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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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25* register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27* zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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32* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36* write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
f461a28d 74* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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75 calls instead.
76
77* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
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79* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
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83* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
b3e199ce 87* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
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92* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
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95Deprecations and removals:
96
97* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
b3e199ce 100* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
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105* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 107 is only supported for such old kernels.
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109* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
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9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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121* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
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124* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
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128* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
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131Features:
132
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133* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
134 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
135 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
136
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137* ptyfwd: look for window title ANSI sequences and insert colored dot in front
138 of it while passing it through, to indicate whether we are in privileged, VM,
139 container terminal sessions.
140
141* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
142 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
143 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
144 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
145 exit code propagation
146
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147* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
148 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
149 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
150 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
151 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
152
153* add a generic client to importd called importctl, then make machinectl just
154 chain-exec() it. Make sure importd/importctl can be used for sysext images,
155 portable images too.
156
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157* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
158
10e3f15a 159* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 160 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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161 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
162 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
163
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164* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
165 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
166 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
167 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
168
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169* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
170 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
171
172* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
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174* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
175 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
176 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
177 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
178 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
179 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
180
181* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
182 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
183 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
184
185* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
186 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
187
188* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 189 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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190 actually works too when run with user privs.
191
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192* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
193 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
194 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
195 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
196
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197* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
198 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
199
200* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
201 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
202 and unix-export dir of containers.
203
73d8041c 204* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 205 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
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206 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
207
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208* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
209 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
210 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
211 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
212
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213* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
214 64bit mount ids
215
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216* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
217 interfaces nspawn creates
218
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219* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
220 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
221 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
222 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
223
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224* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
225 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
226 volume key.
227
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228* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
229 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
230 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
231 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
232 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
233 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
234 specified images.
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236* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
237 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
238 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
239
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240* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
241 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
242 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
243
244* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
245 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
246 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
247
248* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
249 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
250
251* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
252 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
253
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254* systemd-pcrextend:
255 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
256 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
257 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 258 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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259 PCRs.
260
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261* vmspawn:
262 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
263 - register with machined
264 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
265 - support --directory= via virtiofs
266 - sd_notify support
267 - --ephemeral support
268 - --read-only support
269 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
270 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
271 suspend key presses.
272 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
273 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
274 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
275
276* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
277
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278* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
279
280* storagetm:
281 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
282 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
283 operate in device mode
284 - add NVMe authentication
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286* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
287 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
288 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
289 nvme-oF
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291* pcrlock:
292 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
293 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
294 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
295 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
296 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
297 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
298 pass it via initrd to OS
299 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
300 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
301 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
302 /run?
303 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
304 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
305 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
306 for pre-built images
307
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308* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
309 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
310 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
311 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
312 add a field identifying the project.
313
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314* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
315 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
316 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
317 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
318 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
319
320* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
321 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
322 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
323 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
324
325* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
326 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
327 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
328
329* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
330 systems.
331
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332* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
333 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
334 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
335 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
336 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
337 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
338 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 339 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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340 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
341 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
342 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
343 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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345* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
346 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
347 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
348 sysext
349
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350* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
351 other programs via IPC:
352 - bootctl
353 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
354 - coredumpcl
355 - systemd-bless-boot
356 - systemd-measure
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357 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
358 - systemd-dissect
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359 - systemd-sysupdate
360 - systemd-analyze
361 - kernel-install
f277d99c 362 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
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364* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
365 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
366 via "systemctl status".
367
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368* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
369 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 370 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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372* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
373 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
374
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375* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
376 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
377
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378* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
379 menu.
380
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381* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
382 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
383 sockets.
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385* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
386 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 387 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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389* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
390 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
391 migratable between PCs)
392
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393* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
394 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
395 snapshot logic
396
397* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
398 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
399 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 400 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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401 a local key to it.
402
a1f7cdc6 403* PidRef conversion work:
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404 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
405 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
406 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 407 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 408 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 409 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 410 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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411 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
412 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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414* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
415
416* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
417 mode.
