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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 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
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* 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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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
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78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83Deprecations and removals:
84
85* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
86 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
87
88* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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90* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
91 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
92 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
93 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
94
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95* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
96 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 97 is only supported for such old kernels.
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9eb41aab 99* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 100 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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101 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
102 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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103 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
104
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105* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
106 baseline is 5.8.
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108* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
109 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
110
3345802c 111* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 112 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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114* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
115
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116* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
117
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118* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
119 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
120 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
121
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122Features:
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124* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
125 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
126 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
127 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
128 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
129
130* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
131 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
132 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
133 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
134
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135* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
136
137* sd-stub: call process_random_seed() the same way sd-boot does.
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139* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
140 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
141
142* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
143 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
144 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
145
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146* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
147
148* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
149 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
150 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
151 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
152 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
153 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
154 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
155 usual.
156
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157* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
158
159* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
160
161* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
162
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163* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
164 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
165 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
166 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
167 sockaddr.
168
169* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
170 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
171 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
172 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
173 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
174 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
175 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
176 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
177 try to use inode from there.
178
179* dissect too: add --with switch that will invoke a command with the image
180 mounted, and as current working directory. Terminate once done.
181
182* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
183 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
184
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185* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
186 extensions
187
188* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
189 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
190 for the root fs or /usr/.
191
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192* extend systemd-measure with an --append= mode when signing expected PCR
193 measurements. In this mode the tool should read an existing signature JSON
194 object (which primarily contains an array with the actual signature data),
195 and then append the new signature to it instead of writing out an entirely
196 JSON object. Usecase: it might make sense to to sign a UKI's expected PCRs
197 with different keys for different boot phases. i.e. use keypair X for signing
198 the expected PCR in the initrd boot phase and keypair Y for signing the
199 expected PCR in the main boot phase. Via the --append logic we could merge
200 these signatures into one object, and then include the result in the UKI.
201 Then, if you bind a LUKS volume to public key X it really only can be
202 unlocked during early boot, and you bind a LUKS volume to public key Y it
bcf04e9b 203 really only can be unlocked during later boot, and so on.
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205* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
206 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
207 combination thereof.
208
209* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
210 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
211 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
212 ahead of time.
213
214* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
215 aforementioned purpose.
216
217* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
218 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
219
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220* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
221 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
222 to figure out:
223 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
224 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
225 subsequent boots?
226
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227* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
228 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
229 inspiration from IMA log)
230
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231* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
232 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
233 out to our tools.
234
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235* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
236 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
237 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
238 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
239 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
240 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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241 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
242 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
243 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
244 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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246* move discoverable partition spec and boot loader spec over to uapi group
247
248* maybe measure UUIDs of important mounted file systems (after mount, via the
249 new ioctls to query them) into PCR 15? Add "x-systemd.measure-pcr=" or so for
250 this that pulls in a per mount service?
251
252* measure /etc/machine-id during early boot into PCR 15?
253
254* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
255 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
256 used)
257
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258* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
259 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
260 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
261 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
262 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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264* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
265 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
266 how PCR values we manage came to
267 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
268
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269* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
270 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
271 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
272 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 273 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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274 should win over vendor defaults.
275
276* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
277 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
278 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
279 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
280 command lines.
281
282* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
283 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
284 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
285
286* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
287 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
288
289* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
290 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
291 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
292 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
293 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
294 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
295
296* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
297 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
298 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
299
300* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
301
302* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
303 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
304 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
305 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
306
307* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
308 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
309 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
310 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
311 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
312 only one for each OS.
313
314* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
315 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 316 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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317 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
318 boot, for the next.
319
320* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
321 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
322
323* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
324 similar behind it, instead of http.
325
326* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
327 boot, or on first boot.
328
329* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
330 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
331
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332* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
333 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
334 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
335 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
336 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
337 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
338 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
339 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
340 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
341 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
342 until users are allowed to log in).
