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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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25* register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27* zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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32* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36* write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
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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:
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97* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
b3e199ce 100* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
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105* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 107 is only supported for such old kernels.
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109* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
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9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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121* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
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124* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
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128* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
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131Features:
132
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133* vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
134 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
135 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
136 which uses 32bit words).
137
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138* send out sd_notify() from PID 1 when we determined hostname and machine ID
139
140* send out sd_notify() from PID 1 whenever we reach a target unit. Then
141 introduce ssh.target or so. And in vmspawn/nspawn wait for that as indication
142 whether/when SSH is available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for that)
143
144* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
145 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
146 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
147 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
148 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
149 as primary way into the container.
150
151* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
152 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
153 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
154 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
155 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
156 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
157 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
158 it for the invoking user.
159
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160* make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
161 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
162 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
163 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
164 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
165
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166* machined: allow running in a per-user instance too, to allow unpriv
167 systemd-nspawn and systemd-vmspawn do something useful. (Alternatively: open
168 up system machined to unpriv client's registering their machines, and enforce
169 they come with some prefix or suffix that clarifies they are the
170 user's. i.e. when a user registers a machine it must be called
171 foobar.<username> or so.).
172
173* importd/…: define per-user dirs for container/VM images too.
174
666a348d 175* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
630023e2 176 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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178* importd/importctl
179 - import generator
180 - port tar handling to libarchive
181 - add varlink interface
182 - download images into .v/ dirs
183
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184* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
185 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
186 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
187
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188* ptyfwd: look for window title ANSI sequences and insert colored dot in front
189 of it while passing it through, to indicate whether we are in privileged, VM,
190 container terminal sessions.
191
192* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
193 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
194 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
195 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
196 exit code propagation
197
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198* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
199 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
200 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
201 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
202 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
203
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204* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
205
10e3f15a 206* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 207 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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208 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
209 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
210
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211* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
212 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
213 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
214 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
215
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216* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
217 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
218
219* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
220
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221* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
222 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
223 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
224 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
225 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
226 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
227
228* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
229 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
230 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
231
232* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
233 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
234
235* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 236 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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237 actually works too when run with user privs.
238
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239* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
240 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
241 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
242 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
243
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244* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
245 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
246
247* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
248 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
249 and unix-export dir of containers.
250
73d8041c 251* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 252 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
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253 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
254
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255* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
256 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
257 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
258 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
259
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260* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
261 64bit mount ids
262
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263* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
264 interfaces nspawn creates
265
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266* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
267 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
268 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
269 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
270
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271* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
272 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
273 volume key.
274
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275* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
276 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
277 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
278 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
279 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
280 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
281 specified images.
282
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283* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
284 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
285 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
286
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287* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
288 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
289 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
290
291* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
292 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
293 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
294
295* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
296 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
297
298* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
299 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
300
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301* systemd-pcrextend:
302 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
303 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
304 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 305 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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306 PCRs.
307
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308* vmspawn:
309 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
310 - register with machined
311 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
312 - support --directory= via virtiofs
313 - sd_notify support
314 - --ephemeral support
315 - --read-only support
316 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
317 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
318 suspend key presses.
319 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
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320 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
321
322* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
323
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324* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
325
326* storagetm:
327 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
328 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
329 operate in device mode
330 - add NVMe authentication
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332* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
333 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
334 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
335 nvme-oF
336
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337* pcrlock:
338 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
339 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
340 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
341 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
342 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
343 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
344 pass it via initrd to OS
345 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
346 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
347 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
348 /run?
349 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
350 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
351 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
352 for pre-built images
353
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354* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
355 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
356 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
357 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
358 add a field identifying the project.
359
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360* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
361 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
362 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
363 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
364 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
365
366* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
367 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
368 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
369 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
370
371* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
372 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
373 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
374
375* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
376 systems.