418
3a9e659a 419* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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420 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
421 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
422 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
423 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
424 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
425 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
426
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427* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
428 too much
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fcdd21ec 430* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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431 to systemd-dissect
432
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433* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
434 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
435 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
436 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
437 control of the attacker.
438
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439* also include packaging metadata (á la
440 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
441 same JSON format.
442
443* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
444 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
445 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
446 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
447 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
448 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
449 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
450 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
451 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
452 newer.
453
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454* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
455 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
456 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
457 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
458 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
459 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
460 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
461 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
462
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463* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
464 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
465 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
466
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467* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
468 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
469 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
470 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 471 independently of any kernel.
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473* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
474 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
475 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
476 requested during switch root.
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478* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
479
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480* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
481 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
482 matched against OS.
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485 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
486 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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489 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
490 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
491 namespaces)
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494 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
495
496* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
497 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
498 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
499
f447b741 500* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 501 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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503 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
504 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
505 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
506
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508 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 509 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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511
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513 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
514 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
515 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
516 based on lo_file_name.
517
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519 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 520 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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522
523* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
524 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
525 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
526 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
527 creating versions like these automatically).
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532 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
533 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
534 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
535 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
536 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
537 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
538 activation-by-message id and similar.
539
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541
512f2da5 542* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 543 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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545 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
546
547* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
548 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
549 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
550 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
551 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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554 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
555 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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558
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560 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
561 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
562
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563* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
564 localed, oomd, timedated.
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567 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
568 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
569 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
570 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
571 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 572 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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574 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
575 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
576 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
577 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
578 access.
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581 posix_spawn().
582
583* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
584 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
585 through nspawn.
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588 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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591 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
592 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
593 for all umh processes.
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596 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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599 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
600 resize.
601
602* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
603 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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606 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
607 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
608 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
609 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
610 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
611 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
612 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
613 system actually reset.
614
615* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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617 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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620 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
621 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
622 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
623
4cb8a25b 624* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 625 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 626 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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630 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
631 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
632 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
633 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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636 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
637 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
638 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
639 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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642
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644 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 645 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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647
084ecae5 648* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 649 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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651* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
652 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
653 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
654
6d040d84 655* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 656 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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658* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
659 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
660 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
661 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
662 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
663 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
664 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
665 usual.
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668
669* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
670
671* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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674 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
675 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
676 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
677 sockaddr.
678
679* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
680 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
681 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
682 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
683 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
684 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
685 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
686 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
687 try to use inode from there.
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690 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
691
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693 extensions
694
695* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
696 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
697 for the root fs or /usr/.
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700 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
701 combination thereof.
702
703* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
704 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
705 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
706 ahead of time.
707
708* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
709 aforementioned purpose.
710
711* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
712 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
713
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715 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
716 to figure out:
717 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
718 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
719 subsequent boots?
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722 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
723 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
724 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
725 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
726 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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728 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
729 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
730 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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733 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
734 used)
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737 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
738 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
739 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
740 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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743 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
744 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
745 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 746 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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750 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
751 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
752
753* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
754 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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757
758* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
759 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 760 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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762
763* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
764 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
765 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
766 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
767 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
768 only one for each OS.
769
770* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
771 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 772 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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773 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
774 boot, for the next.
775
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777 similar behind it, instead of http.
778
779* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
780 boot, or on first boot.
781
782* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
783 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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786 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
787 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
788 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
789 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
790 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
791 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
792 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
793 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
794 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
795 until users are allowed to log in).
796
797* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
798 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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801 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
802 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 803 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 804 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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806 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
807 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 808 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
809 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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811
812* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
813 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
814 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
815 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 816 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 817 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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819 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 820 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
821 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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823 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
824 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 825 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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827 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
828 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
829 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 830 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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832 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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835 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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838 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
839
840* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
841 instead of manual blocking.