343
344* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
345 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
346
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347* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
348 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
349 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
350 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
351 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
352 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
353 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
354 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
355 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
356 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
357 automatically invalidated outside of it.
358
359* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
360 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
361 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
362 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
363 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 364 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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365 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
366 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
367 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
368 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
369 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
370 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
371 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
372 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
373 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
374 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
375 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
376 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
377 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
378 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
379 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
380
381* Always measure the LUKS rootfs volume key into PCR 15, and derive the machine
382 ID from it securely. This would then allow us to bind secrets a specific
383 system securely.
384
385* nspawn: maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image=
386 hash into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and
387 partake in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside
388 of control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
389 host TPM.
390
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391* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
392 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
393
394* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
395 instead of manual blocking.
396
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397* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
398 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
399
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400* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
401 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
402 supplied password.
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404* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
405 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
406 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
407 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
408
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409* systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
410 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
411 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
412 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
413
414* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
415 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
416 automatically derived from --private-key=).
417
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418* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
419
420* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
421
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422* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
423 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
424 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
425
426* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
427 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
428 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
429 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
430 partition with a portable service partition in one.
431
432* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
433 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
434 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
435 modules
436
437* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
438 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
439 a new name with a built-in config?
440
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441* gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
442 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
443
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444* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
445 maybe on kernel command line:
446 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
447 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
448
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449* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
450 hash type, etc)
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452* chase_symlinks(): take inspiraton from path_extract_filename() and return
453 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
454
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455* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
456 but final node is not a directory
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458* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
459 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
460
461* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
462 non-VFAT fs is used.
463
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464* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
465
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466* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
467 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
468
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469* pick up creds from EFI vars
470
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471* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
472 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
473 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
474 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
475 affect PCR values.
476
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477* systemd-measure tool:
478 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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480* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
481 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
482
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483* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
484 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
485
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486* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
487 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
488
489* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
490 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
491
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492* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
493 maybe some other stuff and boots it
494
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496 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
497 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
498 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
499 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
500 use it.
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503 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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506 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
507 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
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510 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
511 what it was signed.
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514 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
515 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
516 be safely written to disk, then.
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519 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
520 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
521 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
522 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
523 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
524 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
525 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
526 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
527 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
528 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
529 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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532 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
533
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536 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
537 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
538 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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541 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
542 via the credentials logic.
543 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
544 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
545 integrity-generator)
546 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
547 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
548 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
549 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
550 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
551 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
552 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
553 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
554 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
555 file system paths to enable on start.
556 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
557 usr=
558 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
559 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
560 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
561 account one can directly log into.
562 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
563 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
564 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
565 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
566 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
567 pre-built kernels.
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570 runtime state. Then, expose it:
571
572 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
573 about the unit.
574 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
575 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
576 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
577 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
578 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
579 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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582 for this on dbus)
583
584* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
585 what to do if support ended
586
587* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
588 login time, á la motd
589
e1b45a75 590* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 591 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 592 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 593 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 594 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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597 initrd transition. Specifically:
598 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
599 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
600 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
601
602* implement varlink introspection
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605 chase_symlinks() instead
606
d486b26f 607* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 608 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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610 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
611 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
612 depending on desired level of persistency.
613
614* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
615 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
616 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
617 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
618 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
619 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
620 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
621 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
622
623* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
624 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
625 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
626 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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629
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633 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
634 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
635 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
636 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
637 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
638 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
639 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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642 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
643 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
644 not unprivileged code.
645
646* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
647 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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650 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
651 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
652 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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655 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
656 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
657 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
658 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
659 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
660 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
661 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
662 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
663
664* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
665 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
666 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
667 order.
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670 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
671 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
672 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
673 whenever they want.
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675* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
676 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
677 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
678
679* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
680 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
681 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
682 acquire.
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685 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
686 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
687 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 688 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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690 IN_IGNORED again)
691
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693 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
694 virtio-fs.