377
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378* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
379 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
380 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
381 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
382 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
383 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
384 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 385 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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386 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
387 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
388 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
389 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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391* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
392 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
393 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
394 sysext
395
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396* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
397 other programs via IPC:
398 - bootctl
399 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
400 - coredumpcl
401 - systemd-bless-boot
402 - systemd-measure
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403 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
404 - systemd-dissect
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405 - systemd-sysupdate
406 - systemd-analyze
407 - kernel-install
f277d99c 408 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
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410* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
411 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
412 via "systemctl status".
413
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414* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
415 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 416 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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418* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
419 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
420
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421* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
422 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
423
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424* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
425 menu.
426
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427* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
428 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
429 sockets.
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431* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
432 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 433 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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435* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
436 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
437 migratable between PCs)
438
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439* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
440 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
441 snapshot logic
442
443* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
444 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
445 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 446 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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447 a local key to it.
448
a1f7cdc6 449* PidRef conversion work:
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450 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
451 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
452 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 453 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 454 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 455 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 456 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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457 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
458 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
a1f7cdc6 459
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460* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
461
462* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
463 mode.
464
3a9e659a 465* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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466 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
467 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
468 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
469 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
470 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
471 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
472
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473* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
474 too much
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fcdd21ec 476* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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477 to systemd-dissect
478
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479* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
480 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
481 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
482 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
483 control of the attacker.
484
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485* also include packaging metadata (á la
486 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
487 same JSON format.
488
489* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
490 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
491 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
492 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
493 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
494 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
495 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
496 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
497 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
498 newer.
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501 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
502 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
503 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
504 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
505 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
506 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
507 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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510 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
511 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
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514 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
515 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
516 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 517 independently of any kernel.
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520 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
521 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
522 requested during switch root.
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525
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526* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
527 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
528 matched against OS.
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531 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
532 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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534* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
535 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
536 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
537 namespaces)
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540 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
541
542* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
543 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
544 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
545
f447b741 546* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 547 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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549 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
550 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
551 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
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554 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 555 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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559 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
560 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
561 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
562 based on lo_file_name.
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565 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 566 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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568
569* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
570 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
571 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
572 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
573 creating versions like these automatically).
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578 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
579 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
580 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
581 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
582 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
583 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
584 activation-by-message id and similar.
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587
512f2da5 588* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 589 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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591 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
592
593* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
594 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
595 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
596 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
597 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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600 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
601 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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606 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
607 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
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609* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
610 localed, oomd, timedated.
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613 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
614 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
615 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
616 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
617 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 618 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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620 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
621 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
622 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
623 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
624 access.
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627 posix_spawn().
628
629* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
630 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
631 through nspawn.
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634 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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637 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
638 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
639 for all umh processes.
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642 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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645 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
646 resize.
647
648* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
649 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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652 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
653 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
654 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
655 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
656 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
657 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
658 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
659 system actually reset.
660
661* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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663 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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666 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
667 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
668 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
669
4cb8a25b 670* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 671 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 672 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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676 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
677 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
678 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
679 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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682 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
683 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
684 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
685 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
686
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688
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690 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 691 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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693
084ecae5 694* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 695 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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697* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
698 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
699 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
700
6d040d84 701* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 702 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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704* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
705 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
706 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
707 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
708 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
709 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
710 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
711 usual.
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714
715* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
716
717* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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720 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
721 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
722 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
723 sockaddr.
724
725* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
726 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
727 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
728 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
729 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
730 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
731 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
732 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
733 try to use inode from there.
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736 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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739 extensions
740
741* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
742 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
743 for the root fs or /usr/.
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746 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
747 combination thereof.
748
749* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
750 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
751 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
752 ahead of time.
753
754* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
755 aforementioned purpose.
756
757* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
758 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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761 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
762 to figure out:
763 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
764 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
765 subsequent boots?
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768 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
769 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
770 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
771 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
772 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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774 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
775 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
776 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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779 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
780 used)
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783 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
784 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
785 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
786 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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789 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
790 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
791 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 792 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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796 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
797 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
798
799* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
800 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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803
804* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
805 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 806 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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808
809* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
810 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
811 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
812 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
813 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
814 only one for each OS.
815
816* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
817 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 818 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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820 boot, for the next.
