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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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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.
111
9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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121* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
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124* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
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128* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
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131* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
132
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133Features:
134
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135* In .link files add support for setting ID_NET_MANAGED_BY= udev field via some
136 high-level setting. Possibly also add setting to add arbitrary udev fields.
137
73d8041c 138* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 139 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
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140 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
141
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142* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
143 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
144 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
145 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
146
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147* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
148 64bit mount ids
149
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150* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
151 interfaces nspawn creates
152
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153* support encrypted credentials in user context too. This is complicated by the
154 fact that the user does not have access to the TPM nor the system
155 credential. Implementation idea: extend the systemd-creds Varlink interface
156 to allow this: user must supply some per-user secret, that we'll include in
157 the encryption key.
158
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159* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
160 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
161 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
162 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
163
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164* extend mime database with mime types for:
165 - journal files
166 - credential files
167 - hwdb files
168 - catalog files
169
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170* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
171 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
172 volume key.
173
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174* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
175 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
176 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
177 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
178 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
179 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
180 specified images.
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182* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
183 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
184 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
185
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186* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
187 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
188 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
189
190* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
191 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
192 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
193
194* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
195 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
196
197* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
198 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
199
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200* systemd-pcrextend:
201 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
202 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
203 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 204 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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205 PCRs.
206
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207* vmspawn:
208 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
209 - register with machined
210 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
211 - support --directory= via virtiofs
212 - sd_notify support
213 - --ephemeral support
214 - --read-only support
215 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
216 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
217 suspend key presses.
218 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
219 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
220 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
221
222* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
223
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224* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
225
226* storagetm:
227 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
228 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
229 operate in device mode
230 - add NVMe authentication
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232* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
233 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
234 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
235 nvme-oF
236
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237* pcrlock:
238 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
239 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
240 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
241 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
242 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
243 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
244 pass it via initrd to OS
245 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
246 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
247 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
248 /run?
249 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
250 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
251 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
252 for pre-built images
253
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254* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
255 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
256 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
257 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
258 add a field identifying the project.
259
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260* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
261 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
262 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
263 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
264 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
265
266* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
267 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
268 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
269 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
270
271* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
272 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
273 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
274
275* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
276 systems.
277
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278* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
279 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
280 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
281 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
282 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
283 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
284 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 285 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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286 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
287 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
288 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
289 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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291* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
292 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
293 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
294 sysext
295
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296* in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
297 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
298 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
299 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
300 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
301
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302* add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
303 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
304 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
305 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
306 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
307 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
308 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
309 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
310
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311* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
312 other programs via IPC:
313 - bootctl
314 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
315 - coredumpcl
316 - systemd-bless-boot
317 - systemd-measure
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318 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
319 - systemd-dissect
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320 - systemd-sysupdate
321 - systemd-analyze
ed272a9f 322 - systemd-pcrlock (to allow fwupd to relax policy)
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323 - kernel-install
324
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325* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
326 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
327 via "systemctl status".
328
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329* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
330 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 331 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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333* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
334 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
335
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336* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
337 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
338
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339* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
340 menu.
341
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342* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
343 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
344 sockets.
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346* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
347 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
348 -c owner?).
349
350* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
351 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
352 migratable between PCs)
353
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354* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
355 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
356 snapshot logic
357
358* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
359 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
360 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 361 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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362 a local key to it.
363
a1f7cdc6 364* PidRef conversion work:
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365 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
366 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
367 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 368 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 369 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 370 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 371 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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372 - sd_bus_creds
373 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
374 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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376* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
377
378* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
379 mode.
380
3a9e659a 381* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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382 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
383 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
384 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
385 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
386 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
387 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
388
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389* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
390 too much
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fcdd21ec 392* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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393 to systemd-dissect
394
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395* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
396 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
397 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
398 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
399 control of the attacker.
400
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401* also include packaging metadata (á la
402 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
403 same JSON format.
