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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:
74
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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
c6407108 89
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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
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137* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
138 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
139
140* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
141 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
142 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
143
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144* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
145
146* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
147 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
148 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
149 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
150 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
151 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
152 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
153 usual.
154
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155* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
156
157* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
158
159* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
160
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161* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
162 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
163 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
164 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
165 sockaddr.
166
167* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
168 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
169 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
170 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
171 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
172 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
173 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
174 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
175 try to use inode from there.
176
177* dissect too: add --with switch that will invoke a command with the image
178 mounted, and as current working directory. Terminate once done.
179
180* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
181 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
182
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183* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
184 extensions
185
186* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
187 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
188 for the root fs or /usr/.
189
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190* extend systemd-measure with an --append= mode when signing expected PCR
191 measurements. In this mode the tool should read an existing signature JSON
192 object (which primarily contains an array with the actual signature data),
193 and then append the new signature to it instead of writing out an entirely
194 JSON object. Usecase: it might make sense to to sign a UKI's expected PCRs
195 with different keys for different boot phases. i.e. use keypair X for signing
196 the expected PCR in the initrd boot phase and keypair Y for signing the
197 expected PCR in the main boot phase. Via the --append logic we could merge
198 these signatures into one object, and then include the result in the UKI.
199 Then, if you bind a LUKS volume to public key X it really only can be
200 unlocked during early boot, and you bind a LUKS volume to public key Y it
bcf04e9b 201 really only can be unlocked during later boot, and so on.
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203* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
204 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
205 combination thereof.
206
207* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
208 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
209 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
210 ahead of time.
211
212* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
213 aforementioned purpose.
214
215* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
216 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
217
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218* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
219 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
220 to figure out:
221 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
222 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
223 subsequent boots?
224
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225* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
226 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
227 inspiration from IMA log)
228
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229* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
230 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
231 out to our tools.
232
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233* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
234 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
235 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
236 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
237 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
238 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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239 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
240 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
241 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
242 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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244* move discoverable partition spec and boot loader spec over to uapi group
245
246* maybe measure UUIDs of important mounted file systems (after mount, via the
247 new ioctls to query them) into PCR 15? Add "x-systemd.measure-pcr=" or so for
248 this that pulls in a per mount service?
249
250* measure /etc/machine-id during early boot into PCR 15?
251
252* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
253 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
254 used)
255
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256* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
257 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
258 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
259 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
260 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
261
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262* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
263 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
264 how PCR values we manage came to
265 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
266
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267* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
268 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
269 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
270 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 271 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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272 should win over vendor defaults.
273
274* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
275 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
276 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
277 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
278 command lines.
279
280* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
281 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
282 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
283
284* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
285 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
286
287* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
288 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
289 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
290 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
291 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
292 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
293
294* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
295 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
296 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
297
298* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
299
300* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
301 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
302 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
303 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
304
305* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
306 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
307 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
308 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
309 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
310 only one for each OS.
311
312* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
313 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 314 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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315 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
316 boot, for the next.
317
318* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
319 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
320
321* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
322 similar behind it, instead of http.
323
324* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
325 boot, or on first boot.
326
327* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
328 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
329
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330* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
331 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
332 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
333 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
334 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
335 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
336 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
337 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
338 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
339 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
340 until users are allowed to log in).
341
342* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
343 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
344
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345* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
346 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
347 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
348 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
349 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
350 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
351 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
352 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
353 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
354 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
355 automatically invalidated outside of it.
356
357* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
358 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
359 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
360 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
361 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 362 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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363 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
364 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
365 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
366 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
367 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
368 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
369 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
370 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
371 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
372 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
373 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
374 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
375 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
376 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
377 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
378
379* Always measure the LUKS rootfs volume key into PCR 15, and derive the machine
380 ID from it securely. This would then allow us to bind secrets a specific
381 system securely.
