904 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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907 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
908 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 909 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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911
912* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
913 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
914 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
915 modules
916
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919 a new name with a built-in config?
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922 maybe on kernel command line:
923 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
924 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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927 hash type, etc)
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931
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4e0ceefe 933 but final node is not a directory
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936 non-VFAT fs is used.
937
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938* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
939
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940* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
941 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
942
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943* pick up creds from EFI vars
944
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948 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
949 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
950 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
951 affect PCR values.
952
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953* systemd-measure tool:
954 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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956* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
957 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
958
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959* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
960 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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963 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
964
965* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
966 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
967
e1b45a75 968* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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970 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
971 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
972 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
973 use it.
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976 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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978* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
979 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
980 what it was signed.
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983 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
984 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
985 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
986 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
987 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
988 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
989 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
990 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
991 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
992 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
993 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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996 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
997
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999 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
1000 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1001 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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1003 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1004 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1005 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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1007 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1008 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1009 file system paths to enable on start.
1010 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1011 usr=
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1013 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1014 pre-built kernels.
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1017 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1018
1019 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1020 about the unit.
1021 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1022 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1023 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1024 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1025 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1026 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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1029 what to do if support ended
1030
1031* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1032 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 1034* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1035 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1036 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1037 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1038 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1041 initrd transition. Specifically:
1042 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1043 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1044 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1045
d486b26f 1046* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1047 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1049 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1050 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1051 depending on desired level of persistency.
1052
1053* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1054 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1055 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1056 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
1057 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1058 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1059 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1060 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1061
1062* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1063 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1064 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1065 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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1068
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1069* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
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1072 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1073 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1074 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1076 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1077 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1078 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1079 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1081 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1082 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1083 not unprivileged code.
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1086 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1087 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1088 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1091 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1092 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1093 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1094 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1096 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1098 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1100* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1101 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1102 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1103 order.
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1106 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1107 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1110 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1111 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1112 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1113 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1115 IN_IGNORED again)
1116
5b06ad51 1117* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1118 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1120 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1121 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1123 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1124 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1125 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1127 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1128 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1131 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1132 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1133
03ede612 1134* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1136 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1137 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1139 directly to host service manager.
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1141* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1142 no api to query the device id
1143
1144* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1145 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1146 also be queried.
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1149 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1150 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1151 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1152
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1154 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1155 latter).
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1157* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1158
1159* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1160
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1161* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1162 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1163 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1164 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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1167 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1168 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1169 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1170 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1172
1173* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1174 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1175 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1176 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1178 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1179 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1180 hence cheap for enumeration.
1181
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1183
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1184* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1185 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1186 words: show partition labels).
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1189 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1190 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1191 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1193 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1194 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1195
e4f92a62 1196* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1198* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1199
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1200* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1201 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1202 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1203 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1204 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1205 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1206 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1207 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1208 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1209 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1210
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1211* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1212 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1213
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1215 jobs, units
1216
a57d72ce 1217* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1219 userspace)
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1222
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1224 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1225
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1228
1229* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1230 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1233 internal clock.
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1236 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1237
1238* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1239 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1240 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1241 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1244 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1245 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1246
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1248 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1250 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1251 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1252 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1253 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1256 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1257 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1258 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1259 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1260 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1262* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1263 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1265
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1267 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1268 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1269 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1270 on-disk storage.
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1273 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1274 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1275 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1276 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1277
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1279 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1280 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1283 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1284 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1285 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1286
3fc0688d 1287* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1288 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1289 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1290 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1291 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1292 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1293 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1294 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1295 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1296 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1297 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1300 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1301 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1304
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1308 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1309 that images cannot be misused.
1310
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178d3ff2 1312 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1314 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1315 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1316
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1318 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1319 - support casync as download mechanism
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1321 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1322 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1323 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1325 host's update files.)
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1327 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1328 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1329 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1332
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1334 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1337 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1338
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1341 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1342 already have it.
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1345 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1346
1c904337 1347* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1349* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1350 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1351 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1352 /proc/self/fd/3
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1354* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1355 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1356 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1357
1358* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1359 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1361* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1362 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1363
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1364* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1365 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1366 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1367 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1368 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1369
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1370* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1371
199b097d 1372* credentials system:
199b097d 1373 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1374 - acquire via ask-password?
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1375 - acquire creds via keyring?
1376 - pass creds via keyring?
1377 - pass creds via memfd?