404
405* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
406 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
407 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
408 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
409 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
410 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
411 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
412 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
413 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
414 newer.
415
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416* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
417 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
418 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
419 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
420 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
421 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
422 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
423 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
424
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425* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
426 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
427 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
428
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429* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
430 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
431 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
432 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 433 independently of any kernel.
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435* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
436 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
437 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
438 requested during switch root.
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440* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
441
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442* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
443 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
444 matched against OS.
445
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446* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
447 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
448 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
449
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450* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
451 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
452 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
453 namespaces)
454
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455* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
456 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
457
458* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
459 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
460 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
461
f447b741 462* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 463 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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464 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
465 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
466 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
467 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
468
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469* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
470 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 471 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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472 used transiently, never persistently.
473
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474* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
475 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
476 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
477 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
478 based on lo_file_name.
479
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480* teach systemd-nspawn the boot assessment logic: hook up vpick's try counters
481 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 482 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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484
485* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
486 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
487 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
488 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
489 creating versions like these automatically).
490
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494 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
495 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
496 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
497 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
498 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
499 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
500 activation-by-message id and similar.
501
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503
512f2da5 504* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 505 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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507 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
508
509* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
510 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
511 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
512 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
513 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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516 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
517 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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520
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522 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
523 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
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526 localed, oomd, timedated.
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529 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
530 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
531 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
532 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
533 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 534 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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536 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
537 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
538 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
539 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
540 access.
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543 posix_spawn().
544
545* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
546 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
547 through nspawn.
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550 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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553 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
554 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
555 for all umh processes.
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558 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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560* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
561 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
562 resize.
563
564* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
565 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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568 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
569 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
570 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
571 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
572 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
573 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
574 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
575 system actually reset.
576
577* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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579 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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582 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
583 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
584 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
585
4cb8a25b 586* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 587 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 588 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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592 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
593 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
594 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
595 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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598 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
599 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
600 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
601 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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606 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 607 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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609
084ecae5 610* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 611 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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613* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
614 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
615 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
616
6d040d84 617* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 618 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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620* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
621 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
622 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
623 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
624 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
625 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
626 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
627 usual.
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630
631* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
632
633* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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636 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
637 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
638 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
639 sockaddr.
640
641* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
642 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
643 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
644 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
645 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
646 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
647 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
648 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
649 try to use inode from there.
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652 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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655 extensions
656
657* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
658 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
659 for the root fs or /usr/.
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662 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
663 combination thereof.
664
665* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
666 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
667 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
668 ahead of time.
669
670* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
671 aforementioned purpose.
672
673* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
674 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
675
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677 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
678 to figure out:
679 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
680 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
681 subsequent boots?
682
dbc62e59 683* provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
7227dd81 684 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
dbc62e59 685 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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688 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
689 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
690 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
691 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
692 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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694 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
695 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
696 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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699 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
700 used)
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703 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
704 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
705 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
706 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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709 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
710 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
711 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 712 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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716 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
717 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
718
719* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
720 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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723
724* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
725 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 726 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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728
729* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
730 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
731 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
732 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
733 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
734 only one for each OS.
735
736* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
737 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 738 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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740 boot, for the next.
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743 similar behind it, instead of http.
744
745* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
746 boot, or on first boot.
747
748* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
749 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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752 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
753 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
754 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
755 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
756 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
757 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
758 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
759 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
760 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
761 until users are allowed to log in).
762
763* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
764 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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767 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
768 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 769 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 770 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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772 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
773 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 774 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
775 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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777
778* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
779 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
780 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
781 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 782 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 783 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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785 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 786 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
787 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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789 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
790 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 791 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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793 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
794 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
795 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 796 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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798 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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801 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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804 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
805
806* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
807 instead of manual blocking.
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810 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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813 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
814 supplied password.
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817 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
818 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
819 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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822 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
823 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
fcdd21ec 824 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
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826* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
827 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
828 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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831 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
832 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
833
834* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
835 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
836 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 837 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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839
840* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
841 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
842 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
843 modules
844
b60e0f57 845* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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847 a new name with a built-in config?