382
383* nspawn: maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image=
384 hash into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and
385 partake in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside
386 of control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
387 host TPM.
388
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389* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
390 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
391
392* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
393 instead of manual blocking.
394
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395* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
396 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
397
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398* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
399 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
400 supplied password.
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402* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
403 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
404 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
405 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
406
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407* systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
408 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
409 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
410 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
411
412* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
413 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
414 automatically derived from --private-key=).
415
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416* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
417
418* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
419
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420* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
421 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
422 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
423
424* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
425 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
426 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
427 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
428 partition with a portable service partition in one.
429
430* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
431 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
432 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
433 modules
434
435* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
436 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
437 a new name with a built-in config?
438
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439* gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
440 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
441
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442* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
443 maybe on kernel command line:
444 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
445 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
446
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447* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
448 hash type, etc)
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450* chase_symlinks(): take inspiraton from path_extract_filename() and return
451 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
452
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453* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
454 but final node is not a directory
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456* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
457 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
458
459* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
460 non-VFAT fs is used.
461
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462* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
463
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464* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
465 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
466
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467* pick up creds from EFI vars
468
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469* sd-stub/sd-boot: write RNG seed to LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID config
470 table as well. (and possibly drop our efi var). Current kernels will pick up
471 the seed from there already, if EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL is not implemented by
472 firmware.
473
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474* sd-boot: include domain specific hash string in hash function for random seed
475 plus sizes of everything. also include DMI/SMBIOS blob
476
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477* sd-stub: invoke random seed logic the same way as in sd-boot, except if
478 random seed EFI variable is already set. That way, the variable set will be
479 set in all cases: if you just use sd-stub, or just sd-boot, or both.
480
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481* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
482 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
483 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
484 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
485 affect PCR values.
486
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487* systemd-measure tool:
488 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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490* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
491 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
492
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493* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
494 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
495
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496* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
497 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
498
499* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
500 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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503 maybe some other stuff and boots it
504
e1b45a75 505* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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507 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
508 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
509 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
510 use it.
511
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513 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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516 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
517 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
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520 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
521 what it was signed.
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524 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
525 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
526 be safely written to disk, then.
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529 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
530 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
531 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
532 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
533 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
534 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
535 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
536 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
537 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
538 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
539 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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542 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
543
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546 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
547 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
548 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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551 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
552 via the credentials logic.
553 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
554 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
555 integrity-generator)
556 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
557 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
558 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
559 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
560 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
561 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
562 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
563 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
564 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
565 file system paths to enable on start.
566 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
567 usr=
568 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
569 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
570 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
571 account one can directly log into.
572 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
573 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
574 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
575 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
576 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
577 pre-built kernels.
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580 runtime state. Then, expose it:
581
582 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
583 about the unit.
584 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
585 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
586 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
587 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
588 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
589 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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592 for this on dbus)
593
594* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
595 what to do if support ended
596
597* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
598 login time, á la motd
599
e1b45a75 600* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 601 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 602 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 603 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 604 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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607 initrd transition. Specifically:
608 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
609 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
610 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
611
612* implement varlink introspection
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615 chase_symlinks() instead
616
d486b26f 617* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 618 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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620 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
621 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
622 depending on desired level of persistency.
623
624* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
625 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
626 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
627 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
628 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
629 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
630 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
631 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
632
633* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
634 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
635 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
636 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
637
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639
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641
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643 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
644 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
645 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
646 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
647 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
648 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
649 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 650 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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652 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
653 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
654 not unprivileged code.
655
656* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
657 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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660 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
661 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
662 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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665 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
666 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
667 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
668 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
669 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
670 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
671 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
672 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
673
674* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
675 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
676 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
677 order.
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680 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
681 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
682 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
683 whenever they want.
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685* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
686 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
687 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
688
689* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
690 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
691 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
692 acquire.
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695 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
696 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
697 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 698 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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700 IN_IGNORED again)
701
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703 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
704 virtio-fs.