695
696* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 697 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 698 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 699 on verification if in secureboot mode
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701 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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703 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
704 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
705 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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707 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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709 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 710 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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712 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
713 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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716 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
717 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
718 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
719 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
720 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
721 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
722 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
723 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
724 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
725 service runtime logic quite substantially.
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728 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
729 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
730
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733 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
734 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
735 friends.)
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738 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
739 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 740 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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742 directly to host service manager.
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745 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
746 configure socket address.
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751 no api to query the device id
752
753* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
754 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
755 also be queried.
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758 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
759 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
760 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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762* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
763 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
764 latter).
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766* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
767
768* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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771 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
772 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
773 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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776 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
777 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
778 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
779 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
780 UEFI HTTP boot.
781
782* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
783 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
784 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
785 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
786 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
787 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
788 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
789 hence cheap for enumeration.
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792
793* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
794 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
795 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
796 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
797 comprehensively.
798
799* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
800 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
801 words: show partition labels).
802
803* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
804 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
805 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
806 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
807
808* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
809 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
810 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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813 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
814 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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817
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820* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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823 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
824 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
825 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
826 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
827 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
828 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
829 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
830 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
831 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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834 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
835 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
836 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
837 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
838 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
839 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
840 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
841 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
842 an NTP sync is acquired.
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845 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
846 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
847 call it at the end only
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850 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
851
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853 jobs, units
854
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857 userspace)
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862 json package metadata, and use that when logging
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865
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868
869* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
870 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
871
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873 internal clock.
874
1ccfb792 875* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
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879 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
880
881* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
882 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
883 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
884 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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887 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
888 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
889
890* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
891 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
892 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
893 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
894 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
895 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
896 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
897 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
898 thread:
899 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
900 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
901 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
902 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
903 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
904 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
905
906* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
907 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
908 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
909
910* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
911 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
912 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
913 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
914 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
915 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
916 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
917 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
918 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
919 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
920 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
921 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
922 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
923 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
924 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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927 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
928 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
929 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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931 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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933* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
934 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
935 dep in the base OS image)
936
937* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
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940* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
941 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
942 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
943 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
944 on-disk storage.
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947 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
948 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
949 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
950 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
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952* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
953 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
954 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
955 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
956 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
957 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
958 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
959
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960* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
961 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
962 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
963 externally and provide to us on demand only.
964
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965* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
966 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
967 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
968 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
969 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
970 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
971 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
972 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
973
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974 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
975 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
976 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 977 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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978 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
979 take --image= that take the same short string.
980
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981* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
982 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
983 one.
984
3fc0688d 985* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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986 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
987 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
988 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
989 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
990 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
991 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
992 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
993 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
994 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
995 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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997* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
998 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
999 authentication.
1000
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1001* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1002 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1003 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1005* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1006
63a185dc 1007* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1009* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1010 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1011 that images cannot be misused.
1012
aca8ecc3 1013* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1014 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1015 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1016 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1017 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1018
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1019* sysupdate:
1020 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1021 - support casync as download mechanism
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1022 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1023 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1024 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1025 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1026 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1027 override the host's update files.)
1028 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1029 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1030 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1031 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1032
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1033* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1034
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1035* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1036 make dirs appear under right UID.
1037
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1038* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1039 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1040
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1041* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1042 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1043 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1044 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1045 for doing that.
1046
24063ba1 1047* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1048 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1049 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1050 already have it.
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1052* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1053 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1054
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1055* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
1056 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
1057 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
1058 socket: connect() to it.
1059
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1060* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1061
1062* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1063 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1064 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1065 /proc/self/fd/3
1066
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1067* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1068 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1069 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1070
1071* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1072 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1073
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1074* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1075 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1076
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1077* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1078 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1079 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1080 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1081 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1082
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1083* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1084
199b097d 1085* credentials system:
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1086 - acquire from EFI variable?
1087 - acquire via via ask-password?