1378 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1379 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1380 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1381 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1382 wireguard)
1383 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1384 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1385
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1386* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1387 and such
1388
1389* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1390
02c914ef 1391* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1392
7d7c75f1 1393* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1394 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1395
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1396* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1397 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1399* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1400
1401* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1402 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1403
1404* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1405 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1406
1407* cryptsetup:
1408 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1409 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1410
08d33656 1411* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1413* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1414 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1415
f461a28d 1416* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1417 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1418
f461a28d 1419* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1420 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1421
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1422* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1423
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1424* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1425
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1426* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1427 when it exits
1428
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1429* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1430 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1431 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1432 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
cdfd8537 1433 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
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1434 - bzip2 (always — gzip should probably stay static dep the way it is,
1435 since it's so basic and our defaults)
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1437* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1438 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1439 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1440
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1441* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1442 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1443
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1444* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1445
1446* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1447 specific service
1448
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1449* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1450 exists and responds.
1451
91fc013f 1452* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1453 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1454
7e8facb3 1455* unify on openssl:
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1456 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1457 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1458 gnutls
1459 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1461* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1462 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1463
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1464* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1465 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1467* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1468
2a4be3c5 1469* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1470
f1eb0ccd 1471* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1473* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1474 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1475 initrd had set.
1476
173c7873 1477* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1478 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1479 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1480 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1481 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1482 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1483
1484* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1485 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1486 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1487
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1488* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1489 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1490 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1491 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1492 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1493 source.
1494
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1495* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1496 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1497 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1498
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1499* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1500
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1501* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1502 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1503
c6526b8d 1504* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1506* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1507 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1508 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1509 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1510 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1511 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1512 exec().
1513
1514* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1515
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1516* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1517 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1518
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1519* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1520 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1521
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1522* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1523 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1524 root.
1525
1526* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1527 is issued.
1528
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1529* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1530
1531* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1532
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1533* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1534 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1535 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1536
d238709c 1537* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1538 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1539 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1540
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1541* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1542
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1543* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1544 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1545
06898123 1546* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1547 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1548 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1549 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1551* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1552
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1553* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1554
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1555* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1556 non-zero "tries done" count
1557
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1558* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1559 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1560 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1561 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1562 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1563 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1564 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1565 CODE_FILE.
1566
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1567* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1568 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1569 some explanatory text online.
1570
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1571* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1572
d1797c42 1573* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1575* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1576 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1577
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1578* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1579 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1580 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1581 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1583* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1584
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1585* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1586 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1587
5da19043 1588* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1589 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1590
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1591* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1592 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1593 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1594 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1595 unlinked from any dir.
1596
bd1b3f75 1597* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1598
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1599* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1600
1601* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1602
53c70a27 1603* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1604 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1605 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1606 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1607 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1608
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1609* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1610
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1611* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1612 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1613
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1614* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1615 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1616 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1617 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1618 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1619 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1620 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1621 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1622
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1623* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1624 for root, but only then.
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1626* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1627 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1628
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1629* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1630 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1631
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1632* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1633 only when used. Add unit tests.
1634
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1635* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1636 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1637
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1638* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1639 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1640 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1641 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1642 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1643
899feb72 1644* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1645
5f7ecd61 1646* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1647
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1648* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1649 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1650
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1651* blog about fd store and restartable services
1652
1653* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1654
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1655* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1656 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1657
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1658* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1659 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1660 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1661 ID is available.
1662
1663* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1664 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1665 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1666
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1667* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1668 parameters
1669
63a185dc 1670* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1671 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1672 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1673 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1674 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1675 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1676 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1678* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1679 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1680
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1681* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1682 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1683 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1684
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1685* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1686 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1687
1688 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1689
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1690* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1691 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1692 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1693
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1694* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1695 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1696
1697* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1698 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1699 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1700 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1701 natural habitat.
1702
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1703* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1704 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1706* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1707 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1708 relative to the configured default value.
1709
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1710* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1711
04397464 1712* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1714* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1715
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1716* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1717
04397464 1718* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1719
04397464 1720* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1721
04397464 1722* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1723
8ce9b83a 1724* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1726* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1727 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1728 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1729
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1730* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1731 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1732
e40a326c 1733* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1735* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1736 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1737 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1738 mapping to work.
1739
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1740* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1741
1742* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1743
1744* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1745
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1746* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1747 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1748
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1749* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1750 reload the unit file anyway
1751
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1752* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1753
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1754* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1755
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1756* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1757 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1758
f9bf1b8f 1759* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1760 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1761 specifications.
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1763* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1764
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1765* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1766
a2088fd0 1767* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1768 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1769 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1770 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1772* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1773
931bc195 1774* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1776* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1777 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1778 state.