705
706* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 707 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 708 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 709 on verification if in secureboot mode
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711 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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713 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
714 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
715 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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716 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
717 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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719 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 720 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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722 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
723 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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726 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
727 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
728 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
729 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
730 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
731 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
732 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
733 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
734 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
735 service runtime logic quite substantially.
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738 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
739 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
740
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743 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
744 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
745 friends.)
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748 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
749 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 750 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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752 directly to host service manager.
753
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755 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
756 configure socket address.
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758* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
759 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
760
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761* sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
762 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
763 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
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768 no api to query the device id
769
770* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
771 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
772 also be queried.
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775 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
776 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
777 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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779* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
780 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
781 latter).
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783* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
784
785* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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788 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
789 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
790 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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793 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
794 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
795 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
796 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
797 UEFI HTTP boot.
798
799* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
800 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
801 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
802 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
803 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
804 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
805 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
806 hence cheap for enumeration.
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809
810* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
811 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
812 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
813 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
814 comprehensively.
815
816* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
817 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
818 words: show partition labels).
819
820* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
821 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
822 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
823 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
824
825* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
826 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
827 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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830 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
831 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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834
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837* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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840 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
841 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
842 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
843 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
844 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
845 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
846 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
847 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
848 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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851 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
852 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
853 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
854 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
855 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
856 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
857 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
858 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
859 an NTP sync is acquired.
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862 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
863 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
864 call it at the end only
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867 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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870 jobs, units
871
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874 userspace)
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877
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878* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
879 json package metadata, and use that when logging
880
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882
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885
886* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
887 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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890 internal clock.
891
1ccfb792 892* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
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896 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
897
898* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
899 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
900 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
901 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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904 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
905 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
906
907* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
908 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
909 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
910 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
911 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
912 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
913 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
914 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
915 thread:
916 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
917 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
918 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
919 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
920 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
921 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
922
923* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
924 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
925 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
926
927* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
928 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
929 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
930 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
931 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
932 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
933 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
934 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
935 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
936 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
937 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
938 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
939 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
940 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
941 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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944 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
945 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
946 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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948 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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950* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
951 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
952 dep in the base OS image)
953
954* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 955 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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957* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
958 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
959 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
960 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
961 on-disk storage.
962
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963* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
964 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
965 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
966 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
967 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
968
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969* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
970 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
971 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
972 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
973 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
974 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
975 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
976
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977* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
978 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
979 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
980 externally and provide to us on demand only.
981
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982* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
983 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
984 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
985 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
986 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
987 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
988 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
989 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
990
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991 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
992 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
993 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 994 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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995 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
996 take --image= that take the same short string.
997
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998* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
999 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
1000 one.
1001
3fc0688d 1002* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1003 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1004 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1005 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1006 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1007 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1008 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1009 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1010 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1011 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1012 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1014* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1015 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1016 authentication.
1017
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1018* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1019 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1020 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1022* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1023
63a185dc 1024* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1026* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1027 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1028 that images cannot be misused.
1029
aca8ecc3 1030* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1031 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1032 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1033 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1034 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1035
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1036* sysupdate:
1037 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1038 - support casync as download mechanism
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1039 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1040 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1041 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1042 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1043 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1044 override the host's update files.)
1045 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1046 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1047 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1048 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1049
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1050* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1051
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1052* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1053 make dirs appear under right UID.
1054
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1055* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1056 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1057
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1058* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1059 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1060 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1061 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1062 for doing that.
1063
24063ba1 1064* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1065 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1066 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1067 already have it.
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1069* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1070 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1071
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1072* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
1073 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
1074 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
1075 socket: connect() to it.
1076
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1077* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1078
1079* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1080 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1081 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1082 /proc/self/fd/3
1083
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1084* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1085 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1086 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1087
1088* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1089 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1090
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1091* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1092 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1093
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1094* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1095 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1096 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1097 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1098 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1099
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1100* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1101
199b097d 1102* credentials system:
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1103 - acquire from EFI variable?