1088 - acquire creds via keyring?
1089 - pass creds via keyring?
1090 - pass creds via memfd?
1091 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1092 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1093 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1094 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1095 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1096 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1097 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1098 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
199b097d 1099
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1100* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1101 firmware indicates there is one.
07eabc2b 1102
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1103* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1104 and such
1105
1106* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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1108* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1109
7d7c75f1 1110* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1111 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1112
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1113* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1114 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1116* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1117
1118* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1119 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1120
1121* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1122 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1123
1124* cryptsetup:
1125 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1126 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1127
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1128* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1129 it happens to be set up alright already.
1130
1131* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1132
1133* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1134 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1135 default.
1136
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1137* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1138 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1139 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1140 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1141 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1142
08d33656 1143* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1144
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1145* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1146 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1147
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1148* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1149 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1150 temporary dir.
1151
1152* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1153 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1154
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1155* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1156 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1157
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1158* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1159
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1160* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1161
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1162* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1163
1164* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1165
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1166* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1167 when it exits
1168
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1169* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1170 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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1171 - p11-kit-trust (always)
1172 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1173 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1174 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1175 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1176 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1177 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1178 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1179
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1180* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1181 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1182 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1183
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1184* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1185 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1186
a6e1018d 1187* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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1188 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
1189 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
612d3a68 1190 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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1192* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1193
1194* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1195 specific service
1196
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1197* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1198 exists and responds.
1199
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1200* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1201 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1202 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1203
91fc013f 1204* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1205 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1206
7e8facb3 1207* unify on openssl:
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1208 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1209 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1210 gnutls
1211 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
492f91d8 1212
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1213* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1214 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1215
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1216* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1217 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1218
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1219* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1220
2a4be3c5 1221* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1222
f1eb0ccd 1223* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1224
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1225* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1226 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1227 initrd had set.
1228
173c7873 1229* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1230 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1231 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1232 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1233 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1234 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1235
1236* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1237 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1238 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1239
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1240* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1241 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1242 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1243 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1244 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1245 source.
1246
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1247* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1248 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1249 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1250
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1251* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1252
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1253* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1254 the hibernation
1255
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1256* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1257 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1258 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1259 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1260 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1261 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1262 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1263 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1264 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1265 hibernation mode. (see
1266 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1267 section 10.2.2.8 and
1268 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1269 at the end).
1270
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1271* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1272 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1273
c6526b8d 1274* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1275
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1276* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1277 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1278 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1279 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1280 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1281 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1282 exec().
1283
1284* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1285
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1286* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1287 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1288
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1289* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1290 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1291
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1292* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1293 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1294 root.
1295
1296* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1297 is issued.
1298
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1299* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1300
1301* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1302
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1303* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1304 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1305 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1306
d238709c 1307* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1308 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1309 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1310
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1311* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1312
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1313* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1314 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1315
06898123 1316* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1317 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1318 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1319 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1320
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1321* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1322
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1323* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1324 log.c and sd-journal-send
1325
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1326* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1327
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1328* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1329
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1330* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1331 non-zero "tries done" count
1332
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1333* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1334 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1335 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1336 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1337 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1338 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1339 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1340 CODE_FILE.
1341
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1342* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1343 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1344 some explanatory text online.
1345
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1346* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1347
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1348* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1349 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1350
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1351* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1352 Specifically:
1353
1354 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1355 properly)
e83419d0 1356 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1357 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1358
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1359* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1360 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1361
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1362* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1363 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1364 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1365 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1367* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1368
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1369* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1370
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1371* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1372 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1373
5da19043 1374* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1375 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1377* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1378 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1379 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1380 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1381 unlinked from any dir.
1382
bd1b3f75 1383* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1385* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1386
1387* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1388
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1389* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1390 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1391 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1392 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1393 should reflink the image file itself.
1394
1395 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1396 specific paths only like this.