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850 maybe on kernel command line:
851 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
852 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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855 hash type, etc)
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859
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4e0ceefe 861 but final node is not a directory
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864 non-VFAT fs is used.
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869 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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876 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
877 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
878 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
879 affect PCR values.
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882 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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885 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
886
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888 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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891 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
892
893* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
894 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
895
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898 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
899 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
900 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
901 use it.
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904 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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907 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
908 what it was signed.
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911 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
912 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
913 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
914 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
915 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
916 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
917 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
918 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
919 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
920 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
921 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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924 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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927 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
928 via the credentials logic.
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930 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
931 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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933 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
934 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
935 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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937 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
938 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
939 file system paths to enable on start.
940 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
941 usr=
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943 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
944 pre-built kernels.
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947 runtime state. Then, expose it:
948
949 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
950 about the unit.
951 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
952 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
953 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
954 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
955 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
956 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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959 what to do if support ended
960
961* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 962 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 964* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 965 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 966 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 967 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 968 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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971 initrd transition. Specifically:
972 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
973 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
974 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
975
d486b26f 976* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 977 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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979 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
980 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
981 depending on desired level of persistency.
982
983* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
984 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 985 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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987 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
988 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
989 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
990 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
991
992* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
993 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
994 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
995 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
996
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997* add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
998
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999* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1000
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1001* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
1002 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1003 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1004 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1005 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
1006 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1007 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1008 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1009 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1010 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1011 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1012 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1013 not unprivileged code.
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1016 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1017 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1018 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1021 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1022 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1023 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1024 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1025 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1026 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1027 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1028 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1030* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1031 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1032 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1033 order.
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1036 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1037 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1040 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1041 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1042 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1043 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1045 IN_IGNORED again)
1046
5b06ad51 1047* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1048 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1049 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1050 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1051 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1052 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1053 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1054 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1055 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1056 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1057 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1058 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1061 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1062 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1063
03ede612 1064* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1066 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1067 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1068 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1069 directly to host service manager.
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1071* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1072 no api to query the device id
1073
1074* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1075 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1076 also be queried.
1077
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1078* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1079 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1080 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1081 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1082
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1083* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1084 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1085 latter).
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1087* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1088
1089* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1090
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1091* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1092 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1093 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1094 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1095
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1096* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1097 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1098 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1099 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1100 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1102
1103* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1104 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1105 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1106 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1107 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1108 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1109 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1110 hence cheap for enumeration.
1111
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1112* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1113
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1114* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1115 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1116 words: show partition labels).
1117
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1119 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1120 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1121 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1122 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1123 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1124 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1125
e4f92a62 1126* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1128* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1129
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1130* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1131 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1132 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1133 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1134 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1135 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1136 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1137 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1138 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1139 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1140
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1141* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1142 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1143
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1144* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1145 jobs, units
1146
a57d72ce 1147* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1149 userspace)
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1151* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1152
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1153* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1154 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1155
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1158
1159* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1160 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1162* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1163 internal clock.
1164
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1165* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1166 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1167
1168* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1169 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1170 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1171 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1173* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1174 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1175 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
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1177* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1178 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1179 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1180 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1181 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1182 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1183 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1184 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1185 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1186 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1187 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1188 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1189 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1190 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1191 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1194 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1195 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1196 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1197 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1198 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1200* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1201 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1203
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1204* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1205 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1206 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1207 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1208 on-disk storage.
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1211 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1212 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1213 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1214 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1215
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1216* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1217 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1218 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1219
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1220* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1221 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1222 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1223 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1224 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1225 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1226 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1227
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1228* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1229 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1230 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1231 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1232
3fc0688d 1233* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1234 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1235 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1236 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1237 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1238 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1239 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1240 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1241 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1242 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1243 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1246 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1247 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1249* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1250
63a185dc 1251* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1253* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1254 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1255 that images cannot be misused.