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844 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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847 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
848 supplied password.
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851 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
852 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
853 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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856 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
857 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
fcdd21ec 858 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
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860* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
861 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
862 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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865 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
866 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 867 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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869
870* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
871 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
872 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
873 modules
874
b60e0f57 875* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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877 a new name with a built-in config?
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880 maybe on kernel command line:
881 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
882 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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885 hash type, etc)
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889
f461a28d 890* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 891 but final node is not a directory
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894 non-VFAT fs is used.
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899 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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906 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
907 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
908 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
909 affect PCR values.
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912 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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915 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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918 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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921 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
922
923* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
924 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
925
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928 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
929 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
930 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
931 use it.
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934 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
935
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937 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
938 what it was signed.
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941 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
942 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
943 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
944 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
945 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
946 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
947 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
948 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
949 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
950 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
951 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
952
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954 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
955
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958 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
959 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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961 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
962 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
963 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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965 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
966 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
967 file system paths to enable on start.
968 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
969 usr=
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971 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
972 pre-built kernels.
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975 runtime state. Then, expose it:
976
977 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
978 about the unit.
979 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
980 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
981 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
982 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
983 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
984 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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987 what to do if support ended
988
989* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 990 login time, à la motd
81a96518 991
e1b45a75 992* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 993 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 994 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 995 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 996 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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999 initrd transition. Specifically:
1000 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1001 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1002 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1003
d486b26f 1004* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1005 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1007 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1008 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1009 depending on desired level of persistency.
1010
1011* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1012 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1013 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1015 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1016 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1017 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1018 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1019
1020* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1021 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1022 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1023 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1024
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1026
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1028
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1030 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1031 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1032 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1034 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1035 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1036 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1037 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1039 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1040 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1041 not unprivileged code.
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1044 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1045 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1046 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1049 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1050 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1051 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1052 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1053 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1054 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1056 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1058* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1059 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1060 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1061 order.
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1064 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1065 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1068 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1069 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1070 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1071 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1073 IN_IGNORED again)
1074
5b06ad51 1075* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1076 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1077 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1078 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1079 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1080 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1081 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1082 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1083 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1084 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1085 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1086 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1089 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1090 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1091
03ede612 1092* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1094 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1095 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1096 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1097 directly to host service manager.
1098
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1099* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1100 no api to query the device id
1101
1102* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1103 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1104 also be queried.
1105
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1106* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1107 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1108 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1109 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1110
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1111* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1112 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1113 latter).
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1115* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1116
1117* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1118
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1119* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1120 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1121 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1122 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1123
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1125 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1126 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1127 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1128 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1130
1131* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1132 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1133 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1134 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1135 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1136 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1137 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1138 hence cheap for enumeration.
1139
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1140* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1141
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1142* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1143 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1144 words: show partition labels).
1145
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1147 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1148 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1149 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1151 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1152 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1153
e4f92a62 1154* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1156* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1157
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1158* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1159 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1160 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1161 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1162 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1163 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1164 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1165 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1166 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1167 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1168
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1169* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1170 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1171
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1172* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1173 jobs, units
1174
a57d72ce 1175* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1177 userspace)
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1179* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
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1181* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1182 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1183
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1186
1187* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1188 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1190* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1191 internal clock.
1192
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1193* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1194 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1195
1196* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1197 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1198 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1199 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1201* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1202 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1203 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1204
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1205* homed: if the homed shell fallback thing has access to an SSH agent, try to
1206 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1207 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1208 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1209 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1210 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1211 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1214 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1215 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1216 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1217 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1218 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1220* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1221 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1223
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1224* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1225 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1226 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1227 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1228 on-disk storage.
1229
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1231 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1232 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1233 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1234 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1235
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1237 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1238 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1240* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1241 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1242 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1243 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1244
3fc0688d 1245* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1247 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1248 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1249 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1250 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1251 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1252 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1253 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1254 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1255 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1258 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1259 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1262
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1265* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1266 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1267 that images cannot be misused.