1397
53c70a27 1398* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1399 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1400 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1401 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1402 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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1404* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1405
1406* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1407
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1408* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1409 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1410
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1411* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1412 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1413 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1414 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1415 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1416 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1417 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1418 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1419
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1420* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1421 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1422
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1423* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1424
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1425* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1426 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1427
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1428* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1429 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1430
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1431* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1432 only when used. Add unit tests.
1433
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1434* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1435 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1436
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1437* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1438 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1439 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1440 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1441 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1442
899feb72 1443* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1444
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1445* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1446 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1447 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1448
5f7ecd61 1449* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1450
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1451* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1452 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1453
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1454* blog about fd store and restartable services
1455
1456* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1457
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1458* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1459 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1460
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1461* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1462 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1463 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1464 ID is available.
1465
1466* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1467 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1468 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1469
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1470* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1471 parameters
1472
63a185dc 1473* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1474 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1475 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1476 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1477 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1478 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1479 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1480
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1481* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1482 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1483
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1484* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1485 about it in the resource log message
1486
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1487* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1488 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1489 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1490
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1491* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1492 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1493
1494 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1495
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1496* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1497 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1498 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1499
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1500* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1501 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1502
1503* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1504 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1505 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1506 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1507 natural habitat.
1508
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1509* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1510 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1511
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1512* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1513 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1514 relative to the configured default value.
1515
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1516* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1517
04397464 1518* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1520* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1521
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1522* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1523
04397464 1524* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1525
04397464 1526* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1527
04397464 1528* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1529
8ce9b83a 1530* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1531
1532* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1533 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1534 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1535
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1536* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1537 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1538
e40a326c 1539* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1540
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1541* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1542 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1543 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1544 mapping to work.
1545
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1546* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1547
1548* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1549
1550* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1551
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1552* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1553 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1554
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1555* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1556 reload the unit file anyway
1557
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1558* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1559
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1560* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1561
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1562* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1563 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1564
f9bf1b8f 1565* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1566 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1567 specifications.
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1569* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1570
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1571* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1572
a2088fd0 1573* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1574 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1575 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1576 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1578* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1579
931bc195 1580* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1581
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1582* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1583 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1584 state.
41d6f3bf 1585 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1586
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1587* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1588 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1589 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1590 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1591 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1592
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1593* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1594
d2f81fb0 1595* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1596 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1597
0a86c1a9 1598* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1599 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1600
e031c227 1601* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1602 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1603
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1604* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1605
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1606* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1607 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1608
25e773ee 1609* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1610
720652b3 1611* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1612
720652b3 1613* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1614
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1615* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1616
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1617* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1618 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1619
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1620* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1621
9d6db739 1622* resolved:
9d6db739 1623 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1624 - service registration
1625 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1626 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1627 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1628 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1629 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1630 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1631 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1632 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1633
e25b5a8d 1634* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1635
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1636* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1637
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1638* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1639
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1640* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1641
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1642* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1643
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1644* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1645 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1646
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1647* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1648
6a3f892a 1649* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1650 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1651 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1652
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1653* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1654 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1655 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1656
f9bf1b8f 1657* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1658
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1659* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1660 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1661 for ReusePort=
1662
f38afcd0 1663* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1664 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1665 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1666 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1667 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1668 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1669 the hierarchies of child processes
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1670- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1671 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1672
f38afcd0 1673* transient units:
f38afcd0 1674 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1675
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1676* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1677
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1678* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1679
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1680* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1681
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1682* 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
1683
7f79cd71 1684* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1685
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1686* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1687 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1688 path anyway.
1689
04397464 1690* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1691
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1692* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1693
1694* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1695
07eabc2b 1696* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1697
07eabc2b 1698* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1699
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1700* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1701
1702* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1703 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1704 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1705
1706* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1707 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1708
1709* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1710
1711* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1712
1713* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1714
1715* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1716 needs to be auto-respawned?