41d6f3bf 1779 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1781* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1782 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1783 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1784 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1785 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1786
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1787* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1788
d2f81fb0 1789* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1790 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1791
0a86c1a9 1792* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1793 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1794
e031c227 1795* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1796 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1797
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1798* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1799
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1800* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1801 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1802
25e773ee 1803* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1804
720652b3 1805* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1806
720652b3 1807* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1808
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1809* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1810 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1811
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1812* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1813
9d6db739 1814* resolved:
9d6db739 1815 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1816 - service registration
1817 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1818 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1819 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1820 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1821 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1822 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1823 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1824 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1825
e25b5a8d 1826* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1827
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1828* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1829
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1830* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1831
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1832* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1833
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1834* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1835
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1836* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1837 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1838
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1839* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1840
6a3f892a 1841* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1842 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1843 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1844
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1845* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1846 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1847 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1848
f9bf1b8f 1849* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1850
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1851* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1852 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1853 for ReusePort=
1854
f38afcd0 1855* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1856 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1857 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1858 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1859 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1860 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1861 the hierarchies of child processes
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1862 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1863 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1864
f38afcd0 1865* transient units:
f38afcd0 1866 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1867
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1868* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1869
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1870* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1871
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1872* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1873
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1874* 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
1875
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1876* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1877 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1878 path anyway.
1879
04397464 1880* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1881
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1882* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1883
07eabc2b 1884* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1885
07eabc2b 1886* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1887
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1888* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1889
1890* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1891 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1892 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1893
1894* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1895 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1896
1897* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1898
1899* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1900
1901* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1902
1903* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1904 needs to be auto-respawned?
1905
1906* pid1:
1907 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1908 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1909 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1910 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1911 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1912 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1913 - move PAM code into its own binary
1914 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1915 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1916 - Support --test based on current system state
1917 - 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().
1918 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1919 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1920 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1921 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1922 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1923 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1924 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1925 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1926 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1927 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1928 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1929 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1930
1931* unit files:
1932 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1933 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1934 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1935 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1936 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1937 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1938 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1939 - introduce Type=pid-file
1940 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1941 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1942 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1943
1944* timer units:
63a185dc 1945 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1946 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1947
1948* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1949
1950* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1951
1952* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1953
1954* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1955
07eabc2b 1956* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1957
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1958* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1959
1960* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1961
fff87a35 1962* test/:
20d52ab6 1963 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1964
b5c03638 1965* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1966 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1967 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1968 destination.
1969
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1970* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1971 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1972
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1973* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1974
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1975* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1976 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1977 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1978
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1979* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1980 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1981
7227dd81 1982* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1983 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1984 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1985 that automatically.
1986
e5ec62c5 1987* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1988
ccddd104 1989* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1990
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1991* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1992
356ce991 1993* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1994
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1995* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1996
1997* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1998
1999* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2000
2001* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2002
2003* sd-bus:
2004 - EBADSLT handling
2005 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2006 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2007 - 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
2008 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2009 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2010 - longer term: priority inheritance
2011 - dbus spec updates:
2012 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2013 - path escaping
2014 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2015
2016* sd-event
2017 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2018 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2019 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2020 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2021 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2022 here:
2023 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2024
2025* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2026 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2027
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2028* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2029
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2030* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2031
2032* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2033
2034* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2035
b44be3ec 2036* EFI:
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2037 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2038 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2039 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2040* bootctl
631427d6 2041 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2042
07eabc2b 2043* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2044
07eabc2b 2045* bootctl:
483091b0 2046 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2047 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2048 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2049
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2050* logind:
2051 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2052 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2053 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2054 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2055 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2056 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2057 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2058 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2059 needs setuid().
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2060 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2061 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2062 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2063 complete.
2064 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2065 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2066 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2067 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2068 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2069 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2070 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2071 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2072 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2073 relogins
77b19caf 2074 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2075 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2076 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2077 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2078
2079* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2080
2081* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2082 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2083 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2084
2085* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2086 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2087
b44be3ec 2088* journal:
57f2a947 2089 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2090 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2091 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2092 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2093 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2094 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2095 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2096 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2097 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2098 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2099 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2100 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2101 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2102 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2103 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2104 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2105 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2106 - 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.
2107 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2108 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2109 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2110 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2111 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2112 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2113 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2114 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2115 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2116 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2117 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2118 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2119 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2120 to syslog when it works again.
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2121 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2122 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2123 journals in.
2124 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2125 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2126 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2127 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2128 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2129 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2130 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2131 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2132 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2133 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2134 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2135 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2136 operation.
2137 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2138 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2139 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2140 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2141 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2142 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2143 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2144 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2145 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2146 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2148* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2149 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2150
2151* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2152 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2153 validated via TPM.
2154
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2155* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2156 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2157 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2158
2159* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2160 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2161 cursors as they happen.
2162
2163* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2164 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2165 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2166 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2167 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2168 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2169 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2170 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2171 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2172
2173* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2174 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2175 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2176 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2177 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2179
2180* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2181 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2182 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2183 records, to be able to order them.
2184
2185* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2186 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2187 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2188 be safely written to disk, then.
2189
2190* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2191 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2192 inspiration from IMA log)
2193
2194* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2195 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2196 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2197
2198* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2199 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2200 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2201 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2202 for doing that.