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823 similar behind it, instead of http.
824
825* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
826 boot, or on first boot.
827
828* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
829 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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832 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
833 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
834 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
835 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
836 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
837 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
838 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
839 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
840 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
841 until users are allowed to log in).
842
843* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
844 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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847 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
848 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 849 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 850 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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852 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
853 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 854 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
855 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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857
858* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
859 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
860 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
861 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 862 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
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865 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 866 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
867 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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869 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
870 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 871 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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873 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
874 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
875 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 876 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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878 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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881 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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884 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
885
886* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
887 instead of manual blocking.
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890 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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893 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
894 supplied password.
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897 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
898 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
899 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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902 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
903 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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906* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
907 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
908 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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911 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
912 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 913 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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915
916* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
917 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
918 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
919 modules
920
b60e0f57 921* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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923 a new name with a built-in config?
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926 maybe on kernel command line:
927 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
928 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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931 hash type, etc)
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935
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4e0ceefe 937 but final node is not a directory
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940 non-VFAT fs is used.
941
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942* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
943
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944* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
945 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
946
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947* pick up creds from EFI vars
948
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950
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952 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
953 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
954 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
955 affect PCR values.
956
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958 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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960* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
961 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
962
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963* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
964 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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967 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
968
969* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
970 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
971
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974 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
975 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
976 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
977 use it.
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980 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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983 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
984 what it was signed.
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987 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
988 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
989 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
990 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
991 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
992 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
993 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
994 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
995 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
996 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
997 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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1000 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1001
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1004 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1005 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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1007 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1008 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1009 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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1011 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1012 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1013 file system paths to enable on start.
1014 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
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1017 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1018 pre-built kernels.
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1021 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1022
1023 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1024 about the unit.
1025 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1026 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1027 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1028 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1029 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1030 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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1033 what to do if support ended
1034
1035* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1036 login time, à la motd
81a96518 1037
e1b45a75 1038* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1039 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1040 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1041 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1042 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1045 initrd transition. Specifically:
1046 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1047 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1048 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1049
d486b26f 1050* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1051 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1053 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1054 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1055 depending on desired level of persistency.
1056
1057* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1058 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1059 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1061 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1062 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1063 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1064 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1065
1066* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1067 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1068 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1069 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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1072
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1076 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1077 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1078 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1080 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1081 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1082 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1083 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1085 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1086 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1087 not unprivileged code.
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1090 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1091 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1092 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1095 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1096 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1097 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1098 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1099 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1100 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1102 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1104* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1105 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1106 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1107 order.
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1110 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1111 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1114 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1115 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1116 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1117 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1119 IN_IGNORED again)
1120
5b06ad51 1121* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1122 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1124 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1125 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1127 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1128 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1129 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1131 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1132 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1135 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1136 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1137
03ede612 1138* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1140 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1141 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1143 directly to host service manager.
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1145* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1146 no api to query the device id
1147
1148* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1149 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1150 also be queried.
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1152* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1153 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1154 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1155 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1156
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1158 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1159 latter).
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1161* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1162
1163* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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1165* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1166 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1167 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1168 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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1171 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1172 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1173 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1174 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1176
1177* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1178 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1179 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1180 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1182 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1183 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1184 hence cheap for enumeration.
1185
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1187
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1188* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1189 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1190 words: show partition labels).
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1193 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1194 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1195 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1197 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1198 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1199
e4f92a62 1200* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1202* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1203
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1204* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1205 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1206 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1207 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1208 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1209 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1210 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1211 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1212 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1213 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1214
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1215* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1216 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1217
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1219 jobs, units
1220
a57d72ce 1221* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1223 userspace)
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1226
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1228 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1229
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1232
1233* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1234 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1237 internal clock.
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1240 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1241
1242* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1243 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1244 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1245 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1248 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1249 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
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1252 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1253 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1254 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1255 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1256 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1257 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1260 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1261 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1262 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1263 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1264 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1266* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1267 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1271 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1272 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1273 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1274 on-disk storage.