1717
1718* pid1:
1719 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1720 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1721 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1722 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1723 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1724 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1725 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1726 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1727 - move PAM code into its own binary
1728 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1729 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1730 - Support --test based on current system state
1731 - 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().
1732 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1733 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1734 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1735 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1736 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1737 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1738 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1739 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1740 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1741 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1742 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1743 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1744
1745* unit files:
1746 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1747 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1748 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1749 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1750 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1751 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1752 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1753 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1754 - introduce Type=pid-file
1755 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1756 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1757 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1758
1759* timer units:
63a185dc 1760 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1761 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1762
1763* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1764
1765* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1766
1767* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1768
1769* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1770
07eabc2b 1771* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1772
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1773* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1774
1775* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1776
fff87a35 1777* test/:
20d52ab6 1778 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1779
b5c03638 1780* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1781 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1782 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1783 destination.
1784
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1785* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1786 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1787
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1788* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1789
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1790* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1791 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1792 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1793
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1794* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1795 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1796
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1797* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1798 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1799 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1800 that automatically.
1801
e5ec62c5 1802* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1803
ccddd104 1804* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1805
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1806* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1807
356ce991 1808* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1809
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1810* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1811
1812* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1813
1814* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1815
1816* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1817
1818* sd-bus:
1819 - EBADSLT handling
1820 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1821 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1822 - 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
1823 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1824 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1825 - longer term: priority inheritance
1826 - dbus spec updates:
1827 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1828 - path escaping
1829 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1830
1831* sd-event
1832 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1833 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1834 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1835 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1836 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1837 here:
1838 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1839
1840* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1841 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1842
1843* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1844
1845* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1846
1847* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1848
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1849* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1850 reading/writing files
1851
1852* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1853
b44be3ec 1854* EFI:
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1855 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1856 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1857 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1858* bootctl
631427d6 1859 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1860
07eabc2b 1861* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1862
07eabc2b 1863* bootctl:
483091b0 1864 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1865 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1866 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1867
1868* kernel-install:
1869 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1870
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1871* logind:
1872 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1873 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1874 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1875 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1876 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1877 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1878 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1879 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1880 needs setuid().
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1881 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1882 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1883 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1884 complete.
1885 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1886 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1887 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1888 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1889 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1890 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1891 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1892 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1893 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1894 relogins
77b19caf 1895 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1896 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1897 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1898 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1899
1900* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1901
1902* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1903 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1904 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1905
1906* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1907 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1908
b44be3ec 1909* journal:
57f2a947 1910 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1911 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1912 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1913 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1914 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1915 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1916 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1917 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1918 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1919 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1920 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1921 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1922 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1923 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1924 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1925 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1926 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1927 - 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.
1928 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1929 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1930 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1931 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1932 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1933 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1934 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1935 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1936 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1937 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1938 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1939 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1940 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1941 to syslog when it works again.
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1942 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1943 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1944 journals in.
1945 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1946 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1947 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1948 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1949 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1950 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1951 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1952 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1953 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1954 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1955 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1956 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1957 operation.
1958 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1959 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1960 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1961 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1962 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1963 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1964 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1965 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1966 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1967 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1968
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1969* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1970 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1971
1972* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1973 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1974 validated via TPM.
1975
1976* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1977 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1978
1979* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1980 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1981 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1982
1983* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1984 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1985 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1986 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1987 cgroup.
1988
1989* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1990 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1991 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1992 logging.
1993
1994* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1995
1996* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1997 from the SIGBUS handler
1998
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2000 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2001 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2002 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2003
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2004* homed:
2005 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2006 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2007 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2008 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2009 - create on activate?
2010 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2011 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2012 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2013 systemd --user is shut down.
2014 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2015 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2016 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2017 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2018 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2019 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2020 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2021 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2022 - query password from kernel keyring first
2023 - update even if record is "absent"
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2024 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2025 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2026 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2027 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2028 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2029 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2030 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2031 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2032 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2033 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2034 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2035 signature
2036 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2037 and insert a local signature instead.