1104 - acquire via via ask-password?
1105 - acquire creds via keyring?
1106 - pass creds via keyring?
1107 - pass creds via memfd?
1108 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1109 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1110 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1111 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1112 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1113 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1114 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1115 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
199b097d 1116
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1117* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1118 firmware indicates there is one.
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1120* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1121 and such
1122
1123* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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1125* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1126
7d7c75f1 1127* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1128 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1129
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1130* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1131 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1132
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1133* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1134
1135* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1136 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1137
1138* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1139 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1140
1141* cryptsetup:
1142 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1143 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1144
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1145* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1146 it happens to be set up alright already.
1147
1148* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1149
1150* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1151 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1152 default.
1153
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1154* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1155 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1156 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1157 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1158 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1159
08d33656 1160* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1161
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1162* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1163 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1164
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1165* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1166 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1167 temporary dir.
1168
1169* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1170 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1171
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1172* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1173 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1174
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1175* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1176
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1177* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1178
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1179* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1180
1181* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1182
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1183* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1184 when it exits
1185
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1186* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1187 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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1188 - p11-kit-trust (always)
1189 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1190 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1191 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1192 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1193 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1194 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1195 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1196
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1197* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1198 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1199 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1200
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1201* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1202 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1203
a6e1018d 1204* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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1205 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
1206 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
612d3a68 1207 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
a6e1018d 1208
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1209* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1210
1211* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1212 specific service
1213
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1214* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1215 exists and responds.
1216
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1217* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1218 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1219 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1220
91fc013f 1221* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1222 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1223
7e8facb3 1224* unify on openssl:
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1225 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1226 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1227 gnutls
1228 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
492f91d8 1229
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1230* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1231 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1232
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1233* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1234 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1235
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1236* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1237
2a4be3c5 1238* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1239
f1eb0ccd 1240* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1241
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1242* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1243 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1244 initrd had set.
1245
173c7873 1246* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1247 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1248 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1249 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1250 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1251 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1252
1253* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1254 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1255 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1256
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1257* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1258 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1259 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1260 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1261 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1262 source.
1263
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1264* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1265 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1266 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1267
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1268* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1269
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1270* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1271 the hibernation
1272
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1273* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1274 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1275 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1276 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1277 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1278 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1279 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1280 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1281 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1282 hibernation mode. (see
1283 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1284 section 10.2.2.8 and
1285 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1286 at the end).
1287
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1288* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1289 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1290
c6526b8d 1291* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1292
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1293* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1294 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1295 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1296 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1297 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1298 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1299 exec().
1300
1301* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1302
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1303* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1304 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1305
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1306* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1307 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1308
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1309* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1310 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1311 root.
1312
1313* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1314 is issued.
1315
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1316* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1317
1318* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1319
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1320* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1321 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1322 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1323
d238709c 1324* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1325 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1326 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1327
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1328* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1329
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1330* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1331 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1332
06898123 1333* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1334 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1335 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1336 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1338* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1339
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1340* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1341 log.c and sd-journal-send
1342
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1343* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1344
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1345* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1346
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1347* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1348 non-zero "tries done" count
1349
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1350* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1351 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1352 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1353 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1354 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1355 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1356 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1357 CODE_FILE.
1358
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1359* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1360 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1361 some explanatory text online.
1362
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1363* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1364
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1365* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1366 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1367
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1368* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1369 Specifically:
1370
1371 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1372 properly)
e83419d0 1373 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1374 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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1376* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1377 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1378
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1379* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1380 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1381 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1382 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1384* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1385
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1386* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1387
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1388* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1389 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1390
5da19043 1391* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1392 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1394* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1395 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1396 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1397 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1398 unlinked from any dir.
1399
bd1b3f75 1400* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1402* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1403
1404* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1405
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1406* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1407 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1408 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1409 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1410 should reflink the image file itself.