1268
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178d3ff2 1270 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1271 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1272 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1273 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1274
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1276 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1277 - support casync as download mechanism
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1278 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1279 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1280 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1281 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1282 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1283 host's update files.)
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1284 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1285 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1286 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1287 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1288
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1289* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1290
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1291* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1292 make dirs appear under right UID.
1293
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1294* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1295 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1296
24063ba1 1297* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1298 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1299 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1300 already have it.
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1302* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1303 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1304
1c904337 1305* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1307* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1308 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1309 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1310 /proc/self/fd/3
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1313 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1314 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1315
1316* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1317 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1319* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1320 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1322* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1323 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1324 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1325 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1326 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1329
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199b097d 1331 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1332 - acquire via ask-password?
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1334 - pass creds via keyring?
1335 - pass creds via memfd?
1336 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1337 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1338 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1339 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1340 wireguard)
1341 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1343
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1344* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1345 and such
1346
1347* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1348
02c914ef 1349* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1350
7d7c75f1 1351* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1353
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1355 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1357* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1358
1359* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1360 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1361
1362* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1363 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1364
1365* cryptsetup:
1366 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1367 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1368
08d33656 1369* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1371* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1372 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1373
f461a28d 1374* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1375 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1376
f461a28d 1377* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1378 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1379
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1380* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1381
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1382* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1383
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1384* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1385 when it exits
1386
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1387* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1388 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1389 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1390 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1391 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1392 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1393 since they are so basic and our defaults)
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1395* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1396 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1397 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1398
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1399* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1400 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1401
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1402* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1403
1404* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1405 specific service
1406
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1407* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1408 exists and responds.
1409
91fc013f 1410* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1411 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1412
7e8facb3 1413* unify on openssl:
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1414 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1415 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1416 gnutls
1417 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1419* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1420 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1421
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1422* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1423 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1424
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1425* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1426
2a4be3c5 1427* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1428
f1eb0ccd 1429* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1431* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1432 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1433 initrd had set.
1434
173c7873 1435* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1436 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1437 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1438 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1439 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1440 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1441
1442* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1443 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1444 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1445
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1446* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1447 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1448 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1449 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1450 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1451 source.
1452
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1453* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1454 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1455 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1456
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1457* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1458
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1459* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1460 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1461
c6526b8d 1462* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1464* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1465 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1466 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1467 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1468 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1469 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1470 exec().
1471
1472* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1473
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1474* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1475 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1476
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1477* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1478 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1479
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1480* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1481 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1482 root.
1483
1484* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1485 is issued.
1486
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1487* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1488
1489* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1490
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1491* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1492 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1493 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1494
d238709c 1495* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1496 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1497 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1498
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1499* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1500
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1501* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1502 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1503
06898123 1504* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1505 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1506 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1507 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1508
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1509* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1510
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1511* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1512
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1513* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1514 non-zero "tries done" count
1515
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1516* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1517 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1518 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1519 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1520 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1521 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1522 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1523 CODE_FILE.
1524
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1525* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1526 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1527 some explanatory text online.
1528
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1529* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1530
d1797c42 1531* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1533* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1534 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1535
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1536* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1537 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1538 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1539 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1541* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1542
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1543* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1544
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1545* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1546 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1547
5da19043 1548* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1549 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1550
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1551* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1552 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1553 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1554 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1555 unlinked from any dir.
1556
bd1b3f75 1557* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1558
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1559* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1560
1561* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1562
53c70a27 1563* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1564 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1565 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1566 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1567 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1568
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1569* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1570
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1571* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1572 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1573
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1574* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1575 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1576 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1577 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1578 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1579 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1580 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1581 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1582
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1583* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1584 for root, but only then.
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1586* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1587 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1588
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1589* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1590 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1591
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1592* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1593 only when used. Add unit tests.