2038 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2039 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2040 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2041 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2042 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2043 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2044 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2045 easily?
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2046 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2047 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2048 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2049 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2050 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2051 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2052 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2053 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2054 can easily set overall quota for all users
2055 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2056 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2057 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2058 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2059 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2060 large.
07eabc2b 2061
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2062* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2063 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2064 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2065
2df2bb1f 2066* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2067
2068* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2069 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2070 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2071 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2072
2073* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2074
2075* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2076 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2077 something goes wrong on the way.
2078
2079* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2080
2081* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2082 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2083 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2084 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2085
2086* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2087 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2088 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2089 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2090 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2091 automatically.
2092
2093* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2094 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2095
2096* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2097 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2098 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2099 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2100 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2101 fails to apply use the latter.
2102
2103* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2104 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2105
2106* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2107 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2108
2109* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2110 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2111 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2112
2113* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2114 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2115
92e72028 2116* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2117 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2118 during boot.
2119
2120* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2121
b44be3ec 2122* document:
8b8f2591 2123 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2124 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2125 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2126 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2127 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2128 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2129 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2130 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2131 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2132 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2133 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2134 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2135
2136* systemctl:
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2137 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2138 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2139 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2140 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2141 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2142 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2143 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2144 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2145 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2146 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2147
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2148* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2149 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2150 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2151
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2152* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2153 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2154 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2155 output for them.
d2e83c23 2156
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2157* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2158 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2159 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2160
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2161* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2162 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2163 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2164
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2165* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2166 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2167
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2168* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2169 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2170 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2171 do, for example)
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2173* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2174 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2175 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2176 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2177
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2178* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2179
2180* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2181
2182* unit install:
2183 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2184 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2185
b44be3ec 2186* nspawn:
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2187 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2188 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2189 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2190 from the kernel's logs.
2191 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2192 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2193 interface be missing
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2194 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2195 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2196 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2197 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2198 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2199 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2200 PID 1...
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2201 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2202 running, remove them when shut down.
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2204* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
2205 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
2206 during startup.
2207
2208* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
2209 so, freeze the payload too.
2210
2211* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2212 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2213 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2214 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2215 anything like that.
2216
2217* nspawn: support time namespaces
2218
2219* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
2220 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2221
2222* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
2223 fallback in "machinectl shell"
2224
2225* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
2226 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
2227 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2228
2229* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
2230
2231* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2232
e25b5a8d 2233* machined:
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2234 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2235 removed or added to an existing machine
2236 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2237 difference host, via ssh
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2238 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2239 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2240 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2241 question
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2242 - "machinectl history"
2243 - "machinectl diff"
2244 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2245 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2246
abd55b16 2247* udev:
abd55b16 2248 - move to LGPL
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2249 - kill scsi_id
2250 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2251 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2252 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2253 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2254
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2255* coredump:
2256 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2257 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2258 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2259
2260* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2261
f38afcd0 2262* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2263 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2264 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2265 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2266 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2267 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2268 - add --test mode
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2269 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2270 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2271 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
1258097c 2272
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2273* udev-link-config:
2274 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2275 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2276 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2277
88e4d1d7 2278* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2279 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2280 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2281
0a4b9a07 2282* networkd:
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TG
2283 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2284 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2285 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2286 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2287 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2288 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2289 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2290 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2291 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2292 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2293 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2294 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2295 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2296 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2297 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2298 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2299 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2300 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2301
07eabc2b
LB
2302* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2303
d5e172d2
ZJS
2304* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2305
ac976532 2306* dhcp:
424a8732 2307 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2308
37d8b536
PF
2309* dhcp6:
2310 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2311 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2312 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2313 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2314 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2315 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2316 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2317 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2318 or interface down
2319 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2320 this behavior
4a77c53d 2321 - RouteTable= ?