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1277 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1278 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1279 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1280 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1281
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1283 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1284 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1287 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1288 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1289 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1290
3fc0688d 1291* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1293 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1294 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1295 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1296 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1297 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1298 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1299 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1300 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1301 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1304 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1305 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1308
63a185dc 1309* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1312 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1313 that images cannot be misused.
1314
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178d3ff2 1316 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1318 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1319 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1320
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1322 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1323 - support casync as download mechanism
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1325 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1326 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1327 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1328 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1329 host's update files.)
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1331 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1332 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1333 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1336
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1338 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1341 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1342
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1345 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1346 already have it.
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1349 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1350
1c904337 1351* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1353* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1354 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1355 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1356 /proc/self/fd/3
1357
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1358* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1359 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1360 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1361
1362* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1363 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1365* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1366 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1367
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1368* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1369 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1370 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1371 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1372 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1373
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1375
199b097d 1376* credentials system:
199b097d 1377 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1378 - acquire via ask-password?
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1379 - acquire creds via keyring?
1380 - pass creds via keyring?
1381 - pass creds via memfd?
1382 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1383 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1384 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1385 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1386 wireguard)
1387 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1388 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1389
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1390* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1391 and such
1392
1393* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1394
02c914ef 1395* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1396
7d7c75f1 1397* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1398 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1399
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1400* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1401 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1403* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1404
1405* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1406 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1407
1408* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1409 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1410
1411* cryptsetup:
1412 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1413 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1414
08d33656 1415* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1417* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1418 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1419
f461a28d 1420* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1421 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1422
f461a28d 1423* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1424 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1425
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1426* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1427
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1428* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1429
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1430* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1431 when it exits
1432
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1433* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1434 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1435 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1436 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
cdfd8537 1437 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
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1438 - bzip2 (always — gzip should probably stay static dep the way it is,
1439 since it's so basic and our defaults)
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1441* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1442 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1443 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1444
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1445* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1446 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1447
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1448* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1449
1450* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1451 specific service
1452
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1453* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1454 exists and responds.
1455
91fc013f 1456* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1457 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1458
7e8facb3 1459* unify on openssl:
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1460 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1461 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1462 gnutls
1463 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1465* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1466 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1467
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1468* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1469 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1471* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1472
2a4be3c5 1473* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1474
f1eb0ccd 1475* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1477* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1478 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1479 initrd had set.
1480
173c7873 1481* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1482 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1483 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1484 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1485 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1486 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1487
1488* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1489 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1490 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1491
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1492* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1493 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1494 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1495 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1496 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1497 source.
1498
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1499* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1500 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1501 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1502
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1503* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1504
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1505* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1506 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1507
c6526b8d 1508* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1509
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1510* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1511 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1512 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1513 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1514 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1515 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1516 exec().
1517
1518* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1519
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1520* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1521 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1522
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1523* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1524 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1525
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1526* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1527 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1528 root.
1529
1530* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1531 is issued.
1532
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1533* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1534
1535* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1536
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1537* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1538 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1539 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1540
d238709c 1541* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1542 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1543 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1544
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1545* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1546
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1547* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1548 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1549
06898123 1550* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1551 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1552 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1553 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1555* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1556
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1557* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1558
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1559* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1560 non-zero "tries done" count
1561
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1562* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1563 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1564 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1565 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1566 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1567 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1568 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1569 CODE_FILE.
1570
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1571* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1572 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1573 some explanatory text online.
1574
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1575* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1576
d1797c42 1577* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1578
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1579* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1580 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1581
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1582* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1583 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1584 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1585 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1587* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1588
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1589* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1590 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1591
5da19043 1592* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1593 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1594
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1595* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1596 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1597 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1598 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1599 unlinked from any dir.
1600
bd1b3f75 1601* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1603* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1604
1605* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1606
53c70a27 1607* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1608 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1609 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1610 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1611 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1612
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1613* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1614
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1615* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1616 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1617
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1618* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1619 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1620 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1621 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1622 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1623 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1624 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1625 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1626
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1627* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1628 for root, but only then.