1594
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1595* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1596 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1597
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1598* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1599 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1600 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1601 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1602 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1603
899feb72 1604* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1605
5f7ecd61 1606* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1607
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1608* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1609 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1610
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1611* blog about fd store and restartable services
1612
1613* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1614
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1615* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1616 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1617
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1618* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1619 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1620 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1621 ID is available.
1622
1623* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1624 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1625 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1626
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1627* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1628 parameters
1629
63a185dc 1630* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1631 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1632 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1633 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1634 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1635 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1636 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1638* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1639 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1640
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1641* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1642 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1643 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1644
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1645* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1646 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1647
1648 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1649
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1650* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1651 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1652 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1653
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1654* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1655 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1656
1657* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1658 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1659 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1660 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1661 natural habitat.
1662
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1663* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1664 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1666* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1667 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1668 relative to the configured default value.
1669
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1670* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1671
04397464 1672* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1674* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1675
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1676* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1677
04397464 1678* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1679
04397464 1680* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1681
04397464 1682* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1683
8ce9b83a 1684* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1685
1686* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1687 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1688 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1689
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1690* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1691 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1692
e40a326c 1693* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1694
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1695* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1696 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1697 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1698 mapping to work.
1699
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1700* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1701
1702* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1703
1704* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1705
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1706* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1707 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1708
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1709* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1710 reload the unit file anyway
1711
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1712* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1713
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1714* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1715
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1716* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1717 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1718
f9bf1b8f 1719* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1720 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1721 specifications.
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1723* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1724
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1725* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1726
a2088fd0 1727* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1728 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1729 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1730 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1731
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1732* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1733
931bc195 1734* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1735
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1736* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1737 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1738 state.
41d6f3bf 1739 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1741* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1742 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1743 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1744 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1745 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1746
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1747* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1748
d2f81fb0 1749* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1750 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1751
0a86c1a9 1752* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1753 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1754
e031c227 1755* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1756 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1757
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1758* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1759
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1760* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1761 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1762
25e773ee 1763* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1764
720652b3 1765* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1766
720652b3 1767* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1768
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1769* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1770 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1771
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1772* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1773
9d6db739 1774* resolved:
9d6db739 1775 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1776 - service registration
1777 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1778 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1779 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1780 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1781 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1782 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1783 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1784 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1785
e25b5a8d 1786* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1787
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1788* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1789
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1790* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1791
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1792* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1793
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1794* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1795
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1796* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1797 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1798
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1799* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1800
6a3f892a 1801* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1802 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1803 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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1805* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1806 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1807 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1808
f9bf1b8f 1809* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1812 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1813 for ReusePort=
1814
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f38afcd0 1816 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1817 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1818 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1819 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1820 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1821 the hierarchies of child processes
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1822 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1823 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1824
f38afcd0 1825* transient units:
f38afcd0 1826 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1827
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1828* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1829
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1830* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1831
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1832* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1833
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1834* 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
1835
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1836* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1837 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1838 path anyway.
1839
04397464 1840* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1841
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1842* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1843
07eabc2b 1844* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1845
07eabc2b 1846* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1847
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1848* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1849
1850* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1851 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1852 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1853
1854* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1855 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1856
1857* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1858
1859* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1860
1861* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1862
1863* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1864 needs to be auto-respawned?
1865
1866* pid1:
1867 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1868 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1869 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1870 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1871 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1872 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1873 - move PAM code into its own binary
1874 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1875 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1876 - Support --test based on current system state
1877 - 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().
1878 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1879 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1880 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1881 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1882 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1883 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1884 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1885 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1886 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1887 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1888 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1889 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1890
1891* unit files:
1892 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1893 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1894 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1895 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1896 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1897 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1898 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1899 - introduce Type=pid-file
1900 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1901 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1902 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1903
1904* timer units:
63a185dc 1905 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1906 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1907
1908* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1909
1910* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1911
1912* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1913
1914* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1915
07eabc2b 1916* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1917
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1918* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1919
1920* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1921
fff87a35 1922* test/:
20d52ab6 1923 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1924
b5c03638 1925* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1926 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1927 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1928 destination.