1256
aca8ecc3 1257* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1258 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1259 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1260 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1261 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1262
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1263* sysupdate:
1264 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1265 - support casync as download mechanism
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1266 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1267 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1268 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1269 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1270 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1271 host's update files.)
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1272 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1273 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1274 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1275 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1277* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1278
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1279* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1280 make dirs appear under right UID.
1281
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1282* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1283 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1284
24063ba1 1285* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1286 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1287 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1288 already have it.
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1290* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1291 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1292
1c904337 1293* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1295* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1296 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1297 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1298 /proc/self/fd/3
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1300* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1301 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1302 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1303
1304* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1305 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1307* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1308 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1310* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1311 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1312 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1313 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1314 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1317
199b097d 1318* credentials system:
199b097d 1319 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1320 - acquire via ask-password?
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1322 - pass creds via keyring?
1323 - pass creds via memfd?
1324 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1325 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1326 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1327 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1328 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1329 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1330 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1331 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1333* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1334 and such
1335
1336* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1337
02c914ef 1338* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
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7d7c75f1 1340* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1342
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1343* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1344 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1346* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1347
1348* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1349 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1350
1351* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1352 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1353
1354* cryptsetup:
1355 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1356 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1357
08d33656 1358* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1360* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1361 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1362
f461a28d 1363* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1364 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1365
f461a28d 1366* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1367 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1368
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1369* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1370
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1371* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1372
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1373* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1374
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1375* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1376 when it exits
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1378* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1379 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1380 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1381 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1382 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1383 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1384 since they are so basic and our defaults)
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1386* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1387 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1388 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1389
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1390* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1391 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1392
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1393* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1394
1395* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1396 specific service
1397
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1398* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1399 exists and responds.
1400
91fc013f 1401* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1402 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1403
7e8facb3 1404* unify on openssl:
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1405 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1406 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1407 gnutls
1408 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1410* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1411 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1412
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1413* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1414 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1416* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1417
2a4be3c5 1418* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1419
f1eb0ccd 1420* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1421
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1422* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1423 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1424 initrd had set.
1425
173c7873 1426* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1427 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1428 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1429 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1430 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1431 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1432
1433* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1434 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1435 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1436
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1437* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1438 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1439 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1440 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1441 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1442 source.
1443
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1444* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1445 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1446 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1447
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1448* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1449
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1450* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1451 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1452
c6526b8d 1453* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1454
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1455* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1456 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1457 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1458 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1459 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1460 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1461 exec().
1462
1463* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1464
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1465* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1466 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1467
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1468* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1469 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1470
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1471* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1472 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1473 root.
1474
1475* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1476 is issued.
1477
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1478* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1479
1480* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1481
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1482* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1483 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1484 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1485
d238709c 1486* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1487 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1488 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1489
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1490* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1491
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1492* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1493 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1494
06898123 1495* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1496 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1497 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1498 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1499
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1500* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1501
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1502* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1503
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1504* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1505 non-zero "tries done" count
1506
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1507* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1508 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1509 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1510 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1511 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1512 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1513 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1514 CODE_FILE.
1515
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1516* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1517 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1518 some explanatory text online.
1519
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1520* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1521
d1797c42 1522* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1523
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1524* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1525 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1526
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1527* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1528 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1529 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1530 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1532* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1533
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1534* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1535
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1536* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1537 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1538
5da19043 1539* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1540 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1542* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1543 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1544 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1545 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1546 unlinked from any dir.
1547
bd1b3f75 1548* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1549
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1550* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1551
1552* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1553
53c70a27 1554* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1555 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1556 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1557 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1558 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1559
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1560* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1561
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1562* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1563 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1564
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1565* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1566 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1567 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1568 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1569 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1570 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1571 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1572 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1573
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1574* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1575 for root, but only then.
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1577* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1578 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1579
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1580* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1581 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1582
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1583* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1584 only when used. Add unit tests.