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1630* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1631 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1632
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1633* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1634 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1635
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1636* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1637 only when used. Add unit tests.
1638
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1639* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1640 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1641
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1642* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1643 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1644 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1645 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1646 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1647
899feb72 1648* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1649
5f7ecd61 1650* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1652* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1653 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1654
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1655* blog about fd store and restartable services
1656
1657* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1658
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1659* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1660 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1661
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1662* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1663 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1664 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1665 ID is available.
1666
1667* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1668 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1669 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1670
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1671* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1672 parameters
1673
63a185dc 1674* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1675 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1676 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1677 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1678 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1679 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1680 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1682* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1683 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1684
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1685* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1686 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1687 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1688
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1689* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1690 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1691
1692 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1693
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1694* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1695 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1696 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1697
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1698* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1699 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1700
1701* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1702 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1703 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1704 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1705 natural habitat.
1706
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1707* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1708 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1710* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1711 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1712 relative to the configured default value.
1713
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1714* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1715
04397464 1716* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1718* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1719
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1720* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1721
04397464 1722* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1723
04397464 1724* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1725
04397464 1726* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1727
8ce9b83a 1728* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1730* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1731 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1732 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1733
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1734* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1735 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1736
e40a326c 1737* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1739* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1740 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1741 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1742 mapping to work.
1743
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1744* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1745
1746* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1747
1748* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1749
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1750* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1751 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1752
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1753* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1754 reload the unit file anyway
1755
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1756* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1757
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1758* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1759
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1760* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1761 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1762
f9bf1b8f 1763* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1764 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1765 specifications.
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1767* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1768
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1769* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1770
a2088fd0 1771* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1772 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1773 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1774 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1776* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1777
931bc195 1778* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1779
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1780* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1781 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1782 state.
41d6f3bf 1783 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1785* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1786 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1787 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1788 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1789 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1790
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1791* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1792
d2f81fb0 1793* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1794 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1795
0a86c1a9 1796* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1797 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1798
e031c227 1799* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1800 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1801
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1802* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1803
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1804* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1805 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1806
25e773ee 1807* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1808
720652b3 1809* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1810
720652b3 1811* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1812
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1813* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1814 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1815
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1816* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1817
9d6db739 1818* resolved:
9d6db739 1819 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1820 - service registration
1821 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1822 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1823 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1824 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1825 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1826 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1827 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1828 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1829
e25b5a8d 1830* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1831
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1832* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1833
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1834* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1835
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1836* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1837
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1838* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1839
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1840* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1841 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1842
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1843* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1844
6a3f892a 1845* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1846 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1847 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1848
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1849* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1850 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1851 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1852
f9bf1b8f 1853* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1854
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1855* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1856 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1857 for ReusePort=
1858
f38afcd0 1859* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1860 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1861 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1862 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1863 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1864 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1865 the hierarchies of child processes
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1866 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1867 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1868
f38afcd0 1869* transient units:
f38afcd0 1870 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1871
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1872* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1873
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1874* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1875
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1876* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1877
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1878* 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
1879
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1880* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1881 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1882 path anyway.
1883
04397464 1884* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1885
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1886* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1887
07eabc2b 1888* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1889
07eabc2b 1890* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1891
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1892* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1893
1894* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1895 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1896 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1897
1898* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1899 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1900
1901* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1902
1903* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1904
1905* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1906
1907* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1908 needs to be auto-respawned?
1909
1910* pid1:
1911 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1912 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1913 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1914 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1915 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1916 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1917 - move PAM code into its own binary
1918 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1919 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1920 - Support --test based on current system state
1921 - 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().
1922 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1923 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1924 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1925 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1926 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1927 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1928 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1929 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1930 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1931 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1932 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1933 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1934
1935* unit files:
1936 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1937 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1938 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1939 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1940 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1941 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1942 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1943 - introduce Type=pid-file
1944 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1945 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1946 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1947
1948* timer units:
63a185dc 1949 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1950 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1951
1952* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1953
1954* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1955
1956* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1957
1958* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1959
07eabc2b 1960* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1961
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1962* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1963
1964* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1965
fff87a35 1966* test/:
20d52ab6 1967 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1968
b5c03638 1969* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1970 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1971 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1972 destination.