1411
1412 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1413 specific paths only like this.
1414
53c70a27 1415* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1416 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1417 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1418 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1419 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1420
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1421* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1422
1423* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1424
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1425* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1426 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1427
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1428* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1429 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1430 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1431 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1432 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1433 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1434 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1435 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1436
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1437* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1438 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1439
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1440* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1441
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1442* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1443 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1444
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1445* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1446 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1447
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1448* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1449 only when used. Add unit tests.
1450
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1451* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1452 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1453
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1454* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1455 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1456 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1457 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1458 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1459
899feb72 1460* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1462* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1463 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1464 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1465
5f7ecd61 1466* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1468* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1469 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1470
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1471* blog about fd store and restartable services
1472
1473* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1474
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1475* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1476 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1477
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1478* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1479 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1480 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1481 ID is available.
1482
1483* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1484 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1485 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1486
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1487* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1488 parameters
1489
63a185dc 1490* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1491 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1492 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1493 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1494 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1495 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1496 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1498* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1499 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1500
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1501* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1502 about it in the resource log message
1503
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1504* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1505 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1506 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1507
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1508* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1509 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1510
1511 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1512
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1513* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1514 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1515 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1516
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1517* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1518 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1519
1520* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1521 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1522 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1523 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1524 natural habitat.
1525
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1526* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1527 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1528
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1529* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1530 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1531 relative to the configured default value.
1532
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1533* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1534
04397464 1535* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1537* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1538
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1539* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1540
04397464 1541* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1542
04397464 1543* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1544
04397464 1545* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1546
8ce9b83a 1547* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1548
1549* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1550 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1551 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1552
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1553* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1554 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1555
e40a326c 1556* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1557
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1558* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1559 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1560 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1561 mapping to work.
1562
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1563* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1564
1565* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1566
1567* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1568
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1569* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1570 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1571
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1572* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1573 reload the unit file anyway
1574
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1575* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1576
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1577* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1578
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1579* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1580 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1581
f9bf1b8f 1582* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1583 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1584 specifications.
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1586* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1587
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1588* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1589
a2088fd0 1590* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1591 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1592 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1593 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1594
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1595* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1596
931bc195 1597* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1598
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1599* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1600 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1601 state.
41d6f3bf 1602 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1604* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1605 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1606 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1607 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1608 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1609
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1610* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1611
d2f81fb0 1612* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1613 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1614
0a86c1a9 1615* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1616 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1617
e031c227 1618* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1619 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1620
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1621* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1622
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1623* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1624 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1625
25e773ee 1626* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1627
720652b3 1628* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1629
720652b3 1630* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1631
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1632* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1633
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1634* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1635 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1636
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1637* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1638
9d6db739 1639* resolved:
9d6db739 1640 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1641 - service registration
1642 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1643 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1644 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1645 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1646 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1647 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1648 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1649 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1650
e25b5a8d 1651* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1652
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1653* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1654
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1655* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1656
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1657* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1658
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1659* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1660
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1661* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1662 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1664* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1665
6a3f892a 1666* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1667 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1668 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1669
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1670* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1671 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1672 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1673
f9bf1b8f 1674* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1675
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1676* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1677 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1678 for ReusePort=
1679
f38afcd0 1680* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1681 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1682 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1683 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1684 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1685 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1686 the hierarchies of child processes
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1687- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1688 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1689
f38afcd0 1690* transient units:
f38afcd0 1691 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1692
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1693* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1694
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1695* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1696
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1697* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1698
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1699* 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
1700
7f79cd71 1701* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1702
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1703* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1704 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1705 path anyway.
1706
04397464 1707* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1708
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1709* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1710
1711* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1712
07eabc2b 1713* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1714
07eabc2b 1715* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1716
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1717* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1718
1719* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1720 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1721 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1722
1723* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1724 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1725
1726* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1727
1728* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1729
1730* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1731
1732* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1733 needs to be auto-respawned?