1585
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1586* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1587 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1588
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1589* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1590 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1591 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1592 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1593 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1594
899feb72 1595* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1596
5f7ecd61 1597* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1599* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1600 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1601
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1602* blog about fd store and restartable services
1603
1604* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1605
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1606* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1607 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1608
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1609* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1610 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1611 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1612 ID is available.
1613
1614* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1615 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1616 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1617
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1618* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1619 parameters
1620
63a185dc 1621* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1622 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1623 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1624 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1625 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1626 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1627 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1628
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1629* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1630 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1631
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1632* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1633 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1634 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1635
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1636* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1637 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1638
1639 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1640
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1641* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1642 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1643 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1644
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1645* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1646 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1647
1648* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1649 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1650 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1651 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1652 natural habitat.
1653
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1654* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1655 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1657* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1658 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1659 relative to the configured default value.
1660
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1661* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1662
04397464 1663* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1665* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1666
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1667* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1668
04397464 1669* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1670
04397464 1671* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1672
04397464 1673* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1674
8ce9b83a 1675* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1677* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1678 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1679 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1680
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1681* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1682 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1683
e40a326c 1684* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1685
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1686* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1687 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1688 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1689 mapping to work.
1690
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1691* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1692
1693* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1694
1695* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1696
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1697* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1698 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1699
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1700* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1701 reload the unit file anyway
1702
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1703* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1704
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1705* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1706
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1707* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1708 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1709
f9bf1b8f 1710* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1711 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1712 specifications.
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1714* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1715
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1716* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1717
a2088fd0 1718* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1719 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1720 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1721 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1722
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1723* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1724
931bc195 1725* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1726
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1727* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1728 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1729 state.
41d6f3bf 1730 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1732* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1733 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1734 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1735 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1736 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1737
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1738* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1739
d2f81fb0 1740* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1741 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1742
0a86c1a9 1743* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1744 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1745
e031c227 1746* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1747 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1748
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1749* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1750
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1751* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1752 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1753
25e773ee 1754* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1755
720652b3 1756* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1757
720652b3 1758* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1759
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1760* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1761 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1762
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1763* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1764
9d6db739 1765* resolved:
9d6db739 1766 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1767 - service registration
1768 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1769 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1770 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1771 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1772 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1773 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1774 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1775 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1776
e25b5a8d 1777* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1778
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1779* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1780
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1781* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1782
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1783* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1784
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1785* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1786
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1787* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1788 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1789
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1790* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1791
6a3f892a 1792* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1793 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1794 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1795
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1796* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1797 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1798 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1799
f9bf1b8f 1800* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1801
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1802* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1803 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1804 for ReusePort=
1805
f38afcd0 1806* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1807 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1808 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1809 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1810 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1811 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1812 the hierarchies of child processes
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1813 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1814 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1815
f38afcd0 1816* transient units:
f38afcd0 1817 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1818
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1819* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1820
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1821* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1822
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1823* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1824
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1825* 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
1826
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1827* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1828 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1829 path anyway.
1830
04397464 1831* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1832
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1833* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1834
07eabc2b 1835* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1836
07eabc2b 1837* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1838
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1839* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1840
1841* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1842 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1843 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1844
1845* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1846 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1847
1848* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1849
1850* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1851
1852* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1853
1854* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1855 needs to be auto-respawned?
1856
1857* pid1:
1858 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1859 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1860 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1861 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1862 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1863 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1864 - move PAM code into its own binary
1865 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1866 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1867 - Support --test based on current system state
1868 - 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().
1869 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1870 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1871 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1872 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1873 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1874 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1875 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1876 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1877 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1878 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1879 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1880 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1881
1882* unit files:
1883 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1884 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1885 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1886 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1887 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1888 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1889 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1890 - introduce Type=pid-file
1891 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1892 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1893 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1894
1895* timer units:
63a185dc 1896 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1897 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1898
1899* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1900
1901* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1902
1903* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1904
1905* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1906
07eabc2b 1907* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1908
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1909* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1910
1911* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1912
fff87a35 1913* test/:
20d52ab6 1914 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1915
b5c03638 1916* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1917 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1918 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1919 destination.