1973
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1974* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1975 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1976
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1977* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1978
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1979* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1980 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1981 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1982
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1983* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1984 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1985
7227dd81 1986* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1987 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1988 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1989 that automatically.
1990
e5ec62c5 1991* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1992
ccddd104 1993* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1994
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1995* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1996
356ce991 1997* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1998
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1999* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2000
2001* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2002
2003* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2004
2005* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2006
2007* sd-bus:
2008 - EBADSLT handling
2009 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2010 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2011 - 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
2012 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2013 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2014 - longer term: priority inheritance
2015 - dbus spec updates:
2016 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2017 - path escaping
2018 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2019
2020* sd-event
2021 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2022 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2023 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2024 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2025 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2026 here:
2027 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2028
2029* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2030 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2031
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2032* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2033
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2034* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2035
2036* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2037
2038* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2039
b44be3ec 2040* EFI:
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2041 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2042 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2043 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2044* bootctl
631427d6 2045 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2046
07eabc2b 2047* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2048
07eabc2b 2049* bootctl:
483091b0 2050 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2051 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2052 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2053
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2054* logind:
2055 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2056 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2057 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2058 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2059 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2060 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2061 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2062 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2063 needs setuid().
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2064 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2065 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2066 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2067 complete.
2068 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2069 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2070 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2071 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2072 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2073 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2074 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2075 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2076 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2077 relogins
77b19caf 2078 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2079 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2080 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2081 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2082
2083* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2084
2085* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2086 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2087 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2088
2089* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2090 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2091
b44be3ec 2092* journal:
57f2a947 2093 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2094 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2095 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2096 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2097 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2098 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2099 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2100 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2101 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2102 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2103 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2104 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2105 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2106 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2107 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2108 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2109 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2110 - 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.
2111 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2112 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2113 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2114 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2115 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2116 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2117 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2118 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2119 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2120 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2121 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2122 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2123 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2124 to syslog when it works again.
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2125 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2126 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2127 journals in.
2128 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2129 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2130 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2131 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2132 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2133 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2134 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2135 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2136 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2137 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2138 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2139 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2140 operation.
2141 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2142 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2143 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2144 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2145 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2146 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2147 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2148 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2149 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2150 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 2151
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2152* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2153 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2154
2155* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2156 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2157 validated via TPM.
2158
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2159* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2160 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2161 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2162
2163* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2164 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2165 cursors as they happen.
2166
2167* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2168 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2169 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2170 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2171 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2172 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2173 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2174 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2175 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2176
2177* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2178 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2179 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2180 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2181 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2183
2184* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2185 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2186 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2187 records, to be able to order them.
2188
2189* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2190 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2191 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2192 be safely written to disk, then.
2193
2194* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2195 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2196 inspiration from IMA log)
2197
2198* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2199 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2200 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2201
2202* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2203 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2204 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2205 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2206 for doing that.
2207
2208* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2209 log.c and sd-journal-send
2210
2211* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2212 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2213 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2214 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2215 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2216 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2217 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2218 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2219 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2220 an NTP sync is acquired.
2221
2222* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2223
2224* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2225 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2226 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2227
2228* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2229 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2230 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2231 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2232 cgroup.
2233
2234* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2235 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2236 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2237 logging.
2238
2239* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2240
2241* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2242 from the SIGBUS handler
2243
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2245 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2246 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2247 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2248
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2249* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2250 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2251
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2252* homed:
2253 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2254 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2255 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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LB
2256 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2257 - create on activate?
2258 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2259 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2260 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2261 systemd --user is shut down.
2262 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2263 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2264 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2265 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2266 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2267 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2268 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2269 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2270 - query password from kernel keyring first
2271 - update even if record is "absent"
07eabc2b
LB
2272 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2273 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2274 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2275 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2276 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
a11e7c0b
LB
2277 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2278 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2279 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2280 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
9c53de8b
LP
2281 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2282 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2283 signature
2284 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2285 and insert a local signature instead.