1929
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1930* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1931 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1932
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1933* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1934
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1935* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1936 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1937 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1938
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1939* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1940 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1941
7227dd81 1942* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1943 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1944 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1945 that automatically.
1946
e5ec62c5 1947* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1948
ccddd104 1949* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1950
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1951* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1952
356ce991 1953* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1954
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1955* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1956
1957* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1958
1959* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1960
1961* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1962
1963* sd-bus:
1964 - EBADSLT handling
1965 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1966 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1967 - 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
1968 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1969 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1970 - longer term: priority inheritance
1971 - dbus spec updates:
1972 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1973 - path escaping
1974 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1975
1976* sd-event
1977 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1978 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1979 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1980 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1981 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1982 here:
1983 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1984
1985* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1986 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1987
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1988* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1989
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1990* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1991
1992* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1993
1994* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1995
b44be3ec 1996* EFI:
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1997 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1998 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1999 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2000* bootctl
631427d6 2001 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2002
07eabc2b 2003* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2004
07eabc2b 2005* bootctl:
483091b0 2006 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2007 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2008 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2009
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2010* logind:
2011 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2012 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2013 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2014 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2015 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2016 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2017 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2018 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2019 needs setuid().
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2020 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2021 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2022 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2023 complete.
2024 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2025 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2026 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2027 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2028 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2029 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2030 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2031 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2032 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2033 relogins
77b19caf 2034 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2035 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2036 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2037 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2038
2039* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2040
2041* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2042 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2043 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2044
2045* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2046 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2047
b44be3ec 2048* journal:
57f2a947 2049 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2050 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2051 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2052 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2053 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2054 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2055 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2056 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2057 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2058 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2059 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2060 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2061 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2062 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2063 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2064 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2065 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2066 - 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.
2067 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2068 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2069 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2070 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2071 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2072 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2073 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2074 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2075 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2076 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2077 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2078 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2079 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2080 to syslog when it works again.
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2081 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2082 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2083 journals in.
2084 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2085 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2086 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2087 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2088 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2089 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2090 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2091 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2092 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2093 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2094 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2095 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2096 operation.
2097 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2098 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2099 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2100 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2101 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2102 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2103 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2104 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2105 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2106 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2108* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2109 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2110
2111* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2112 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2113 validated via TPM.
2114
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2116 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2117 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2118
2119* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2120 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2121 cursors as they happen.
2122
2123* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2124 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2125 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2126 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2127 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2128 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2129 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2130 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2131 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2132
2133* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2134 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2135 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2136 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2137 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2139
2140* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2141 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2142 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2143 records, to be able to order them.
2144
2145* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2146 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2147 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2148 be safely written to disk, then.
2149
2150* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2151 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2152 inspiration from IMA log)
2153
2154* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2155 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2156 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2157
2158* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2159 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2160 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2161 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2162 for doing that.
2163
2164* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2165 log.c and sd-journal-send
2166
2167* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2168 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2169 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2170 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2171 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2172 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2173 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2174 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2175 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2176 an NTP sync is acquired.
2177
2178* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2179
2180* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2181 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2182 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2183
2184* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2185 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2186 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2187 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2188 cgroup.
2189
2190* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2191 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2192 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2193 logging.
2194
2195* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2196
2197* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2198 from the SIGBUS handler
2199
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2201 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2202 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2203 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2204
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2206 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2207
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2208* homed:
2209 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2210 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2211 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2212 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2213 - create on activate?
2214 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2215 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2216 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2217 systemd --user is shut down.
2218 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2219 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2220 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2221 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2222 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2223 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2224 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2225 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2226 - query password from kernel keyring first
2227 - update even if record is "absent"
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2228 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2229 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2230 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2231 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2232 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2233 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2234 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2235 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2236 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2237 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2238 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2239 signature
2240 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2241 and insert a local signature instead.