1920
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1921* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1922 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1923
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1924* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1925
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1926* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1927 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1928 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1929
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1930* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1931 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1932
7227dd81 1933* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1934 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1935 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1936 that automatically.
1937
e5ec62c5 1938* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1939
ccddd104 1940* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1941
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1942* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1943
356ce991 1944* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1945
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1946* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1947
1948* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1949
1950* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1951
1952* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1953
1954* sd-bus:
1955 - EBADSLT handling
1956 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1957 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1958 - 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
1959 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1960 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1961 - longer term: priority inheritance
1962 - dbus spec updates:
1963 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1964 - path escaping
1965 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1966
1967* sd-event
1968 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1969 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1970 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1971 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1972 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1973 here:
1974 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1975
1976* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1977 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1978
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1979* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1980
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1981* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1982
1983* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1984
1985* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1986
b44be3ec 1987* EFI:
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1988 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1989 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1990 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1991* bootctl
631427d6 1992 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1993
07eabc2b 1994* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1995
07eabc2b 1996* bootctl:
483091b0 1997 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1998 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1999 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2000
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2001* logind:
2002 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2003 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2004 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2005 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2006 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2007 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2008 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2009 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2010 needs setuid().
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2011 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2012 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2013 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2014 complete.
2015 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2016 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2017 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2018 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2019 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2020 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2021 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2022 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2023 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2024 relogins
77b19caf 2025 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2026 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2027 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2028 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2029
2030* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2031
2032* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2033 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2034 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2035
2036* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2037 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2038
b44be3ec 2039* journal:
57f2a947 2040 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2041 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2042 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2043 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2044 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2045 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2046 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2047 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2048 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2049 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2050 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2051 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2052 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2053 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2054 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2055 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2056 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2057 - 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.
2058 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2059 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2060 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2061 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2062 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2063 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2064 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2065 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2066 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2067 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2068 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2069 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2070 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2071 to syslog when it works again.
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2072 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2073 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2074 journals in.
2075 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2076 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2077 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2078 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2079 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2080 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2081 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2082 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2083 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2084 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2085 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2086 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2087 operation.
2088 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2089 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2090 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2091 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2092 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2093 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2094 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2095 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2096 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2097 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2099* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2100 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2101
2102* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2103 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2104 validated via TPM.
2105
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2107 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2108 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2109
2110* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2111 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2112 cursors as they happen.
2113
2114* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2115 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2116 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2117 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2118 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2119 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2120 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2121 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2122 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2123
2124* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2125 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2126 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2127 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2128 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2129 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2130
2131* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2132 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2133 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2134 records, to be able to order them.
2135
2136* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2137 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2138 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2139 be safely written to disk, then.
2140
2141* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2142 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2143 inspiration from IMA log)
2144
2145* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2146 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2147 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2148
2149* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2150 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2151 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2152 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2153 for doing that.
2154
2155* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2156 log.c and sd-journal-send
2157
2158* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2159 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2160 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2161 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2162 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2163 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2164 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2165 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2166 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2167 an NTP sync is acquired.
2168
2169* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2170
2171* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2172 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2173 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2174
2175* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2176 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2177 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2178 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2179 cgroup.
2180
2181* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2182 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2183 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2184 logging.
2185
2186* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2187
2188* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2189 from the SIGBUS handler
2190
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2191* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2192 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2193 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2194 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2195
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2196* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2197 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2198
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2199* homed:
2200 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2201 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2202 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2203 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2204 - create on activate?
2205 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2206 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2207 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2208 systemd --user is shut down.
2209 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2210 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2211 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2212 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2213 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2214 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2215 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2216 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2217 - query password from kernel keyring first
2218 - update even if record is "absent"
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2219 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2220 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2221 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2222 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2223 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2224 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2225 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2226 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2227 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2228 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2229 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2230 signature
2231 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2232 and insert a local signature instead.