1734
1735* pid1:
1736 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1737 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1738 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1739 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1740 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1741 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1742 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1743 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1744 - move PAM code into its own binary
1745 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1746 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1747 - Support --test based on current system state
1748 - 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().
1749 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1750 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1751 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1752 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1753 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1754 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1755 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1756 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1757 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1758 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1759 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1760 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1761
1762* unit files:
1763 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1764 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1765 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1766 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1767 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1768 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1769 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1770 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1771 - introduce Type=pid-file
1772 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1773 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1774 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1775
1776* timer units:
63a185dc 1777 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1778 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1779
1780* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1781
1782* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1783
1784* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1785
1786* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1787
07eabc2b 1788* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1789
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1790* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1791
1792* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1793
fff87a35 1794* test/:
20d52ab6 1795 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1796
b5c03638 1797* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1798 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1799 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1800 destination.
1801
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1802* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1803 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1804
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1805* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1806
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1807* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1808 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1809 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1810
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1811* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1812 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1813
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1814* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1815 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1816 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1817 that automatically.
1818
e5ec62c5 1819* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1820
ccddd104 1821* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1822
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1823* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1824
356ce991 1825* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1826
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1827* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1828
1829* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1830
1831* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1832
1833* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1834
1835* sd-bus:
1836 - EBADSLT handling
1837 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1838 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1839 - 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
1840 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1841 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1842 - longer term: priority inheritance
1843 - dbus spec updates:
1844 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1845 - path escaping
1846 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1847
1848* sd-event
1849 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1850 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1851 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1852 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1853 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1854 here:
1855 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1856
1857* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1858 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1859
1860* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1861
1862* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1863
1864* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1865
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1866* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1867 reading/writing files
1868
1869* 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
1870
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1872 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1873 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1874 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1875* bootctl
631427d6 1876 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1877
07eabc2b 1878* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1879
07eabc2b 1880* bootctl:
483091b0 1881 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1882 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1883 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1884
1885* kernel-install:
1886 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1887
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1888* logind:
1889 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1890 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1891 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1892 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1893 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1894 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1895 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1896 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1897 needs setuid().
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1898 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1899 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1900 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1901 complete.
1902 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1903 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1904 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1905 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1906 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1907 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1908 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1909 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1910 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1911 relogins
77b19caf 1912 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1913 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1914 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1915 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1916
1917* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1918
1919* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1920 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1921 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1922
1923* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1924 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1925
b44be3ec 1926* journal:
57f2a947 1927 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1928 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1929 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1930 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1931 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1932 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1933 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1934 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1935 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1936 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1937 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1938 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1939 - 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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1940 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1941 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1942 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1943 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1944 - 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.
1945 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1946 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1947 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1948 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1949 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1950 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1951 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1952 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1953 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1954 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1955 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1956 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1957 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1958 to syslog when it works again.
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1959 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1960 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1961 journals in.
1962 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1963 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1964 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1965 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1966 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1967 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1968 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1969 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1970 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1971 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1972 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1973 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1974 operation.
1975 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1976 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1977 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1978 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1979 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1980 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1981 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1982 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1983 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1984 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1985
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1986* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1987 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1988
1989* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1990 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1991 validated via TPM.
1992
1993* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1994 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1995
1996* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1997 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1998 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1999
2000* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2001 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2002 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2003 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2004 cgroup.
2005
2006* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2007 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2008 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2009 logging.
2010
2011* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2012
2013* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2014 from the SIGBUS handler
2015
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2017 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2018 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2019 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2020
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2021* homed:
2022 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2023 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2024 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2025 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2026 - create on activate?
2027 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2028 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2029 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2030 systemd --user is shut down.