2242 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2243 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2244 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2245 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2246 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2247 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2248 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2249 easily?
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LP
2250 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2251 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2252 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2253 can easily set overall quota for all users
2254 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2255 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2256 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2257 home dir
07eabc2b 2258
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LB
2259* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2260 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2261 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2262
2df2bb1f 2263* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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LB
2264
2265* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2266 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2267 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2268 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2269
2270* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2271
2272* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2273 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2274 something goes wrong on the way.
2275
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LB
2276* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2277 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2278 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2279 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2280
2281* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2282 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2283 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2284 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2285 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2286 automatically.
2287
2288* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2289 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2290
2291* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2292 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2293 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2294 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2295 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2296 fails to apply use the latter.
2297
2298* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2299 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2300
2301* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2302 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2303
2304* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2305 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2306 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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LB
2307
2308* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2309 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2310
92e72028 2311* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2312 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2313 during boot.
2314
2315* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2316
b44be3ec 2317* document:
8b8f2591 2318 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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LP
2319 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2320 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2321 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2322 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2323 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2324 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2325 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2326 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2327 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2328 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2329 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2330
2331* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2332 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2333 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2334 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2335 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2336 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2337 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2338
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LB
2339* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2340 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2341 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2342
07eabc2b
LB
2343* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2344 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2345 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2346
07eabc2b
LB
2347* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2348 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2349 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2350
07eabc2b
LB
2351* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2352 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2353
07eabc2b
LB
2354* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2355 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2356 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2357 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2358
07eabc2b
LB
2359* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2360 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2361 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2362 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2363
07eabc2b
LB
2364* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2365
2366* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2367
2368* unit install:
2369 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2370 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2371
b44be3ec 2372* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2373 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2374 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2375 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2376 from the kernel's logs.
2377 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2378 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2379 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2380 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2381 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2382 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2383 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2384 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2385 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2386 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2387 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2388 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2389 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2390 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2391 startup.
2392 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2393 or so, freeze the payload too.
2394 - support time namespaces
2395 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2396 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2397 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2398 "machinectl shell"
2399 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2400 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2401 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2402 - greater control over selinux label?
2403 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2404 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2405 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2406 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2407 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2408 host TPM.
2409 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2410 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2411 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2412 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2413 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2414 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2415 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2416 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2417 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2418 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2419 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2420 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2421 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2422
2423* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2424 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2425 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2426 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2427 anything like that.
2428
e25b5a8d 2429* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2430 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2431 removed or added to an existing machine
2432 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2433 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2434 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2435 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2436 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2437 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2438 - "machinectl history"
2439 - "machinectl diff"
2440 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2441 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2442
abd55b16 2443* udev:
abd55b16 2444 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2445 - kill scsi_id
2446 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2447 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2448 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2449 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2450
e25b5a8d
DH
2451* coredump:
2452 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2453 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2454 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2455
2456* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2457
f38afcd0 2458* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2459 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2460 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2461 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2462 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2463 calls follow symlinks.
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ZJS
2464 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2465 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2466 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2467 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2468 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2469 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2470
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TG
2471* udev-link-config:
2472 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2473 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2474 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2475
88e4d1d7 2476* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2477 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2478 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2479
0a4b9a07 2480* networkd:
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TG
2481 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2482 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2483 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2484 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2485 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2486 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2487 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2488 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2489 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2490 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2491 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2492 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2493 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2494 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2495 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2496 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2497 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2498 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2499
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LB
2500* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2501
d5e172d2
ZJS
2502* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2503
ac976532 2504* dhcp:
424a8732 2505 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2506
37d8b536
PF
2507* dhcp6:
2508 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2509 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2510 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2511 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2512 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2513 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2514 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2515 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2516 or interface down
2517 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2518 this behavior
4a77c53d 2519 - RouteTable= ?
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2520
2521* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2522 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2523 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)