2233 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2234 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2235 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2236 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2237 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2238 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2239 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2240 easily?
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2241 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2242 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2243 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2244 can easily set overall quota for all users
2245 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2246 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2247 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2248 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2249 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2250 large.
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2251 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2252 home dir
07eabc2b 2253
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2254* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2255 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2256 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2257
2df2bb1f 2258* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2259
2260* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2261 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2262 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2263 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2264
2265* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2266
2267* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2268 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2269 something goes wrong on the way.
2270
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2271* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2272 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2273 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2274 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2275
2276* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2277 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2278 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2279 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2280 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2281 automatically.
2282
2283* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2284 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2285
2286* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2287 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2288 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2289 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2290 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2291 fails to apply use the latter.
2292
2293* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2294 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2295
2296* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2297 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2298
2299* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2300 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2301 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2302
2303* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2304 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2305
92e72028 2306* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2307 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2308 during boot.
2309
2310* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2311
b44be3ec 2312* document:
8b8f2591 2313 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2314 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2315 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2316 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2317 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2318 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2319 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2320 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2321 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2322 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2323 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2324 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2325
2326* systemctl:
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2327 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2328 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
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2329 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2330 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2331 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2332 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2333
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2334* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2335 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2336 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2337
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2338* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2339 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2340 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2341
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2342* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2343 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2344 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2345
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2346* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2347 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2348
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2349* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2350 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2351 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2352 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2353
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2354* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2355 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2356 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2357 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2358
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2359* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2360
2361* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2362
2363* unit install:
2364 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2365 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2366
b44be3ec 2367* nspawn:
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2368 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2369 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2370 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2371 from the kernel's logs.
2372 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2373 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2374 interface be missing
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2375 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2376 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2377 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2378 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2379 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2380 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2381 PID 1...
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2382 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2383 running, remove them when shut down.
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2384 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2385 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2386 startup.
2387 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2388 or so, freeze the payload too.
2389 - support time namespaces
2390 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2391 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2392 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2393 "machinectl shell"
2394 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2395 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2396 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2397 - greater control over selinux label?
2398 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2399 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2400 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2401 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2402 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2403 host TPM.
2404 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2405 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2406 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2407 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2408 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2409 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2410 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2411 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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2412 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2413 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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2414 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2415 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2416 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2417
2418* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2419 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2420 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2421 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2422 anything like that.
2423
e25b5a8d 2424* machined:
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2425 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2426 removed or added to an existing machine
2427 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2428 difference host, via ssh
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2429 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2430 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2431 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2432 question
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2433 - "machinectl history"
2434 - "machinectl diff"
2435 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2436 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2437
abd55b16 2438* udev:
abd55b16 2439 - move to LGPL
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2440 - kill scsi_id
2441 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2442 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2443 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2444 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2445
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2446* coredump:
2447 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2448 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2449 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2450
2451* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2452
f38afcd0 2453* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2454 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2455 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2456 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2457 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2458 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2459 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2460 - add --test mode
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2461 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2462 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2463 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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ZJS
2464 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2465 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2466
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TG
2467* udev-link-config:
2468 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2469 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2470 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2471
88e4d1d7 2472* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2473 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2474 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2475
0a4b9a07 2476* networkd:
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2477 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2478 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2479 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2480 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2481 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2482 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2483 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2484 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2485 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2486 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2487 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
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2488 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2489 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2490 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2491 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2492 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2493 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2494 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2495
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2496* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2497
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2498* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2499
ac976532 2500* dhcp:
424a8732 2501 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2502
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2503* dhcp6:
2504 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2505 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2506 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2507 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2508 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
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PF
2509 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2510 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2511 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2512 or interface down
2513 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2514 this behavior
4a77c53d 2515 - RouteTable= ?
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2516
2517* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2518 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2519 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)