2286 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2287 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2288 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2289 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2290 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2291 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2292 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2293 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2294 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2295 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2296 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2297 can easily set overall quota for all users
2298 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2299 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2300 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2301 home dir
07eabc2b 2302
07eabc2b
LB
2303* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2304 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2305 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2306
2df2bb1f 2307* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
07eabc2b
LB
2308
2309* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2310 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2311 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2312 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2313
2314* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2315
2316* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2317 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2318 something goes wrong on the way.
2319
07eabc2b
LB
2320* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2321 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2322 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2323 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2324
2325* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2326 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2327 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2328 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2329 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2330 automatically.
2331
2332* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2333 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2334
2335* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2336 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2337 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2338 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2339 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2340 fails to apply use the latter.
2341
2342* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2343 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2344
2345* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2346 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2347
2348* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2349 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2350 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
07eabc2b
LB
2351
2352* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2353 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2354
92e72028 2355* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2356 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2357 during boot.
2358
2359* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2360
b44be3ec 2361* document:
8b8f2591 2362 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
2363 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2364 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2365 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2366 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2367 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2368 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2369 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2370 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2371 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2372 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2373 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2374
2375* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2376 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2377 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2378 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2379 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2380 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2381 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2382
07eabc2b
LB
2383* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2384 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2385 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2386
07eabc2b
LB
2387* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2388 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2389 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2390
07eabc2b
LB
2391* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2392 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2393 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2394
07eabc2b
LB
2395* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2396 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2397
07eabc2b
LB
2398* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2399 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2400 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2401 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2402
07eabc2b
LB
2403* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2404 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2405 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2406 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2407
07eabc2b
LB
2408* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2409
2410* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2411
2412* unit install:
2413 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2414 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2415
b44be3ec 2416* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2417 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2418 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2419 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2420 from the kernel's logs.
2421 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2422 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2423 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2424 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2425 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2426 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2427 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2428 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2429 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2430 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2431 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2432 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2433 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2434 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2435 startup.
2436 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2437 or so, freeze the payload too.
2438 - support time namespaces
2439 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2440 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2441 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2442 "machinectl shell"
2443 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2444 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2445 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2446 - greater control over selinux label?
2447 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2448 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2449 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2450 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2451 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2452 host TPM.
2453 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2454 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2455 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2456 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2457 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2458 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2459 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2460 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2461 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2462 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2463 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2464 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2465 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2466
2467* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2468 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2469 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2470 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2471 anything like that.
2472
e25b5a8d 2473* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2474 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2475 removed or added to an existing machine
2476 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2477 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2478 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2479 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2480 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2481 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2482 - "machinectl history"
2483 - "machinectl diff"
2484 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2485 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2486
abd55b16 2487* udev:
abd55b16 2488 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2489 - kill scsi_id
2490 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2491 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2492 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2493 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2494
e25b5a8d
DH
2495* coredump:
2496 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2497 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2498 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2499
2500* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2501
f38afcd0 2502* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2503 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2504 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2505 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2506 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2507 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2508 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2509 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2510 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2511 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2512 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2513 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2514
af6f0d42
TG
2515* udev-link-config:
2516 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2517 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2518 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2519
88e4d1d7 2520* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2521 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2522 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2523
0a4b9a07 2524* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2525 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2526 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2527 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2528 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2529 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2530 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2531 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2532 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2533 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2534 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2535 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2536 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2537 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2538 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2539 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2540 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2541 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2542 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2543
07eabc2b
LB
2544* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2545
d5e172d2
ZJS
2546* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2547
ac976532 2548* dhcp:
424a8732 2549 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2550
37d8b536
PF
2551* dhcp6:
2552 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2553 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2554 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2555 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2556 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2557 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2558 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2559 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2560 or interface down
2561 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2562 this behavior
4a77c53d 2563 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2564
2565* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2566 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2567 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)