2031 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2032 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2033 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2034 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2035 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2036 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2037 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2038 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2039 - query password from kernel keyring first
2040 - update even if record is "absent"
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2041 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2042 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2043 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2044 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2045 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2046 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2047 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2048 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2049 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2050 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2051 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2052 signature
2053 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2054 and insert a local signature instead.
2055 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2056 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2057 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2058 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2059 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2060 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2061 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2062 easily?
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2063 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2064 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2065 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2066 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2067 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2068 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2069 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2070 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2071 can easily set overall quota for all users
2072 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2073 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2074 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2075 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2076 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2077 large.
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2079* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2080 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2081 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2082
2df2bb1f 2083* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2084
2085* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2086 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2087 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2088 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2089
2090* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2091
2092* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2093 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2094 something goes wrong on the way.
2095
2096* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2097
2098* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2099 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2100 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2101 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2102
2103* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2104 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2105 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2106 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2107 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2108 automatically.
2109
2110* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2111 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2112
2113* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2114 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2115 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2116 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2117 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2118 fails to apply use the latter.
2119
2120* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2121 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2122
2123* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2124 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2125
2126* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2127 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2128 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2129
2130* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2131 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2132
92e72028 2133* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2134 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2135 during boot.
2136
2137* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2138
b44be3ec 2139* document:
8b8f2591 2140 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2141 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2142 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2143 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2144 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2145 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2146 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2147 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2148 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2149 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2150 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2151 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2152
2153* systemctl:
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2154 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2155 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2156 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2157 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2158 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2159 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2160 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2161 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2162 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2163 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2164
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2165* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2166 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2167 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2168
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2169* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2170 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2171 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2172 output for them.
d2e83c23 2173
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2174* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2175 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2176 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2177
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2178* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2179 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2180 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2181
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2182* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2183 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2184
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2185* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2186 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2187 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2188 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2189
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2190* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2191 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2192 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2193 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2194
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2195* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2196
2197* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2198
2199* unit install:
2200 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2201 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2202
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2204 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2205 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2206 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2207 from the kernel's logs.
2208 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2209 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2210 interface be missing
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2211 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2212 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2213 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2214 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2215 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2216 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2217 PID 1...
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2218 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2219 running, remove them when shut down.
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2221* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
2222 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
2223 during startup.
2224
2225* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
2226 so, freeze the payload too.
2227
2228* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2229 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2230 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2231 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2232 anything like that.
2233
2234* nspawn: support time namespaces
2235
2236* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
2237 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2238
2239* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
2240 fallback in "machinectl shell"
2241
2242* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
2243 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
2244 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2245
2246* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
2247
2248* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2249
e25b5a8d 2250* machined:
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2251 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2252 removed or added to an existing machine
2253 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2254 difference host, via ssh
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2255 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2256 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2257 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2258 question
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2259 - "machinectl history"
2260 - "machinectl diff"
2261 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2262 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2263
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abd55b16 2265 - move to LGPL
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2266 - kill scsi_id
2267 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2268 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2269 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2270 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2271
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2272* coredump:
2273 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2274 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2275 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2276
2277* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2278
f38afcd0 2279* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2280 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2281 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2282 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2283 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2284 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2285 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2286 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2287 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2288 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
1258097c 2289
af6f0d42
TG
2290* udev-link-config:
2291 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2292 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2293 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2294
88e4d1d7 2295* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2296 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2297 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2298
0a4b9a07 2299* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2300 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2301 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2302 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2303 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2304 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2305 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2306 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2307 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2308 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2309 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2310 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2311 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2312 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2313 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2314 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2315 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2316 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2317 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2318
07eabc2b
LB
2319* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2320
d5e172d2
ZJS
2321* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2322
ac976532 2323* dhcp:
424a8732 2324 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2325
37d8b536
PF
2326* dhcp6:
2327 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2328 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2329 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2330 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2331 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2332 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2333 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2334 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2335 or interface down
2336 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2337 this behavior
4a77c53d 2338 - RouteTable= ?