2203
2204* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2205 log.c and sd-journal-send
2206
2207* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2208 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2209 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2210 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2211 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2212 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2213 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2214 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2215 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2216 an NTP sync is acquired.
2217
2218* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2219
2220* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2221 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2222 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2223
2224* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2225 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2226 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2227 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2228 cgroup.
2229
2230* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2231 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2232 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2233 logging.
2234
2235* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2236
2237* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2238 from the SIGBUS handler
2239
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2240* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2241 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2242 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2243 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2244
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2245* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2246 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2247
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2248* homed:
2249 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2250 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2251 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2252 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2253 - create on activate?
2254 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2255 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2256 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2257 systemd --user is shut down.
2258 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2259 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2260 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2261 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2262 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2263 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2264 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2265 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2266 - query password from kernel keyring first
2267 - update even if record is "absent"
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2268 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2269 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2270 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2271 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2272 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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LB
2273 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2274 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2275 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2276 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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LP
2277 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2278 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2279 signature
2280 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2281 and insert a local signature instead.
2282 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2283 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2284 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2285 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2286 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2287 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2288 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2289 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2290 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2291 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2292 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2293 can easily set overall quota for all users
2294 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2295 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2296 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2297 home dir
07eabc2b 2298
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2299* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2300 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2301 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2302
2df2bb1f 2303* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2304
2305* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2306 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2307 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2308 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2309
2310* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2311
2312* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2313 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2314 something goes wrong on the way.
2315
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2316* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2317 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2318 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2319 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2320
2321* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2322 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2323 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2324 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2325 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2326 automatically.
2327
2328* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2329 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2330
2331* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2332 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2333 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2334 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2335 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2336 fails to apply use the latter.
2337
2338* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2339 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2340
2341* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2342 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2343
2344* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2345 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2346 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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LB
2347
2348* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2349 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2350
92e72028 2351* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2352 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2353 during boot.
2354
2355* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2356
b44be3ec 2357* document:
8b8f2591 2358 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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LP
2359 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2360 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2361 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2362 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2363 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2364 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2365 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2366 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2367 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2368 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2369 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2370
2371* systemctl:
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2372 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2373 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
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2374 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2375 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2376 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2377 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2378
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2379* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2380 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2381 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2382
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2383* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2384 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2385 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2386
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LB
2387* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2388 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2389 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2390
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LB
2391* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2392 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2393
07eabc2b
LB
2394* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2395 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2396 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2397 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2398
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LB
2399* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2400 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2401 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2402 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2403
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2404* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2405
2406* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2407
2408* unit install:
2409 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2410 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2411
b44be3ec 2412* nspawn:
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DH
2413 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2414 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2415 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2416 from the kernel's logs.
2417 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2418 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2419 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2420 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2421 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2422 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2423 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2424 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2425 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2426 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2427 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2428 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2429 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2430 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2431 startup.
2432 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2433 or so, freeze the payload too.
2434 - support time namespaces
2435 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2436 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2437 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2438 "machinectl shell"
2439 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2440 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2441 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2442 - greater control over selinux label?
2443 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2444 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2445 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2446 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2447 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2448 host TPM.
2449 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2450 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2451 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2452 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2453 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2454 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2455 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2456 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2457 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2458 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2459 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2460 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2461 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2462
2463* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2464 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2465 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2466 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2467 anything like that.
2468
e25b5a8d 2469* machined:
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DH
2470 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2471 removed or added to an existing machine
2472 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2473 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2474 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2475 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2476 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2477 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2478 - "machinectl history"
2479 - "machinectl diff"
2480 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2481 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2482
abd55b16 2483* udev:
abd55b16 2484 - move to LGPL
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KS
2485 - kill scsi_id
2486 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2487 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2488 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2489 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2490
e25b5a8d
DH
2491* coredump:
2492 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2493 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2494 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2495
2496* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2497
f38afcd0 2498* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2499 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2500 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2501 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2502 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2503 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2504 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2505 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2506 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2507 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2508 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2509 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2510
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TG
2511* udev-link-config:
2512 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2513 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2514 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2515
88e4d1d7 2516* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2517 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2518 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2519
0a4b9a07 2520* networkd:
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TG
2521 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2522 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2523 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2524 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2525 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2526 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2527 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2528 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2529 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2530 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2531 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2532 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2533 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2534 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2535 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2536 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2537 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2538 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2539
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LB
2540* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2541
d5e172d2
ZJS
2542* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2543
ac976532 2544* dhcp:
424a8732 2545 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2546
37d8b536
PF
2547* dhcp6:
2548 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2549 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2550 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2551 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2552 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2553 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2554 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2555 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2556 or interface down
2557 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2558 this behavior
4a77c53d 2559 - RouteTable= ?
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2560
2561* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2562 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2563 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)